Camping

On thursday after I got off work we headed to the Wenatchee National Forest

to go camping with a few friends of Jason's for his friends birthday!

As much as I love being in the comfort of my house all day, everyday

it was a good change of pace to get out in the outdoors!

To say the least we had fun!

On our way!

 Our tent!

The camp site.

The guys checking out the water..

Taking a nap from playing so hard!

 Guarding the kitchen!

 Playing in the mudd, and digging

 Funny faces

RJ getting water after the hike

 Before the Caves

 Right outside the Caves

Walking back from the Caves

After playing in the water

 So much snow melt it created a mini waterfall

The mudd we found.

 What the truck looked like after..

He loved playing in the river.

One tired puppy after his bath!

Overall it was a great fun trip for all!

RJ had the time of his life!

But we're still trying to get tree sap out of his coat!

Although it was fun, we finally got back around 8pm Sunday night

and it was great to finally shower!

(:

Can't wait for next time!



Mothers Day

I honestly can say,

I don't know what I'd do without my mom!

Words can't do justice for this lady!

Even when growing up, all my friends loved her, and wanted to come over.

Lunch Bunch every week was perfect, and she loved seeing and talking to

all of the teenagers who filled her house!

She does it all!

Always ready for some Gamma time!

And loves being around all of us, no matter how

cranky we can get!

Always up for an adventure, even when scared!

And one tough cookie!

As much as I've put her through alone, she still loves me,

I don't wanna get all mushy and start crying like I'm about to.

But she's helped me realize more in my life than I think she knows.

She's led by example, and help shaped me into being a

great mother, wife, housekeeper, and advise giver that one day,

 I hope to be at least half as good as she is!

She's been through a lot in her life, and always pushed through.

One day I hope to be as strong as she is!

Thanks for everything mom!

Happy Mothers day!

I LOVEYOU!

On the Road

Lately we've been quite busy.

Driving around from town to town on fun little day trips,

In between my work shifts of course!

First we found ourselves in Seattle for a quick little trip to Jason's friends office,

For a little business.

We found ourselves at the

Metropolitan Grill.

Probably one of the most expensive places I've ever been..

Including the HUGE steaks..

& Of course the boys got the 38oz. porterhouse.

Before that,

they ate, four rolls, calamari, and a huge plate of ceasar salad.

I mean, they thought that was filling enough,

then the steaks arrived.. and they ate it all!!

After dinner, we made it home around 1am or 2am.

And a couple days later we go to Portland,

to pick up some parts for new incoming race car.

And we stopped at something that the internet said would be

"the best pizza in portland"

We all decided it was the worst pizza we've ever had..

Horrible..

After that, still being hungry, we walked over to..

Voodoo Doughnuts!!

I've never been but they were weird, but delicious!

I got a chocolate doughnut that had peanut butter, and oreos on it!

Yumm, and the boys got a HUGE glazed doughnut, a bubblegum one.

And we had leftovers (:

And the day after that, we were headed outside of Yakima

 to look at camping sites for next weekend.

Come to find out they were all closed, logs covered the grounds.

Destined to find a spot, we headed up the hill.

Stopping at every little turn off in the Wenatchee National Forest.

The higher we got the more snow there was...

To which we decided to go to one off of the side of the road.

Not looking like much snow, we headed off road...

to which we quickly slammed down to the ground..

Stuck in snow..

Remember thinking this was a short trip,

we were all in shorts, sandals, I was in a dress.

After an hour sitting there wondering how I was going to explain to my boss

the next day why I didnt show up for work.

And of course Jason being the problem solver he is, got us out.

We found out that it wasn't a small amount of snow,

it was close to four feet deep!

But after we high tailed it out of there, made it to Minors for some dinner and headed home!

Safely in our beds(:

The next day after work we headed to Yakima again,

with a couple of Jason's friends, to the Renagade Raceway Drapstrip.

After watching only one car, Jason got that bug in his pants, and wanted to race!

We watched this Jetcar!

Man that thing is cool!

It's super loud, but it goes super fast!

After 11pm we headed home, while Jason stayed up all night

working on his car, getting it ready to bring to the track the next day!

Worked all night, and all day.

And we finally loaded her up and headed to the track!

Let me tell you, I was already scared about Jason driving over 100 mph in such a short amount of time, knowing something could happen....

And literally the race right before him,

a gentleman gets out of the groove and smashes straight into the concrete wall..

As if I wasn't scared enough as it is...

But his first run, went great.

I thought, I mean, he made it safely and did a good time.

That's all I wanted, him safe!

He did an amazing job, people were impressed with the car.

I mean its a Honda CRX.

Those cars aren't meant to do that length of road in 12 secs!

After three great runs he called it quits,

we watched a few more runs,

 and we packed up and headed home!

Overall it was a great time had by all(:

Every trip is always fun, and an adventure!

Look forward to this coming weekend,

possibly going camping!!

New Toys

These past couple weeks have been filled with fun.

First off, Jason bought a new 20ft. enclosed trailer.

Brand spaking new!

So we  he can tow around all his toys, and work equiptment.

Which brings us to our next purchase..

Three days later, he spotted this lovely beauty,

To haul around the big trailer.

The tahoe was having a hard time, and needed a new home!

So now, this is how he roll...

Not too bad, if I say so myself!

(:

And the weekend after we traded in the Tahoe, a new owner picked her up!

So long tahoe, thanks for the memories, but now we're rollin' in style.

A bigggg style!



Adventure!

As Monday morning started we were debating what to do with our free time!

When Jason got the idea to go take a tour of the Tillamook Cheese Factory!

It was crazy watching how they send it from one room to another

cutting, pressing, and packaging all the cheese.

The huge blocks come out in small little packages!

We did a small amount of off roading in some paths on the side of the windy roads headed up there.

After watching the fansinating process we went downstairs and grabbed some samples, walked around the store, grabbed some goodies

and headed to the ice cream parlor! (:

Man, it was delicious!

We drove down the way and saw..

Yay! Beachhhhhh!!

So we drove around looking at beach houses at Rockaway Beach!

Walked on the beach for a little bit.

And Jason didnt like the fact that he couldn't drive on the beach!

We headed up to Long Beach!

Let me just say I was not a fan of all of the windy roads!!

Weak stomach, but Jason loved the switchbacks, and curves.

I wanted to stop and write some cute stuff in the sand..

And this was Jason's.

When we stopped to play on the rocks, I turned around once we reached the top,

and this is what I turn back to...

Scared the crap out of me!

The tahoe is going to drowned!

And of course, Jason is the man and got us out of it safely!

We laughed, and made some good memories.

Even caught a couple funny places on film (:

After multiple beaches and loads of fun, we headed back home!

And of course, I slept the whole way home,

 and Jason drove home with music blaring!

We made it home around 2:30am the next day!

From 10am-2:30am the next day is one long day of fun(:

Thanks baby(:

Big Baby!

Our puppy RJ is probably the cutest thing ever!

He likes to give us hugs, and kisses.

He is actually a smart little puppy.

He's potty trained, and he goes into his dog house when asked.

Finally responding to his name!

RJ has realized that he can trip us, if he walks in front of us.

And figured out our spots on the couch.

When he sees us headed towards the front room he runs and sits in your spot.

Before you can....

And he likes to sleep on his back?

Which is really odd!

He's so loveable and friendly.

We love our big baby(:



Making Memories

Jason and I went on a big trip this last week.

He had to be down in Mesa, Arizona for training for work!

On Saturday, February 25th we left for Las Vegas, Nevada.

We would have left Sunday straight to Arizona,

but we were worried about not making that flight, it was pretty full!

So we went to Vegas, and decided to spend the night!

We arrived pretty early in the day.

Grabbed our bags and headed to the Luxor.

After a crazy checkin, we were waiting in line for Cris Angel tickets

when finally would could go to our room!

We headed up to the room, put out stuff down and headed out for some food!

We went to a delicious pizza place!

And wandered around. Jason played a little Roulette.

His addiction!

After we headed back to the room and took a quick nap.

Went downstairs and walked around a bit.

Ate at an AWESOME Buffet!

A ridiculous amount of choices!

Went up to Mandalay Bay and went to all the stores.

Which is where I got a bloody nose.

And so we quickly ran downstairs and headed to the nearest bathroom.

Standing there blood oozing out of my nose barely having enough to switch paper towels without it dripping all over.

A very nice older lady came up and got a couple paper towels for me.

Quickly realized how much I was bleeding, and asked what happend.

Of course people just assume something bad!

I informed her its just the diffference in air with changing cities,

yes, Tri-Cities is a desert, but its worse there.

She ran to her "new buddy" the bartender she said.

Grabbed me a towel and some ice and a cup.

When the lady told her what she needed it for the bartender

freaked out and called security!

As the lady is telling me this, I'm freaking out in my mind.

Wanting to say, "Really?!? It's a bloody nose! I'm fine!"

And thinking,"Great Jason is sitting outside and is going to see this!

He's going to think something serious happened!"

The female security guard came in and asked how i was feeling, and all that.

I said I was fine nothing to worry about.

Around this time, it started to slow down.

Cleaned myself up.

Walked outside of the bathroom.

To where I quickly turned around and ran back in to throw up!

I was really light headed and pale.

By this time there was 3 or 4 security standing there.

They had me sit down.

And of course because I'm under 21, I have to be escorted!

Awesome, so I'm sitting there with Jason holding my stuff

and guards all around me.

Perrrfect!

I was sweating like crazy, I was so hot and so they gave me

some ice pads and put gauze under my lip.

Long story short!

Embarrassing!

We finally got to go up to our room which wasn't very far.

I layed down while Jason decided we weren't going to Cris Angel

or doing anything else that night...):

Talk about LAME.

Which brings us to Sunday, February 26.

We woke up early getting ready to fly out the Phoenix-Mesa.

We went to breakfast at the same buffet from the night before!

(that's how good it was)

Had an amazing conversation.

One I will never forget!

But after we went to the airport...

When we ended up just renting a car!

Jason thought that it would be fun!

Because I've never seen the Hoover Dam or the Grand Canyon!

So we rented a 2012 VW Eos Convertible!!

(: SCORE!

After this pit stop we headed towards the Grand Cayon!

But stopped at a little place and bought some Jerky!

Every road trip we've gone on we get Jerky!

It was delicious!

As our trip continued we laughed, danced, talked, sang, had a blast.

Just made me realize that those are the type of memories I'll have

with me for my whole life.

If we flew none of that would have happened.

Makes me happy. I'm glad Jason suggested it(:

After a longer drive, we finally made it.

To the cold, snow covered, Grand Canyon!

Holy Cow!

That thing was HUGE!

It went for miles, and miles.

We could barely see the river at the bottom!

We actually got to see some local wild life.

They posed very well for my camera!

We went down the road a bit and took a few more pictures

When we met this guy..

He was one crazy bird!!

He walked right up to the window...

Stood there. And made some weird noises!

So we left!

Headed down to our final destination

I snapped this lovely picture on our way down out of Flagstaff.

But we finally made it to the Legado Hotel And Spa

Where we checked in, went and got something to eat.

Headed back to the hotel and went to bed.

Monday, February 27th, came in.
We woke up to nothing but sunshine!

It was gorgeous.

Flip Flops, shorts, t-shirts, sun dresses!

We spent the day shopping and running around.

I can't complain!

The next two days Jason spent in class.

From 8-5pm.

I wish thats how it was a home!

What would it be like, having him work normal hours!

We spent Wednesday, excited/ sad about leaving the next morning.

We woke up at 4:45am which was 3:45am Washington time.

For an 8am departure.

Luckily we got there when we did.

Not exactly the most efficient way of getting the lines to form.

It was worth it because we made our flight.

We made it home got our bags, and headed to get our puppy!

He stayed the week at his previous owners house.

So he got to see his parents and brothers.

Who are all HUGE like him!

Gave him a bath when we got home.

And Jason had to go to work because

Candidate Rick Santorium was comign to his facility.

But overall it was great trip!(:

I love being able to spend time with Jason and have fun and make memories.

He's an amazing guy and I'm glad I'm lucky enough to be in his life!

(: thanks baby!