A Visit from the Fam

Several weeks ago my mom, dad, and sister came out to visit.  My brother and his wife had a baby a few months ago, so the grandparents got to see both their grandkids :)  It’s always good to see everyone and we were able to do some fun things while they were here.  We went to the Bean Museum, the Dinosaur Museum, saw “The Last Song,” had a picnic, ate good food, and just spent some quality time as a family.  I hope my sister decides to come to BYU for college because her sister and niece miss her a lot! 

My mom

My dad

Kylie was more interested in the dinosaur toys then the actual dinosaur bones.

“I have a big head and little arms…” 

LOVE this picture that Brenna took.

 

Isn’t my sister gorgeous!

Pooped out

PLEASE COME VISIT SOON!

Kylie at the park

Thought I would share some pictures of Kylie yesterday at the park.  Austin and I were both commenting how big she is getting.  If you can’t tell, she LOVES the park.  I think she would go everyday if I let her. 

Want to hear some good news?

Well, after knowing for about 3 weeks now, but not wanting to jinx myself until I went to the doctor and knew for sure, I can now tell the whole world that I'M PREGNANT!!! Oh my gosh, I am so happy right now. I am due October 28th and everything is looking good so far. I can't believe next month they will be able to hear the heartbeat. I mean seriously, that is crazy. I haven't been sick or anything so everything is looking like it will go the same way when I was pregnant with Kylie. I'm so happy I can finally start telling people. Anyway, just wanted to share the good news!

Coming home…

Oh my, Sunday was a sad day.  We had to say goodbye to our wonderful little niche of the world.  Austin and I are so ready to go back again.  Anyway, I digress…

After leaving the hotel, we headed out to Saint Helens, Oregon.  Oh yes, more Twilight stops :)  This town cracked me up.  It was  a dump.  It was so fun to see the Twilight places, but at the same time some of them were hard to recognize  as they were in the movie.  My favorite place was Bella's house. 

Dress Shop

Restaurant that she eats dinner with Edward (still having a hard time seeing it..)

Bookstore

Parking lot that the men were harassing Bella

View Point Inn where they shot the Prom scene.  Actually  a really beautiful place.  Has an awesome view, but forgot to take pictures.

Stopped to see the Latourell Waterfall after that.

After that we headed over to Bridal Veil Falls.  Really liked this waterfall.

We then stopped at our last place on our trip – Multnomah Falls.  AMAZING!  Honestly, the coolest waterfall I have ever seen.  You actually walk up the mountain to stand on that bridge.  From there, you can go another mile to stand at the very top of the falls, but Austin’s foot was hurting so we didn’t go.

And that was our trip!  Hope you enjoyed the pictures.  It really was  a wonderful vacation :)

This is taking me forever…

Ok, seriously, I don’t know what my problem is.  Not sure why it is taking so long to post about our Oregon trip!  So here goes.

On Saturday we went to the Seaside beach and searched for sand dollars.  We found a TON!  That was so much fun to do.  After that we went to Ecola State Park. 

Loved the lighthouse out in the distance.

Really, really enjoyed this area.  Awesome views.

We then went to Indian Beach where they shot the beach scene in Twilight (you know, La Push).  This was a really cool beach.  We were able to see some tide pools as well. 

We went to see this cool place called Treasure Cove.  There was a fence around the edge of it, but if you happened to hop the fence by accident (wink, wink), you stood out on this ledge to see this awesome view :)

 

 

Our next stop was short sands beach.  I really liked this beach.  We spent a lot of time playing at this one :) 

 

Our last stop was Tolvana Beach where we got some great sunset pictures.  The sunsets were so amazing out there.

After that, we ordered some pizza and relaxed in our hotel.  By this time I was getting sad because we had to leave the next day.  I want to go back!