Zoo

For Christmas, Nick's mom bought us a Zoo pass! We're trying to make good use of it this summer...we've been twice. This trip was with the Dyrdahl's and Barkley's. All 5 kids had a great time!

Italy

On June 28th, we set off on our Italian adventure for my sister & Brett's wedding. We spent the first 3 nights at a beautiful villa in Greve in Chianti with most of the wedding folks. Aside from the craziest thunder & lightning storm I've ever seen that knocked the power out the day of the wedding, everything was perfect. The skies cleared just in time for a beautiful wedding! For the last 4 days of our trip, we stayed in Florence and took our rental car on little mini day trips.

Lise

On May 27th, my life changed. I lost one of my very best life long friends, Lise. She was vacationing in Chelan with her husband Ryan and two little boys, Ray & Mac when she went out for a run. While she was jogging, a man fell asleep at the wheel and hit Lise. The accident instantly killed Lise and her unborn daughter, Faith. Lise and I first met in preschool in Parkland and ended up both moving to Puyallup where our friendship continued. We spent our summers as kids over in Chelan camping with her family...she loved that place. After college, we married Nick and Ryan who were also long time close friends. We've spent most weekends together with our families for the past 5 years. Not an hour goes by that I don't think about her. We all miss her more than words!

San Fran Trip-May 2011

We took a trolley ride around town. They really pack the people on those things. Kinda freaked me out to be hanging off the side of a trolley as we went down the super steep hills in town.

We took a boat ride out in the bay and circled around Alcatraz.

One of the many bridges

Here's the tour boat we took out on the bay.

We checked out the wax museum...

And the aquarium

We are nerds, but we rode the Duck and had a blast! Highly recommend it :)

It was bright outside :)

Sorry I haven't updated this blog forever! I'm trying to remember what we've been up to for the last few months. In May, I flew down to San Francisco and met Nick for a weekend after one of his business trips. We had a great time sight seeing, eating yummy food, and sleeping in (Connor stayed home)!