Happy Halloween!

Parties? No.
Handing out candy? No.
Carving pumpkins? Always.

Guess Who's Going to Disneyland?!

My co-worker and I sit in a "room" by ourselves at work, therefore, we get to listen to the radio. However, the "room" that we sit in does not get very good reception, therefore, we can only listen to a handful of stations without the crackle. 101.9 happens to be one of those stations. And everyday, 3 times a day, for 3 weeks, this radio station was giving away park hopper passes to Disneyland. I called diligently everyday, 3 times a day, for 3 weeks. And on the 4th day of the 3rd week, guess who won those prized Disneyland tickets :-) I'm going in May... now only if I can get my husband to come with me...

Pickles!

We received a TON of cucumbers from Brian's friend at work. I said "what are you going to do with all of those?" and Brian said "let's make pickles!

Our haul

Getting crispy

I called Andrea to see how full I could fill my pot with pickles. She said I could fill it pretty full. I took this picture on my cell phone and sent it to her and asked "is this too full?" She said "um, yeah, probably"

Dills

Sweets

The mad scientist

Voila! After all our hard work, and several late night phone calls to Brian's sister, our cucumber's turned into pickles! And they are SOOO delicious!

We Go To Oregon

For Brian's 30th birthday, I got us plane tickets to go visit his sister Andrea and her family in Oregon City. The plane tickets were supposed to be a surprise, however, it didn't work out the way I planned. I was trying to be super sneaky and buy the tickets on a credit card that we never use, and Brian never looks at the bill. Well, of course this ONE TIME, Brian decides to look over the credit card bill. Let me paint you a little picture... it's 12:30 at night, I am dead asleep in bed. Brian comes FLYING up the stairs and says "I think someone stole our credit card and used it to buy Southwest plane tickets!" BUSTED! I told him not to worry about it, but my secret was blown :( Anywho... the trip was SO much fun! We almost didn't come home!

Shopping at the outlet malls. Oh how I love this little girl.

Her sucker was SUPER messy.

I was giving Jessi blackberries to snack on in the car. I turned around to give her another, when she gave me a big cheesy grin and had berries ALL over her teeth!

We drove to Seaside one of the days we were there and rented a surrey! This was SO much fun! It's a huge 9 person bike (they have 12 person bikes too) I kept yelling at Andrea "why have we never done this before!"

At the beach

The cutest Turner family there ever was! This was right after we took Redden on the tilt-a-whirl and just about made him toss his cookies.

A not-so-happy Jessi. She didn't like the sand.

Some manly men

The Turner's walking back from the shore

We wore them out!

The next morning, Brian comes into our room and says "go look at Jessi". I went in her room and found her like this.

Lunch at the Carver Hanger. Brian got the biggest hamburger ever.

Hey Twilight fans: recognize this place??? This is the diner where Bella and her dad eat in "Twilight"

Did you know that a lot of scenes from "Twilight" were filmed in Oregon City? Guess what we did on our last day there???

Thanks, Turner's, for such a fun trip! We hope to be back soon! Love you guys!