Three Year Anniversary in Jackson Hole, WY

On August 26, 2006, Scott & I were married in the Los Angeles Temple for time and all eternity.

I will forever be grateful for that wonderful day in the temple. Words cannot express the tangible spirit and emotion that overwhelmed me as I stepped into the sealing room and was greeted by the smiles of my family and dearest friends.

I remember feeling so pure and just radiantly happy. I have that same feeling every time Scott and I go to the temple together and I always feel that he loves me even more each time we go. He is my eternal companion and I feel so blessed to be sealed to him. He supports me, comforts me, teaches me, takes care of me, and loves me.

I always ask him why he loves me. And he always replies, "Because you're mine."

I hope one day I can feel that I deserve him.

I am so thankful to my Heavenly Father for my temple marriage & the blessings it brings daily.

On our honeymoon at the gorgeous

Hotel Del Coronado.

(Don't we look so young?)

For our anniversary we took a day trip to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The drive was beautiful and it was fun to sit in the car with Scott listening to music and holding hands. Jackson Hole is my grandma Trudy's favorite place and she told us a few spots to go to.

We ate at Mountain High Pizza Pie and devoured an entire pepperoni pizza by ourselves. We were a wee bit famished. Then we rode the Alpine Slide. We rode the ski lift to the top and then flew down on our super dirty carts. I wish it had lasted longer.

After the slide, we walked around Jackson Hole and perused through all the shops. Of course, we had to take a couple pictures by the huge antler arches.

And of course, Scott needed to pretend that he had antlers.

After shopping, we went to the Teton Village and rode an enormous 60 person gondola 10,000 feet up to the top of a mountain.

We had a beautiful view of Jackson Hole, but boy was it freezing!

Overlooking Jackson Hole.

I love this picture.

Scott bought a ninja snowboard mask when we were shopping. Luckily, I had it in my purse at the top of the mountain so I put it on to stay warm. I felt super silly and definitely like a ninja.

(Notice how I was wearing sandals. Yeah, very cold.)

After the gondola, we ate our anniversary dinner at the Four Seasons. It was delicious! I had an arugula salad with candied hazelnuts, bleu cheese crumble and an orange balsamic vinagerette. It was amazing. We both had the lobster, which again, was awesome. It cracked me up though because when they brought it out the lobster head was on the plate and its tentacles were hanging over. I'm used to just having a lobster tail. I laughed all through dinner because the tentacles kept touching my silverware. Poor little lobster.

We finished with chocolate fondue, holding hands & sipping our non-alcoholic sparkling cider.

It was so romantic.

As we left the Four Seasons, we took a cute little path back to our car. I was putting our camera away when Scott yelled, "DEER!" There were two deer literally 15 feet from us nibbling on some leaves. I thought it was adorable and told Scott they were a husband and wife out for a stroll just like us. He laughed because they were both male deer. I forgot that female deer don't have antlers.

Jackson Hole was a perfect little getaway to celebrate our anniversary. We've been told over and over again to take these opportunities while we live so close. Thank you sweetheart for working so hard and for always making me feel so loved!

I love you! Happy Anniversary!

Fun, Fun, Fun!

A couple of weeks ago, Scott (aka B.I.L. -bro.in.law), Bert and I flew home to go on our family vacation. The fun started out with a give-in---a DodgErS game! It was fun to sit and gorge ourselves on Dodger dogs, chocolate malts, nachos, peanuts, and so much more.

The next day we packed up and got on the road.

Destination: Gma and Gpa Cawley's house in Carson City, Nevada.

ETA: 7 hours. Yikes.

The Cawley family is filled with a bunch of whiners (me especially-to be honest I'm propbably the instigator). I hate car trips. A car ride to San Diego is do-able, or IF to SLC, but 7 hours is just too much. Thankfully, we stopped plenty of times for me to gain some sanity...and eat. Scott had Carl's Jr. for the first time, we stopped at Schat's Bakery...soooo yummy....where we got breads, chocloates, danishes and caramel apples, etc.

Once we got to Gma and Gpa Cawley's I was delivered a major blow.

All of the thick, plush, swirly, orange-y, 70's carpet was gone! GONE!!!

I had been so excited to show Scott my favorite memory of that house. Oh well. Hardwood floors are a little more sleek I guess, but it wasn't the same.

The next day we went to Virginia City. It's a tourist trap, but fun nonetheless. It's an old mining/cowboy town thats been made into a little tourist attraction. We rode the train, took some old-fashioned pictures (I was a saloon girl...hubba hubba), saw a pretty lame-o but entertaining short play, took a tour of a mine, shopped, ate ice cream and sported some pretty hott 'staches. Scroll down and you'll see what I'm talking about.

All natural.

We floated down the Truckee River in Tahoe one day, which was SOO fun.

I don't have any pictures because we were obviously on the river and in some major water fights. I think my dad was fulfilling some childhood dream of being a pirate, because he was all about sabotaging other rafts and doing sneak attacks. We stopped for lunch on the bank and sunk our teeth into some frozen fried chicken that my gma packed. The chicken was so frozen we had to scrape off some meat with our two front teeth. Ah, memories.

Another day, we went horseback riding in Tahoe. The views were gorgeous! I'm not a real animal lover but Smokey was a good horse and behaved himself apart from some binge eating every 15 minutes.

Our last night in Carson City, Gma and Gpa took us out to eat. Interesting night topped off with an even more interesting game of International.

Back home in Valencia, our whole family got together at Gma Trudy and Gpa Gary's. We swam, ate pizza and brownies, talked, and it was just wonderful. I love all my little cousins and their happy, smiling faces. Timmy was my little shadow that night and I was lovin it. I think I was having too much fun to take pictures.

Saturday night we went to see Fiddler on the Roof at the Pantages. I love the movie. I used to dress up like Yenta when I was little and reenact the "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" scene for my family. The play was awesome because it featured Topol, the same guy that played Tevye in the movie. I think the program said he was now 79 years old. wow.

It was a nice finale to the trip.

Finally...

I was able to see Brittney! I am so excited that they have moved back to Valencia. Maybe now I can see her more often, and those adorable kids of hers! I honestly wanted to take Braden home with me.

Thanks Mom and Dad for another wonderful trip! You truly invest in our family and your love, kindness, support and examples have made us a closer and more loving family.