Moms Visit

SO last week my mom came to visit us for a few days on her way back home from Oregon. It was so nice having her here and we did some fun stuff as we attempted to entertain her and convince her to MOVE here :0) jk We drove up to Lassen and saw the pretty mountains..

We had a picnic by the river and..of course..had to go fishing ;0)



Heres mom relaxing by Deer Creek Falls..

We had a good time hanging out and she tolerated sleeping in our living room on our not so comfy pull-out bed next to the Weasle..I LOVE YOU MOM! :0) Soon we will have a house with an extra bedroom that you can stay in ;0) Anyways we were glad to have her around for a few days! See you at Christmas mamasitta! xoxo

Congratulations Tanya and Billy :0)

Listen Up! My sister Tanya finally had her first baby! Its a Boy and his name is Cole Terry..isnt he CUTE?!! Im so excited for them and wish their new little family the best! Cole Terry was born at 3:40pm on October 11, 2007. He weighed 7 lbs. 1 oz. and was 20 1/2 inches long...Happy Birthday Cole :0) Love youguys

Oregon Trip!

So Matt and i got the weekend off so that we could go visit my sister Tanya in Corvallis Oregon..she is over 9 months pregnant and is due to have her baby at any time so we were hoping to see the little guy before we had to go home..

When we got there we went for a walk in Tanyas neighborhood. Oregon is such a beautiful place!..On our walk we discovered that their neighbors owned three cute little pigs that i couldn't resist :0)

We walked along a damp trail next to the river and enjoyed catching up with eachother.

Matt found a snake and picked it up! It was pretty cool :0)

It rains alot in Oregon but luckily the weather was gorgeous while we were there! We went back to tanyas place and relaxed a little after our walk. Then we went into town and ran some errands..and went to ROSS of course :0) That night we went to dinner and sat in the hot tub when we got home..it was soo nice..we saw some deer walking around in their yard while we were tubbin' it up..pretty cool :0) The next day Matt and i decided to go explore the Oregon coast..i took lots of pictures and you can check them out on the post before this one :0) When we got back later that day there was STILL no baby!

Oh well we ate dinner, Tanya schooled us all in yahtzee and we watched a movie.

The next morning Matt and I were woke up by lots of loud crows in the yard..Billy said that i could use his pellet gun whenever i want so i decided to go hunting :0) jk I shot at them and made them shut up but they were too far away to hit..oh well! Later Billy let us ride Tanya's 4wheeler and we had some fun with that! Oh and this is Tanya's cute little dog Roxy a.k.a. Rozley :0)

She followed me everywhere i went the WHOLE time we were there! It was pretty funny :0)

SO it was time for Matt and i to go back home and unfortunately we didn't get to meet little Cole Terry because he didn't want to come out while we were there SO i will have to meet my little nephew some other time :0) We said our goodbyes and hit the road..This time we didn't drive through Oregon in the DARK so we got to SEE everything :0) It was gorgeous of course and it only took us 8 hours to get home :0) All in all it was a fun trip and although we didn't see the baby..seeing my family was well worth it to me :0)

Thanks for letting us crash with you! :0)

The Aquarium

While we were in Oregon visiting Tanya and Billy, we drove to the Oregon Coast to do a little exploring! It was pretty cold and rainy but beautiful none the less :0)

We ate lunch at this cute little sea food place overlooking the bay and watched the sea lions.

After we ate, we decided to check out the Newport Beach Aquarium..We both love stuff like that so we had a good time :0)

We saw lots of cool things..i liked taking pictures of the jelly fish..



We also got to see some pretty BIG sharks! They were scaaary :0)


The Otters were SO cute! They came right up to us and i got a good pic of one :0)


There were lots of cool things to see there..like this school of fish :0)

They also let us touch stuff!..my favorite ;0)

All in all it was alot of fun and i got to spend some quality time with my best friend..isnt he CUTE!? ;0)

Birthday Boy

Happy Birthday DAD!! We wish we could have been there to celebrate with you :0) We hope you had a Super Fabulous day and wanted to send a little LoVe your way :0) xoxoxoxoxo

So every year about this time there is something called the 'Salmon run' in Chico. It is when all of the salmon find their way back to the river that they were born in from the OCEAN! They come all this way to 'spawn' a.k.a. start a new generation of salmon :0) Matt and i heard about this and had to go see the giant salmon swimming around and thought we might do a little fishing while we were there ;0) The only problem was that we needed to use bait poles with 20lb test line to do that and considering the fact that we only fly-fish we didn't have two bait poles to use SO we went to good ol' Wal-Mart and bought another pole..then problem # 2 arose...we had NO IDEA what kind of bait to use to catch us these salmon SO we felt like idiots asking people what to get :0) You see..were used to GIVING fishing advice..not getting ;0) jk Anywho we ended up buying these lewers that looked like little fish..which was great but they were like 5 bucks each! SO we have everything we need (we think) and we head out to the river to try our luck..The guy told us to 'go on the other side of the river because the fisherman get pretty territorial with their spot and fights are a common occurrence there'...ME-'ummm alright?'LOL :0) Anyways we get there and there are a bunch of guys out there fishing. We find a spot and started fishing..mind you i haven't used a bait pole in years and theres a reason for that!..My line kept getting caught on stuff in the water and i wasn't too happy about losing the bait that i just paid 5 bucks each for!! We got to see some huge salmon jumping out of the water and swimming around. I guess the reason its so hard to catch the salmon is because they are so tired from swimming up-stream from the ocean and laying their eggs so they aren't eating very much..in fact most salmon die after spawning because they are that exhausted. SO we looked to see what our neighbors were using and were confused when we saw that they were just using HUGE hooks...no bait. They would cast the hook way far out there and yank the line as they reeled it in..they were just SNAGGING THE FISH!! Wheres the sport in that!? We were told that its actually illegal to fish like that and if caught doing so there are major fines involved. A few minutes later a guy hooked one on its SIDE and brought it in..Matt and i looked at eachother and decided to call it a day..On the way out we looked at the 30lb salmon that was caught..they look like monster fish with beady eyes and big TEETH!! kinda creepy looking but beautiful at the same time..Anyways The moral of the story is that fly fishing is the best kind of fishing !! :0)