Redwood National Forest Trip

We had the best trip up to the Redwood Forest! The trees are amazing and simply majestic. We would love to go back some day. We also drove on up into Oregon just for the heck of it. It was also very beautiful.







The Golden Gate Bridge

Oregon Coast

Justin and I standing in the trunk/roots of a fallen giant! This was on the Avenue of the Giants Drive

Avenue of Giants

Justin drove the truck onto a huge tree that was hand cut in 1900. Gracie looking up at him...

This was literally a "tree house" made from a single hollowed out tree. Gracie's new home

The Tree Houses

Grace in her new house!

The Drive Thru Tree

The truck SQUEEZING thru the tree!

Justin inside a tree lol

Seriously, these trees are MASSIVE!

The elk just stood there watching us!

Northern California Coast

Hailee in her rightful place

This sign reads: "We are taking reservations for weddings when this display is ready 600 years from now". It's the much smaller Cathedral tree

All of us at the top of the mountain overlooking the trees and the ocean

Hailee liked the air train ride

Grace not so much

This is the Brotherhood Tree. It is the largest one there and I think maybe in the world... not sure on that fact though. I can't remember

The Brotherhood tree

This is a sign in front of the Cathedral Trees

The Cathedral Trees

A huge root that you can crawl under

Graduation and Family time!

This last week was amazing! Mom, Dad, Luke and
my friend Ashley came out for my graduation from Nursing school. We had a ton of fun and these were some of the great pictures from the 3 days they were all here. Unfortunately I only have a few graduation and pinning ceremony pictures so I'm waiting for everyone else (mom and dad and ashley to upload their pictures too).

Here's Luke overlooking the ocean from his perch

Sunset at Lover's Point

All of us at Lover's point in Monterey, CA

Justin and I

So Justin and I and Ashley all buried Luke and made him into a very large breasted mermaid

Mom and Dad at Lover's Point (Luke in the background)

Luke at the Lover's Point

Grandma and Gracie digging in the sand

Happy Hailee playing at the beach

Hello Hailee!

The West Coast off of Hwy 1

Me being thrown off a cliff!

Not really :)

Me and mom falling off a cliff!

Again, not really :)

Grandpa and Hailee

All of us at the beach

Grandma and Grandpa with the babies at the beach

Mommy and Hailee at the beach on this beautiful day!

It was a fantastic three days and we miss you guys already!

San Francisco Zoo!

This last Friday we decided to take the girls to the San Francisco zoo. Gracie loves animals and we thought she was finally at an age that she would enjoy it.

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Hailee thought this lion was great but Gracie didn't like this...

Happy Hailee!

Mommy and Hailee

Gracie and Mommy when we first got to the zoo

Hailee mostly rode in the stroller the whole time.

Daddy and Gracie

Gracie kept pointing at different animals and saying things like "whoa!" and
"pretty". She also enjoyed pointing out every bird she saw, anything that looked like a bug, and every body of water there.

It was a fun day and a really great little trip for all of us.