My fun Birthday!! 28 years old.. wow, I'm old haha

I had the greatest birthday ever this year.. Look how cute Andy and Boston decorated the kitchen for me! It's soooo cute and I love Hello Kitty! they even made me my favorite cake (the kind with the sprinkles in it, you know the colored spots). I got some new shoes and some new clothes!! What more could a girl ask for. That night we went to dinner and a movie.. it was really relaxing, I loved it! Thanks Andy for such a great birthday :)

Park City with the kids

When we got back from our vacation in Washington and California, we wanted to take the kids out to do something fun the next day. So we went up to park city and let Boston ride his bike around and Scarlett hang out in the shade. Boston found these really cool ramps to go up and down and up and down and loved it! It's so nice to be back with the kids, we sure did miss them :)

Oregon Coast and San Francisco

The drive from Washington into Oregon. We took highway 101 through the little town along the coast, got lost a couple of times but we did see some truly amazing views!

Here we are in San Francisco on the boat tour of the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island. It was a really awesome tour and fun being out on the extremely choppy water of the bay.

Bottom picture is of Alcatraz Island.. Very interesting history.. did you know that the native americans that lived in the area moved onto the island in the late 60's and claimed it as their property.. then continued to fight with the government of California for years over who owned the land. California government eventually won and which point it was converted into a monument of sorts.

The view of San Fran from the tour boat.

I bet you can't guess what bridge this is :)

Here we are arriving early for the SF Giants game. It was father's day and so they were handing out these really awesome Giants ties in these really cool boxes. We got two :) It was really hot that day and so we got pretty sun burned, good thing the girls behind us were smarter than us and brought some sun screen!

Mariners Game in Seattle with Yury, Levi and Emma!!

After making our way back from the coast (La Push and Forks) we stopped in Seattle to see Yury and family one last time to enjoy some yummy hot dogs, peanuts, and atmosphere! It was a really intense game and Seattle won so the crowd was going crazy.. It was a really fun night!

Forks and La Push

So for those of you who don't know what Twilight is, it takes place mainly in Forks WA. But the main character has an Native American friend that lives on a reservation in La Push. So we thought while we were out in Seattle visiting Yury and family that we might as well go visit the hot spots of these books.

We began our drive from Port Angeles to Forks which ended up being about an hour. We got to Forks and almost drove through it, it was such a tiny city. Good thing there were signs :) and Twilight stuff everywhere. Here are some pictures from Forks:

This is supposed to be the truck that Bella drives. But I don't think that it would look like this.. But let's remember the actual Forks WA is basing everything off the book not the movie :)

The town deemed this Bella and Charlie's house. There is not sign and people actually liver here so when you go to ask where it's at, they tell you to not knock on the door. We were not the only Twilight freaks visiting Forks. It was basically a caravan or visitors from all over the place. CRAZY!!

Carlisle Cullen even was issued is very own parking spot. In the spot was a motorcycle, which I really don't think Dr. Cullen would've driven, but whatever. You can tell that the town is pushing the limit on this thing to try and drive as much tourist money as they possibly can. Not that we had to pay to see any of this stuff, but they reap the rewards in other ways I'm sure. It's good for their little economy :)

This is supposed to be the Cullen's house. The only problem I had with it was that it was in the middle of forks and not in the mountains or hidden away like the book describes it. This house is actually an Inn and I'm guessing that they get a lot of business claiming to be the Cullen residence... Good thinking on their part!

The next pictures are of La Push, the Indian reservation where Jacob lives. Bella visits him often in 'New Moon'. The movie for this book is due to come out this November!! yayay... but putting the book aside, La Push has some really awesome beaches and is a really cool reservation.

Here's what you see right when you get there :

Can you see the wolf howling at the moon? SOOO Crazy that this is actually on the La Push - First Beach!! Irony, it's a killer!

We got some Vampire Vanilla ice cream cones on the way back in to Port Angeles. The girl at the register freaked out when the boy helping us with our order got us large cones instead of smalls (we had a coupon for two free small cones). She was so angry with him.. hopefully he didn't get in trouble... what a stupid thing to get mad about.