Thanksgiving 2014

This year we did a lot of back and forth driving for Thanksgiving. Scott got a season pass to Targhee this year because he can get the student discount. It will probably be the last season pass he gets in a long time so we figured we better just do it. Unfortunately I'm fairly pregnant so that means I wont be doing hardly any, if any, boarding this year. I might be able to do some spring skiing if I'm lucky. So even though my family wasn't celebrating Thanksgiving till Saturday we decided to head up to Driggs Wednesday night anyways so Scott could go skiing on Thursday. We then drove back to Idaho Falls on Friday so we could celebrate Thanksgiving with Scott's family. We ate a delicious meal then played games before driving back to Driggs Friday late evening so we could do Thanksgiving with my family on Saturday. It was a lot of driving but worth it to be with family. Clarissa and Justin were able to be there on Saturday so it was a lot of fun to see them.

Jacob likes reorganizing Grandma's cupboards when we come to visit

Clarissa is 35 weeks pregnant and I'm 27 weeks. We decided to take a prego picture together while we were together since this will probably be the last time we are together before Clarissa has her baby.

All in all we had a great Thanksgiving holiday with family! Love you all!

Happy Birthday to ME!

So the highlight of my birthday was forgetting it was my birthday.... I am blaming it on the fact that we had just gotten back from vacation the night before and hadn't really kept track of the days while we were on vacation. We woke up Thursday morning and Scott had asked me to trim the hair on the back of his neck and while I was trimming my alarm went off on my phone for my calender. I said, "Oh, it's payday!" So I open my phone and look at the calender reminder and it says, "Happy Birthday!" I turn to Scott and say, "Hey, it's my birthday today!" He get's this surprised look on his face and says, "Oh.... Well happy birthday then!" hahaha. It was the funniest thing ever! I am not one to forget my birthday. In fact. I'm usually the type of person that milks it for all it's worth and it's my birthday all week.

I just assumed Scott hadn't gotten me a present, which I was right. So that night we had Grandma and Grandpa Bergendorf watch Jacob and Scott and I went out and ate at Johnny Carino's then went birthday present shopping at Ross so I could get a new jacket and half zip pull over then we went to a movie. So all in all my birthday ended up being great anyways despite the fact that we forgot it.

The next night we had a little get together with family and friends to have cake and ice cream. It's not your birthday without lighting some candles, putting them on a cake and blowing them out. Also, apparently Scott was tired of being married to a young-en because he put 41 candles on my cake and it set off the fire alarm. It was pretty epic. :) Thanks everyone for making my birthday great!

Moab Family Vacation

Since Scott got work off for Veterans Day we decided to add a few more days on top of it and take a little family vacation down to Moab. Unfortunate Jacob and I both got sick the day that we were supposed to leave and as a prego person I'm not really allowed to take anything to help it. So I just had to suck it up and we packed and left. I'm glad that I only felt really sick that first day. The rest of the time I felt good. Jacob was also sick though and had a pretty nasty cough. We drove down and stayed with Melanie and Ben Thursday night and Jacob was coughing and wheezing we were wondering if we should go at all. Thankfully Melanie gave us some essential oils to use and they really seemed to work. Jacob didn't hardly cough all night and the wheezing was completely gone by morning. So we decided to continue our journey.

Our plan was to camp the whole trip to help save on costs. But by the morning of our first night camping I was done. Jacob hadn't slept well and ended up sleeping with us, which means I didn't sleep at all. It also kind of sucked because it got dark by 5:30 and it was cold so we just didn't really have anything to do from 5:30 till we went to sleep. I also forgot to bring my coat so I was feeling extra cold.

Because of all the circumstances we decided to just get a hotel and I think that was the best choice. It was a night hotel with a little kitchenette so we could still do all our own cooking. And they gave us a discounted price. It was really nice to be able to stay out until dark then have somewhere warm and lit we could go. Jacob and I also slept much much better in the hotel.

We spend most of our time in Arches National Park. We did a lot of hiking. Sadly our second day at Arches was a very windy day which meant lot of sand in the eyes. It was also a colder wind so if you were in the shade it got very cold very quickly. A lot of the canyons would create wind tunnels. It was still nice just would have been even better if the wind hadn't of been blowing.

 Double Arches

 

 Elephant Rock

 Garden of Eden

 Firery Furnace

 Balance Rock

 Delicate Arch

 Delicate Arch

 Landscape Arch

 Jacob ran up and down rock hills and around cliffs and when does he bump a hole in his head? In the Hotel. We still don't even know what he did or how it happened. He just started crying and we turn around and he's sitting in the middle of the floor with blood dripping down his face.

We spent our last day in Canyonlands. Scott took us on an off-roading trail to get us there. He needed to test out the awesomeness of our outback. It exceeded his expectations! The road was pretty steep in places and we had to go slower because Jacob was sleeping and Scott was trying not to wake him up going over all the rocks and the car never slipped once. It just slowly made it's way up the sand, rocks and hills.

 

Canyonlands was pretty cool as well. It was different because in stead of all the rocks being higher than you like in Arches everything was lower than you in canyons so it looked pretty flat. It had some cool arches though and some other features.

 All tuckered out after 3 days in Southern Utah

On our way back to Idaho we stopped and stayed the night with the Durtschi clan. It was really fun to spend some time with them. We also stopped by to say hi to Clarissa and to see her and Justin's new place in Salt Lake. It seems like a decent apartment and is a nice size. I'm not going to lie I'm a little sad they moved away... I was really excited to have them close by so that their baby and my baby could be play mates!

Our trip ended up being really awesome! It was really nice to just do something with our little family. Not that we don't love our trips with our extended family... But it was fun to be just the three of us as well.