Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I'm thankful for my family, my home, the gospel, sunny southern california, a roof over our heads, spicy food and most importantly PUMPKIN PIE and CHRISTMAS MUSIC!

I hope you all have a lovely Thanksgiving.

xoxo

Boston, Ma

We went to visit Evan's parents who are on a temple mission in Boston. I've never been to the East coast and I loved everything about it (well minus the weather). We had so much fun, did the tourist thing and saw some really neat things. Thanks again mom and dad for letting us come visit you, we enjoyed it!
Pics of Concourd & Lexington, battle with the Minutemen and where the 'shot heard around the world' was.
Pic with Papa and Kelsey, they were best of friends throughout the trip.
Bottom right pic is Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
I saw a photographer taking pics of a newly engaged couple in that tree and I thought what a great idea!
The trees were so beautiful, never seen anything like it.

Newport Mansions in Rhode Island

These homes were so amazing. They are the summer homes of the wealthy like the Vanderbilts in the 19th century. They lived here 6 weeks out of the year...must be nice.
Newport is famous for the homes of the wealthiest families in America at the turn of the 19th century. These mansions are aptly named as Homes of the Gilded age; a term coined by Mark Twain to denote the late 1800s 1930 period, when American business tycoons amassed enough wealth and fortune to build lavish, palatial homes. Here are some photos and trivia about these mansions.The Breakers : the 'summer cottage' of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, railroad magnate. Architect - Richard Morris Hunt. Modeled after the seaside palaces of Genoa, the house covers approximately 130000 sq.ft, has 70 rooms and 23 bathrooms. This mansion is aptly named after the waves of the Atlantic crashing onto the rocks. The rooms include a 50 ft wide, long and high Grand Hall, a Music Room, a dazzling 2400 sq ft dining room having twelve enormous, rose alabaster pillars and a Billiards room having a detailed mosaic ceiling and twenty varieties of marble. The Library has a massive marble fireplace acquired from a 16th century French Chateau. The bathtub is carved out of a single piece of marble and has a supply of hot, cold and saltwater tapped directly from the ocean. It took over two years to construct the various parts of this house which were shipped from over all parts of Europe. --taken from a more well versed blog :)

Bunker Hill Monument

We climbed this amazing tower on Bunker hill that gave you a view of the whole city, beautiful. "The Bunker Hill Monument stands 221 feet tall at Breed's Hill, the site of the first major battle of the American Revolution fought on June 17, 1775." We climbed 294 steps, man it was a lot of work. And I'm a retard, I started running up it at first thinking it would be a breeze, passing people and then I was dying!!! But, I couldn't let the people I just passed, pass me....so I ignored the burning thigh pain, my head spinning from dizziness and trekked on...what an idiot! And to our amazement Connie came with, she was amazing, not too far behind us! Sorry Connie, know that's not the most flattering picture but I had to take it for proof for Michele :)
Like how Evan and I took leaning tower of Pisa pics :)

All About Kelsey

Just some cute pics I snapped of Kels. Oops, she's wearing a Red Coat, wrong side for the Revolutionary War. (I thought we were looking at stuff from the Civil War, just learned yesterday, from Gram and Evan that it wasn't the Civil War. What do I know... :)

Halloween!

Friday night, we attended our ward party where as you can see, Evan got a lot of slack for his costume! I thought he was a good sport. He's always trying to be frugal so I thought, well I have this headband and I can buy you a pink shirt, he said "ok whatever." Haha, sucker. We one best family costume and Kelsey one cutest Ladybug. On Halloween Evan decided to wear his Nacho mask, I guess he wanted to feel like a man. Anyway, it was fun and Kelsey enjoyed her first trick or treating experience. She would say thank you every time someone gave her candy, so cute.

Kelsey's 1st Trip to Disneyland

Kelsey went to Disneyland for the first time last Thursday, and of course it was the happiest place on earth! Jill and Landon came with and it was so cute how they both loved on eachother. Mostly Kelsey loving to hug on him and they would hold hands all the time. If they ever get married in the future, we sure have cute pictures for them! Kelsey loved Dumbo she was saying 'weeee' the whole time. We went on Alice in Wonderland and Pirates. She was clinging to me on pirates the whole time, I forgot it was a little scary and loud, but I had fun. :)