Farewell Trent!

Well, my fabulous little brother leaves on his mission to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in TODAY! Wow. I keep thinking about it, and mostly I am just so excited for him. It's going to be so wonderful for him, I can't wait to hear all his stories and about the opportunities he'll have. I'm really proud of him for working hard and making the decision to do this-- it really is a pretty big commitment! I know he'll never regret it though, and I am confident this will be one of the very best parts of his life. Go little bro!

Below are some pictures from the Sunday of his "farewell" 3 weekends ago. A bunch of the fam was in town for that, and it really was such a treat to spend time with everybody!

my cutie grandparents (mom's side)

Some more California...

Here's some more fun from our California trip! These pictures are from the beautiful garden/yard of the Westover home, where we were lucky enough to stay! We loved waking up to this beautiful garden and courtyard every morning-- what a dream!

Jordan with the Westover's cutie granddaughter, Ella

The Westover's adorable and very energetic puppy Molly! She's beautiful, huh?

pretty garden waterfall! :)

Jilly Girl's Wedding!

After our fun LA adventures, Jordan and I headed north to Sacramento for 2 big events: my college roommate of 2 years and one of my best friend's wedding-- Jill Tuttle! Also, my little and only bro Trent-- nay, ELDER MCGREGOR's farewell! (or un-farewell, since we don't really do those anymore. basically, is going away talk :) Both were just exceptional. But first came Jill's wedding, so we'll start there.

What can I say? She is just a beautiful person, and she was just glowing on her wedding day. I'm pretty sure they just love each other. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves:

love this one, nice work jord:

Another pretty neat one by Jord :)

oh yea, and the other happy couple! :)

It really was a fun, fun day! So happy for Jill and Michael, they really just are wonderful for each other and you could just feel the happiness rolling off of them :).

California Trip!

Well Jordan and I just had a pretty fabulous trip to California! First we went to Manhattan Beach, where we stayed with our family friends the Westovers in their beautiful pool house (if you want to call it that-- but it's about 100x bigger and more beautiful than our actual house ;), which was just a dream! We went to the beach on Friday and had a wonderful time walking and relaxing.




Next, on Saturday my friend Alana's mom got us in to Disneyland and California Adventure for free!!! We had WAY too much fun, considering the fact that we're supposed to be real grown ups and what not. Some of our favorites were the Tower of Terror (2x), the new Toy Story ride (with fun shooting games, which Jordan slaughtered me at), the rollercoaster, the Aladdin mini-musical, Indiana Jones, the Haunted Mansion, Pirates, and the fireworks show!!! They were all SO so fun, we were laughing all day. Thanks Sister Gillette for all the great fun!

Strollin on CA Blvd. or something like that in California Adventure

INCREDIBLE!!!

We even got to San Francisco! Wow!

Sometimes we got tired of waiting in line...

But then we'd see Mr. Potato Head and feel better :)

And then we found our next house, which we heard might be on the market?

So we got some ice cream to celebrate, and then watched the parade on Main Street.

Did the madderhorn thing, mostly just so we could cuddle... :)

I tried real hard!!!

Jord thought he could do it with one arm, ha! :)

Then I tried hard again and Jordan just looked handsome :)

Hung with Tarzan and Jane for a bit...

And then I stole the wheel from Indiana!

Then we found a Swing Dance party with a live band!

And then the grand finale!!!
It was seriously fun. Great, great day :).


There's more from our Cali trip, but I haven't loaded those yet so I'll do another one later!