a good drive home, and a fun rest of the week!

Saturday, April 30, 2011


Wednesday we left to leave back home. I was sad to leave my mom and my sister. I always love more time to play with them! For Tuna and Andrews treat at Disneyland they got to pick out a toy to share. They both agreed on Beeker. Tuna really likes his hair, and Andrew likes his cool lab coat. They played with him the whole ride home. Hope he isnt feeling to overwhelmed..... On our way back home, we got to stop in Vegas again! I had bought a skirt and bought the wrong size! So luckily they had the right size to exchange it with! For lunch we got to eat at "Max Brenner, Chocolate by the Bald Man." It was wonderful! When I used to live in NY that restaurant was right across from my apartment and brought back some fun memories! I miss you NY!
Jake got a yummy steak panai sandwich with sweet potato fries! 
Momma Harris got a yummy spicy avocado salad! 
I got a turkey bacon sandwich. This was only half of it. It was so big the whole plate would not fit in the picture....yum!
And the best part about Max Brenners is the great deserts! They have fresh, rich chocolate flavors of all kinds. Its fun to go there in a group and get fondue! Mom got a strawberry crepe.
Jake and I got a chocolate cake full with a carmel heart. 
Tuna got a chocolate shake.

Isn't this funny? This was in the boys bathroom!
Well, by the time we got home, it was late. Dad Harris was there to great us home. Jakes parents are staying with us till the end of the week! We have some fun things planned.

On Thursday and Friday, mom and I got to go to Women's Conference together! I was so excited I got to go, because I have always wanted to go since my young women years. It was fantastic! It was a great two days full of yummy food, great lessons and talks! We got to hear from many wonderful speakers. It was so fun to go spend time with my mother in law and have some fun adventures with just her and I.


This was the theme for Women's Conference this year. Many of the speakers touched on it.  Many things were mentioned by doing the important everyday things like ironing, laundry, packing lunches, eating good meals, reading scriptures, having good prayer, excersize, ext. were the most important things we could be doing and by doing them, really great things can happen. We got to hear from Elder Bednar and his cute wife and they gave some great examples of this. It was good reminder to me on the importance to just take life one day at a time, do you best, and live it up!

We got to hear Stephanie Neilson and 3 of her cute sisters speak! I tried to find a picture of all of them together, but didn't find one! They were the cutest girls! It was so great to hear each of their testimonies and hear each of them share experiences from their lives. They were really inspirational and really made me think about what is my purpose in life. It is so crazy how we all were sent to earth to do different things. We all have different talents, challenges and purposes. Its beautiful. These girls were fantastic.
Here is Elder Bednar! A wonderful man! After Women's conference on Thursday, we made dinner(mini pizzas and salad), and then headed over to BYU with the boys to go see the Carl Bloch exhibit.

These two pictures are two of my favorite ones that were displayed there. I think his art work is truly magnificent. I think he really depicted Christ in a beautiful way. His paintings were huge, and so 3 diminutional. They were amazing!

At the end of the museum you could go into another room and they had this really neat display. It was huge to! It is all made of books! After the exhibit the books are all being donated to help children learn to read and have their own book.
We were trying to figure out how it was made, and if it was hollow? 
Well, what ends a great night? Yes, "The Chocolate!" Dad was so excited he got his own cazookie and the rest of us shared one :)
Friday after Women's Conference, Jake was so cute and made us all dinner! He made salmon, rice, and salad. It was great! Then we all had a relaxing night! I caught up on some crafts and we all watched "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." Best movie ever!
Saturday was a great day! It was a little bit snowy but was a fun day! It started off at going to one of my all time favorite places, "Gardner Village." We got to look at the Shops and even go to the fabric store! Wahoo! I was in heaven. I love fabric to much...
We got to go to the bakery and get some yummy treats!

After Gardner Village....we got to go look at some bikes and do some bike shopping!!!!!!!! Ok for so long I have been wanting a really nice street bike! So with dad here who is an avid rider I needed his biking advice! And he owed me one since I had the Afikomen. Just kidding..he was sweet to take me! Also, mom and Jake want a bike to, so we all went to learn some things about bikes! So I found one I really really want!  Now I have a goal in mind of the bike..and the price, so now I just need to earn the money to get it! 
I felt buff holding this bike with only one arm......lets just pretend we didn't know the bike only weighed five pounds...
After a fun day we got to meet up with moms friend Debbie and cute kids, Lydia and Jacob. We got to eat at the "Blue Lemon." It was great!
I got a raspberry chicken salad!
Jake got black bean ravelollie! Then we headed home because Jake and I had a wedding reception to go to for my cousin Taylor and her new husband! They looked great! It was fun to see them and other family I have not gotten to see for quite a long time!
While we were gone at the reception, Cameron was a gem and wanted to clean our turtles! He scrubbed all four of them and gave them a bath! That ment so much to me! The turtles look so clean and happy! Thanks Cameron! Mom also helped and started making treats for our Sunday School class! When we got home from the reception Jake and I finished up the treats and prepared our lesson for the following day!

Sunday our cute parents took off to go back home. We gave our lesson, passed our treats around the neighbor hood, watched a movie and fell asleep early! It was a wonderful week! Thanks Mom and Dad Harris for a great time! We love you!

I am exited for May to come tomorrow!

Two Magical Days!

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

I love Dinseyland! It really is one of my favorite places ever! Well this trip was exciting because it was My mom, Jake and I, and Jake parents and his brother Cameron. Jakes Dad and Cameron have not been to Disneyland for many many years, and have never been to California adventure! So we started the day off at California Adventure! Tuna brought Andrew. This was his first time to come to Disneyland to! 
After we grabbed our fast passes for World of Color, we headed over to our first ride of the day, "Soaring Over California." I love the smells on that ride! We even got to sit in the middle on the front row! Best spot!
We are all fish.
Getting ready to ride the Toy Story 3D shooting game. This is one of our favorites! My mom even got the recored score for the day last time we were at California Adventure( and it was night time)! Go mom!



Jake and I's score. He barely beat me this time!
I have never seen so many Disney Charters out as we had this trip! Every where we went we saw them all over! Here is cute mom and a Toy Story Solider. Every corner I felt like there was a character! Even Rapuselle from Tangled was here!
California Screaming.
The Bugs Life world is way to cute! We love riding the caterpillar and joining him while he eats a variety of foods. "Yumm.. CANDY CORN!"
Ok, have you ever seen the Aladdin Broadway play here? It is fantastic! I have already seen it and loved it, and we all went and saw it and it was even better this time! It is a great show! Highly recommend to go to it! Here all 6 of us are in this phone both. Because of the glair and sunlight you cant seem my mom or Jakes dad.

The Bugs Life movie "Its Tuff to be a Bug" is always scary and cute. Mom and I always get a picture by this lady bug leaf every time we come to Disneyland!
Things we love about Disneyland....THE FOOD!
Hollywood Tower of Terror. With the new drop sequences this ride is intense.

Oh the sour dough bread bowls are always amazing! Never disappointing! After a great day at California Adventure, we headed over to Disneyland!

I love how they did an old fashion mickey in the flower beds!


We love the Jungle cruz!

Thunder Mountain! Try riding this at night time! I thought I new this ride down to a T, and riding it at night time made it a whole new adventure! Such a blast!
I swear they keep coming out with the cutest mickey ears.
Nice Cameron......haha Mom and Cameron wanted cotton candy!
Waiting to ride Autotopia! My mom is so cute!

Tuna feels so cool because Jake let him drive the whole way. He did a great job. 

After some fun rides at Disneyland, we grabbed the best corn dogs ever and headed back over to California Adventure to see the water show "World Of Color!"


The water spectacular is huge! I think one of the coolest parts is when the flames come out and make the whole area warm! Rad!
After the water show we went to a kids play area! It was a blast! We even got to see a great view being up high on the play ground of the fire works over at Disneyland.
Playing in the squirrel cage. You would run threw a rope obstacle course! It was fun!


We even got to do some rock climbing!
My rock climbing skills are out of shape.
and to finish the day...we got to race out of log tubes! Cool! After a wonderful day, we headed back home to get some good rest to wake up bright and early again! We love Disneyland!
Day 2: A whole day at Walters!

The flowers were so beautiful! All around Disneyland was bright and colorful flowers! Spring is in California!
To start the day off, we got to ride the Peter Pan ride!

Although we were in a tea cup, we didn't ride the actual tea cups. We were all to scared.
Inside the Finding Nemo Submarine Ride.
Getting ready for take off underwater!



Now that Tuna has great driving experience from driving on Autotopia and always sitting on my lab driving around, he was ready to drive us all threw the Indian Jones Ride. 
We saw Peter Pan! He was hopping up and down on benches and rolling around. It must of really been him.
My mom and I have always wondered what this place was....and we got to go see! Dad wanted to have a big lunch before him and Cameron had a plane ride back to Utah. I think this defiantly was a big meal.
Fun jar cups! While we ate a yummy meal, we got to hear great tunes from a Banjo player, singer and piano player. 

All you can eat chicken and ribs meal! Well after this, Jake and I took Cameron and Dad to the airport. Mom's played on main street and did some shopping. They had fun walking threw all the shops.
When Jake and I got back, we got some ice cream and then met up with our moms in Tomorrow Land!
Rabbits house.
Memory lane. I have a picture of me in this door, because I was the size of this door. I had a shirt with 6 large different colored smiles and stripped spandex and a high pony tail and a cool jean jacket. Isn't it funny the things we remember?
Isnt it funny how you think you know Disneyland and you continue to find new things?
Jake tried a mint julep which was a mint leaf and lime drink. It was yummy!
Mama Harris got a funnel cake!
While we ate we got to enjoy some fun jazz music from "The Bachelors."
Cutest carmel chocolate apples!

Taking the tram for a ride around. A nice break to sit down!
Finally found a hat big enough to fit dad Harris's head. To bad he left before this happened!
Hanging out in New Orleans.
I love how she is evilly looking into the camera. Fabouls!
Best score I have gotten yet of Buzz Lightyear ride! It may have been because the ride stopped on the middle of the ride for about five minutes so I kept racking up points on the same target getting double points. But lets not tell anyone that.
Mickey Pretzels!
With Pirates 4 coming out they had a special preview for it! It was a big theter they made with fire, skeletons, and crazy talking pirates! It was awesome! We got to see a few scenes from the movie! You know I am seeing it now when it comes out! And get Disney movie Points from it to! Heck Yes!

Johnny Depp came to tell us about the movie to. After the Pirates 3D preview we got to go watch the firework! I am not going to tell you about our secret spot we found that we were under Tinker bell flying and got to see fireworks all around us, but it was amazing! Ok, we were sitting on the rocks by the Dumbo ride. Lets just keep that our secret though because that is a magical spot to see everything from the amazing firework spectacular!


This was an amazing trip! I love Disneyland, and even better to go with family! I hope to go again soon! Thanks families for a great time!