San Francisco

In September, we went to San Francisco for the Northern California Dental Convention. We were able to squeeze in some time to tour the city and have some fun :)

We drove over the Golden Gate Bridge (some day I want to bike over it!)

I know you can't see the bridge, but it's behind us. You can see the very base above the road.

It was pretty crazy. You couldn't even see it while you were driving on it because it's always foggy!

The Lone Cypress

At Fisherman's Warf, we ate the best clam chowder and sourdough bread-bowls I've ever had.

And sampled yummy chocolate at Ghirardelli Square

We got to stay with one of Wes' cousins and went with her and some friends to The Little Mermaid Sing-a-long! It was so much fun!!! The words were on the screen during all the songs and everyone sang along and we even had props. It was fun being a kid again :)

BYU vs Ole Miss

We went to the BYU vs Ole Miss football game in September. It was a good game and we had a lot of fun spending time with one of Wes' old roommates from UCLA and his cute family.

The biggest shocker was the tailgating before the game. Mississippi is known for its tailgaiting and I must say there is nothing like it! I can't even describe the intensity, but there were hundreds of tents set up all over and thousands of people partying before (and after even though they lost) the big game.

They had a ton of food and alcoholic beverages and several even had tv's to watch other games before this one started! haha

Notice how everyone is dressed the same. All the men wear kaki shorts with a red polo and the girls wear semi-formal dresses!

The missionaries even made an appearance :)

Chicago

In August, we went to Chicago for an orthodontic conference.

When we weren't learning all about the business of orthodontics, we were touring the city.

We walked up and down the magnificent mile

explored Navy Pier

checked out the bean (way cool)

ate the famous Chicago deep-dish pizza (my first time)

and my husband, being the beach boy that he is, of course found us a beach. So we just had to take our shoes off and walk through it :)

The weather was nice and it was a really fun trip!

WhItE wAtEr RaFtInG

Wes and I planned the Young Women's High Adventure trip this year. We stayed in a cabin in Tennessee and white water rafted down the Ocoee River.

Did I mention we got a little wet?

Happy Birthday America!

I just have to show him off!

I know my family and friends in Utah have already seen this, but I wanted to post it for my friends here in Kentucky.

This is my nephew Jaxton. He is so adorable and has the cutest laugh ever!

Oh how I miss that lil guy! Come see me soon Jax!

Florida

Meet Kada! She was one of my roommates my first couple years of college! She's awesome! I loved being her roommate because she made everything so much fun!

Another reason we all love Kada is because she got Wes and I into Disney World for free, hung out with us all weekend, and told us all of Disney's deep, dark secrets!

Of course we went to lots of shows.

These are Fantasmic, Star Wars, and a crazy-awesome car show!

Before Splash Mountain:

Enduring the incident:

After we got drenched:

This was a wakeboarding park. I've never seen these before, but people were getting pulled by these cables and did all kinds of tricks. Way cool!

Cocoa Beach

There were thousands and thousands of dead jellyfish washed up on the shore, not to mention the live ones swimming around in the water.

Good thing we only showed up for the beach walk!

Every time I saw a body of water, I searched for alligators (and I find myself still doing it). We saw this guy in a canal and pulled over to look at him. Then he swam towards us and stared us down with his eyeballs just above the water level, plotting his attack...

We left before the attack.