Trip to Forks

My Mom took me on a fun over night trip to a "Taste of Home" cooking show. My mom and I use to go to these all the time. But alas the Army has moved me so far away I have missed going for years. My mom did some research and found out a "Taste of Home" cooking show was going on the time she was here for Brooklyn's Baptism. So we decided it was high time for a fun girls night. We drove 5 hours to Aberdeen WA. We had so much fun just talking and laughing. The drive was beautiful so many fun fall colors. We got to Aberdeen picked up our "Free Tickets" to the cooking show. I was able to surprise my mom with Free tickets. We checked into our hotel and hung out and planned our trip to "Forks". We are both Twilight Fans. Mom started reading the books when my sister Britany and I raved about them. We got to the taste of home an hour before the doors opened. We were shocked there was no line. Not one single person. Clearly this is not like other "Taste of Homes" we have been too. They let us in and we waited 2 1/2 hours for the show to start. No problem Mom and I just had a blast talking, laughing and looking at all our goodies from our bags. The show started, I learned a lot of new tricks. So excited about that. We even got a couple recipes I want to try.

Here we are at the Cooking School. Here On our way to Forks we stopped at this Awesome amazing Rain Forest.

I have never been in side a rain forest before.
It was amazing. We drove not 10 minutes

and this is what we saw. AMAZING There were like 30 Elk.
This was the view for our little potty breakDriving a little more, no one was in the Rain Forest
so I would just stop in the middle of the road and
my Mom and I would just get out and take pictures.
AWESOME!!!

Not another 5 minutes and look...
Beautiful trees with moss all over them.

They were fascinating. I loved them.

Green all over it was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G

After about 40 minutes in the Rain Forest

we decided it was time to finish

our 2 hour drive to Forks.

We made it to the "Twilight" Capitol of the world.

This is the sign right above the information Center.

Inside we got all the Twilight information. Complete with a

map and directions to all the "Twilight" highlights.

My mom also got me a really nice book about "Twilight Tours"

Inside I got to pose with my Twilight Friends.
(Cardboard friends)

They really made the information area alot of fun.

Okay now we are going to start the "Twilight Tour"

First stop, Bella's Truck, with my Mom
Second Stop Bella's house.

Third, Bella's High School. The school had a fire and they

are re-building it. However, they kept the sign for

crazy Twilight fans. (Like Me)

Fourth, The Cullen's home. Fifth, The Clinic where Dr. Cullen works

Sixth, the Police Station.

We drove another 25 minutes To La Push Reservation.
This drive was beautiful. Oh my gosh so awesome.

Look how Beautiful!

We then headed to Port Angeles. We got to see the Book store

and Gottschalks (the dress store.) We wanted to have

lunch whereBella and Edward stopped to eat at La Bella Italian However,

It's only open for dinner. We still had a 5 hour drive ahead of us so we

were not waiting. But it was fun to see.

Our drive home was so adventurous.

We spent the next hour doing our 2 pages of

Twilight trivia the information center gave us.

The fall colors were amazing.

I couldn't stop and take pictures. (It was a busy road)

We crossed a huge bridge. The tom tom had Picture of

a boat. I asked my mom, "what does that mean?" She said, "I don't know."

We kept driving my Mom saw a sign that said Ferry. Mom was like oh that

would be fun. The next turn I told my mom she got her wish

because onto the Ferry we went. I drove onto the Ferry. We parked

and went to the top for our 30 minute ferry drive. How cool is that? AWESOME
The rest of the trip was long. It was a 16 hour day. We were so tired by the

end but it was so worth it. Lots of fun Memories.

Thanks Mom, Love you

Brooklyn's Baptism

Here is our Happy Girl. So excited!!!!


Aweeee, Love you, "Baby Girl"

Family, and Friends.

Fresh and Clean!

Here is Brooklyn and Sierra at her Party

Sunday Morning hair do. Thanks to Adopt a Do.

After chruch loving on our little girl

Amazing Daughter!!!!

Our Little Girl turned "8"

Some of Brooklyn's Favorite things.
She still loves Animals. She loves Art and Scrapbooking
She loves school. Her favorite thing to do is read.
She loves the Color Pink. She loves to play with her friends
and Watch movies with her family.

Brooklyn is so responsible I
can always count on her to come home and start her homework. Brooklyn
is such a blessing in our home. We sure love her lots and lots.
Happy Birthday, Baby Girl.

Here we are taking cupcakes to her class.
Brooklyn wanted Confetti Cupcakes with Chocolate Icing.

Who Knew???

Kayden had a fun project. He had to assemble a 3D Atom. So we called the Science expert. aka Grandpa Smith and he suggested we use Marshmallows. Here are "The TOOTHPICKS"
The MARSHMALLOWS

THE GANG

Brooklyn creating "Marshmallow Critters".

Kayden working on his ATOM!

Look Chandler made a Caterpillar

All our cute Critters. With just Marshmallows and toothpicks.

Who would have thought it could be so much fun. They turned out SO cute.

Kayden's Atom

Sweet! Nice work Kayden.

Apple fun

Brooklyn's Class went on a Field Trip to an Apple Farm. We had so much fun learning all about APPLES. (It's very important when you live in the Apple Capitol of the World.) So pretty hu? Yeah they taste even better.

Brooklyn is hard at work.

They had to size these apples and pack them

Here's my Beautiful girl. Aweee I love her.

Waiting to see the bugs. Can you believe they had a line for Bugs?

They used pastels to draw apples. Very cool!!!

They were not allowed to look at the paper just the apple.

Brooklyn did an awesome job.

Here she is hard at work harvesting the apples.

It's very important to look at worms through a microscope.

Brooklyn was so nice she wanted to "THROW" this worm at me.

Nice right? I feel the love.

She even got to plant a tulip so come spring

we can go back and see her tulip.

What a super fun day with my little Girl.