Friday, May 1, 2009

Our Trip To Oregon

So, In February, Stan got accepted to Western States Chiropractic! Therefore its official… we are moving! His school starts in October so we have a few months to get prepared. Shortly after he was accepted, he received a letter to visit the campus to get more details on the school.
So this last weekend, we went to Oregon. We left Friday afternoon and got there around 9 that night, we had to make a few stops to go potty, stretch a lil boy’s legs and feed a wee one =) Stan’s parents came with us and we all had so much fun! Saturday morning Stan did his school thing, afterwards we went for a drive, showed his parents where the school was; went to dinner then we were out to find the temple!


Landon was so excited to see his “NEW TEMPLE”… The grounds were so pretty!








So many flowers it was just beautiful!




The next day we meet up with Stan’s uncle, He lives across the river in Washington and he took us all over the place.
The first stop was to some condo’s he owns to showed us this really cool tree! It’s a Dogwood and the flowers on it are really neat!




I thought one would be cute on Lashae =) Oh yeah I don’t know if you can see very well in this picture, but we pierced Lashae’s ears!! We did it the 22nd I was so excited and scared but she did really good and they are so cute! I just Love ‘em




Our next stop was the Woodland Tulip Festival in Washington…… there were literally fields upon fields of Tulips and Sooo many colors! It was COOL!!! Landon found “A Pair of shoes… that A GIANT lost” so we had to try them on; they were SO BIG we both fit in them and still had room.









Landon didn't care so much about the flowers, he was just happy to be out of the car!



Oh... and he found dirt. So this was the best picture I could get with him and the Tulips =)

Lashae on the other had was curious



So Many Tulips!!!


They sure are Pretty!


This is just one of the Fields of Tulips





After the Tulip Festival, we headed to an Old Water Mill. The kids had both fallen asleep by this time so we didn’t stay for too long.
I thought this bridge looked really cool.



And I got a kick out of this...


It's a Lamp Tree =)And this is the Old Mill.





Monday Morning on our way back home, we took the Historic Hwy. It takes you a little longer to get to the interstate, but you get to see lots of Waterfalls. It’s a really cool drive.



This is Multnomah Falls





Our little Troopers!!! They were so good.

Lashae slept most the time.

Landon had movies, coloring books and a cool travel activity desk his Grandma and Grandpa Gillett got him. He also had a million-n-one questions to keep him/us busy on the road.


After spending the weekend in Oregon, we are SO excited to be… almost… done with this School Stuff! It’ll be hard to leave and be so far away but we are both ready to go (almost) and can’t wait to start our new Adventure!!!!

12 comments:

The Cook Clan said...

Wow, you took some amazing pictures!!! So, so, so pretty!! That will be sad to see you guys move!

gretta said...

congrats on getting in to chiropractic school just don't turn into a hippy :)

Workmans said...

Your trip sounds neat! I think it would be heaven to be around so many tullips! Good Luck to you guys with the big move and school. It'll be so so worth it! Hey do you ever hear from Mary?

Hild Family said...

Congrats you guys. It looks like you had a great trip. We will be sad to see you go- but are excited for you at the same time. Maybe we'll come for a visit! :)

Sage Hanks said...

Not cool! I can't wait to see these places when we come visit. I want pictures of the old bridge. Not sure how we will function without you guys... but we will come visit LOTS!

Katrina Wilson said...

Yeah that is exciting!! I'm glad you guys are still sticking around for a bit though!!

Brandon, Kandra, Sydnee, Dawson and Emery Plott said...

Those really are beautiful pictures!! I'm excited for you guys to start a new adventure too we are going to miss you so so much, heck we already do, but we ar so happy for you to be on your way of doing something you've been wanting for so long. You guys only deserve the best!! Lashae is getting so big and she is beautiful and Lando, well he's a heartbreaker!!! Love ya guys and see you some time soon!!!

Dena said...

Wow! All those flowers are amazing! You have some beautiful pictures there. Looks like you had a great time!

Tanille said...

Lot's of pretty, cool places there. I bet it makes you excited to go. It will be hard leaving friends and family, but I bet you will grow to love it there also. I'm excited for you guys, except the fact that I will have no one to cut my hair!!!! How many years will you be gone?? Maybe I can wait that long! :)

Curtis and Steph said...

Talk about cute pics!! And kids!! Congrats Stan!! You've worked so hard to get where you are!! Don't worry...we'll come visit! We can't stand our Gillett withdrawals too terribly long!

Mittelstadt Family said...

So exciting! But now we are really going to have to try hard to all see eachother. Hopefully we can see y'all in July/Aug when we come visit. Life is just full of fun adventures!

Bateman said...

We love the Gilletts! We really don't want you to move, but since it is for school, we guess we will let you. At least you are moving to a beautiful place! Great pics with cute kids and beautiful flowers!