Casey, Ashley, Chase & Jimmy

Thursday, January 27, 2011

FLOrida = the sunshine state (well kinda)

Case had a business trip this last weekend to Panama City Beach, Florida so I decided to tag along! We didn't have the warmest weather but it was refreshing to not see SNOW everywhere for once. Casey's co-worker Jake brought his wife Amy along too. Us girls just hung out during the day while the boys worked. We packed our days with finding cool beaches, shopping, golfing and eating donuts!




Case and I both had multiple hole-in-ones. We are rule min-golf.

Fine dining at Bayou on the Beach. Our waitress gave Amy and I Mardi Gras beads. Oh and they had Fried alligator and frog legs...yum.

Destin, FL
We drove down the scenic route and passed the coolest little beach towns. The movie the Truman Show was filmed in this one town called Seaside. They had the cutest houses ever. I wish I could live there. The beaches were amazing...I can't even imagine what they are like in the summer.






I'm not going to lie, I am kind of amazing at finding good places to eat when I travel. The secrets to my success have been a couple websites known as tripadvisor.com and urbanspoon.com. They have yet to fail me. So that brings me to Thomas's Donuts...this place was fabulous. We went two days in a row.

Here is another place I found. It's called Edens Garden State Park. The plantation house was built in the 1800s and the previous owner donated it to the state of Florida. So pretty.



You can't go to Florida without going golfing. We went to a par 3 course and the only patches of grass that were green were the tee box and the green.





Wednesday, January 12, 2011

looks i love right now.

I usually don't do these kind of posts but I've been pretty bored lately so I decided to post a couple of my favorite looks that I found on other blogs...

Ashley Olsen when she doesn't look homelesss.




love this sweater.




Wednesday, December 29, 2010

my first WHITE Christmas

So I kind of failed and ended up taking NO pictures on Christmas Day. I do not know what happened! I must have just left my camera at home... I did however take pictures on Christmas Eve. Casey, Kevin and I ended up going skiing at Snowbird for the day. It was a great way to celebrate not having to work that day! Later we had Chinese food with Casey's fam and just hung out. Christmas Day was a lazy one. We had a breakfast feast, opened presents and went to a movie.
We actually put up lights this year!

Our tree.

Casey wanted to do this pose.

so much snow!

kev and case

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Christmas Lights!

This week we went to Salt Lake with the Kirklands to see the lights at Temple Square! It's a yearly tradition and it was fun to share it with Case's family. Afterwards we went to Hatch's Family Chocolates and got the best hot chocolate ever! It's amazing. If you ever go to Temple Square you have to go!








Thursday, December 9, 2010

belated thanksgiving post

This year for Thanksgiving it was my family's turn. Case and I spent a week in the California sunshine. Although it was not as warm as we were hoping for at least there was no snow! And the waves were nonexistent (first time I have gone home and DID NOT go surfing :( kinda sad). But we ended up finding other ways to entertain ourselves...

Tradition: surfing Thanksgiving morning = failed b/c of no waves



We went shotgun shooting!
Aaron and Mercedes come up to visit
hikes!



Sunday, December 5, 2010

GLEE is amazing.



Case and I started watching Glee this season and we absolutely love it! There are some annoying, cheesy parts but we love all of the musical numbers. We are hoping to rent the first season and watch it over the Christmas break.