Ok - so this is a little late, but better late than never right? After we finished finals - Will and I headed North to Seattle to visit my family and see Will's grandpa. It was a fabulous trip. We started it out right by stopping to get double blueberry cake doughnuts in Kaysville before the long car ride up to Seattle. I say car ride because Will did most of the driving - I think I drove a grand total of 3 hours - it takes twelve. Thanks again Will! We rolled into my parents house on Saturday evening. Sunday Will met the rest of the "extended family" aka my home ward. When they introduced him as my fiance in priesthood - Dan Shane wanted to put it to a vote. We spent monday with Blake - a trip down to Pike Place Market and running other errands with him while he got ready to leave on Tuesday for Spain. We also had our engagement pictures taken. I'm not the biggest fan of having my picture taken, but I like the way they turned out. We went to my favorite park - Luther Burbank - to take the pictures. I'll post some once we get access to them.
Tuesday we took Blake to the airport - and then headed over to Grandpa's. We stopped along the way to visit Pam and Craig in Olympia - which was really fun. Craig's working on a neat project about the homeless. Then we made it to Grandpa's. Ann had to work late - so we sat and listened to Grandpa's stories - it was great! All of my grandparents have passed away already - so it's really a treat to marry into a family and get three grandparents. Will had not fully prepared me for the beauty of where Grandpa lives! The next morning Grandpa made us french toast - bacon and hot chocolate with LOTS of marshmallows. Then we walked up his street with him to deliver some dahlia bulbs to a neighbor and we walked back along the beach. Then we all took a nap on the floor before heading back to my parents house. It was great!
Thursday and Friday my mom took off work so she could do wedding stuff with us. We went down to Danie's Broiler - where we're going to have the reception and talked over the last few details that needed to be decided - the food is going to be delicious - not that I'll get to eat much of it - between talking to people and being in a corset I don't think eating will be much of an option that day. We also tasted cake and picked out our flowers. So really poor Will just got drug along for all of the girly things that have to be decided for a wedding - he's a good sport. And he did get to taste cake - which was exciting. Saturday we drove back to Provo.
Overall the trip was really relaxing and a nice vacation from school and work - we read the 6th Harry Potter aloud - getting ready for the movie that comes out July 15th. Anybody who wants to join us for a midnight showing is welcome! :)
