Finland!

As of Tuesday Robert and I have been home from our wonderful 10-day European vacation! We started it off in Finland for 6 days with Robert's mom and sister Kathy. The last 3 days were spent in Paris, but that'll be on the next post!

Here's some highlights from Finland! (p.s. for those who don't know, we went to Finland because that's where Robert's mother is from, aka Robert is 1/2 Finnish and there's still family there!)

Our first night swim in the Baltic! Oh and this is at like 11pm, the sun doesn't set until midnight-ish!An old fort island called "Suomenlina" in Helsinki, Robert looooved it.
Shopping in Helsinki with my mother-in-law Eila and Robert's cute cousin Petra Kirsi, who lives in Helsinki.We went to a park called "Aulanko" it was SO pretty with tons of things to see and climb in Robert's case. Me next to an old wall at an old rock church we went to see, I loved how the moss and grass were growing on top of this wall, so neat.
Our last full day in Finland we spent the day at the lake house of a relative, Ritva and her husband, everyone, well mostly, has a lake house in Finland. Most of them don't have running water or electricity, true camping! Robert and his uncle Jukka walking down to a lake to go swimming, again around 10pm at night!
Robert striking a pose at his Mummi's house that we stayed at in Lahti, Finland for 2 days.
Getting water from a real fresh spring water well for the cabin for the day

me braving the outhouse at said cabin

the cabin.walking through Helsinki on our way to Paris!

To see more pictures check out the album I'm soon to put on my facebook page!

Fenn Photography

Hey Utah friends!

My dear friends Natalie + David (as seen above)

of Fenn Photography are having a giveaway!

Check out their website for details

here

I mean look at their pup, how could you not want to enter their giveaway?!

on steroids.

Do you ever log onto like WebMD and see these awful pictures of skin disorders as you're trying to diagnose a little itchy patch or something on your arm? And you find yourself saying, "Well that kinda looks like it, but I'm not that bad." Well...I wish I could say that.

NOTE: Don't try to save yourself money by shopping for lotion at the Dollar Tree.

This picture only shows about HALF of what's going on on my legs (just the lower half - thank goodness), oh and it's all over my elbows and creeping up my arms.

Blogs are like journals right? I wanted to document my first experience with hives.

The Friday before Memorial Day we got kicked out of work around 1pm and so we made a Disney Daytime Day out of it. I always forget how fun it is during the day!

We rode the canoes! and the best part was the little girl in front of me that was splashing me the whole time.

Squinty eyed Big Thunder Mtn. picture.

And just because I love our neighbors and their babies, here is Roberto with little P, isn't he adorable?!

Iron Man 2 afterall.

photos of times passed.

Maybe someday I'll love this blog again, until then, here are some photos of times passed, in reverse order, because that's how lazy I am...enjoy.

funny today.

In emails back and forth with my husband/co-worker:

me: Yea, Staples stinks, you would think by now they would have figured it out.
Robert: Sometimes you just can't smell yourself, even when it smells like dog poop.

He said 'dog poop' because last night something wreaked in our apt and it
smelled like dog poop...Robert kept saying it was me! so sweet.

And, Robert yelled "No tricks Cesar!!" as we passed this sign on the way to work this morning:

We're psychotic and we think we're hilarious. and we love it.

provident living.

I should probably watch this everyday to remind myself of the value of saving our money and to avoid over-spending on things we don't need...I think we can all be a little better.