2018 Travels/Meet Pippin!

Since it's been almost a year since my last post, seems about time to write another one!

Since I never really posted our anniversary trip pictures anywhere, I'm gonna jump back to March....

To Disneyland! 

We drove up March 4th and got in to our hotel around 4pm. We had originally just booked a standard room with two queen beds, but once we told the concierge we were there for our anniversary she upgraded us to a suite for free! It was awesome!

We mostly meandered around Downtown Disney and had dinner, then went back to the hotel to go to bed early so we could get an early start at the park the next day.

Lines on lines

Despite it being ASU's (and I'm sure many other schools') spring break, the crowds were supposed to be fairly light. So I was a little nervous when we arrived at the park and there were already long lines for just the bag check, and then to enter the park itself. However, once we got in, it really wasn't that bad at all.

Jordan hadn't been to Disney since before his mission, so it was fun for him to see all the new stuff that had been added to California Adventure!

I loved the theming of Tower of Terror so I was little nervous about this...but it was the best!!

We walked by Jack Sparrow just running around Tom Sawyer's Island

From inside the Guardians ride. We were obsessed.

We got stuck on Space Mountain and they turned all the lights on! The cast members had to come around to each train and push them to get them going again. And then we got to ride it again!

We had a wonderful time and, as always, I can't wait to go back ;)

Later that month one of Jordan's favorite cousins was having her homecoming in St. George and his whole family was going up to see her, so we decided to drive up that weekend as well. It was a pretty quiet weekend, but I did get to drive to Pine Valley with Jordan's mom and grandma to see some of the old church sites/enjoy some snow!

 I think they said this is oldest LDS chapel that's still being used for regular church meetings

After that we had a quiet couple months; Jordan graduated (woohoo!), we had many game nights with friends, and we got a new addition to the family:

The very first day we got him

He always has to be nearby. It's especially difficult if we're both in the kitchen trying to cook.

When the vet first told Jordan that Pippin was cross-eyed, we were shocked. We literally never noticed. Even now, I have a hard time seeing it sometimes. But then I saw this picture.....yeah, I can see it now.

We had been talking about getting a cat for a little over a year now, but we never seriously considered it because 1.) Jordan is allergic (as am I, but Jordan has never grown up with cats) and 2.) we were never home. We also never planned on getting a kitten: we wanted a calm, quiet adult cat that we knew would be ok to hang out at home alone because we like to see movies/hang out with our friends a lot in the evenings. However, I had seen Pippin (then called 'Frick') on the Humane Society website and wanted Jordan to at least go and see him with me. Well....you can probably guess what happened. It was hard to leave him after cuddling and playing with him for just a few minutes.

He's very friendly with strangers, very vocal (just meows though, I've literally never heard him hiss), and he's pretty cuddly. His only issue is biting when he gets hyper and feels we're not playing with him enough.

We've watched Netflix around him plenty of times and he's never been interested, but I started watching Planet Earth wwith him one night...there was a part about lions chasing a water buffalo, and it caught his attention immediately. He even  jumped down from the back of the couch to get a closer look.

It's hard to figure out what would be interesting for a blog post when we mostly have game nights with our friends and watch movies, but I'll try to focus on smaller posts in the future :)