Portland Trip

I had a 7 week summer break before beginning my last semester of nursing. It was really nice to finally have a break after three straight semesters of nursing.  Even though David was also on break part of that time, he was studying for his first CPA exam. So what that meant is I needed to get away so he could study and I wouldn't be bored out of my mind! I decided to make a visit to the Pearson's in Portland!

I stayed for about a week and a half. It was so fun to go do all the fun things in Portland!

First we went to Vodoo Doughnuts!

Brinlee checking out the doughnuts.

I got the oreo one and Ashley got the bacon and maple! yum!

Portland was really beautiful!

Just getting a drink from Multnomah Falls

Mckay took us on a tour of his new Dental school! I didn't get very many pictures…

On Saturday we all took a trip to go to an indoor waterpark that was connected to an airplane museum. Ashley, Mckay and I took turns staying with Brinlee and Nora while one or two of us went down the slides. There were four different slides, a wave pool, hot tubs, and jungle gyms for kids. It was way fun!

Swimming with Brinlee!

I think my favorite place we went to was Salt & Straw. They had kind of different flavors of ice cream, I got the pear and bleu cheese…. It was so good though! I don't think I could taste the bleu cheese. 

One of the days we went to the mall where they were having a frozen party… every little girls dream come true! It was cute to see all the little girls dressed up as princess. They even had Anna and Elsa there in real life! Here is brinlee in her cute fairy dress.

Since we didn't get enough ice cream earlier in the week we got some more. 

So, on Sunday I was with Ashley in Relief Society holding Nora. We were listening to a nice lesson when all the sudden we hear a loud noise come from Nora that only meant one thing…. right away Ashley told me to hold her up, but the damage had already been done. Nora had an explosion on my lap. Pretty soon everyone was laughing at us… We had to excuse ourselves. 

I was able to forgive Nora…

Later that day we were able to go to the Portland Temple visitors center. We didn't actually get to go on the grounds, they were closed.

I was lucky to get to sleep on the top bunk in Brinlee's room. The first few nights she even crawled into bed with me because I am her favorite aunt ;) I had so much fun hanging out with Ashley and playing with Brinlee and Nora. It made me wish we lived by each other! Thanks for having me Pearsons!