September 2009 Best Month Ever!!

September is my favorite month of the year because it is my birthday month. This year September was a lot of fun for us. We started the month off with a family camping trip to Palisades Reservoir in Manti, Utah. Every Labor Day weekend my family gets together for our annual camping trip. It has usually involved a campsite with flushing toilets and showers. That shouldn't surprise anyone that knows me well. :) Eric and I got to try out our new tent and it was nice. We also had my brother-in-law's sister drop by and take some family pictures. It is hard to get us all together so our camping trip was the only opportunity to do it. They turned out pretty good considering we were camping.
This is a picture of all my sisters. Left to right: Kristie, Kelly, Kassi, Kimberly, Katie (Kimberly and I should have switched places and then we'd be in order from oldest to youngest.)


Now for the FUN part of September (That's right, I don't find camping fun, even if there are flushing toilets and showers). Eric and I planned a long awaited trip to DISNEYLAND!!! The happiest place on earth! I have never ever in my 25 years been to Disneyland and it was on my list of "Things I want to do before I die" list. Eric was nice enough to let us go so we could be there for my 26th birthday. I tried to be as frugal as I could in the scheduling of it so I could have some money to spend on overpriced Disney souvenirs. We went to California for 5 days and spent every one of them at Disneyland. Needless to say I got to see everything there I wanted.
We flew to California on September 19th in the early AM. We flew Jet Blue and landed in Long Beach, California which happens to be where Eric's brother, Ben, is serving his mission. We did not get to see him but we waved as we drove through. Our Hotel was right across from Disneyland. It was clean and decent. We dropped our luggage off and they held it for us and we walked across the street to the happiest place on earth!
I have so many pictures I want to put up that I might have to do another post of just pictures! I found out on the last night we were there that our camera was on the lowest resolution so they look fine on a 2 inch screen but not any bigger. I was way bummed. So we ended up buying the Photo CD of all the pictures the Disneyland workers take of you on their nice cameras. It made up for our blurry pictures.
Here we are on the plane! We look tired because it was about 7:30 AM. I really liked flying Jet Blue!

I got sick at Disneyland on our first day there. I was way bummed. I didn't get any breakfast, little sleep, and it was really hot for being September. I got the worst headache and didn't even have any medicine because it was in our luggage we left at the hotel. So I found their sick room and they were nice to let me lay down. I took a nap and felt much better. We couldn't check into our hotel room at that point so that's why I couldn't go there. Eric was nice and bought me a bracelet with my name on it while I was sleeping.






September 20, 2009


September 21, 2009 Happy Birthday Kassi!

This is the morning of my birthday and I wore my Minnie Mouse t-shirt and Cruela was not going to be seen in a picture "with that Rat!" So she opened up her fur coat to cover it up. Great way to start off my birthday!


For my birthday lunch I made reservations at the Blue Bayou restaurant. I ate their famous Monte Cristo sandwich and they brought me the best free dessert I've ever had! They even lit the candle for me! Did I mention I got in to Disneyland for free on my birthday? That was their promotion for 2009. Unfortunately we came home the day before Eric's birthday so he didn't get in free.



September 22, 2009




September 23, 2009
The last couple of days we were there Halloween decorations started popping up everywhere.

There are more pictures that I want to post but I will do that later. We had a great vacation and got to see a lot of cool characters. My favorite rides were the Indiana Jones ride, which we rode a few times, and the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Oh, and we ate at Denny's like, 5 times while we were there. It was just outside of Disneyland. So I got to eat french toast a lot and I loved it!