In February, my mom, Kaylie & I got to take a girl's trip to Portland to visit my brother, Greg, and his wife Kristen and celebrate Kristen's baby shower! It was Kaylie's first plane ride and first trip to Portland - as well as only my second trip to Portland! I'm so glad we were able to go, since immediately following our trip Greg & Kristen made the move down to Oceanside, to start their new family here close to family (among many other things)! Here are a few photo mementos of our trip, what a great time :)
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At the airport, excited and ready to go!
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We made it! First meal: Food truck - some sort of fusion....mexican korean?? It was spicy, but delicious! :)
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We found SNOW!!!!! Wow! Maybe even enough to build a teeny, tiny snowman! If we had only arrived a week earlier, it would have been a whole different story :)
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Waffle Window! Probably the BEST meal of the entire trip. I'm still craving those waffles....one sweet, one savory....sugar pearls...omgoodness....
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We got to spend a lot of time with Kristen's family that is in Portland, which included her Aunt Joyce & Uncle Steve, as well as her sister Jessica and husband David, and their niece and two nephews: Avery, Jack & Max. One of our fun outings was seeing Frozen in the theater - such fun :)
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And the original reason for the visit - Kristen's baby shower! It was so beautiful, and really a lot of fun. Baby showers are the best :)
Kaylie & Avery with Auntie Kristen, the guest of honor :
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Uncle Greggy & Auntie Kristen with 4 our of 5 of their nieces and nephews - Kaylie, Avery, Max & Jack (clockwise) - they are such an amazing aunt and Uncle, their little Brooklyn is a lucky girl to have them as her parents :)
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Wait.....I thought this was a girl's trip? Well, towards the end of the trip, Josh flew up to join us for a few days (while Matthew stayed with Grandpa down in Carlsbad) so that he could make the trip with Greg from Portland to Oceanside in a big moving truck!
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The picture doesn't do it justice....just as we parked to go for a walk at a river we heard a very large crack and crash.....we walked down the path a ways to find a giant tree limb had fallen from a large tree into the creek. Kaylie was fascinated!
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And I include this picture for 2 reasons.....1, I think she's beautiful :) 2, this was one of 171 selfies she took one night we went out to dinner in Portland. Yep you read that right. 171 selfies. Silly girl :)
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Portland is gorgeous - but very rainy! It rained the majority of our time there, which I actually really enjoyed! Now that we live in the desert, we don't get to see much of that....wish they'd share with us! :)
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