Familiar Expression

Remember this face?

Halloween 2009

Halloween 2010

Seems to be annual thing. She busts it out every Halloween.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN from the Little Lady bug!

Portland / Washington

Zach, Presley and I had the opportunity to go up to visit family in the Portland area. OH.MY.GOSH! We love it there. Zach is determined we are moving there. I dont think I would mind it so much either. I took too many pictures which is totally unlike me because I seriously always forget to take pictures. So there are a lot of collages.

Presley LOVED being around her cousins. She and I flew up last Tuesday. We had been fighting Hand, Foot and Mouth disease the week we were SUPPOSE to go up so we rescheduled our flight and I missed out on the Girls Renezvous my Sister in laws and Mother in law had planned. Im still trying not to cry about it. But so is the life of a mother. When you have something special planned your child has something different planned.


Liza and Scott live out in the country. They had so much space and even horses in their backyard. Presley loves "neighs". She absolutely loved going outside everyday and feeding them. She absolutely loved being able to go outside. Come on AZ! ITS OCTOBER! Time to cool down.


The whole purpose of the trip was to see our nephew Denmark get baptized into our church. I met Denmark when he was 4 and he sang to me at my wedding luncheon. Now he is all grown up!

Zach served his mission up in Washington, Spanish speaking and with it only being 5 hours away from Portland we had to make the trip up. Scott and Liza were kind enough to watch Presley for a few days while Zach and I galavanted around Cashmere, Wenatchee and Leavenworth Washington. Since we only really had 1 full day, which was Sunday we didnt get to hit up all the people he wanted to. But I did get to meet a few families that held special places in Zachs heart and who thought he was the greatest too. Leavenworth is really Small Town Germany. Everything is decorated and over the top. Even the McDonalds and Wells Fargo signs were all Germaned out. Since my family is originally from Germany I was totally in awe the whole time. We even found a place called Gustav's and we had to take a picture of it for my Great Grandfather Gustave( came over on the boat), Grandpa R. Gustave, my father K. Gustave and my younger brother K. Gustave.



Zach loves tunnels like the below. As we drove over to Seattle the clouds were incredible.


On the way back to Portland we decided to spend some time in Seattle. Zach really wanted to go up the Space Needle so we did and then cruised down Pike Place and The Pier. Seattle really is beautiful and full of crazies! We ate Chowder( Salmon and Clam) at a quaint little restaurant and enjoyed the alone time.





Our last day in Portland we went a wildlife refuge. We walked around for a little while basking in the nature around us. Our nephew Vance was really into collecting Catepillars and Grasshoppers. The funniest part was when Andrew had found a catepillar for Vance and then Zach caught a Gardner Snake at the exact same time. Vance was a little more into the snake and Andrew totally felt rejected. Vance excitedly screamed, "Hurry! Everyone help me get all these catepillars out of here so I can have this snake."

We REALLY had a great time! I cant wait to go back.

Holy Catastrophe

I was born with as much hair as Presley has now. It was quite surprising to me when Presley made her appearance that she didnt have TONS of dark hair. No our sweet Miss P was born with blonde hair and somedays it even looks red. The other day I was going through my picture box at my parents house looking for a particular picture. I had a few goodlaughs that led to crying because I was DIEING at what I was wearing or how my hair was done. Ive had many different hairstyles through the years I figured out. Most of the time I am just wondering why on earth anyone let me out of the house.

If there is a big gap between years it only means my hair was the same. Except between 9th and Senior my hair got longer and lighter than shorter and darker after I decided to back to brown at my cousins wedding on a whim. I didnt have any good pictures of just me and my hair so you will just have to imagine it.

For your viewing pleasure. Hopefully I keep friends after this.

Bum budda Dum...

"Hairstyles throughout Whitneys life"...


Dont Worry in 5th Grade that stinking sunflower shirt was my all time favorite shirt and now I hang my head in Shame. Please also excuse 5th grade in general. Im sure everyone had that one particular awkard brace face permed hair year. Right?..........right? In 6th grade I was trying to grow my hair out therefore leading to half permed half straight hair that remained in a ponytail the entire year until the hairdresser I went to "accidently" cut my hair off at the permed hair. I cried for days. It was horrible. I still blame my mother.

After Senior Year I continued to grow out my hair. It got longer. I havent colored it since 11th grade. Im actually afraid to get it cut more than an inch for fear my hair will never be the same.
I am happy to say my style has gotten better. Oh the awkward years. Thank heavens Zach and I werent childhood friends. Im sure he could never look at me the same way.