Driving to Montreal

Since we had to drive from Quebec City to Montreal, we decided to take a couple of side trips. Here are some pictures to one of the most fun days of the whole trip:

Right outside of Quebec City were these waterfalls called Montmorency Falls. They claim to be larger than Niagra Falls. I have never seen those, but these were pretty impressive.
We rode a gondola up to the top of the falls. Here is the amazing view with the river behind us. It looked like it was completely frozen.
Here is my mom and dad with the falls in the background. The scene was so picturesque.
Here is Tyler and I a little bit closer to the falls. Our next stop was the bridge over the falls which you can see in the background of this picture.
Here is Travis at the entrance of the bridge. I was a little nervous. We were so high and I was just hoping that the bridge was nice and steady.

Here is a view of the falls from right above it. It was so cool!

I just thought this was a cool shot. Tyler is being very pensive. :)

Here is our family shot, sans husbands. We had such a good time being all together as a family.

We rode back down the gondola and my mom and I took one last scenic picture with the falls in the background.

We drove over to this little island where there was a small chocolate shop which sold the best homemade chocolate in the area. It was pretty good, but I have definitely had better.

Now for one of the highlights of the trip. We found this brochure for this place called Valcartier Valcances or something. It was one the most unbelievably fun places that I have ever visited. Imagine a ski resort but with inner tubes. There were all these different runs and they all had a level of difficulty, the highest being double black diamonds. It was so much fun! The best part was that I never felt unsteady on the tubes when we were going down. I was so nervous because I thought we were going to catch air or something and crash and kill ourselves! It was also fun because you could all hook together and go down the hills together. We went at night so we didn't get a lot of pictures but here are a few:

Here we are getting ready to go down our first hill. We were a bit nervous because we honestly had no idea what to expect.

Here is Travis and I on our tubes after coming down the hill. Luckily we brought our ski clothes so we could stay dry!

They also had these huge rafts that we could all down together. This one is called the Tornado which when it would hit the side of the run would spin round and round really fast. Here is everyone getting ready for take off.

The expression on Travis' face on the Tornado exactly fits how we were all feeling, terror and excitement!

Here are the boys after our last run. As you can tell, we all had such a great time!

Well, our driving trip to Montreal was definitely one of the highlights of the trip. We got to see so many amazing things and we definitely looking forward to the last leg of our trip.

Christmas in Canada!

This Christmas, my parents took the whole family for a vacation to Canada! It was an amazing trip and we had such a great time. We left on Christmas Day, spent three days in Quebec City and then spent our last four days in Montreal before coming home on New Year's Day. We took about a million pictures between all of us, so I am going to spare you and only post those that I think are important. So, here we go!

These next bunch of pictures are from Quebec City which was very similar to a small city in France. Hardly anyone spoke any English and we all agreed that we the plane had actually taken us across the Atlantic Ocean and dropped us off in France. It was so great!

Here is proof that it was freezing!! We spent the entire trip bundled up. There was a lot of snow and it was like a winter wonderland. :)
Quebec City was a small, quaint city. Here is a picture of a ice skating rink right in the middle of the city. It was so much fun!
This is my brother Tyler, my sister's Emily and Amy, and I posing for a cute picture. This was the first family vacation that we have all been together at in a long time! It was so much fun to be all together.
Here is Travis and I on one of many cool tiny streets in Quebec.
We went to this hotel called Hotel Frontenac which is the most photographed hotel in the world. Right outside of it was this huge toboggan ride. Here is Travis and I on our toboggan getting ready for this ride. I was actually quite nervous.
This is the top of the hill. It looked a lot scarier in person.

The boys had a big race and Taylor and Nate were the big winners. But then I pulled out the proof that Taylor cheated!! I declared Tyler and Travis winners by default!

The must do for when you visit Quebec City is to walk this great little street called le Petit Champlain. It has all these amazing little shops and they are making maple candies outside on tables of snow (hot maple that they pour on ice and wrap around a stick, i didn't really like it but my sister's loved it). We had so much fun walking around and then we had an amazing dinner at one of the local resturants.

To get down to the Petit Champlain, we had to take a funicular. The tracks can be seen in the background of this good looking picture of Travis.

Since it was around Christmas, they had lots of market that sold all sorts of different things. We went to a huge inside market that had so many people selling some cool crafts. Here is a picture of one of the booths.

My mom, sisters and I found a new boyfriend! Unfortunately we couldn't figure out who was lucky enough to take him home so we had to leave him there. :)

We took this huge boat across the river and we actually were breaking through ice as we traveled. It was so amazing. I have never done anything like it!

Going across the river was a perfect picture taking moment!

Here is a picture of that Hotel that I talked about above from across the river. It is a pretty bad picture but you can see how huge it is. It is definitely the focal point of the whole city.

Well, Quebec City was amazing. We had so much fun walking around and seeing all the sights. There are many more pictures to come!

Christmas with Payton and Owen

Since we were in Arizona having Christmas with Travis' parents, we decided to swing by my sister's house to give Payton and Owen their gifts. They were also opening a bunch of presents since they were going to Las Vegas for Christmas. Here are some pictures:

Here is Payton unwrapping her gifts. She was so calm about the whole thing. She was so excited about everything!
Owen still wasn't too sure about the whole Christmas thing but he did love to watch the singing snowman and penguins! It has a button that you press to make them sing and move and he kept pressing it over and over again and laughing! He loved it!
I made Payton a flannel princess blanket. I think she was pretty excited, but then again, if it has any princess on it, she gets pretty excited!
Here is Owen with his sports flannel blanket that I made him. I know he loved it, he kept laughing and laughing. I think the softness of it made him giggle. So adorable!

We were so happy that we were able to stop by and see these two!

Christmas in Arizona!

Travis and I were lucky enough to have Christmas come early this year! We drove up to Arizona to spend the weekend with Barbara and Morris and we celebrated Christmas. It was everything that we could have asked for! We had such an amazing time and I can't thank them enough for making it as wonderful as it was! Here are some pictures from our Christmas in Arizona:

We had an amazing dinner of Prime Rib and mashed potatoes and asparagus! Mom, I actually ate asparagus and found that I liked it! Be proud! But seriously, the food was amazing and the ambiance was perfect. We had some delicious sparkling apple/cranberry/grape (I don't know which) cider and great food on fine china. I can't wait for next year's dinner!Surprise, we had a baby! Haha, just kidding. Here is our niece Lilian! She is just so precious and we threatened many times to take her home with us and pass her as our own child! :)
We were all definitely spoiled this year with all of these presents!
Charlotte had a good time opening all of her presents. Here she is opening up her dress up chest which had so many fun dresses to dress up in. We even got her some fun dress up shoes for her to try on with these dresses!
Travis and I had fun this year thinking up something for his parents. They traveled to San Francisco during Christmas so created this travel bag of fun for them to take on their trip. We got them a book on San Francisco, magazines, books, a scarf, some gloves, a luggage lock, and of course, the essential travel neck pillow! We hope that they enjoyed using all of our stuff on their trip. (P.S. we want to see some pictures!)
Teagan and Shaun got a great new laptop computer! Yes it is actually green!
I was lucky and I got to hold Lilian while her parents were opening their gifts...my favorite thing to do.

Well, we definitely had an amazing Christmas this year. Thanks again for everything Barbara and Morris! We both look forward to what next year brings!

Getting our Christmas Tree!

Now, I know that Christmas is over but we have been so busy that I didn't have a chance to post any of our pictures from our wonderful Christmas this year...so bear with me and re-live Christmas again!

We, of course, had to get a real Christmas tree this year. Two years ago, for our first Christmas together, we didn't get our tree until Christmas Eve so to our surprise, we did much better this year and got it a couple of weeks early! Here are some pictures from our experience picking out a tree:

Here is Travis picking out our perfect little tree. It was one of the first that we saw. We were in and out in about ten minutes!Our little tree fit so nicely in the trunk of our car. It was so nice to not have to worry about scratching the top!
Travis did a great job putting the tree in its stand! It looked so good in our tiny apartment! Thanks Grandma for the tree stand!
Here is our finished product! We don't have too many ornaments, but we are proud of our little tree! It made our apartment feel like a home during Christmas!

I guess its been a while....

So, this is what we have been up to in the last few weeks.... yes, I said few....sorry about that...

This year, Travis and I spent Thanksgiving with his family in Arizona. We had such a great time! The food was absolutely amazing and it was so much fun to be with the whole family. I am not sure why, but we just didn't take very many pictures. On our last night there, we went and saw the Temple lights in Mesa, as tradition. They were amazing, as usual. Here are some pictures from that night:

Here is the Mesa Temple. It isn't a very good picture but every inch of the grounds were covered in lights.
Here are Travis's parents, Barbara and Morris. They are so wonderful and they definitely know how to put on a fantastic Thanksgiving meal. We love to come visit them!
Here are all the Harmor girls! Desiree, Teagan, me and Barbara. We were all practicing our best Americas Top Model look.
Here are two beautiful ladies, Teagan and a bundled up Lilian.
Here is Tyler and Desiree. We don't get to see them very often so it was so fun to have them around!

The weekend after Thanksgiving I flew to Utah to visit my lonesome sister Emily while Taylor was in D.C. doing an internship. We had such a wonderful time and Emily is a fantastic hostess. Unfortunately, we didn't get to do as many of the things that we wanted to do because of this:

It snowed the whole day on Saturday and this is what it looked like outside. It was so pretty, but I was reminded of why I hated living where is it snowed. I came home and my socks were soaked with water and my toes were frozen!

Thanks Emily for the wonderful and relaxing vacation!

This last Saturday night, Travis and I went to my company's Christmas party. It was held at the Anaheim Marriot and it was amazing! We got all dressed up and got our pictures taken (like prom, which was weird). We had a delicious dinner and a live broadway variety show. Then of course, dancing and prizes! We didn't win anything, but we definitely got our groove on! :) Here is a picture of us at our table:

Doesn't Travis look so handsome?

Lastly, my mom, my aunt Sheryl, and I went over to my Grandmas house to help her set up her Christmas Tree. It was so much fun to hang out with just us girls! Here are some pictures from our fun evening together:

Here is my mom making sure the tree looked nice and full. She has an amazing touch!

Here is my mom, grandma, and Sheryl putting up the ornaments. My grandma has so many! The tree was filled to the brim. It is fun to listen to her tell us the story behind some of the ornaments.

Here is the finished product! I think we did a pretty good job!

Thanks Grandma for the pizza and ice cream! It is always so much fun to come visit you!

Well, I will try to not be so lame and post more often.