January Disneyland Trip

Of course January can only mean one thing, getting out of the inversion and into sunny California. 

Lauren was pretty excited to feel the lovey California breeze the minute we got into our rental car. 

Our first night we went over to California adventure, got some dinner, and ended up with some pretty stellar seats for the World of Color show. 

This is why I love Disneyland!

It was so foggy our first night there, it was really cool to see the fog shrouding the cliffs at Cars Land. 

Julie's favorite ride (haha) 

Julie is a great sister and braves the teacups with me whenever we don't have another teacup lover in the group. 

I don't remember what happened here - Julie - a little help?

Lauren was excited that they had chocolate dipping sauce for the churros on this trip. 

Julie was waiting for us while we all went on a ride and when we got back, she had transformed into a nun.  In all fairness, her ears were cold!

Looking super fabulous - waiting for dinner at out favorite - Blue Bayou. 

I have the best siblings. 

We finally got a picture with the 4 of us in front of the castle. 

The best part of the trip was that when we went to the airport to go home, our flight was delayed, so we decided to change our tickets and leave a day later, so we dropped our stuff off and spent a bonus day in California, while it snowed in Utah. 

Hooray for bonus days!

Christmas Memories

After my birthday comes Christmas. It was a crazy year, singing in a choir, with concerts right up until Christmas Eve made it pretty stressful, but we managed to have some fun.

First, our annual Armour family Christmas celebration with the pope.

Julie was THRILLED that Alfie Boe was the guest performer for the Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert. 

As soon as the final note was sung, she was racing over to Deseret Book to get in line for an autograph.

Then it was time for my favorite Christmas tradition, driving through the cemetery to see the luminaries. 

It is always SO beautiful and peaceful. 

We spent a Sunday evening helping mom get presents ready for school.

  
Even gram got in on the fun!

 

It was a busy Christmas season, by the end we were all ready for a long winters nap. 

Happy Birthday to Me!

My siblings pulled off the best birthday surprise for me for my 33rd birthday.  When I got to mom's house or Sunday dinner that had transformed it into Disneyland's Club 33.  They couldn't afford to take me to Disneyland and Club 33, so they brought it here.  

They spent hours planning and preparing a fabulous six course meal, complete with fine china, menus, a playlist of great music...the works.  It was so much fun!

First course - pumpkin soup

Second course - salad - with some amazing candied raspberries

Third course - salmon and risotto

Fourth course - Chateaubriand with mashed potatoes 

Fifth course - a cheese plate

Sixth course - a delicious mint chocolate molten lava cake

 Sparkling cider throughout the meal

Even Ferguson got in on the action

At the entrance to "Club 33"

Such a great birthday party!

Afterwords, my siblings swore they were never doing it again - the clean-up was AWFUL! I am so blessed to have such amazing siblings!

I love the Fall

We spent the weekend in Park City in October to enjoy the fall colors.  

 I had to drive down to Salt Lake early one morning, and enjoyed driving above, and then through the clouds. 

No trip to Park City is complete without a ride on the Alpine Slide an the Alpine Coaster.

I loved all the fall colors as we rode up the ski lift.

Coming down the Alpine Slide!

Headed up on the Alpine Coaster

After the slides, we walked over to Mom's favorite cemetery.

This needs to become a yearly tradition.