Alaska Day 6 and my reunion!

We hung around town on our 6th day.  I went early to the place we always got donuts at.  Nothing can compare to a Golden Donut!!!

I was an East Anchorage Thunderbird.  I loved every minute of high school.  I'm totally one of those people that would go right back to high school if I had a chance!

Dropped Tim off at the gym and I took the kids to Point Woronzoff to try and take a re-creation picture from 2011.

But the mountain was hiding behind the clouds...sad face!  I then let the kids walk down to the "beach".

A lot of the rocks are painted so Kennedie loved looking at everything that was there and wished she has some paints to do one herself!

Its an all rock/pebble beach.  He said the water was the warmest he had felt the whole time he was in Alaska.

We tried to recreate a picture from 2011.  But the cloud cover was covering the mountain so we couldn't see it.

We did the best we could with the circumstances.  The mountain in the back is Mt. Susitna but she is referred to as Sleeping Lady.

Yup - we were killing it in high school!

My friend "big" Rob.  Fun fact about him is that a year or two ago he won a mini cooper on the Price is Right!!

My hair will not hold a curl to save my life, but my niece did a great job on my hair and make up!

Our reunion committee did a great job with getting all of this together!

My niece took my kids fishing while we were at the reunion.  They already had everything because they go fishing almost every weekend.  I was sad that I didn't get to experience this with them but I was happy they have this memory of them with their cousin.

I got my dress from Eshakti.com.  I have several dresses from them.  You can change the sleeves, neckline and hem on all their dresses.  They have several options of each to choose from!  This dress originally was floor length.  I made it cocktail - and best of all POCKETS!!

I love cheesecake and on Keto it's one of the deserts I can have.  So at dance I'm always saying "ugh I really want some cheesecake right now!" So I sent them a picture in our group text and said "GOT ME SOME CHEESECAKE!"

My friend Tammy who was on my dance team - the best part?  She is deaf!  I took ASL every year of high school and came out pretty fluent in it.  My dream job right out of high school was to be an interpreter for the deaf.  But my fear of leaving home and going to college kept me from achieving that.  It was fun trying to remember signs and talk with her.

My friend Cedric - he lives in Los Angeles and he is in the entertainment industry. He's been in several plays, movies, sitcoms...it's doing really well for himself!

The fishing pictures were rolling in all night!  They had a blast!

The photo booth they had was a blast!

Washington State Vacation Day 5 and 6

Day 5 and 6


Saturday was an overcast day - so while the grandparents did some yard work (and yes I offered to help), I read a book, Cale helped Grandma pick raspberries, and then they watched TV and played with some stuff they brought with them.


Then it was time for the reunion.  I can't remember why he didn't get to go to his 10 year reunion, so some of these people he hasn't seen since right after high school.

 In my "basic southern white girl" uniform.  I love this top and I love when I get a chance to wear it!

 Outside about to go in! We never got a full length picture together :( .

 He had a graduating class of 36.  18 of the 36 showed up, I thought that was awesome!  Most of them live locally and a few of us have left.

At first I was the awkward spouse that didn't know anyone, but the girls of his class were so gracious and made sure to remember to include me!  I hope my classmates do the same for my husband next year at MY 20 year class reunion.

Sunday morning we said goodbye to grandma and grandpa, and drive an hour and half into Ione (pronounced I-own) which is the actual town the high school is located in.  It's a very small no stop light town.

 Main street.

 We cracked up because this place used to be a popular restaurant in Ione.  There are pot shops all over Washington, almost one for every Starbucks!

 Our motel was actually in Metaline Falls.  We were spitting distance from the Canadian border.  Had planned on atleast crossing the border to let the kids say "I went into Canada on vacation" but it didn't happen.

This movie theather used to be the place to go for the town, I overheard that someone bought it and plans on opening it back up. 

We stayed at the Circle Motel in Metaline Falls.  When we were at the reunion we told his classmates we planned on coming into Ione and were staying in Metaline Falls and they told him that he actually went to school with the owner!  So when we checked in it was a nice surprise!

We were just in the most beautiful place!!

 Some of his classmates that lived in the Ione/Metaline Falls area came over to our motel that night - and we had a bon fire.  Some of them brought their kids and it was great for our kids to finally have someone to play with/hang out with. 

We tried to go to gardner caves but we missed the tour and couldn't wait for the next one 2 hours later.  I know my family hates when I make them get out of the car and do this but, I couldn't resist having a picture with this background!!!