The Anderson Family: March 2011

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Projects

Right now, I have a very long to do list of decorating in our "apartment" The one I have been trying to figure out/find for the past year has finally been solved!

I have finally decided what to do for our headboard. I have honestly looked for months and months and in every store and not be able to fine one I absolutely love. ( I know, I am extremely picky! )
But here we go, I am going to make an upholstered headboard. Yep, you heard me right.

I have finally figured out exactly what I need to do, now, I just need to find the time to do it! :) But here is what I am wanting mine to look like, but in a rich brown:

Now picture the brown headboard with this comforter:

And this color for the walls. It called You Are My Sunshine. How could you not feel happy and relaxed in a bedroom like this?

Monday, March 28, 2011

Things We Learned On Vacation

1. Disneyland is the most magical place in the world!

2. Wear good shoes when walking around and standing for hours.

3. Bring lots of food to eat! Especially healthy food! You tend to get hungrier than you would think. And with my allergy its nearly impossible to eat at amusement parks.

4. Disneyland makes you baby hungry--Austin was too!

5. Always take a GPS with you to CA--their roads are way too. This will save

you tons of time and find you a restroom and a place to eat ASAP.

6. Always search every inch of living space before calling a locksmith.

Friday, March 25, 2011

A Hostel Experience

Remember how I mentioned we had quite the experience at the hotel as stayed at

while we were San Diego. Well, here it is:

From these picture, you are probably think, that looks like a nice, classy hotel.

You thought wrong! This is what our room looked like for $60.00. Notice the full size bed?!?!

Did I mention that there was no breakfast or even free parking? That's right, the $60.00 doesn't even cover parking. That was an extra $20 bucks for only three hours.

Did I also tell you that our bathroom was down the hall?

I am sure you have put this all together and figured out that, yes, we stayed in a FREAKING hostel. Probably, the worst experience ever in a hotel. I was too scared I was going to get murdered in the middle of the night to even leave the room, and Austin was expecting a hooker to be waiting for their next target.

I don't know which was the worst part, knowing that my car could get broken into

at any minute, or the hundreds of cars in downtown on a Saturday night.

There is absolutely no parking anywhere, and if you don't know the area and you are trying to find a restruant that has something g-free--you better kiss those wishes goodbye!

We ended up ordering a pizza for Austin and some wings for me from a restruant down the stree from our hotel. Overall, I definately don't think I would ever do good in big city.

I will stick to my suburbian lifestyle instead :)

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Vacation Part 2: San Diego Zoo

Austin and I orginally decided to go to San Diego so I could go on a tour of

San Diego State Univeristy to see if I wanted to go to school there or not. I will talk more about that in a different post though. Anyways, we decided to go to the San Diego Zoo instead! I mean how could you pass up a chance to go to the zoo?

I absoltely love anything you can learn new stuff about and the zoo it just prime for that! (Ask Austin,he will tell you that every night he comes home from work, I am watching a documentary.)

When we went to the zoo, it was cloudy and getting ready to rain, not the best weather but it meant no crowds! So here you go, here are so pictures of the cute animals we saw while we were there.

We just loved how this guy was doing some yoga poses for us!

Love this one! He looks like a man from the circus or something.

Cutest panda bear--he looked right at me when I pulled out my camera.

The picture ready Orangutan. He honestly sat like this for a few hours. Well atleast everytime we saw hime.

We were just walking along when all of the sudden this peacock started walking along side us! So if you are going to be in San Diego one day...definately go to the zoo. Its well worth the money! Also, don't stay at 500 West Hotel. I will blog about why on my next post!

Vacation Part 1: Disneyland & California Adventure

We have finally settled back into reality of work and school. (sigh) It wasn't too bad considering the fact that we only have 8 more classes until Spring semester is finally over! Anyways, Austin and I did a three day hopper while we there. We were there within an hour after arriving to our hotel.( Note that we had been driving since 5am that morning and Austin being the trooper he is,

drove the ENTIRE time. He is such a good husband.)

Here are just a few picture of our time in the "Happiest Place On Earth!"

Waiting in line for one of our favorite rides! Soarin' Over California.

We just couldn't resist taking a picture with our "Bug Eyes" from It's Tough to be a Bug.

Waiting in line for the Snow White ride--one of my favorite movies when I was little.

Austin in front of Pirates of the Carribean

On Minnie's bed--hope she didn't mind! ( Austin made me pose like this by the way.)

Of course, a trip to Disneyland wouldn't be complete without a classic Turkey Leg.

although, I it doesn't taste as good as it smells, and its more like a ham leg then a turkey leg.

This here is Torillia Jo's in Downtown Disneyland. They have the

best chips and salsa, and a big plus--They have a g-free menu!

Sorry we didn't take the best pictures while we were there. We forgot our camera two of the days, and barely remembered we had it with when we did. Can you tell we were two little kids on Christmas morning when were there? I already miss this place an can't wait to go back again! Next years trip is already in the making!