This year our trip was in Bend, OR. Sarah and I flew into Portland where Stephanie lives and started our trip there. First stop was the Portland Temple. We have talked about going to the temple together for a few years now and finally made it happen this trip. We had a long drive the first night to Bend so we were a bit short on time and so we did Inititories and then sat in the BEAUTIFUL Celestial room. It was a neat experience and really nice to be there with the girls. This picture below is inside the middle of the temple in a courtyard area. It was beautiful.
This one is outside the temple. The weather was beautiful, but totally deceiving! On our way up to Bend it SNOWED!! It was crazy, it made Stephanie a bit nervous driving in the dark. It was snowing pretty hard for a while. We still managed to make good time.
This is the house we rented. It was just outside Bend in Sunriver, which we didn't explore too much but the one night we were there looking for a grocery store it looked really fun. It would have been fun if the weather were nicer to have gone around on some of the trails they had there.
Our top priority on our girls weekends is always pedicures!! We had a good time there, the people were super nice. We all went a little out of the box and got different colors than we would normally do. I don't know how we managed to only get a picture of mine and Steph's because I liked Sarah's the best!
A big attraction in Bend is the candy shop.... Goodys. We stopped at about 4 of them I think while we were there. It was SO GOOD!! This is at the actual factory. We did a short little tour and watched some of the candy makers do their magic.
These were cute :)
Sarah is really good at
capturing the moment!
Beautiful Sarah
They had really good home made ice cream. They had different flavors all the time, I think I had Cookies n' Cream and Butter Finger. It was the creamiest ice cream!! We also got LOTS of candy! My favorite was the salted caramels. MMMM!! They also did fresh made caramel corn. We may have gotten a bunch of that as well. :) Each of us grabbed some for our kiddos at home too and had them wrap them all cute for them. I got the kids some lego shaped candy that actually snapped together. Easton loved them. It was definitely one of my favorite places on the trip! 
Of course what is a girls weekend with our SHOPPING!!?? There was lots of that in Bend. This was at the Factory Outlets. Nike had a HUGE sale!
We also hit up the Maurices store and Sarah's favorite, the Black White store. I think she would love it if I mentioned that she is only in workout clothing because while Sarah and I were at a home store she went to the local Cross Fit and worked out with them. She is a very dedicated Cross Fit PRO!! She did change shortly after these photos were taken and looked beautiful. :)
We ate at some yummy places... the best was actually this amazing donut shop, but we didn't get pictures, probably to keep from having evidence of the awful pigs we were!!! OH WE ATE BADLY this trip!! The top picture was at a Mongolian place and the lower is at the Pine Tavern, there were two huge Pine Tress right in the center of the restaurant. It was yummy and our waitress was great, she hooked us up with a box of the yummy sweet rolls they had there.
Sunday we visited the local ward in Bend. It was neat in Relief Society reciting the YW motto with the Young Women who were in visiting RS. I got all emotional (what else is new??) standing there saying it next to my two dear girls who I learned that theme with. The spirit really touched me. I am very thankful for these two girls in my life and the memories we have shared and the strength I get from them.
Sunday afternoon walk. It felt so good to get outside!!
So our last day on our way back to Portland we stopped at this Lava Forest National Park. We were able to walk up around the rim of the volcano and look out at this amazing view of all this hardened lava from hundreds of years ago.
Alvin, Simon and Theodore were all there. :)
Beautiful Views!!!
Sarah... takingpictures I don't know about!!
This is it... our last stop and last photo before saying "Good Bye" til next year!!! Next year we are hoping to be in Hawaii all together, with our Husbands for Don and I's sealing in the Laie Hawaii Temple.... if that doesn't work out for everyone we have talked about going to Victoria British Columbia with our hubbies as well......Until next year!!!
I think you are so much better at commentating your pictures than I am! I liked reading what you wrote on yours :) Can't wait for the next one! Love you!
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