Babymoon, Portlandia and Crafts for Baby Girl

Phew, we have been busy lately! Doing all fun things though! We are officially in the third trimester now, and I am really feeling much more tired and easily winded going up stairs or hills when walking. My bump is showing much more now and she is kicking and moving around all the time! I have had fun finding some fun crafts to make for her, pics below. And Garrett and I had a great time on our short, but fun babymoon in Palm Dessert. :) 

This onesie project was by far my favorite! The opportunities are endless! And it was not very hard to get them to turn out pretty good! I found the stencils and the tutorial here. 

Here is another cute project for a fall newborn I made for baby girl - crochet pumpkin hat. I hope to take a cute picture of her at the pumpkin patch wearing this little hat. :) 

I had a trade show to go to for work in Palm Dessert during the week, so we added on a few extra nights and Garrett came with me for a couple days. The trade show was at La Quinta Resort in Palm Dessert. The resort is amazingly beautiful! 41 pools and all ground floor rooms with gorgeous views of the mountains. 

It was SO hot during our stay. When we landed at the airport, it was 96 at 11:15 PM!! That is hot for a preggo lady!! But I survived. 

After we got back from Palm Springs I got out the sewing machine and tested out this tutorial for how to make cute burp cloths and pacifier clips. 

I also crocheted some cute booties and another beanie while watching tv or sitting in the sun with Garrett. :)

For the 4th of July we drove down to Portland with three of our friends and explored the city for the weekend. 

On Sunday we drove about 30 minutes out of the city and checked out some of their wineries down there. It was beautiful! Garrett got to enjoy all the wine drinking, and I just had fun taking pictures at each of the wineries. A lot of them had a gorgeous view of Mt. Hood.

On our way home we drove the LONG way and tried to catch the sunset at Haystack Rock on Cannon beach. But when we got out there, it was all cloudy, so no sunset for us, just two extra hours of driving and a couple of pictures. 

Sessions Italy Tour - Florence and Pisa

We had a great time driving from the little town of Radda in the Chianti wine region up to Florence. We didn't have enough time in our trip to plan a couple of days to stay in Florence, but we still wanted to see it so we drove North to Florence, toured around for a couple of hours and then headed over to Cinque Terre where we would be staying for four nights. On the way from Florence to Cinque Terre we also stopped to take some photos of the leaning tower of Pisa in the town of Pisa. We covered a lot of ground in one day, but it was totally worth it!! 

The drive was really windy and had lots of turns so it was hard not to get car sick, but it was so fun and very enjoyable. We saw some beautiful views on this drive! 

When we finally arrived in Florence, we had a very interesting time parking outside the city. You can't drive in so you have to try to find a spot outside and pay the meter (which was also hard to figure out in Italian). We did end up finding a good spot and then made our way across the bridges over the Arno river into the beautiful city. 

Florence was the only really crowded town that we visited when we were there, so it was shocking to us how many people were there! The lines to the museums were SO long and there were a million tours taking place all throughout the city.

The Duomo was truly amazing. The building had so much intricate detail and the dome was gorgeous!

For a snack I ordered a fresh hot waffle sandwich with Nutella. So yummy!

We did find the museum where the actual David statue lives, but the line was too long and we didn't have enough time on our parking meter to wait, so we just took photos in front of this smaller version outside a different museum in a beautiful piazza. 

There were a lot of other beautiful fountains and statues in the piazza as well as horses!

Garrett got pooped on by a bird! Gross!

There were a lot of pretty veggie stands throughout the city. 

Florence also has so many gorgeous shops! I wish I had more money and more time to shop in them!

We made the long walk back to our car and drove about an hour to Pisa. It was a little sketchy trying to get back to the freeway out of the city, but we made it! 

Pisa was not an exciting town to visit. The only thing interesting about the town was the tower and the church behind the tower. There were a lot of people on the street trying to sell you purses and other junk and it was actually kind of scary! 

You can see people in the photo below posing to look like they are holding up the tower. 

The lawn in the middle was pristine! 

We ate lunch at a restaurant with a pretty view of the tower. But our waiter was not Italian and was so horrible. The food wasn't much better. 

If you want to see a really cool building, I would recommend stopping in for an hour or two. Just keep your visit short, get your fun photos and then head on to your next destination. 

From Pisa we headed out to the hilltop sea towns of Cinque Terre!