Disneyland!

Travis and I ventured out to Disneyland a couple of weekends ago - it was sooo much FUN! Here's a candid documentory of the trip:

Driving!

I drove to CA and Travis took over from there - I'm so glad too, because CA drivers are crazy and the freeways are even worse, but he knew what he was doing and where he was going.

At the park!

Yes, we consecrated our trip with the purchase of Mickey ears...I mean, could we really say we were there if we hadn't?

Christmas!

The second day at the park all of a sudden there was this HUGE tree - like 15 stories high! - at the beginning of Main Street. So we snapped a picture with our Mickey hats. 

Rides! 

Autopia, here we come! Travis let me drive - so sweet but he ended up pushing on the gas peddle - there was too much resistance for my little legs - and I steered.

Boats!

We went on the Mark Twain steam boat! I've never been on it and it was SO much fun!

Tron!

The event we came to see! California Adventure has been putting on a party for the new Tron movie that's coming out soon, so we got in on the action.

DJs!

We had to get a picture with the DJ in the background - my boyfriend is cute.

Try as we might...

We didn't get it out...

This is our 1 picture with the characters. Every time we saw one there was a huge line to just get a picture, but we caught Goofy strolling around Tomorrow Land and grabbed a picture - so cute!

Let's end the post with a dance!

Kisses,

Ashley

Pondering

I wanted to check-in with a few life updates. Life is going great – I‘m still working on my list of virtues, but I have to say this month’s virtue (Justice) is kind of hard to conceptualize into a working virtue for me. I’m not a liar and I don’t find that I commit injustice to people – so unless I’m supposed to wear a mask and run around in a bath robe at night helping people, I’m not too sure what I’m supposed to be doing.

As always, I’m working on my humility and (surprise surprise) I’m having a difficult time with it. :} Something that my dad said to me a while ago keeps coming back to me when I get in moments where my stubbornness is trying to take over. He said, “Everyone has their limits, and sometimes your limits will exceed those of another person. And the way to live in harmony is to recognize that usually it is easier to taper back and meet that other person’s limits, than expect them to hyperextend their own.” At the time my protest to this was, “Well, then I’ll ALWAYS have to be the bigger person who has to make the sacrifices! That’s not fair.” But now that I’m looking back on that conversation there’s a balance in life, and to make those people, who I love, feel unnecessary stress because of my own conscious selfishness, or stubbornness isn’t fair. Not the other way around.

I’m not perfect, and I will probably have selfish or stubborn relapses, but I know I will get better, because I want the people I love to be happy, not stressed.

Kisses,

Ashley

Halloween

I have never spent Halloween this way. Firstly, I had a costume, and while some of you may raise an eyebrow to the idea…I rocked it!

My friend Erin did my make-up and this picture doesn't do it justice - she did an amazing job!

Short story…when I was on my way to Erin’s house to get my make-up done, I was wearing the head stuff (because it was so amazingly realistic!) and I was on the US-60. Well, I get level with this VW Jetta and look over; this guy, about my age, is driving and he looks over at me and half smiles before he takes in what he’s looking at and then in a split second his eyes triple in size and his mouth drops. I can’t imagine what was going through his head, but that was by far the funniest thing I have seen in a while! I laughed so hard in the car tears came to my eyes…haha…okay. Moving on...

When I was done with my make-up I ran to the Mac store to pick up an adapter for Travis before I headed over to the party.

I went to the San Tan mall and for some reason, I couldn’t for the life of me parallel park! I finally just gave up and parked straight, but like…2 yards away from the curb (good thing I didn’t take too long because I was definitely in-line for a ticket).

Anyways, by now I had my whole get-up on. Make-up done, do-rags and scarf in place, and of course dress on (which I made by the way). When I walked into the Mac store I drew an eye from everyone. One guy pulled out his iPhone and snapped a picture of me and whipped around to look at speakers when I looked over at him. It was so funny…

The party was…HUGE. I helped out in the front and there was a non-stop line from 10pm – 12:15am, people were saying they were waiting 45 minutes just to get to the door! What an experience! Travis and his buddies were terrorists and we were all definitely the most original group of costumes there.

I didn’t get home until 5am and it was definitely the longest day of my life. Almost a week later and my body still hasn’t recovered completely.