Easter Weekend

What a fun weekend it has been to be with family and enjoy this special holiday! We were able to spend the weekend in Cache Valley and do the annual Benson Easter Egg hunt at my grandmas! We got to see cousins, aunts and uncles, friends, and my grandma and it was a blast! I sure love my family and am lucky to be apart of it! Presley thoroughly enjoyed her first egg hunt and was delighted to find candy in each egg. She was in heaven! :)

My mom treated all the girls to pedicures! We have a little tradition of getting pedi's with the girls every now and then and it is so much fun! Love me some girl time and pampering! :) When we got back we went geo-caching with the boys! My dads a geo-caching pro. :) It was fun! It was definitely a fun Saturday!

Sunday was so nice! I love Easter and the spirit about it! How blessed we are to know of the resurrection and the atonement of our elder brother Jesus Christ. It is such a blessing and brings so much hope and love! Such a selfless sacrifice and key part in the Plan of Salvation. I am so grateful for my Savior and the blessings of his love and sacrifice! My family is the most important thing to me and his love made it possible for me to live and be with them forever. For that I am forever grateful and humbled!

We got to hear my grandma Benson speak in her sacrament on the resurrection and it was the best talk on the resurrection I have ever heard. It was a blessing and treat to hear her speak! She has so much knowledge and wisdom and the sprit was so strong! She is one amazing woman and I am blessed to have her in my life!

Easter has been so wonderful this year and I love why we celebrate it! I hope everyone had a beautiful day!

Long overdue! ...Europe!

Ok so this is waaaaaay past due! But I at least needed to document a little bit about it! I have way better pics stored on my hard drive but I am being lazy and posting this from my phone :) so you get a short sweet condensed version of this amazing trip! Sorry. :)

So my mom, dad, Tiffany, and I got to go pick my sister up from her mission in September! It really was such a neat experience and I really loved every second! Brittny served in the Netherlands/Belgium mission. So we were able to visit Amsterdam, Den Haag, Zutermier, Bruges, Paris, and more! Every place we went was full of culture and great people. It was so fun to explore and create memories with our little bunch!

The people there LOVED Britt! All the people who knew her spoke so highly of her and it was so cool to hear all of the wonderful things they had to say! She definitely had a very successful mission! While we were in Zutermier we were able to attend the beautiful temple and do a session. It was beautiful and such a cool experience! There were many converts going through for the first time and it was such a sweet thing to get to experience it with them.

We road bikes through the beautiful streets of holland and saw the most charming cottages and windmills. I'm pretty sure my parents where ready to buy a house there right away. My mom loved it and so did I! Everyone is always out and about riding their bicycles everywhere! (That is how they can afford to eat the delicious pastries in all their darling shops! They work off those calories on their bikes! Ha). But seriously don't even get me started on the pastries...they are DEVINE!

Paris was a dream. Literally. It was so gorgeous and romantic! I am definitely going back their with Joel and at least staying for a week or two just in that city! The buildings, the culture, the art, and the food was all perfection! There was gorgeous flower shops everywhere lining the streets! The 'Lock Bridge' was so cute with everyone's locks glistening in the sun representing people's eternal love locked in place. From afar it looked as if the bridge was made of gold from all of the shiny locks. Loved it!

Notre Dame was simply amazing as well! We even got to feed the birds :) (for real though! I have picture on my hard drive to prove it :) haha)

Bruges was a beautiful historic town in Belgium. They are famous for their chocolate among other things and boy it did not disappoint! Charming is the word I would use to describe it. Horse drawn carriages where bustling about the streets and cathedrals where placed on many corners. The cobble stone streets were beautiful and the little lakes were as still as glass. Picture perfect really. We loved that place!

The whole trip was awesome and there are so many stories I could share, but that would just take way to long! So here is just a little glimpse. :)

Enjoy! And I hope you all make it to Europe one day if you haven't already. It really is an experience of a lifetime!

Xoxo, Chanty

Anniversary Getaway #4

This was our 4 year anniversary trip and we wanted to get a little sunshine! So we headed to Laguna Beach! It was beautiful! This trip was full of fun and some crazy adventures!

We got to explore the beach, treat ourselves to amazing dinners and delicious desserts (cheesecake, fruit tarts, and gelato to just name a few!), and do fun activities every day! It was a much needed break and nice to get away from Utah's cold harsh winter.

Playing on the beach and riding a tandem bike clear down the coast was a blast!! I think I was grinning ear to eat everyday all day! :)

One of the days Joel's friend from work, Rick, insisted we take his Aston Martin for the day! Gasp!!*** for any of you that know my husband you know that he died and went to heaven when he was handed those keys!! Haha! All of his dreams came true! Literally :) that car is worth $250,000 whaaaaaaat?! And Rick gave it to us for the WHOLE day!! Talk about trust!

The Robbins boys have a tradition that every time we are in California they go to "Cars and Coffee". It's an event that people go to on Saturday morning in Irvine, CA and bring all of their REALLY nice cars. Bentley's, Lambo's, Ferrari's, Aston Martins, Porsches, and all sorts of collector cars are there. Everyone walks around checking out each others cars and visiting. It is pretty cool. And this year we actually got to be IN it and pull right up to all the other cars! We kind of felt famous lol. Everyone was taking pictures of it and chatting away :) it was a lot of fun!

That car drives like a dreeeeeam! So smooth and SO much power. Holy cow! So needless to say we had a blast with it! We went out with Rick and his wife for dinner that night and he let Joel drive one of his 4 collector Porsches! Seriously Rick is the man. So nice!!

We were able to go to all the cute shops in Laguna and search for shells for Presley along the shore line, biking in Huntington, cruise on PCH and around town in the Aston, and play on the beach in Santa Monica. Such a fun time!

My favorite part was just being with my cute husband the whole time! He is truly my best friend and I love him more than words! He makes me SO happy and takes such good care of us. We are so blessed to have him! Love you babe!! Here is to eternity :) xoxo!