That last day does not bring extinction to us

Hello everyone!! Happy Thursday to you. I'm now back in Northern California somehow coping with the fact that I'm not in Disneyland, or Long Beach, or San Diego. What a full and wonderful trip with my super great family! Seriously, couldn't have asked for a more fun vacation. We wandered all over Southern California and laughed, and ate, and back-seat drove (okay, maybe just I did that), and played, and shopped the whole time! It was seriously so great. But every vacation has to end sometime, and you don't want it to last too long, because then you start to hate vacation! sad! Well, here are my last few pictures of my vacation. This is San Diego at the Cabrillo National Monument. Could you imagine a more beautiful day? Nope, me neither.

 Nathan is surveying his empire. Ha.

 HAHAHA! My dress blew-up like a cupcake. Whoopsie! But look at that sweet boat! You could see the NAVY base from the monument. It was really neat! Thanks boys, (and girls!) for your service!

 There was really cute kid exhibit in the visitor's center!

 This was my favorite one.

 HA! Of course my brother had to try on this armor!

 OKAY... This might have been second to Disneyland on this whole trip. We went down to go check-out the tide pools! Have you ever see one? They are amazing! There are sea-creatures in the crevices of the rocks! It was so great! The animals are all very small and shy (duh, they're wild, not in an aquarium), but they are so wonderful and cool! We saw a really beautiful little purple and green crab, but every time I tried to take a picture, it would go back into his little cave.

 here's a little teeny tiny hermit crab!

 Nathan was so cute. He love love love loves sea animals, so he was right in his element. He was looking at the crab.

Oh beautiful San Diego. I was sad to say goodbye to by Brothers and Mandi, and my extended family who live down there, but it gives me an excuse to go down there and visit. It was so super wonderful. Here are a few extra pics from the whole of our trip :)

That's it for me today. Back the the real world. See you soon!

It's Not Over Till It's Over, But When It's Over, It's Over.... And it's not Over!

Happy Easter everyone!! What a great holiday this is!! I LOVE easter, it literally gives my life meaning! Jesus' story didn't end on the cross, but He is risen! He is Alive! He is reigning in glory and victory in Heaven AND because of that we can all have hope to also be with Him in Glory. Man... if that doesn't sound like hope to you, then, in all seriousness, nothing does. How could I post anything on Easter Sunday (even if it is 9pm) without mentioning Jesus! He's awesome!

ANYWAYS, This is my last installment of San Diego stuff. Thanks for allowing me to relive my trip by letting me share all my pictures with you! Now trip to San Diego would be complete without a visit to either the San Diego Zoo, OR the Wild Animal Park. I suppose you could opt for both, but it would be very expensive.

This is me right as we got in. I effing LOVE animals, I find them to be soooo amazing. So evident of God's hand on our world. When we were on the tram we saw this cariboo with a "threat mask" meaning the stripes on his face make his antlers look longer and more threatening... that's not an accident my friends... someone designed that. ANYWAYS! here's me being super excited about going into the park. Look how green and lush and all around wonderful!

 Nathan is scoping out our path. See that Yellow ball in the back? Thats the SUN!! just kidding. It's a gian hot air balloon. It looks super fun, but it's a whopping $40 a person, so my family and I just walked, which was amazing.

 Chris is man. And he is single ladies. I got a girl at Jessup in mind for him... You think I'm joking, but I'm not.

 Waiting to get into the Butterful exibit. You know I loved that.

 AND THIS!!! I'm not sure if I have ever shared this on the blog, but I have a deep love in my heart for Spongebob Squarepants, it is my most favoritist show. Though I have made a solemn vow to NEVER wear anything with his face on it ever in public. PJs are one thing... school is another. My love for spongebob stops at my dorm room bedding. Dont judge.

 Oh man, aren't these fun! Look at Nathan's Crazy ol' face!! He's too funny for me. My brother said we was trying to squish his whole face through the face hole!!! I was trying to look sidways at Nathan. I just look like a smiling drunkard with my eyes closed! hahaha.

 The butterfly exhibit was really neat. There were huge butterflies everywhere, and they were landing on people! it was so beautiful! one landed on my cousin's head and her little guy, Anthony, was very excited about it. He's got to be the cutest little guy I've ever seen. He was walking all over the park like he owned the place!

Ahh yes, the tram. Here's a picture of me trying explain how I wanted Nathan to take the picture... If I just smiled like a normal human being, he'd know what to do! I'll never learn.

 Here's me being impressed/suprised.

 Here's a few more pictures of the zoo and a medley of pictures of our whole trip.

I didn't want to leave, I could have stayed... forever! Just kidding, Im glad to be at home. I love it here in Sacramento, but I can definitely hear the beach calling the Parrish's... I'm pretty sure it calls everyone's name. I can't say won't be looking for jobs in the area. Here's the medley of pictures over the whole five days. What a great trip! It was soooo fun, not a hitch the entire time. My parent's actually took us on this trip at no cost to us at all, making them the most generous parents of all time, they certainly didn't have to invite us, but I'm sooooo thankful they did. I think only Nathan and I knew how badly we needed a break. It was perfect.

Well everyone, thats about it for me. I hope you had a great Easter Sunday however you celebrated. I love Easter, because Jesus truly does conquer all! NOTHING can stop Him. He is love, and He is our hope, and perhaps the most exciting thing of all, He is coming back! He is Risen my friends, He is risen indeed.

See you soon :)

Stay Classy San Diego

Hello Everyone!! this morning has been a VERY productive morning for me. I paid off the last bit of my credit card, never to worry about it again!! This is huge!! I never had a ton of debt, but when you don't work, even the minimun payment feels like a maximum. But no more worries! Thanks Lord!! He takes care everyone. He certainly does.

Have you ever thought about what Jesus meant when he said "I come to give you life abundant."? I dont think, in fact I'm pretty 100% certain that Jesus didn't die for us to make sure that Christians are wealthy and that they all have the cars and homes of their dreams. Because... I would say that earnestly following the Lord, I am living life in full. I'm totally living a wonderfully abundant life... my marriage is super happy (blessings), I have the GREATEST, seriously GREATEST friends and family a person could ask for (more blessings), I'm going to school to learn how to effectively lead others in worship for crying out loud (even more blessings)!!  I dont know, My husband (being the super amazing Spritual Leader that he is), and I have been thinking about that a lot lately. What does the Lord really mean when He says that He wants to bless us? Financial blessings are super great, I'm not negating that, but in a lot of ways I think our ideas, and His ideas I think have gotten mixed up. Okay, soap box moment over. What do you think?

OKAY! ANYWAYS!!! Second installment of pictures from San Diego. Oh, Em, Gee. What a great day this was! My parents took Nathan and I to this great little french cafe on University, everything inside was a beautiful as could be. Seriously, whenever I see a case full of pastries, I just die, becuase I want to sample every single one. I held back... mostly because I didn't want to obligate my dad to the check. I ordered probably the most delicious Yogurt Parfait I think I have ever had, and as you can see, I was very very very excited about. Look how beautiful it was! You'd be stoked too.

 Aforementioned overwhelmingly beautiful pastry case.

 the yogurt parfait of my dreams

 Probably one of the mest mochas I have ever had. I don't think they meant to put an "N" on it, but I like to say that it was an "N" for Nathan...

Nathan's fancy mocha...

 I was trying to take one of those cool "candid" pictures of us just casually looking cool at a french cafe... Instead it just looks like I'm screaming at my Dad. HAHAHA. This picture literally makes me laugh out loud. Let me narrarate this picture:

ME: DAD! you're supposed to look cool, you know, like you don't know the camera's there
DAD: What?
MOM: (thinking to herself) This is just silly
NATHAN: (thinking to himself) I'm truly the most patient man in history.

 Nathan ordered a breakfast panini. It was delish, I had a bite.

 Our day was filled with thrift store shopping, so I didn't have a ton of oppertunity to take a million pictrues, as I would have liked, but I did capture this heartfelt moment. Nathan reading about his hero: James Van Der Beek. He was enthralled as you can see:)

So thats about it for me to day. I really would like to know what you think about what Jesus coming to give us "life abundant" what do you think that really means? I've already told you, so you already know what we think. ANYWAYS! I hope you enjoyed this second installment of San Diego Dreamin'. HA. See you soon!!

All I Ever Wanted Seems To Be Right... In San Diego

So everyone, I am back. Against my will, I have come back from San Diego. If you have ever been there, you will know my obession with this beautiful city. The Weather was out of this world, Not hot, not cold, just sunny and beautiful and perfect! the Trip was soooo wonderful. Here are a few pictures for you indugle in. I decided that, while I really did want to look at cute as I possibly could, I decided that I was going to concentrate mostly on having a super great time with my family, that I dont get to see very often.

This is what I decided to wear on our first day out and about. This fine fellow is a King Waffle of the Waffle Spot the precious waffle joint that was attached to our hotel. Want some '70's wonderment in your life? Stay at the Kings Inn on Hotel Circle. It was awesome.

 The Freestyle gods (litte "g" to be sure) have finally smiled on me. I say that like they never have before, but they do... only every single time I go in there. Anyways, these wooden platforms have been my hearts number one desire for spring fashion for a while now. So, I was very happy with my luck when they happened to be in the store. They are great shoes for sitting in the Waffle Spot, not so much for walking around the San Diego Zoo.

 This strapping young lad is my younger brother Chris! Isn't he handsome. He's goin to school down in SD to make Video games!! He had the oppertunity to show one of his creations to SONY today! I can't wait to hear what they said. They probably loved it. Chris is suuuuuuper good at pretty much anything computers/art.

 Here are some street performers at Sea Port Village. I'm pretty sure this guy was probably one of the obnoxious children in his elementary school class... he was super funny.

 Then there was this freaky girl.

 And this cool guy!!! He had a cool wife too, but she was somewhere else!! I couldn't stop staring at this crrrrrazy bike! It's so cool... and kind of beautiful in a way!

ANNNNDDD here are a few cool-guy pics, because no post about a vacation could possibly be complete without them.

Well everyone, this is it for the first installment of pictures from our trip. While I did have an absolute blast in San Diego, I really did miss being able to blog it up. Our hotel had terrible internet. I tried to post, and it literally took hours and hours to upload pictures. So, i wasn't able to post. ANYWAYS!! I hope your all enjoying this spring break, or that you thouroughly enjoyed it when you had it!! Stay tuned for more more more!!! See you soon!!

Spring Break in San Diego

Spring Break in San Diego by Rachel Parrish featuring steve madden shoes

Sooo no outfit posts today, as I was told that I had to wear all black for choir, I decided that I would post my dream wardrobe for spring break.  You'll see soon what my real wardrobe was :)

See you soon!!