Christmas Time...

So we had a most Excellent Christmas. Time with family is the best time there is, and just seeing people's reaction when they open that perfect gift from you. We feel so blessed this Christmas Season, except on christmas eve and our little convertable broke down in Tukwilla while Devin and Lance were finishing there Christmas shopping. They were in the middle of an intersection and they had to have a cop push them out. Then they "limped" it back here to my work. It turned out to be the alternator. So Devin bought one, put it in the front seat and parked it in our warehouse. On Friday morning we drove down to work to install the new part. Got all ready to tackle the project, and Devin forgot the keys. WOW, so we had to drive all the way back home to get the key and all the way back down to work. There were a few complications, but he got it done in about 2 hours. Yeah, back up and running with 2 full cars again!

We got to eat Christmas Eve dinner with my Brother -in- laws family and then we spent the night at home. We woke up and did our Christmas presents with eachother and just took it slow. I OF COURSE had the worst sleep night ever. I'm almost as bad as a child on Christmas Eve night. I swear I woke up every hour, just soo excited for Devin to see his stocking and just start the day! I was one very tired little girl, and I didn't even get a nap that day.

After that we went to My sister Kristene's house for breakfast casserole, (made with bread, eggs, cream of mushroom soup, sausauge, and mushrooms) and to open a few more gifts. Breakfast of course was the BEST Christmas breakfast ever. We have been having it since we were kids. That's one of my favorite traditions.

We then went home and showered and got ready to go to the Parents house. We did our gift exchange there and had a very delicious dinner prepared by Ma and Pa, and it was a huge Prime Rib Roast. The best meat out there. MMMMM MMMMM MMMMM. It was also nice to have Lance and Kristene and the kids there with us. It's such a treat to be able to have any of my siblings at a family gathering! It makes it a little less akward for me anyways.

So we ended the evening leaving Devin's parents house and me driving and getting us stuck in the snow next to a brick wall. One wrong move and mom's car would have been scratched. Well Devin and Pops and Greg pushed me out to safety!! Drove home safe and called it a night! Here are a few pics, very few pics from Christmas, I kinda forgot to take pictures.....

Here is our "family" Christmas photo from Christmas day! The Dog and the 2 cats, now that was a tricky picture to take!Here are the ginormous stockings that we got last year, and boy did we fill them, mine isn't as full because "santa" couldn't make it all the way with the harsh weather that we've been having, they should still be comming shortly!Here is Maui sitting so cute by the tree. I just love this picture!

Here's me and my little baby Maui. I just love her, and I hold her all the time. Don't be fooled she may look like she doesn't want to be there, but just seconds earlier the picture was a little different. She was licking my face like there was not enough peanut butter on there to please her enough!

Well that's about it for the holiday pictures, however, we received a little bit of extra money from Devin's parents and Grandmother, so we decided to do something with it instead of saving it. We put in hard wood floors in our bedroom and the guest room. We can't be happier. It took us about 3 hours per room and we did it in 2 nights. So here they are, let me know that we made the right choice....

Here is the new Guest Bedroom, I could not for the life of me find an old picture of it, but it had tan carpet with stains on it, and for those of you who have seen it or have stayed in it, you can be the judge of that!
Ok, so this is the old room, it had nasty green carpet in there that smelled and had stains on it. Our room basically looks tiny and I hate the green carpet. ewww
So this is the new one with the new floors.I think the room looks and feels a lot bigger and the light reflects off the floor now to make it feel brighter! You can't really tell the color too much, but it's called cherry. It's darker then an Oak, but lighter then a dark cherry. It's beautiful!

snow days and cold weather

So this Season here in washington we have had unusual weather for this area. for the past Week we have been seeing snow around here. of course not very much but some snow, and then things turned south.... We then got freezing temperatures ALL week which kept the snow around here on the ground. Well then... the snow started back up on Wednesday. Thursday Devin and I couldn't make it in to work, Friday i had to have a co-worker pick me up because it was a frozen solid street out there. so Satuday comes around and the snow starts up again at 2pm. It snowed, and snowed, and snowed till sometime during the night. Here are some photos from last night when Devin and I went out with the dog.

this is last night during that round of snow. We cleared off my car yesterday afternoon when we took it out to get pellets. Wow that was a treat. We made it out of the driveway ok and made it to Tacoma ok, and even made it home well, it wasn't untill we tried to back down the driveway that the back wheels hit the snow and started sliding sideways and down. SIGH..... It stopped 1 foot away from the garage when the front wheel hit the only dry spot on the driveway. that was a teeth clencher.

She was LOVING to burry her head into the snow and just play around in it. She was having the time of her life out there!!! well then we got a call from Lance and he said they were going for family drive time. So they drove there way over to our house. i made hot apple cider, and Addie colored.

We had a good time, and then they left to go fight the snow on the way home. We woke up this morning just amazed to find how much snow was out there. We got up and went for a walk with the dog down to the small cemetary park. We got home and sure enough it started snowing again. It hasn't stop since and it's 5:30pm. We are in another winter watch for 4-8 more inches overnight, plus with the freezing temperatures, the high was 29. We are looking at possibly not being aboe to get to work in the morning. Snow day again. devin and I are getting a little stir crazy. We were bored today and didn't know what to do. So we cleaned and organized some things, and then while i took a nap, Devin made Pumpkin bread!!! MMMM, it was nice to wake up to that lovely smell coming from the kitchen. Well here are a few pictures from our day today, and hopefully we will get some updated photos tonight just to show how much we have gotten again!

It's been a crazy week and it's been fun and they say that we may even have a white Christmas. that's WAY rare around here but we are excited to see what happens.

I've been tagged by MiChelle

Ok, I give, I'll do it and not because Michelle has given me what I want, I still haven't gotten what I want from her (an updated belly picture), but I'll do it because it will make me think hard at work because I'm in fact bored as crap.

Once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog/note with 15 weird, random things, facts, habits, goals, or anything about yourself. At the end, post a picture, and choose 5 people to be tagged, listing their names and why you chose them to be tagged.

1. When Dean and I were young we didn't appreciate eachother, in fact we fought a lot and I threw keys at his back, he thinks he doens't remember this, but I KNOW it happened.

2. My Cat Myzzie sleeps with me almost every night. Not just sleeps with me, but she wiggles her way under the covers forward, turns around starts walking back up toward my pillow, Stops at my pillow, cuddles close against my body and lays her head on my pillow next to me. AND, I love it! She has the softest fur I have ever felt, and it's so nice.

3. Sometimes I will think about something random and I will turn to tell Devinand say " I just Love you"

4. I have the worst baby feever in the history of the world.

5. I have a freckle on my little toe, and on the inside Right ring finger where the sun never sees it.

6. I REALLY want my hunting license so I can shoot my first Deer. It's a dream of mine.

7. I would love to buy a 2004 740IL BMW, however they are still expensive and I will have to wait about 10 more years till I can afford one.

8. I have 3 tattoos, and I wish that I only had 2, I REALLY want to remove the one on my inside ankle.

9. I think about my Dad everyday. When he was alive, I didn't think about him except for once a month. Now I wish EVERYDAY, that I could just talk to him again and tell him about my sucesses so he can be proud of me.

10. My car is getting 12.5 MPG right now, and I'm pissed about it.

11. My left eye has astigmatism and I have to wear glasses when I drive and when I go to the movies. They said that it's a few point away from being legally blind in my left eye, and now I feel like an old woman.

12. Mom was in town and stayed with me. She let my kitten outside on accident (who was in heat at the time) so now we may have kittens coming, and she bought chocolate..... The Dog ate it and we had to take her to the Emergency Vet to get to throw it all up. And the best part, Devin and I stayed calm the whole time and we hold nothing against mom for any of it.

13. I LOVE my little brother Chase, (not that I don't love them all, but I feel like I have to take care of him). I have a nickname for him, and I call him my little Papoose.

14. I want to Live on Mercer Island, WA when I go up. Not to be a snob there but I want to have the best schools for my little babies, and Mercer Island has those schools there.

15. I HATE hair on my soap. If Devin takes a shower before me and leaves his chest hair on the soap, I get mad and irritated. I kindly don't say anything and just wash it off, but secretly I HATE IT.

OK, so I just like this picture, it didn't specify any picture required, so I'm picking this one. It was the summer of 2007 in Des Moines when I lived with my brother-in-laws mother Valerie.

Ok so I'm picking for my 5 people..... Melanie, Annalissa, Kelsey, Christina, and Dean, so get happy read this blog and I expect to see something fun writen on yours in at least a week! I hope you all had fun reading my little quirks....

Premature Buying.....

So.... thanks to my friend Chrsitina (who is pregnant) I have the worst baby feever in the world. And thanks to her aswell, she emailed me a coupon for Carter's (baby clothes). So she was telling me that Carter's was having a sale at midnight Thanksgiving. Everything in the store was 50% off, and if you got there at midnight it was another 10% off. PLUS.... if you spent $50, you got an aditional 25% off. So if you add that up, that's 85% OFF. Holy COW!!! Well me being me, and enough said, I talked with my sister Kristene and we decided that we were going to go out to the North Bend outlet mall to take advantage of the midnight shopping.

Devin and I arrived at there house at 10:30 and Kristene and I were off my 11:30. We made it there at 12 and there really wasn't any lines anywhere, only inside the COACH store (but that's to be expected). So we were in Carter's for about 45Min. Man, oh Man, I was in heaven!!! I started on the little boy side, and walked around all of it, and then walked around to the little girl area, went through ALL of thoes, and looked at a few pieces that were nutral.

So, needless to say after that 45Min of baby clothes shopping, I was Hooked. I grabbed this and I grabbed that, some of this, some of that! Well I ended up with a few clothes. I spent about $115 after my 85% off. Sigh...... Now all I need is a cute little baby to put in them. )-: Thanks for me, I have a little niece on the way and a friend that is about to have a little boy. So there are a few babies around for me to enjoy till the time is right! So let me show you my buys!This picture does NOT do it justice on how encredible cute these clothes are!!

This is one of my favorites. The bottom of the pants have little ruffles, and there are pockets on the front that are in a heart shape and then on the bum, there are my little hearts! It's so precious!

More, more, more!!! Oh how exciting! The guest room closet is now 1/4 full of baby clothes, and I would not like it any other way! I know...... I'm a freak.