Haircut, Best Friends, and FH

This is a picture of me with my cousin Kevin's new baby boy. Check out the haircut!




Jac and I had a great time over the holiday weekend!! I can't wait until she moves home.

This was Michael's hand after he got stung by a bee. I lovingly called him FH (Fat Hand)! I felt bad for him, but it was also pretty hilarious!!!

Summer Stuff!

This summer has been great. It has flown by very quickly and there has been a TON going on. I am going to try and sum up with a few pictures from the last few weeks.

Michael and I had our one year anniversary on July 26! Yay. I am so lucky to be married to such a great guy!

My cousin Shelby got married on August first! She looked gorgeous of course. :)

I had to put a picture of my hair from Shelby's wedding. It was AWESOME!

Michael's sister Crystal and her husband Scott and their son Dylan came to visit. Isn't he cute?

Dylan loves remote controls!Today, August 16th, my baby brother Scott left for college. I am going to miss having him around. He is so great. He is going to be a Junior at WSU. Go Cougs!

I'm Old!

Ok, so I turned 25 yesterday. I know, old right? (I am just saying that to make all of you who truly are old mad!) Is it working? :) I have always thought of myself as young. I remember looking at people I knew who were 25 and thinking they were all grown up. I still don't feel all grown up myself. Weird. I have lived a quarter of a century. I have a great life, wonderful family, awesome job, amazing husband, what more could I ask for? Here's to 3 more quarters! :)

The look on Michael's face is because I have gotten 4 pairs of shoes for my birthday... :) I should put a post with them on here. They are beautiful!

The Joy of Gardening

Sorry about the cheesy title of this post, but I think it is funny that "The Joy of Gardening" is an actual brand. Couldn't they have come up with something shorter? Any who, I decided to take up gardening this year. I have no real experience with it except for remembering my mom's gardens from when I was younger. I am really excited so naturally the first thing that I did was go out and buy matching purple gardening gloves and clogs!

This is the view of the front of the garden. I have planted about half of the veggies so far. I have to wait a little longer until the danger of frost has passed. (I actually sound like I know what I am talking about don't I? Weird.)

When I first decided that I wanted to do a garden, Michael was excited too. On one of his days off he tilled and fenced the entire thing! He even made me this hand crafted sign. :) He is such a great husband.

Wedding Photos!

I finally got my act together and looked through all 1100 wedding photos! I narrowed it down and our photographer, Doug Huegli, made us a gorgeous book. Here are some of my favorite pages:

Puppy??

Ok so our puppy has a problem. She will literally eat ANYTHING. And I mean ANYTHING! She's like a goat. The other day we gave her an entire bowl of salad and she devoured it. She has even eaten Michael's glasses. Seriously, she didn't even leave any bits of glass at all, she just ate it. No big deal. Oh, weird, there are some glasses, I might as well EAT them.

So over the weekend Michael worked outside a lot and picked up all of the garbage that Lexie has littered all over our property. We don't have garbage pickup because there is a dump nearby so we just store it up in some large garbage cans that are locked inside a fence. Michael spent a long time fixing all of the holes in the fence and cleaning everything up nicely. Last night I get the phone call. Lexie, somehow got into the garbage again and has strewn it throughout the yard. Let's just say that Michael was ticked. We love the dog, but sometimes we are not sure it is worth all the work. So if you are in the market for a puppy/goat, let us know. :)

MY FIRST HOME!

Ok, many of you know this already, but we are going to be on TV. Crazy huh? January 10th at 9:30 pm Michael and I will make our movie star debut on the show My First Home on TLC. Check it out if you get a chance. We are pretty nervous because they came to film us for 6 days straight and we are just sure they are going to put all of the embarrassing things that we said on the show! Watch out Hollywood, here we come!!!!! :) HAHA!

Here is the blurb about our show copied from the TLC website:

My First Home
Washougal, Washington
TV-G
A couple in Washougal, Washington has to deal with planning their wedding and buying their first home simultaneously. But when they get out-bid on the home of their dreams, will they be able to find a house that they can start their new life in?

PUPPY!!!

After we moved into our new house we decided that our dog U-joint needed a friend. The day we got Lexie (our new puppy) started out as any other day. It was a Saturday and we were just lounging around our house and relaxing. We had some errands to run so Michael suggested that we just go "look" at the humane society for a new dog. I said, "Ok, but we are just looking for fun right?" Lo and behold, two hours later we had picked out our new puppy and were taking her home. On the drive home Michael and I both admitted to each other that we had both really wanted a dog and knew that we would get one even though we kept saying we were just "looking." :) She is an adorable pit bull mix. Her and U-joint really like each other and play all the time. Here are a few pictures of Lexie:

We got hitched

On July 26, 2008 Michael and I were married at St. Joseph Catholic Parish in Vancouver, Washington. It was a beautiful and perfect day. Thank you to all who came to share in our wonderful day with us. We feel lucky to have such supportive and loving families and friends.