Our Bungalow

Our house was finished...um I can't remember but it has been a while :)

Here are before pics. So tiny, it makes me cold just thinking about it. 

Nate, Chris, and Chris hammering up the nasty, cold tiles. 

Ripped down the back wall and basically pushed it out WAAAAAY over there. 

Added sheetrock

 The rest of the other wall that got pushed out and sheetrocked

PAINT! a lovely olive-y green for the kitchen

New tiles for the kitchen. They are supposed to be heated (oooooh) but I can't figure out the little thermostat so I gave up. They're still cold. 

AND the finished project (almost)

Here is the living room, grey paint. 

We have new couches that are the most comfortable purple monsters we got from the Morins. 

In the corner the woodstove is also put in and our house is so toasty (when we make a fire...) we no longer live in the frigid tundra cove. 

And a view from the kitchen.

We are very excited to not have to live in our bedroom anymore 24/7. We can enjoy watching TV and movies, hanging out in the house, anywhere!

I need to do some decorating but I kinda like it plain sometimes, its not too busy but we do need some pictures so people know who live there :)

Hangover Scramble

I almost forgot. 

Before celebrating the anniversary, Nate, Billy, and Brad raced in the Hangover Scramble on New Years day (1/1/12) up in Washougal, WA

They woke up bright and early and made the drive. Me and Matt drove up later since I was more interested in sleeping in :)

Nathan placed 50 out of 160! Pretty impressive for first-timer. Next year he is hoping to do a lot better, especially with being a lot lighter. 

Here is Billy

Nate 

Brad 

Nate 

Brad 

Nate all finished up, waiting  

Muddy face 

They all got swamped in mud.

All cleaned up!

Brad, Billy, Nate, Matt, and Chris

Hey Look at Me!

I realized I can't let it be a whole year since I updated this thing. Nathan asked me why I hadn't written and I told him we didn't really do anything. He said well, yeah we did! We do tons of things. Hmm maybe I just don't think anyone would be interested in them. Anyway, since last August...let me look thru my pictures to refresh my memory.

Well folks, I don't have any pictures from about end of August to the beginning of December. We were doing far to important things than carrying around a camera. DUH

Here are December/Christmas pictures.

Here is Paisley and Kevin enjoying their Christmas Goodies.

Christmas afternoon/early evening we traveled down to Sunriver to Colbys Sunriver house for the last time before they sell it. We didn't get to eat Christmas dinner anywhere so good 'ol Subway was our delicious meal. 

Here is the gang, minus me of course!

 We went shooting one morning, here are some pics from that. 

This is Jonica (Brandon's girlfriend, Jessica, and me)

Aaron brought the Biebs for target practice. 

Here is my 'I'm feeling artistic' capture of part of the multitude of guns everyone brought. 

The results of Justin Bieber.

And last but not least another artsy-fartsy shot of Paisley, cuz who can refuse a face like that! This I believe was taken by Jew.

When we got back from Sunriver we celebrated a new year, which also means another year married!

We worked during the day and went out to the Ringside for dinner.

We then realized we needed to loose weight and this was our last dance with yummy, delicious, mouth-watering food. :)

Ok, we didn't just realize this, it was planned out for a little bit.

NEXT!

Doggie Boots

Hmmm

I don't EVER use my camera. I don't even think I know where it is right now. Therefore I have no pictures for you.

Nathan has officially started a business, registered and everything. Where we go from here, I'm not really sure. We got super pumped for about a week and that has now sizzled. After we found out that Quickbooks would cost us HOW MUCH?! and the apple people said it sucked we got burnt out and haven't really talked since. About the biz.

I have been working. Huh, what's new?! I got pretty sick for a little bit and my throat and neck hurt like a mother loader and my voice was becoming groggy and gross. So I went to the Urgent Care and the Dr. came in and said, "so your tonsils are bothering you... OMG LOOK AT YOUR NECK!" I got all confused because all I wanted was for her to tell me that I needed my tonsils out and then she freaked out about my neck which doesn't look ANY different to me. Apparently my right side is freakishly enlarged (where my thyroid is). So I asked what I should do and she told me to go find a family dr. that they wouldn't take any tests  there. UM... I thought this was a medical center.... at least she diagnosed me with tonsilitis.

So I called Paula and she told me of a family dr. she heard of and I went to them. And the lady freaked out there about my neck too. I made Nathan go with me for this one and she asked him, "Does she always look like this?" um thanks people I know I'm not vain but I really don't see what they're talking about. I have an ultrasound today so we will see where it takes us.

I bought Paisley an ID tag about a week and a half ago, best $12.00 I ever spent. I got a call yesterday morning, "Do you have a black dog and a little brown dog?" why, yes in fact I do...
"Well, I have them on Scholls Ferry a little past that big mansion place. I can drive them over to you." WHAT?! I jumped up and made Nathan get up and we started driving to meet her in the driveway but Tucker was already there and brought them up for us. Paisley and Kelso were a little grounded for about 5 minutes. That is so far for those dogs! I couldn't believe it. But I am so glad I finally bought her a tag and am never hesitating on that again.

So I leave you with this youtube video. You can watch the suggested ones they are HILARIOUS. We watched a bunch last night but this ones pretty good.

Rainy May

 Our house has turned into a nursery. Nathan got a rockin' deal on plants last week. If you're looking for plants or landscape, he's your man!

We also have a big concrete landing out back. If we didn't need to extend our house, I would love to put some patio furniture and have outside BBQ's, since its deciding to be all sunny and warm this week.

Speaking of sunny and warm, I wrote that too soon as its supposed to be raining this whole next week!!! 

We got netflix and have been watching A LOT of Swamp People, about two episodes a night. I LOVE this show. I watched a documentary on alligators too. I remember seeing an alligator on the grass at our hotel in Florida, on this trip

OH netflix. You will make me become a hermit... But since its NOT sunny yet, I will allow it :)

My new license plates came!

I am going on day 7(!) of NOT cracking my knuckles/fingers. So far so good, unless I'm stretching and it accidentally happens. It's hard! I keep thinking about it all day, especially when I finally sit down and try to relax, thats all I can think about. 

Garth gave me a gift cert. to get a pedicure for Christmas and since it was nice out today I went and got it! I LOVE the color, I kept saying I didn't want any flowers/design but she did it anyway so I went with it. 

Here are a few things I am loving right now...

Neuro drinks. 

I bought this at Petrich's, they don't say what flavor they are but they all taste the same, kinda like grapefruit. The only difference is that some are more fizzy than others. It's supposed to make you happy, or better blood flow, or sleepy, depending on which one you get, I have yet to notice any effects but they are yumm-o!

Some of my favorite food blogs. I love reading these and getting ideas for making dinner. There are only so many ways to spin a chicken!

Our Best Bites

Favorite Family Recipes

Pioneer Woman

My friend Katie is having a scentsy party online, I have never used or smelt any flavors so I'm not sure if I want to do it or which flavors smell good/bad. Let me know if you've tried them or any favorite scents you have. I love candles and smelly things I just don't want to waste money of ones that don't smell good!!

Almost Forgot!

I forgot to include the pics of my car, Nate's motorcycle, and other random things, I got a little excited.

Nate's motorcycle. He took it for a spin around the roads out here but he's gotta get his endorsement and insurance before he can really take it out. 

Nate took Bryan Whitnah on a ride, then a ride in his truck, and then on the quad and taught him how to ride it. I think that may have been the best day in his life so far. :)

Have I ever said how much Paisley LOVES Weston?! She will lick his face for days and he loves it. Tucker and Weston were up with Nathan talking one day and they went to walk back down to their house. Apparently Paisley wasn't finished yet and scooted down to their house to find Weston. She's a funny dog, and what a cute kid!

And this is my car. 

Ok, until next month..haha

March and April, Into May

*Paisley*

Has been quite the farm dog. She wakes up every morning at around 715, unless she sleeps with us, which happens probably more often than it should :) She spends about 12 hours running around outside and when she comes inside, she goes straight to our room and passes out for the night on the bed until we scoot her off to her own bed. Today she rolled in something stinky so I scrubbed her down three times and she is still a little stinky. She stopped eating her food for a few weeks so she is now an organic puppy and eats really expensive food, but she loves it, so at least she's eating! She keeps telling me she wants a little bro/sis so we're thinking about getting another dog. Hopefully this next month we can make her dreams come true ;) OH and I almost forgot, SHE TURNED ONE! Her birthday was April 2nd, and we forgot, but I bought her lots and lots of toys!

*Nathan*

Working on the beautiful lawns and landscaping of the farm house. He put his truck on craigslist to see how much he could get out of it and apparently it was a lot! I didn't know why he wanted to sell it, but he did. He bought a good work truck from Hector, whose working with him, and fixing it up as we type. 

He is taking math and a job search class, once he finishes those, he will take one more math and another specialty class and be ALL DONE! He bought Chuong's motorcycle, Honda Shadow, and has been drooling over it, waiting to drive it. He is taking the class to get his endorsement with Chris H and Billy. Then we need to work on getting out concealed weapons and we will a couple of shootin', ridin' crazy peoples. 

*Caitlin*

I guess nothing too exciting goes on with me; I am just working. We sold the Passat :( sad day. Nathan was worrying over it and I figured it would break sometime and when it did, we wouldn't have money for it. SO we sold it. 

I was very sad, so sad that I broke the door as the people were coming to buy it. I was looking behind me as I was backing out of the garage and thought "hmmm, our house is falling down! How weird." Then I realized it was ME who was crashing into the house!!! I pulled it back in, tried to shut the door and it came right back at me, then I scooted to see what Nathan's face looked like but he was still moving his truck so I couldn't see and I just thought, HE'S GONNA KILL ME!! Luckily he didn't and the people still bought it! OOPS. After about 2 weeks without a car, I was getting tired of looking at the same ones on craigslist, I told Nathan we were going to buy this one and I didn't care what was wrong with it. It was cheap too and turns out, a pretty decent car. Good thing since we bought it at about 11:00 at night. I was done looking at craigslist, I don't know HOW Nathan looks at it everyday.

Driving to Utah

Us in the CABELAS in UT

Paisley pooping Easter eggs!

That is all that happened in the last months, we eat, sleep, and poop just like everyone else, but we watch cool videos, so here's one I stumbled upon, I like the otter or whatever it is. You should watch them all, because some parts are dumb, but most are really funny.