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.

Hawaii

I went to Maui the last week of Feb. with my parents and sister. They took my other sister and brother in June so now it was our turn!

Here we are at the airport when it was SNOWING.

(I don't think my dad had his morning coffee yet, hence the cheeseball smile)

 And here we are waiting to board and buying scratch-its so I don't get too bored. HA it still happened and I thought it was never going to end.

The second night we went to the Old Lahaina Luau and watched the pretty sunset. It was a buffet of some yummy and some kinda nasty foods. The sweet potatoes were purple! and really thick but pretty good. 

The first night we went to a random restaurant and I had to get something authentic, so I got the loco moco with a side of kim chi. YUM I could only eat about half but it was good! Egg, hamburger, rice, mac salad, and gravy...yummy yum yum.

I was a little dissapointed by the beaches, they weren't what I have seen from saved by the bell and full house when they all went to Hawaii :) We did find one beach with a bigger sand area and the waves breaking at the shore were crazy. Me and my dad had fun standing out there...

 And then we decided that was enough fun and we swallowed enough salt for the day, but not before the ocean took away my sunglasses!!

We went whale watching and these are about the best pics I got. They're quick and a little unentertaining when you really want them to perform. They got close to our boat though, that was a little freaky.

Windy! and look my long lost sunglasses :(

Oh and OF COURSE I had to stop and get REAL shave ice. The best ever with guava flavor! We ate some pretty good meals here, they make good food over there :)

Ignore squinty eye... arrrrrr I look like a pirate

Here are more pictures... We made leis, 

 And laid by the pool...and maybe took a little dip or too but not for too long!! 

 And then we napped. 

The END! I missed my Paisley dog too much, and Nathan, so it was nice to be home and sleep in my own bed for a short while before going to work :)

We like Nice things

We have picked up a few things here and there and have realized that working does pay off eventually!

A BBQ

We debated on charcoal vs. propane bbq for a while before actually buying. We both agree that charcoal is 8 million times better but we don't have the patience or time to wait for it to cook since I usually don't get home until 630-7. Propane is faster so we went with it. 

Paisley is scared by it, she sits on the stairs and growls at it, kinda funny.

Pillows

It only took me about 2 months to actually get them done, but alas they sit beautifully on our couches.

Speaking of Couches...

We now have lots of sitting areas. I randomly found these new couches on craigslist and they matched the one we got from the Wall St. warehouse. We were pretty excited, they're a little different but the same style so that's all that matters. We now have 2 couches, 1 loveseat, and 2 recliners. 

Woodstove
Nathan found these on craigslist and we got 2 for the price of 1! While I was gone, he set one up in the shop upstairs and  now have a source of warmth in our house. It gets up to 80 degrees so we couldn't be happier. We now spend most our time in the garage; Paisley loves to take naps in front of the fire.

Kitchen Table
We bought this as a christmas present to ourselves but had nowhere to put it. With the woodstove we thought we should put it upstairs so now we can actually sit and eat instead of standing at the counter or sitting on the couch.

Paisley
Every single toy we have boughten her gets shredded and torn in about 10 minutes, tops. We found toys that stated that they were indestructible...yeah, they have never met Paisley because she goes through toys like no other. Her favorite is stuffed animals, she actually does snuggle with them. She weighs 68 pounds now! Shes really good at not running away or coming back when you call her and just being an awesome dog. She also LOVES to pose for pictures. As soon as she sees the camera she sits down and stares at me to take a picture. Shes funny like that.

Nathan
This term in school is ALMOST OVER! He has to take 2 more math classes and then I think *hope* that he will be done. He upgraded his dirt bike and took it for a spin two weeks ago. He goes and plays basketball at the gym with friends almost every night which is fun for him.

Caitlin
Work, work, work. That is my life! Although every 2 weeks it is very rewarding to actually have money :) and then it all goes to bills but at least I know its flowing :) I have been thinking about taking the prereq's for hygiene school, which are all biology and organic chem, so YIKES! I will have to think about that one for a bit. 

End of Year

Here is our Christmas/New Year/December post.

Paisley really enjoyed her first Christmas this year. She got lots of new toys that were 50% off when i bought them on Christmas Eve! WOoHOo. I wrapped them and made her open one, to which she kept looking at me like 'why am I not getting in trouble here?'

Our first Christmas together and trying to fit in both families in one day was kinda chaotic and we lost track of time, but we made it and had a pretty exciting Christmas with awesome presents!

2010 brought lots of NEW things, new cars, animals, marriage, jobs, etc. and hopefully we can keep those all things in 2011 and keep getting more new things!

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So far in this New Year...

We meet Nathan's dislocated shoulder once again. He was snowboarding and will probably get surgery during Spring Break. He just started his new classes and has class on Friday night! How weird.

Paisley is bulking up and just being one cute pup. She's getting into trouble with the neighbors dog down the hill so we have to keep her inside unless we can be outside with her and watching. What a high-maintenance dog! But we still love her :)

I keep working and cleaning and being Nurse/Dog Whisperer Caitlin.
I've been trying lots of new recipes, some of which are not so great but we have to eat them anyway so those are always fun nights :)
I have put away all of the decorations and am getting ready for Valentines, our house may look like pink and red threw up all over it.

Here's a video from Christmas, hopefully they work and you can enjoy!