What have we been doing?????

What have we been doing? I noticed I have not blogged in quite sometime and thought you all might be wondering where we have gone to...well we have been busy. The snow is finally gone and we are getting ready for Spring. Our big project this Spring/early Summer is to put on a new deck. We are going to make a larger deck out of the Rhino Decking and are very excited. We enjoy being outside and think this will be a wonderful, low maintenance addition.

Andy just returned from Portland (thanks girls for catching up...Andy said he had a wonderful time) on a business trip. So far he has gone to China, Vancouver Canada, and now Portland. He enjoys traveling and says it gives him alittle variety to the job. I also posted the photo of his car as he is turning it back over to the summer car...lower, nicer wheels and tires, etc. We love this car.

I have been busy looking at the yard; actually I was able to pick a few weeds. I am so anxious to get out and work in it. I love Spring time. I am still loving my job and the people I work for and with. My other big exciting event this Fall is that I am a "matron of honor" in my friend Amanda's wedding (see her below). I worked with her at one of the hospitals here in Spokane and we have since become amazing friends. We spent this past weekend shopping for dresses and as you can see the one below is for the bridesmaids. Her dress is amazing; I didn't want to post that photo as there is a slim chance her fiance may see this. Our dresses are going to be a dark blue/gray.

We are doing well. Thank you for all the phone calls and emails. We love you all very much.

Giving Thanks

"May kindness return to you in the same beautiful way that is was given"

I just wanted to write and thank all my friends and family for the wonderful cards and phone calls on my birthday. I really appreciated hearing from you. Thank you for making my 28 a special day.

Weekend Entertainment

This is kind of a silly post, but we have had so much entertainment this weekend. We have gotten TONS of snow this year...more than I can remember in a long time. Well this past weekend it has warmed up and with it lots of melting. Our street is horrible to drive on if you do not have 4-wheel or AWD. The snow/slush is about 8-12 inches deep (hard to tell in photo), and as you can see many are having trouble. I think this is the tenth vehicle in about 12 hours that has gotten stuck. Last night Andy went out twice, once with his tow rope, to help people out. One thing it has provided is much entertainment. We found ourselves shouting last night "don't stop, don't stop"...crazy folks we are. Anyway this is as good as it gets for now...the snow has slowed our life to work and movies lately. I am so thankful it is melting now though and on to Spring.

New Camera

Andy gave me an amazing camera for Christmas and even with all the snow I have been trying to learn all the features. It is sure fun taking photos and has been a great distraction from all the studying. Here are some of our (yes, Andy is really enjoying it too) photos.

What a busy Christmas

We hope you all had a very wonderful holiday. We spent time in Colville, Vancouver, and here in Spokane. Thank you all for the wonderful gifts and cards. I think we most enjoyed the time we were able to spend with everyone over this Christmas. Here are a few of the photos from our outings.

Here is Kim, Hadley, and Ethan after they stamped each other with some stamps from Christmas (Notice how red Hadley's cheeks are). Andy and I got quite a laugh out of this, the mom's on the other hand did not find the same humor in it.

Brinkley stayed in with us while Andy and I opened gifts. We put all the ribbons on her.

Anna and Kim being funny girls.

My cute parents.

Beautiful Sarah.

Christmas Cookies

I have spent the last two days baking and I love it in my new kitchen. There is so much more room for doing this sort of thing. I make cookies for each of the hospitals I work at. This year I made sugar cookies, fudge, peppermints, cornflake wreaths, Irish cream brownies, and raspberry ribbons. Andy even helped a little when I needed help pouring and etc. What was great was that on Sunday as I was finishing it started to snow again. I hope they like it all.

Crazy Snow

We woke up Sunday morning to these lovely tracks in our GRASS...not to mention they were only feet from Andy's truck. Looks like someone got a little carried away in the new snow or simply misjudged the corner. Well I guess it gives me something to look forward to in the Spring.

We thought Oscar should join in the fun as we were clearing snow. We usually take him out once a Winter so this was it. We have gotten about 3 more inches since the first snow fall and this one was perfect snow for building snowmen and etc. Oscar enjoyed it for about 10 seconds and than off he ran to the house.