Honeymoon

I recently came across the memory card from the camera Steven had for the first week of our marriage. It reached it's tragic demise in the shallows of the Atlantic Ocean just off the shore of Maine. These are it's final pictures:

This is the little cottage we stayed in. It was so cute and we really enjoyed staying there. For pictures of the interior click here and you can take a virtual tour and everything as we did not get any pictures ourselves of the inside.


The harbor of Camden, ME and a very large yacht


We went for a bike ride one day that took us back around Camden then all along the coastline where there were some really beautiful houses.


This was one of our stops on our bike ride. It's called the Children's Chapel and it had really beautiful gardens all around it and it overlooks the water. A lot of people get married there which would be really lovely.



One day we went sailing on a schooner which was also the final voyage of our camera.


Steven looks so nautical.



We sailed to an island a ways off shore where we had a lobster dinner. This picture I find just so adorable. The little boy was on the schooner with us and the kitten lives on the island and begs bits of lobster from tourists.


Dinner. Between the two of us, Steven and I ate 5 lobsters in their entirety that night. They were amazing.





And the final picture our camera ever took before it fell off the railing it was sitting on into the water:

Steven actually stripped off his shirt and jumped in and retrieved it. He had a very chilly sailride back to mainland. It's hard to believe that it's been close to 2 years since that wonderful trip. We hiked, ate a LOT of seafood, looked around all the cute little villages, biked, sailed, golfed, and watched a few movies. It may forever be my favorite vacation not just because I did so many fun things in a place I love but because of the person I got to do them all with!

Trip to Californ-i-a

So last month for Memorial Day weekend, Steven and I went on a trip to southern California with our good friends Brianna and Wade Siddoway. We went to Disneyland, some beaches, San Diego Zoo and had a lot of fun. So here's some pictures in no particular order:

21 Things I Like and Don't Like About My Job

There are days when I truly love my job and then days where I just hate it. So I've decided to make a list of all the thing I like and don't like about it here. Maybe in the end I'll see if it's truly worth being here or not.

1. I love the apple trees right outside the windows. Especially right now in the spring with the pretty red and white flowers budding on them. We get little birds nests as well so I can just listen to the little twitter or them while I work.

2. I hate that my boss hums dumb little songs while he walks around the building.

3. I love shredding documents.

4. I love that I'm the only one who knows how to make the copy machine work. Everyone has to ask me to copy stuff for them because when they try, it doesn't work and they get angry because it is such a crappy old machine. I take a small, kind of pathetic pride in the fact that I alone seem to have mastered that copier.

5. I hate that I smell like iodine when I go home.

6. I hate people with accents that call in. I CAN'T UNDERSTAND THEM!!!

7. I love telling people with accents to just e-mail someone or fax stuff in.

8. I love hanging up on sales people. I love even more when they call back and say "I think we were disconnected" and I get to hang up on them again.

9. I like my co-workers. I'm the only girl here so I just get to hang out and joke around with guys all day. They all have a dirty sense of humor, so I rarely have to worry about going over the line of appropriateness as they can take everything SO much further than I can and thus, I don't need to worry about embarrassing myself. Secondly with them, it is so much fun when 4 or 5 of us go out to lunch. We end up being gone for close to 2 hours on those occasions, and we just talk and laugh pretty much the ENTIRE time. I love those days.

10. I like that we can watch movies while we label or tighten bottles. It's relaxing and when the UPS or FedEx guys come by they think we've got a great job because we're all sitting around a conference table laughing.

11. I hate that we have to tighten bottles by hand. I've had horrible blisters from it as we've had to tighten 20,000 bottles per batch every few months.

12. I love that I can tell people that I work at a laboratory. They all think I'm some kind of scientist or chemist and that I'm really smart.

13. I hate telling people that I'm only the receptionist about 5 seconds after they think I'm really smart.

14. I hate that other people use my bathroom. Boys smell bad, thus the bathroom I use also smells bad.

15. I hate the color of the walls. Who thought seafoam green would be a good color for the tiles all over the building. Plus, we have dark green shower curtains in our windows. Very classy.

16. I love when someone who has never been in our building before comes in. We don't get many people coming in and out of our building that aren't delivery guys or FedEx reps. So it's just so funny to see the look on people's faces when they look around our building at our lovely seafoam green walls, green shower curtains, boxes of who knows what lying everywhere, and shelves of binders. Plus, we usually aren't very friendly for some reason as we never expect people here. I never greet these people. Just stare at them until they start talking to me. It's great.

17. I hate that the water in our faucets isn't drinkable. There's always little black floaties in it so I avoid it.

18. I love that my boss has Tums on hand. There's nothing worse than getting the rumblies in the tummy that can only mean one thing and guys use your bathroom. Talk about embarrassing. Those Tums have saved me more than once.

19. I hate how many paper cuts I get. I fold lots of invoices and past due statements so I tend to get a lot of paper cuts.

20. I hate my printer. With a passion. There's some gear inside of it that squeaks like crazy. I had to print of 60 catalogs not that long ago and we had to take the printer into a different room to print them off because we were all going nuts from the squeaking. When I leave here, I would love to take that printer with me and murder it.

21. And lastly I figured I should end this on a good note. One of my very favorite things about my job that I often get plenty of bubble wrap to pop. I do the receiving of all our incoming orders which includes unpacking them and putting them away. Sometimes things come wrapped in bubble wrap and I get to pop it all I want. Today, I even got in a package with the giant bubbles!

Looking back over my list I guess that all in all it's not too bad of a place to work in the end.

My project

So our kitchen has pretty much no counter space and our microwave took up the majority of what we do have. So I really wanted to microwave cart to clear up some space and us the empty wall we have. I found one I really loved at TJMaxx but it was $140. I searched far and wide and eventually I found this little ugly duckling at the DI.

Before:


This is Guster enjoying it before I got it all painted up.


After:



I took one of the doors that had been on the bottom and made it be a swing down door. I sanded, primed, drilled, stained, painted and top coated everything myself. I'm very proud of it and it ended up costing me around $40 so I saved a good $100 in the end and I love it so much more!

Day of Skiing!

Steven had spring break from school this week and we ended up working fulltime everyday but yesterday. We decided to have a long weekend and we went skiing all day yesterday at Snow Basin with my father-in-law. Here are some pictures of the fun!

This is the top of Snow Basin looking out across the valley.

My father-in-law

My father in law again in his other coat. It was such a nice day he had to trade to a lighter weight coat.

Me in my get up.


This is a little video of my ski skills. I'm not the first person but the second. The first person is much better than I am!

Tis the time for the season of loving

Well it was recently the season of love and we had Valentine's Day. We ended up going to Park City with 3 other couples. We shopped around the town, ate a a cute cafe that had the BEST gyros I've ever had. We then stayed at our friend Callie's grandparents cabin a little ways a way from Park City. We had so much fun there playing in the snow and sledding in the morning. Her grandparents were really cool and a lot of fun to talk to. We unfortunately are terrible at taking pictures and have none to post. Sorry we're so lame! However, last weekend I got into a huge cleaning mood and rearranged out whole house. I made our quilt box fit into our bedroom and here is how it looks:




With it as always is the Gusterman. And last but not least, I got glasses. So here's a picture of me with my new look. I realize my neck looks really fat in this picture, but that's just because of the way my hair is hanging. I don't normally have a steroid neck.

Around Our House

This is our cute house. We have finally uploaded pictures over the last few months and are throwing a few on here!



Our front stoop during the fall and Guster sniffing around.

Guster in the leaves.

Me in our kitchen making Christmas Mushrooms.



Our Christmas decor.

A lap blanket I made this last year. It took me a while to buy all the yarn. It's not perfect, but I like the imperfections. They make it look cooler I think.


A bookshelf I got from my work. I recovered almost all the shelves in old vintage wallpaper that can be better seen in the below picture.



Those two above are of an antique quilt box we got for Christmas from Steven's Aunt. It matches our headboard perfectly but, unfortunately, our bedroom is too small to get it at the foot of the bed. Someday when we have our own place we'll be able to get it all together and it'll look like a cute country bedroom.


This windowbox is Guster's favorite haunt in the summer where we can watch birds and bees in the apple tree just outside and get lots of sun. I love that that couch fit in there so perfectly. It's a great place on summer days to lie and read and take Sunday naps. It's too cold in the winter because of all the windows.

Last but not least, my cute little hubby working away on his homework. Isn't he just darling?