Friday, October 30, 2009
Less than a week now
November 5 is the big day where we get to find out what we're having. We both are convinced it's a girl and have been trying to come up with girl names but cannot agree on any. So it'd better be a boy because we have names for that!
Friday, September 4, 2009
For those who don't know yet:
We're having a baby!
If you look very closely, you can see the arm.
We had our first sonogram yesterday and it was really amazing to see your little baby moving around down there. It was moving it's little arm like it was waving at us and it's little heart was fluttering at 176 bpm. It was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen and we're so excited!
Monday, August 17, 2009
Oregon '09
So Steven and I headed up to the Pacific Northwest for a week and got to see Steven's sister Deneal and our friends the Mitchell's!
Here we are on top of Mt. Spokane with a little boy we kidnapped. Just kidding. That's Lindsay and Patrick's cutie pie Nolan.
We tried to go camping here but all the sites were taken. Sad. But we cooked corn dogs over a fire and walked around a bit. It was cool. After that we went to a funpark place and played miniature golf, go carts and laser tag. Just so you know, laser tag is awesome!
After Spokane we headed over to Seattle. Above are some of the most delicious things I've ever had in my life called a pirohshky. Below is the Space needle!
One day while we were in Oregon we went over to the shore and went crabbing. 5 hours of crabbing and we caught 2 keeper crabs. We could only keep the males and they had to be bigger than 5.75 inches otherwise we had to toss it back. It was scary at first to try and pick them up but after a while we learned how to do it. Below is a video of Steven trying to grab out little crab which later became our dinner!
After the crabbing, we went to the beach and made a fire and boiled up some corn on the cob and ate our two little crabs.
Steven eating the son.
Walking along the beach.
On our drive home, Steven, Deneal and I stopped by a place called Punch Bowl Falls and hiked the 2 miles to the waterfalls. It was really beautiful.
We had a lot of fun and it was really nice to see our good friends. Patrick has such an awesome family who were so nice to us and let us crash at their place. Unfortunately we didn't take hardly any pictures while we were in Spokane, but oh well!
Here we are on top of Mt. Spokane with a little boy we kidnapped. Just kidding. That's Lindsay and Patrick's cutie pie Nolan.
We tried to go camping here but all the sites were taken. Sad. But we cooked corn dogs over a fire and walked around a bit. It was cool. After that we went to a funpark place and played miniature golf, go carts and laser tag. Just so you know, laser tag is awesome!
After Spokane we headed over to Seattle. Above are some of the most delicious things I've ever had in my life called a pirohshky. Below is the Space needle!
One day while we were in Oregon we went over to the shore and went crabbing. 5 hours of crabbing and we caught 2 keeper crabs. We could only keep the males and they had to be bigger than 5.75 inches otherwise we had to toss it back. It was scary at first to try and pick them up but after a while we learned how to do it. Below is a video of Steven trying to grab out little crab which later became our dinner!
After the crabbing, we went to the beach and made a fire and boiled up some corn on the cob and ate our two little crabs.
Steven eating the son.
Walking along the beach.
On our drive home, Steven, Deneal and I stopped by a place called Punch Bowl Falls and hiked the 2 miles to the waterfalls. It was really beautiful.
We had a lot of fun and it was really nice to see our good friends. Patrick has such an awesome family who were so nice to us and let us crash at their place. Unfortunately we didn't take hardly any pictures while we were in Spokane, but oh well!
Monday, July 20, 2009
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!
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!
Friday, June 19, 2009
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:
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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.
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.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
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!
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!
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