{Cookie Monster}

My husband is many things, loving, caring, funny, and thoughtful, but he is also a cookie monster. He consumes approximately 6 cookies and 1 glass of milk every night. He consumes his cookies in bed, and every morning I have to clean up cookie crumbs! I think it's hilarious that he enjoys his cookies so much! Last night he insisted that we stop for cookies on our way home from the chiropractor because he didn't think there were enough for his nightly snack. That's all we bought, because I had gone to Trader Joe's the night before! The funniest thing about his cookie obsession is that he is the thinnest man I know! He couldn't gain a pound if he wanted to! I only wish I had that problem!

{Are you ok, Mother Nature?}

For the last week it has felt like Fall in the Pacific Northwest! It has been in the sixties during the day and in the forties or fifties at night! Oh my gosh, this is so depressing! It's almost Summer and we're experiencing Fall like weather! No barbecues, sitting in the sun, ice cream, playing outside, bike rides, or outside adventures for us! So what are we doing? We're sitting inside with our furnace on, bundled up in sweatshirts while wishing for warmer weather!

Picture from our last visit to Cabo, where it was hot!

{Big Dreams}

As a child I had big dreams, such as, becoming an Olympic gymnast, owning a forest-green-Eddie Bauer Edition Ford Explorer (I was a weird kid), being a tennis player for the CUTE clothes, and being able to walk on my hands instead of my feet all day long. Anyways, as I age (I'll be a quarter of a century old in 350 days), my dreams have changed. Now I want to be a runner. The crazy thing is that this love runs deeper than just wanting the cute running clothes (don't worry that's what my family asked first). I think the idea of a toned body, healthy hobby and stress reliever of the sport are drawing my attention. I have always been somewhat athletic up until the month after our wedding. Growing up I was a gymnast and worked out 3-4 times per week for 3 hours each time! I had a six pack in junior high school before the boys did! Then I quit, and I tried to find different activities to fill my time, but that didn't really work. When we became engaged I joined a gym and worked out 5 times a week to make sure I would look good in my size 4 wedding dress. That was a success! After the wedding I was too busy, but joined the gym off and on for years. Today, I am not a member of a gym. After we moved out of our last apartment, which had a gym, I decided that I would try and exercise outside. This sounds like a good plan to get in shape without spending money, but living in the rainiest place in the US it has been hard. As summer quickly approaches I am hoping to be able to run outside. Last night I ran a whopping 1 mile through our neighborhood. I literally pulled our little chihuahua, Bella the entire mile. Anyways that is my long explanation of how I'm trying to become a runner and I hope to document my success!

{Opps I did it again}

*Well, well, well, I did it again....I waited entirely too long in between updating this poor little blog. Since I've neglected the blog so much over the past few months, I decided a makeover was in order; what do you think?

*I'm on break this week from school but I return on Monday to begin Summer quarter.

*I am very happy with my grades from Spring quarter (3.6,3.9,4.0) which won me a spot on the Dean's List again!

*I have been working hard around the house finishing up little projects, so far I've: painted the interior side of the front door white, touched up all of the white trim, touched up paint throughout the house, fixed caulking in kitchen & bath, helped pressure wash the deck/patio/driveway and helped pull weeds!

*Today I can't think of anything that needs to be done around the house (or maybe I'm just being lazy after being so productive the last few day).

*The golden thing in the sky showed up on Saturday and stayed until yesterday afternoon. Today, I've only seen him briefly, which is so depressing since it's June!

*I've taken some great 'after' pictures of the house, but I need help posting them...sometimes I can't do anything on my own.

Anyways, I think that's all I have to say for now! Hopefully I'll be back soon with some juicy pictures of our new house (can I still call the house new, even though we closed in September of LAST year?!)...