New Year's at the Needle!

Happy New Years everyone!

I hope you all had a SAFE and fantastic new year's eve and day.

I know Travis and I had blast.

We were trying to figure out what to do for new year's eve and couldn't think of anything. None of our friends were really doing anything. I think new years kind of caught everyone by surprise. I mean it did for us!

Anyway I've been in a romantic mood with Travis lately and I thought it would fun and romantic to spend the evening in Seattle and get a hotel. We did just that. I am not sure if you are familar with Seattle but there is the Space Needle. Every year they shoot fireworks right off the top. Travis said its very cool to watch.

In the car on the way to Seattle. What a goofball.

Travis and I in our hotel room before we trekked out to the Needle

Believe it or not it was raining in Seattle! But we had a blast non the less. Nothing could put a damper on our fun!

The needle look so cool! They strung lights around the needle at the top and it looked like a Christmas tree.

There were Christmas lights everywhere! I loved the way the needle looked behind the tree.

Here is the movie of the 10 second countdown. It was so neat. There weren't a lot of people there so we got a good view.

A continuation of the fireworks.

It was a perfect New Year's Eve.

Some Belated Utah Pictures

I went to Utah earlier this month and I have yet to post pictures from my wonderful trip.

Travis was unable to go, but it was nice for me to go and see my family. I hadn't seen them since August.

 

My Sweet little brother and I.

I can't believe he will be 13 in February! I was 8 years old when we adopted him. I can't believe how much he looks like all of us. 

 

My beautiful mom and brother.

We went out to eat at OutBack.

One of my favorite restuarants.

 

My mom's mom and her husband and my parents and I went out to Applebees for lunch before I left

I love my grandma and grandpa.

My gorgeous grandmother just battled pancreatic cancer and won!

She is one tough cookie!

 

My dad and I went out for Sushi.

Our favorite thing to do!
 

I love my mommy so much. 

She is the most beautiful and saintly woman I know.

She is my role model.

She is an amazing woman.

I hope I can be just as good of a mom she is to me.

I love my family,

They are beautiful.

Its only like the cutest movie ever...

I have officially found my new favorite Disney movie.




Its about this little German Shepard puppy, that goes on a search for his Person, after she's been kidnapped.

Won't give you any more info cause it'll spoil it but just know that I loved it! And its totally worth it to go see in the theater!





I honestly believe that they studied Charlie for this part. Their mannerism are so much a like.
I love it.




I saw it with my wonderful family over the weekend. I love them so much.
I am so glad I got to see them.

Somewhere Over the Distant Rainbows

Somewhere over the rainbows, there is a better life, a better circumstance.
But once we get over there will it really be better than what we are dealing with now?

Yes.

Granted the grass isn't always greener, but over my rainbows it is.

My rainbows are the cascades. Over the mountains and through the woods.
Where we are building our house.
Our future home.
Our new life.

Travis, Charlie ( our puppy) and I went over to our property this weekend to do some more work on our house. We finally got water and power. Its a slow process but its going to be so worth it.

We were worried about charlie coming with us, and not being a leash, but he was wonderful. He never went more than 20 feet from us the whole time! We are glad that we brought him. He is going to love all the freedom living out there.

Charlie was trying to help, Travis out. Very cute :D

We have a big D9 Cat over at the property. Its huge!  Charlie didn't like it too much. We were in the trailer when Travis rode past it and Charlie went crazy and started barking very angrily. We think he believes that its hurting Travis. He does the same thing with Travis' bike because its so loud.

Travis had some well deserved fun on top of the tower. I was getting a little nervous because it wasn't in the ground all the way. But I got some fun pictures out of it.

It was sad to come home. We wanted to quite our jobs and move out there on saturday.
Its hard to live here with his parents. We are treated like children.
But it'll be worth it, saving our money so we can have our house finished.
We just want the insantiy to end, now.

More patience. 
We'll get over our rainbows soon. 


A better life.
A better circumstance.

Long Days; Short Nights

Travis' parents were out town for almost two weeks. Oh it was so wonderful for Travis and I to get a break. Mary is so negative all the time, its hard to be around her. Anyway while they were away Travis was able to work on our mini speed boat we are restoring.

When we got it I was so worried because it looked like a lot of work; too much work if you ask me!
As you can see it needs a lot of work and time.








Travis finally got the bottom half painted. Oh it looks amazing! We had to take it apart to to able to paint it how we want.
My poor husband has painted that boat over 3 times to try and get it perfect. We don't have a painting booth here so he had to paint it in the garage. Needless to say that was a very bad idea. Bugs galore got into it, and the insulation fell into it as well. We had to sand off the paint and the shiny coat, twice. And the third time was a charm!

Travis and I both work during the day many times opposite schedules. He has the same schedule every day, 7-3:30. And I work crazy times. Most days I work 1:30-10:00. Its awful.
We never have the day together and our nights are much too short because he wants to go to bed soon after i get home from work at night.
I can't wait until we get our own place. We need it.

Dreams are like movies; Memories are Films About Ghosts

It is a rare occasion that Travis have days off together. Yesterday was one of those days. Since Travis' parents are out of town we decided to have some fun.
So Travis is restoring and hot rodding a old 55' GMC truck. Its going to look so amazing. Now many people don't this but 55' GMC's have hood birds. It is an amazing little car ornament:
Anyway he got it Chromed a few weeks ago and that was our first stop on our wonderful day. It turned out awesome. ( this is not the actual picture of ours)
After we picked up the misc. chrome pieces we decieded to go to Seattle. It was such a wonderful day (sunny but cold), nice enough to go walking around Pike Place Market.
I have never seen any place so adorable. What a wonderful place! I have never seen so many cute and quant shops. We definalty didn't have time to look at them all. But I know we will be back.We walked around for a few hours and then I saw it! The infamous fish throwers! Haha They weren't throwing any fish when I took the pictures but it was neat to see them all there.




Since Pike Place closed at 6 we needed to find a place to eat. After staring at all the fish booths all day, we were both in the mood for Sushi. I hadn't been looking for places to eat, but Travis had been ( thank goodness for his stomach) and he saw a lovely Japanese and Sushi restaruant.
Dinner was wonderful! We were stuffed!
When we left the restaruant it was raining....a day in Seattle would not be complete without rain.
We were grateful that it did not rain earlier.

Our day was wonderful. I love my husband.

Honeymoon :D

So I know its been a while since our honeymoon but I know some of you wanted to see pictures.


Travis and I had a wonderful honeymoon. We cruised down Highway 101 through oregon and northern california. We had so much fun. We stayed in a bed and breakfast in Seaside oregon called The Gilbert Inn:

After that we went to Cannon Beach. I've never seen ANYTHING like it. You should've seen me hang out the window in the blazer like a little kid seeing christmas morning for the first time!

After that we went sit seeing on our way down to our next stop :D

This was our next stop. Camping! This picture was taken just a stroll away from our campsite. We had so much fun!Then we saw a sign for a "walk-through safari" and I looked at Travis and he said that we had time to do that! So here are a few of the wonderful pictures from that safari.

I got to hold a baby black panther. It was so cute!

This is a baby wallaby! It felt like a baby rabbit!
Our next camping spot was in the middle of the redwood forest. It was called Grizzly creek. It was so amazing.