Welcome Welcome!

Wow!

Thank you SITS for the letting me have the spotlight for one day.

For those of you joining me for the first time, welcome!
I have been absent for a while, many things going on with my life.

Catch up here:
Buying a Yacht

Read about our family here:
Charlie
One Year
The Love Story

But please stick around there should be more to come in about a month.


What a happy day.

Wordless Wednesday

Its high time I began this tradition. 

One Year Ago...

One year ago, it was the best day of my life.

I had the time of my life.




I got married to my best friend.



They say the first year is the hardest.

I think we made it without a hitch.

If we can survive living with in-laws for over a year I believe we can survive anything.



Yesterday we celebrated our anniversary a day early since Travis has to work today.

I live in Puget Sound Washington and there are so many islands I have been dying to go to. Yesterday Travis surprised me with a Ferry Ride from Tacoma to Vashon Island! We have been thinking of actually moving to Vashon so we wanted to check it out.

I think we actually covered the whole island on his bike! We went down all the back roads side roads, beach access roads. We had a blast.


For lunch we wanted to cruise around town and find a local hot spot. And boy did we! Vashon is very much a hippie town. I spotted this restaurant on the side of the road called The Monkey Tree. I really just liked the name. So we walked in and we were handed a Menu. Travis and I were looking through it and realized there were no entres with meat!
I had picked a Vegetarian restaurant!

I was a little sceptic I had never eated a full vegetarian meal. But I ordered a Roasted Fig and Gorgonzola Grilled Sandwhich.


It was amazing! I had never had anything so good! Travis was more like a breakfast meal. He liked mine better. I couldn't finish mine so he had the rest. After that meal, we decieded we could be vegetarian! It filled us up but didn't weigh us down!

After lunch we cruised around a lot. It was a so much fun!

Around 7 we headed back to Tacoma to have some dinner then watch the fireworks at 10. We took a long and relaxing dinner to try and kill some time before the festivities.

Our lunch was better.



The fireworks were amazing. They were shot off a barge in the middle of the Sound!

Monday Musings of a Manic Mind

I can not believe that I haven't posted in over a month.

Wow...

I am a terrible blogger.

I'll get better. Just as soon as we are moved into the boat.

Which will hopefully be next month.

I've been sick this weekend...

No no no not the swine flu..just a cold

But Here are some manic mind musings.

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I know many of you want an update on what we've been doing.

Its been a lot!

Many of which you can't see, but for the stuff that you can see. Here are some pictures.

 

This is what the wind shield and top looked like before we painted it and put a new top on it. 

 

  

Here are the after pictures. We had a lot of problems with the paint and the polishing of the aluminum on the sides.

But it's finally done!

 

This is the teak wood on the outside of the boat. We had to take it off and seal it underneath because it was causing leaks on the inside.

But we got it sanded. It was a really dark grey color before we sanded it.

Oh and don't mind Charlie.. haha

 

This is one coat of varnish. It looks so good! 

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We brought Charlie down to the boat with us. He had so much fun. 

I also had fun with my camera. 

 

  

  

  

He is my buddy. Travis thinks he loves me more than him now. 

Nah.. but he does love me. 

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I am not sure if any of you have come across this problem

but I can not vent on my blog like I would like to.

I have family members and friends and even co workers like read my blog.

But I had this great idea...make an anyonmous blog

that anyone can vent on.

If you would like to participate please e-mail me.

blog_chick88@hotmail.com

If you want to be a publisher you can contact me there. 

Or if you would like to just write me a vent post you can do so too.

I am not sure how this will go over, but who knows.. it may become popular

http://ventlifeblog.blogspot.com/

let me know what you think... is it a good idea?

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I hope you all had a wonderful mother's day.

I am only a mom of a cute little puppy. 

But I love my mom so much. 

 

I love that woman so much. 

She is amazing. I truly hope I can be just like here when I have kids.

She is my best friend. She always has been.

The Engagement Story- MHRF

It's that time again!

To dive a little deeper into my love story.

I love this blog Carnival.

It makes me so happy.





Today I will tell you about Travis and mine's engagement story.
Its actually kind of funny with a very romantic twist.

I was going to school up at BYU-Idaho at the time Travis and I were dating. He lived in Utah and he would travel to see me at least every other week.
I know what a sweetie huh?

It was the beginning of December and he had just recently quite his job at CycleGear. He was trying to find some work and had a friend that could get him some construction jobs on the side until he found something.

Now this weekend I begged him to come, I was having a rough time up at school and I needed my honey. He told me that he would try but made no guarantees because of the work he might be getting.

At the last minute he called me and said Spud didn't have any work for that weekend so he could come up and see me. I was so excited.
I hadn't seen him in like two or three weeks.

He came up, in the snow and the ice.

He got there early in the morning on Friday morning.
So I skipped all my classes and we spent the day in Idaho Falls.
Idaho Falls had the mall and all the restaurants. It was about 30 minutes from my school.

We went to the mall and we actually spent over 6 hours in the book store.
It was an amazing 6 hours. We read joke books and the LOLcat books.
And books about Nirvina.
It was a fantastic day.
Then, he got a call while we were giggling and browsing.
He didn't tell me who called at first.
He just asked me if I was hungry.

Of course I was!

We found the best Japanese place right by the mall and had wonderful sushi.




At dinner he told me who called.
It was Spud.
He had a job for him to do and he needed him there for the next morning.
I was heartbroken. I had only got to be with him for day.
Granted it was a fantastic day but it was only one day when I hadn't seen him in 2 or 3 weeks.

He told me that he was sorry, but he had to go.
He drove me back to the dorms.
Kissed me goodbye and he was off.

It was a blizzard outside. I was so nervous for him to go.

Now since the semester was almost over at school we had white glove inspection.
I had neglected my duties for cleaning because I had been out with Travis.
I had to go and be cinderella and clean the bathroom.
I was so angry.
I had to scrub the floor, the toliets and the tub.
It had been over an hour since Travis had left and I still wasn't done.


Then one of my roomates came in and said that she had to use the bathroom.
I was furious! Really? She wanted to use the bathroom after I had scrubbed it?

I wasn't in the mood to agrue so I went and sat myself down on the couch to mope some more.

When there was a knock on our door.

I opened it.

And there was Travis standing in the snow.

I was speechless.

He said, I am tired of saying goodbye.
Then he got down on one knee.
And asked me to be his wife.

I jumped on him and said yes.
Travis then asked me if I had forgotten something..

I had forgotten to put my ring on.
I didn't care about the ring
I had him.

I was overjoyed.

My roommates had been in on it the whole time. 
She had planned to go into the bathroom at that time so I would have to answer the door. 


What a smart man...