Monday, September 29, 2008

End of Summer, Beginnings to Fall

I seem to be lacking in the blog world. Work eats up much of my time these days. I am not sure who all knows that I am now our Department Manager at my work:) It definitely keeps me busy. So, we have been doing lots of fun things lately. We have a Monday night dinner and the girls made gold, copper, and silver painted pumpkins. They are perfect for Autumn. I haven't had time to take a picture yet:) Hopefully in a future blog. We went to seaside with Anne and Joe for a nice relaxing time at the beach home.

We had our sixth month anniversary for our marriage on Sept. 1. Nick brought me home these flowers:)
He also took me to Palomino and we had a delicious dinner! We went to the Rose Garden where our first date and where Nick proposed:) Here is a pic of us at the Rose Garden.
Beautiful Roses! I was having fun with the Macro setting on our camera and took a pic of our rings, which look pretty dirty, but I still like 'em;)

Labor Day weekend we went camping at Beverly Beach with Athey Creek. It was a blast! We had a campsite with Chad & Amy, Charles & Sarah, and Mitch & Christine. It was couples fun! It only sprinkled a little at night, thank goodness. We had roaring fires lit by a torch each night thanks to Chad:)



Nick and I had so much fun! It was our first camping trip together:)




It was fun to hang out with the sis too! The sunsets were beautiful, and Nick of course brought his LAX sticks and played around with the men!




So mid-September we had my cousin's wedding in Southern Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Austin Anderson;) It was so enjoyable, and it was amazing to get to see my family since I don't see them very often. We also were able to spend time with Matt & Lisa Hammonds.



The cupcakes were so cute! They had one giant cupcake too!

Of course Mom and I had to get pictures. And by of course I mean I made mom take a picture, or two, or three with me:)

They had these cute little gift boxes with their names and the date on it!

Then about, I think, two weekends ago, we went to Seaside with Joe & Anne which was amazing! It was so fun to hang out with another couple especially them! They are so dear to us. We left Friday evening and stayed until Sunday. It was absolutely glorious. We had fun walking on the beach with the dogs and just chilling watching TV. Oh and falling asleep in the middle of the day;)
Here are pics of Nick and Joe stretching, hehe.




Oh and of course a pic of Anne and me. It was so fun Sunday we came back and got pedi's and mani's.
She is definitely the BEST "big" anyone could ask for and I love her to pieces. I am very glad now that we are married we plan on raising children together.... someday! :)

This last weekend we went to Derek Barth's for the Presidential Debates. It was nothing less than interesting. Our men, Sel and I, and their friends love to discuss items. Now this can be architecture, science, religion, or politics. They truly follow the verse as iron sharpens iron. I love hearing their thorough discussions of whatever topic of choice. In fact, Selena and myself enjoyed ourselves this much...



No but we seriously did enjoy the debate, but we were soo pooped. The men are below listening to their questions so they can pause TIVO discuss each President's answer and move on;) Our debate attentiveness is below, hehe. I don't know why I can't get that picture bigger without blurs.



So Selena was doing her "cleanse" right. I always wish I had the willpower to do something like this, but I am too much of a glutton and cry and get grumpy without food. Here is her "mocktail" I like to call a "Cleansetail"... SICK!

I am happy to announce she didn't suffer long as Sunday at Julia's Bday party the "Roller Diva" had some pizza:)



Aust did a photo shoot and Sel is the product so she is all dolled up with crazy make-up. The other pic above is of Austie and Selena being those sultry and sassy sis's they are;)



The guys of course had to play air hockey. They definitely had a lot of fun. I came to take a few pics and realized it was a little too intense for me.



I, of course as always, tortured Nick and made him take some pictures with me. One happy, one serious...grrr!



Poppa Jones is so adorable with his little Ava. Oh and please believe the roller diva was all over the rink and I am sad I didn't get better pics of her in action. Selena had some stiff competition once the rink opened up to the public. An old man about sixty brought his moves to the floor and of course Selena was there to cheer him on and he was definitely showing off for the hot roller diva!



Julia is so adorable. It was her 30th bday party at Skate World. So a bunch of us hit the rink full force eating pizza, cake, and skating like we were from the seventies:) Here is one last pic of us before leaving.



Sorry the post is so long! I need to get a bloggin' a bit more. All is wonderful in married life and we look forward to seeing the 'Bama fam come Thanksgiving! I will definitely blog that with probably too many pics;)