Happy Valentines Day

day of looooooooove.
but really, we should show people love everyday, not just today!

anyways, i had to work until about 4pm - jeremy spent the day having lunch with his mom and preparing to make dinner for me :)  he smoked salmon in his giant smoker he got for christmas {see middle pic above} made salad and asparagus. we also had delicious oregon red wine, bread with olive oil and vinegar and see's candy for dessert! it was nice to sit down and enjoy a good meal together at home - the cutter looked on waiting for any scraps of course!

Wedding Update 1

Well, here it is, the first blog about our upcoming wedding!  Yes I will almost for sure be creating a separate wedding website hosted by The Knot or some other free site - but I figure I can do my little by little updating on here :)   Maybe no one cares, but at least then I can look back and see the timeline and how things progressed for myself.

Dates to know so far: 

Engagement = Christmas Day, December 25

Dress bought = January 8th; Mom, Laurie, Oriana and Milena present.

Yup, I already have my dress!  No we have not picked a date or venue, shoot we have not even picked a season yet. We are leaning towards just doing it this summer, possibly early July, so that we can have Jeremy's little brother Matthew in attendance for sure (he is graduating from the USMA in June and we don't know where he will be stationed and when he will be available after July).  So back to the dress :)  I tried on 2 dresses, LOVED the first one, but then put on number 3 and realized that was it.  Just to see I tried on another one kinda similar to #3 but no go... After putting it back on and dressing it up a bit with earrings, a veil, a sash and some "bling" I knew it was the one - mom cried so I guess she knew it was too! It is beautiful, and I can't wait for Jeremy to see me walk down the aisle in it.  <3

Stay tuned, more to come....

Christmas Joy

WE'RE ENGAGED~!

it was a fabulous christmas day. more to come soon :)

Happy Thanksgiving.

I'm thankful for....
  -family
  -friends
  -love
  -Cutter
  -steady jobs
  -warm apt
  -health

(and so so much more).

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.  

~John Fitzgerald Kennedy~

i prepared some pumpkin spice muffins... 

checking out the black friday ad's thursday morning... 

and this is just the appetizers! 

Pictures from Previous Blog Post

See previous blog post for story.... 

Rest stop! 

Mmm. 

My boys.

This seagull like never left that spot - even when it was pouring!

The special basket of goodies for Cutter

Happy Birthday Jeremy!

Jeremy turned 28 a few weeks ago - to celebrate we had a little get together at Buffalo Wild Wings. It was kind of last minute, so we were both really pleased with how many people showed up. It was great to see some of Jeremys good friends from Forest Grove come out our way to celebrate!  And hot wings and beer are always great too :)

The weekend before the dinner we headed out to the coast (surprise surprise right?). I had been wanting to spend a few nights in Cannon Beach since it had been quite a while since we had been there.  We ended up only staying one night, but it was awesome.  I found a really nice beach front hotel, did some research & got a really sweet deal - ok so it helped that it's winter and a Sunday night, but still, I was happy. Cutter was happy too because he got to come along, and the hotel even had a special basket of goodies waiting for him when we arrived!  

Seaside was our first stop, we browsed a few shops and walked around for a while - Cutter at one point deciding he really had to poop, and proceeded to do so RIGHT ON THE SIDEWALK.  After that we figured it was time to move on to our final destination!

The hotel in Cannon Beach was up on a hill, and right as we drove up I knew it was a good decision. Like I mentioned before they had a gift basket of dog stuff for us right when we got there, which of course I thought was very cool.  When we walked into our room the first thing you noticed was Haystack Rock righhhhhht there. The room had a big window and sliding glass door to a balcony and seriously directly in front of us was the giant Haystack Rock.  Our timing was great, sunset was just starting. If you know me you know I'm a little obsessed with sunsets - I immediately dropped my stuff and went to deck to enjoy it. We opened a beer to share and just relaxed while the sun set next to Haystack.  I did take a few pictures, but I wanted to just enjoy the beauty too so tried not to focus on that. We later went out to dinner and then came back to play some board games and shared some yummy champagne. Oh, I forgot to mention the adorable and warm fireplace in our room - so we got to enjoy the sunset next to the fire. Perfection, no?  

The next morning Jeremy ventured out in the pouring rain to get us some coffee and muffins. The rain slowly stopped and we went down to the beach (Cutter was dying to get out there!) and let the kid play... he mostly just ran after birds and dug holes, but it's always fun to watch how happy he gets.

*I keep getting server errors from Blogger when I try to upload pictures so look for a pictures only post later...

Happy Halloween!

We spent the weekend down in Corvallis at the Oregon State football game!   The beavs easily won the game, and the rain stayed away for the most part..  Later that night Jeremy and I had a little too much fun - apparently we thought we were still college kids ;)  Ah well, we had great costumes and a great time.