Impressed!

I came home from work tonight to the wonderful smell of Blackberry Grunt. And it's delish. And even better, it was made by Joe! He even made homemade vanilla ice cream to go with it!!

I can't forget to mention that he also grocery shopped and mowed the yard today on his day off instead of riding his motorcycle everywhere. I'm impressed. And a little surprised. And I'm not going to lie, I don't really know what to think! All I can hope is that he keeps this behavior up! :)

Here's the recipe for Blackberry Grunt. So good!

Sick!

The pictures above are from a house that's for sale in Longview. Are you kidding me? The marketing remarks say it's a "bit of a fixer upper." I think it would look totally different if these people took a day to clean up all of their crap! Do people really live in messes like this? It makes me stressed just looking at it!

I was stressed about not having energy to clean as much as I would've liked tonight until I saw these. Our house looks spotless compared to these!

Think the owners of this 'fixer upper' should take a little time to clean? Make it a little more marketable perhaps? Geez.

Camping extravaganza

This past weekend we went camping at Cresap Bay at Lake Merwin. It was a perfect weekend! Sophie was a great little camper. It was so much fun spending the weekend with her. Her personality is really starting to shine through. She makes my heart melt!

The only real complaint she had was when we went boating. She was not happy with her life vest. We couldn't blame her though, it was like a straight jacket. Needless to say she didn't last on the boat long!

Can't wait for next year!

I love her!

One month!

One month from today I'll be a Mrs! I'm trying to stay cool, calm and collected but waking up this morning I felt like I'd been hit by a truck..........ONE MONTH! I'm so excited, it's just the fact that I feel we have so much to accomplish between now and then. How will we ever get it done!? When Joe proposed last September and we picked a date, I felt that I had so much time to have everything totally perfect. Now I feel like I'm scrambling to get everything done. I've always worked best under pressure but I wish I wasn't feeling so stressed right now.

And for any soon-to-be-brides out there, take my advice and don't spend hours looking at pictures on sites like projectwedding.com. We've made most of our decisions already, but after looking at some of these amazing weddings, I start to change my mind and over analyze everything. I'm getting ready to put Joe to work on several projects. He's more than willing, I just hope he knows what he's in for... :)

If I don't blog much between now and September 12, I think you'll all know why.

4 years!

Four years ago today, in the parking lot of Safeway in Pullman, Joe and I "officially" started dating. We had gone for our nightly McDonald's ice cream run and decided that we really liked each other and should probably put a title to being our together 24/7. It's hard to believe it's been four years! We've been through more than most people will ever have to go through and he's been by my side and been supportive throughout everything. He's amazing. I'm so happy that a month from tomorrow we'll be walking down the aisle. I love you, Joe!

Almost Friday!

TGIF!

We had a wonderful weekend in the San Juans last weekend. It took us 6 hours to get to Anacortes on Friday but once we got there Jack picked us up on the boat and took us to the island. The island was very quaint. No stores, no paved roads.....only way to get there is by boat or airplane via the grass runway. :) It was great to spend time with everyone though. They caught about 80 Dungeness crabs and I'm proud to say I cracked my first ever crab. I think everyone was in disbelief that I'd never done that before. First time for everything! Then Uncle Jack made the best crab cakes EVER. He is an amazing cook!

Today we had our tasting at the golf course. The food was amazing and it was fun to be able to get a sneak peak at what our meal will be like. Can't wait!

Looking forward to a relaxing weekend. The calm before the storm! Kim's birthday is tomorrow, Joe's going to his brothers bachelor party on Saturday (he decided to get married in Vegas 2 weeks from now) and I plan on getting stuff done here. Can't wait to mark more stuff off of the list!

Have a great weekend!