I love her!

Kim and George got Joe a face/butt towel as one of his gifts! George and I think it's disgusting that Joe and my sister reuse their towels so this is a perfect solution for them. If you're going to reuse your towel at least you aren't wiping your face with the same part you wiped your butt! I still think it's gross though. Not to mention, I HATE seeing used towels hanging in the bathroom, it looks messy. This is an on-going battle in our house! :)

Didn't buy that Subaru yesterday. Still waiting to get my special 'employee' price. I have a feeling they'd rather not sell it discounted and wait a few weeks until someone comes along and is willing to pay sticker. We shall see.

Happy Wednesday! 2 more days until the weekend!!

I'm going to be...

....an aunt again! Yep, that's right, my sister is having another baby. JUST KIDDING. Joe's baby brother is having a baby. He announced it when we were up there on Saturday. He didn't act too excited, kinda scared, but I'm sure it will all change when a baby is screaming in his face! Joe and I now have more time to sit back and enjoy being aunt and uncle before jumping on the baby bandwagon. Until then, we're savoring every moment as a family of 3. Life wont be as easy when we can't just pick up and take off for the weekend without having to worry about another human being. Anyway, congrats Matt. Hope you have a baby boy. We don't want you to disappear forever if it's a girl. :)

It's Tuesday! That means only 2 more days of work until the weekend. Oh how I love short weeks! I'm so excited for 2010---I have a feeling it's going to be a great year!

In other news, Joe really wants to buy this car:

Hideous, yes. Practical, almost too much. It's an 05 but fully loaded. Leather seats, heated seats---the whole shebang. It's pretty cheap and he wants a snow car. He can't take my car everytime he goes skiing or we'd be over our mileage even more than we are already. Oh, and it's a manual which is what we both want. I'm not gonna lie, I kinda like it........I'd like it even more with tinted windows which would be a must for both of us!

Happy Tuesday!

Christmas recap

Another Christmas here and gone---unbelievable! It was a wonderful Christmas, I'm sad to see all of the holiday festivities coming to an end. Christmas Eve was spent at my Grandma's house. It was our family as well as the Kamp's. It was fun! We had the best pulled pork sandwiches--yum! Then we had a gift exchange. We played the game where you can steal gifts from people, it was a lot of fun. Joe ended up with $25 worth of car washes and I got a $25 Olive Garden gift certificate. We had dinner with the Staple's and then drove around looking at lights. Actually trying to find grandma, but I'll save that story for another time. :)

Christmas morning we went up to mom and dad's, had breakfast and then opened stockings and our presents. It was so much fun with Sophie this year! She was so into opening gifts, playing with her toys---truly precious! Highlight gifts: I got a Snuggie that I'm currently wrapped in, Joe got private golfing lessons from my mom and dad, I got cooking lessons at Sur la Table and a bunch of other fun stuff. Joe got me a new netbook that I'm currently using to write this post. I love it! My old laptop needs to be trashed. Just last week I had to super glue the 'J' key on! This is a web surfing machine---and it's so compact I can fit it in my purse! His parents got us a big home laptop. We want to get rid of the office in case we ever need to use it for a nursery and we are tired of having a desktop. So as of yesterday, we are a laptop family. It's nice! We can both sit on the couch and surf the web now...one of us doesn't have to be away in the office!

We went up and spent yesterday and last night with the in-laws. It was a great trip and the best part was our 4 hour card game with Joe's grandma and grandpa. I love them! They are so awesome, it was great to be able to spend time with them. The best part was that I won one of the games. That NEVER happens!

Hope everyone had as good of a Christmas as we did. Enjoy your last few days of 2010!

Merry Christmas Eve!

I'd like to think I do a pretty decent job when it comes to baking but last night was a total failure. Pictured above are the lovely candy cane cookies I tried to make. My sister decided not to make them and since they used to be one of her favorites I thought I'd be a sweet little sister and make them. Like she pointed out, they look like big shrimps on a grill. What did I do wrong?! I didn't leave anything out but they're flatter than pancakes. Oh well, they still taste good. It will be interesting to see if everyone can overcome the ugliness and eat them. They don't exactly look appetizing to me!

Merry Christmas Eve! No work for me today! Grandma's house at 1 today, Christmas Eve dinner at 5 and Christmas at my mom and dad's tomorrow. Can't believe it's already here! Here's to hoping the next 4 days go by slowly! We'll be going up to the in-law's on Saturday. It's going to be a busy weekend!

Merry Christmas!

Happy Birthday, Sophie!

Happy Birthday, Sophie! I love being your Auntie....I love you so much!

All I want for Christmas...

All I want for Christmas are two things I'm fairly certain I wont be getting. I want a Snuggie and a trip to Cedar Point. I've blogged about my love for roller coasters before and Cedar Point looks truly amazing. This is definitely one thing I want to do before we have kids, otherwise it will be many years until we're able to go. I also really want a Snuggie but I'm pretty sure no has really taken me seriously. I'm the perfect candidate though. I'm always wrapped up in blankets. It would be so convenient to be wrapped up and have my arms free at the same time! I might have to buy one during the after Christmas sales.

I would love to think that Joe has our trip to Cedar Point all planned out and is just waiting until Christmas morning to have me open the round trip airfare to Cleveland and 2 tickets to this amazing place. I know that's not the case either though. First of all, they haven't released the 2010 operating schedule so that makes it kind of hard to pick a time to go. Oh well, I would be sad if I wasn't the one to research the best travel deals anyway. :)

My biggest dilema now is figuring out whether or not to work on Thursday. We have the option of working all day, taking a vacation day (which I have none so this doesn't apply to me) or taking the day off without pay. No option is a good one for me. I'm thinking I'll just take a furlough day and call it good. It's Chrismas for goodness sake!

Weekend recap

It's Monday already? Say it ain't so! Once again the weekend flew by. I woke up feeling great Saturday morning after my episode Friday night. Can I have a re-do on Friday night?! I hope that never happens again. Everyone is convinced I need to call and tell my doctor just so it's documented. I probably will this morning but I don't want to have to go in. I really think I must have just blown a fuse or something. ;)

Saturday Joe took the day off from skiing and braved Portland with me. We first stopped at Toys R Us to shop for Sophie's 1st birthday present. It was the most chaotic place I've ever seen! We found (what we thought) looked like the perfect present and headed for NW 23rd. More relaxed but not by much. I guess I'm not used to waiting until the weekend before Christmas to shop. I didn't really have anything I needed to get, I just wanted to be out and about with a Starbucks holiday cup in my hand! Not the right day to do it! Too. Many. People. We had lunch at Rose's and then headed to Clackamas. Even worse than Toys R Us. I thought people weren't spending money this year? We got home around 7 and Joe was more tuckered out than he is after a day of skiing. Shopping is hard work!

Yesterday was the best day of the weekend, Sophie's 1st birthday party! It was so cute watching her open presents and be surrounded by other little kids around her age. She did SO good, didn't shed a tear the entire day. When it was time for her to dig into her giant cupcake, she daintily put her finger into the frosting and then into her mouth. Guess she didn't want to get dirty. She is so amazing.....it's been so much fun watching her grow and change. It's hard to imagine life pre-Sophie now that she's such a huge part of our family!

Happy Monday! Yay for a short work week!

My mind escapes me

Last night I had the weirdest thing ever happen to me. We were on our way to Joe's company Christmas party and on our drive I lost all of my short-term memory. I would ask Joe something, he'd answer and then I'd ask the same thing again. It was driving me (and him too) crazy. I remember saying, "Oh my gosh, what if I've permanently lost my short term memory?" He said it would suck, he'd have to start writing every thing he says or does down on paper so I'd remember. Hahaha. Anyway, it continued to get worse once we got to the party. I was talking to one of his co-workers and wanted to say something (in relation to the conversation) but totally forgot what I was going to say and what we had been talking about. I had 1/2 glass of wine (Joe spilled most of it) and started getting double vision. I can't remember anything I talked to anyone about at the party and after we left I told Joe I needed to go to Wal-Mart to pick up pictures. I kept asking him why we were going to Wal-Mart on our drive there and I forgot again once we got in what we were there for.

We made it home but on our way here I got the most horrible headache I've ever experienced. I was totally doubled over in pain and didn't think I was going to make it to bed. I remember thinking before I fell asleep "please don't let this be here when I wake up." I woke up at 6 and feel pretty much back to normal. Just a little freaked out by last nights episode. Has this ever happened to you? Made the mistake of telling my mom (partly because I needed to tell her how embarrassed I was to be in front of all of Joe's co-workers acting/feeling that way). Now she has me worried that I could've had a mini stroke or some crazy type of brain tumor! I'm still alive and kicking this morning to apparently it's nothing that bad. And even better, my mom just talked to Sue (who was at the party) and she said I acted totally fine and acted like I was having a great time. What the...

I told my mom this is how I would imagine someone to feel after receiving the date rape pill. My night, and even my day at work, has totally escaped me.

Here's to hoping for a memorable day. :)

P.S. If any doctors are reading this, feel free to chime in! Did I just have a severe case of chemo brain?

Happy Anniversary!

Today is my mom and dad's 38th Anniversary! Thanks to both of you for showing Kim and I what a great marriage should be like---I'm so thankful to have such wonderful parents! I've always loved telling people that my mom and dad lived across the street from each other growing up. What are the chances?! They started dating in high school and continued after. My dad went to UW and missed my mom so much they decided to get married on his Christmas break so she could go back to Seattle with him. Or at least that's my version of the story. :) 4 years later they had my sister and 7 years after that me! I know all relationships have their ups and downs but I can honestly say I only remember my mom being really, really, REALLY upset with my dad one time. It was when he surprised her with a new car for their anniversary. I think she was more in shock than mad, but she was still pretty pissed. Hahaha, other than that I never experienced any type of major argument or fight----in my eyes we all had the perfect family/life and I think that's exactly how it should be! ANYWAY, happy anniversary again....I love you!!

Today we're having a Christmas lunch at work and tonight we have Joe's company Christmas party at the Red Lion. Tomorrow we're going to do some shopping and on Sunday we will be celebrating Sophie's 1st Birthday! That will definitely be the highlight of the weekend. I can't wait to see her in all of her birthday glory. I can't believe she's been with us a year already on the 23rd. She's simply amazing. I love her more than I ever thought I could!

Happy Friday!

Fleas on a dog

Leave it to my dad to change the lyrics of "Feliz Navidad" to "Fleas on a Dog." Since he came up with this last weekend it's been stuck in my head ever since. Sing it---it actually really does sound the same! Thanks, dad. :)

I've been trying to figure out how I got so much shopping/baking/decorating/Christmas card writing done last Christmas. I was in the Christmas spirit and I really enjoyed every single day leading up to Christmas. I finally determined it's because I was only working part-time! Ahhh, those were the days. The only shopping I've done this year is online and I haven't done anything else. I finally mustered up enough energy to do order Christmas cards yesterday, they might make it to people by New Year's?

With that said, Christmas is less than two weeks away! We'll be spending Christmas Eve/Christmas in Longview with my family. Christmas is always fun, my dad loves Christmas and always has so much fun coming up with awesome presents for everyone, especially George and Joe. I think it must have been a little boring shopping for girls all of his life?! I think this years presents are the best yet---I can't wait to see Joe's reaction! I don't know if we'll be going to the in-law's or not. Jayne (joe's mom) is having surgery so she'll probably be out of commission....hoping they can come down for New Year's brunch after Jayne is better!

Hope everyone is enjoying the pre-Christmas madness. If only it would slow down a bit, I haven't even had a chance to enjoy the holiday cups at Starbuck's! Hoping we can do that this weekend. Saturday is the only day we have available so I'm thinking we'll trek down to Portland....I need a little NW 23rd in my life! It's so festive at Christmas!

Happy Wednesday!

December already?

Wow, didn't realize it had been so long since I last blogged! Thanksgiving was perfect this year. It was so much fun to have a new family member with us---Sophie! As always, she did great and enjoyed tasting all of the delicious food. Joe and I went skiing at White Pass on Friday on our way to his parents house. We got up there and stayed until Sunday. Our "Un-Thanksgiving" on Saturday was a blast!

Last weekend was the Clary Christmas Party at the Longview Country Club. It was definetley the best party yet, we had so much fun.

Hope everyone is having a good start to the holidays. So many fun things going on, every weekend in December is booked for us---I love this time of the year! And having a full calendar! :)