Life in Spokane

Catching you Up!

I haven't posted since March! Face-book has seemed to take a priority of uploading pictures and letting everyone in on the latest happenings! But I recently decided to try and make my blog into a scrapbook! So, before doing so, I wanted to conclude my book with summer events! A quick rundown since March!

March: Jason turned 37 years old!...But Looks Really good for his age! You wouldn't even guess he was in his 30's!

April: Easter Weekend was spent in California with Kristin! Jason's parents, Shannon, Haley and Matt also went down, so it was a full house! We went to Six Flags on Easter Sunday! They are CRAZY about rollar coasters! It was a great vacation in the sun along side the beach! I loved it!!

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

April-June: I had a long-term sub job for a 4th/5th combo class at Sheridan Elementary! It was a lot of fun! What I loved the most were the teacher salary paychecks!!! These got me through summer and I hardly had to work!

 

 
 

 

July: Attended 3 weddings! Jason and I also celebrated being together 5 years!

Megan and Max July 10th:
 
 
 

 
 

 

Natalie And Justin July 17th 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 

Stacy And Eric July 24th

 

 
 
 
 
 

July 4th: We spent the weekend at Jason's parents house. Angela came down with the girls! It was a lot of fun. The week before the 4th, I was in Gig Harbor visiting! I brought Liam over for the first time, and then met up with Shannon so she could spend a few days with him.
 

 

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August: Jason and his family played in Spike-N-Dig! Shawn his youngest brother moved in with us. We rafted the river several times, which is  always fun when people from out of town get to join us! Jason and some of his siblings climbed Mt. Adams!

I got to spend quality time with family and friends over the summer! This is the one thing I love about having a teacher schedule! (Which hopefully I can keep!)..I had a few interviews but haven't landed a job just yet. I have been working on my Masters, and I am almost done!  We have had a great summer, minus a few bumps towards the end!

I feel blessed to have had such great times with family and friends this summer!

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 
 

 
 

Hello Y'all!!

 
It's been awhile since I've posted! I can explain!!

I am trying to get out of an anti-blogging and facebook phase! I felt like blogging was becoming the only way of communicating with people who are important to me. Everyone has a blog these days, and I don't want blogging to become the only means of staying in touch with friends and family. Although I check other peoples blogs regularly, and people check mine, I still want to find time to call these friends and catch up with them over the phone. When we can attach real emotion to the conversation it feels more like friendship. I am going to try harder to communicate in all ways, whether it's through blogging, facebook, and most importantly through phone calls and face to face. It gets a little lonely sometimes when you can start feeling the distance between you and your friends. Life is much sweeter when you can share it with friends! I hope we can all find the time to catch up with old friends the way it used to be before there was this new world of social networking on the web!

I send my love to all those who read this! Know that I am missing you, and I'm always a phone call away! :)

Starting a New Year!

My first post of the new year!! Happy 2010!

We rang in the New Year over in Lacy, WA. with Jason's family. We had a lot of fun! We always do!! The Wii was playing all night long! Christmas was spent in Spokane this year!...NO snow! I had to work at Pier One around Christmas, so the week of New Years worked out better to travel home for a visit! I was able to spend time with a few friends, and spend 2 days with Lindsay and Chloe! My sister and I spent time cleaning out the garage and listing her old baby stuff on Craigslist! (A much needed project!) My mom cooked us a New Years turkey dinner! Yummy!! It was nice to spend time with family over the holidays! I look forward to Spring Break!!

Here are some pictures of the holidays!

 
 New Years: Shannon, Jason, Kristen

New Years!

New Years: Shawn! Youngest of the family...but the tallest! 6'3"

 
  Christmas Eve at Alicia's house. Cousin Danielle and I were twins that night!

I tried posing the dogs in front of the Christmas tree! Duke!

Izzy!

 
Christmas Eve: Liam and Jason. They always tell Liam to flex his muscles! All night Liam wanted to sit with Jason on that chair. 

Liam starting rubbing Jason's back! It was cute!

 
Christmas Eve: Alicia and Bean!

Christmas Day: Cousin Drew!

 
Lindsay! Going to be a little star! Playing the guitar with grandpa! Chloe in the background playing with their new doll house!

 
Christmas Day: Jason and I in our new sweaters!

The Denny Brothers New Years!

Me and Shannon (Matt in the background messing up the picture!)

 
 
A happy new year hug! From Kristen to Angela!

We lit off fireworks!

 

   
CHEERS TO A GREAT 2010!!

 
  
  
 

Christmas Cocktail Party!

Working at Pier One makes me want to have parties around the holidays! We have so many fun things to decorate with that gets me in the mood! Jason and I decided to have a Christmas Cocktail Party earlier this month.

What made it fun for me was getting those small decorations like confetti that said "HO" "HO" "HO", the candles, new martini glasses with special Christmas ring charms. I even bought a new dress to wear!

The party was fun! We had Jason's family, and my friend from work. We hung out, the girls had martinis, we listened to music, and even did a small gift exchange. I want to throw more parties in the future!!

The candle arrangement I put together for the bathroom! Those little red and silver things are little presents!

Our Christmas Tree (Thanks to my mom!!)

I lit tea lights in between the letters on the fireplace mantle.

 
We even bought curtains for our back window! I've lived here 3 years and we have never had curtains up! I love having curtains!

Pretty new martini glasses with charms! Sitting out ready for the party!

Alie!

 
Alie and her sister.

Kelly and her boyfriend Brian. (My Friend from Pier One)

Diane and Shannon (Jason's Aunt, and sister)

Kelly! (I like this picture of her! )

  

 

My New Dress! :)

Trying to take a picture of ourselves!

CHEERS!!
 
  
   
 

 

Go Seahawks!!

We went to Seattle on Saturday and hung out with Jason's cousin Drew to celebrate her turning 21! She lives in the University District above a Tully's coffee. The view from her apartment is so "city like" and it was a lot of fun walking down the street to go out! We had a "slumber party."

Then on Sunday we all went to a Seahawks game!!

The experience is awesome! I love going to the games! Being in Seattle is amazing! When you don't live there, visiting is like going on a mini vacation and there is so much appreciation for the city! Being at the game is the coolest thing ever and everyone needs to experience a game once in their lives because everyone there is so much energy! It's such a Manly Man sport and all the guys everywhere are yelling, taking off their shirts, drinking beer! Cheering on the Seahawks! Having faith that they will pull themselves out of the hole and WIN for us!

This game was a fun one to watch! In the end we won 31-20!! The weather wasn't to cold! I seemed to have dressed just right for the event!

I loved being with family and friends! It wasn't planned until last minute for Drew and Angela to come to the game, but I am so happy they were able to come! I love being together! We had so much fun. We met my friends "the Stacys" and Eric. I think our new tradition is to go to sporting events together! This will be "our thing!" Stacy is really good about planning and buying tickets so we can all sit together!

 
Kaylen was in Seattle that day and made it over to see us!!!!

More pictures to come....

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

Holly & Hugh Hefner!

We dressed up this year! Alicia hosted a Halloween party at her house, and Jason's sister Shannon and niece Haley came over for the festivities! It was also Liam's 2nd birthday, and Matt's 27th! We had a great night! Lots of laughs and pictures! :) Jason helped pick out my entire outfit! I even wore candy necklaces, because I saw Holly doing it! My favorite accessory was a pink terry cloth purse with a bunny logo on it! (The purse didn't make it into any of the pictures.)

Alicia and Bean were the best looking clowns I've ever seen!!

Haley and Shannon!

Friends Meg and Max! Jason and him joked around together all night! Those 2 are very funny together!

Liz and Josh! (Alie's brother, and his wife! From Seattle)

Matt won worst costume, and had to wear this sign...

Bean got a little scary! He put on another persons wig, and Matt's Cop hat! Freaky!

  
 

 
 

 FUN! FUN! FUN! I guess we do know how to party! :)
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 

Getting Ready for Halloween with Liam!

Last week we went over to Matt's house to carve pumpkins with Liam. I have more fun watching than actually carving the pumpkins, so I took the pictures! :) Liam was afraid at first to put his hands inside the pumpkin!  Here are pictures, and videos!

Alicia had some fun with Silly String!

VIDEOS OF LIAM:
Download Liam scared to put his hand in the pumpkin

Download He pulls out seeds

Download Liam scares Shannon

Download Little monster takes Jason's Finger

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

My favorite pictures...

My family came over for Green Bluff. (If you read Angela's blog, all these photos were on hers.) I picked my favorite out of all of them to post here!

It's always so nice to have people come and visit us in Spokane. There is always an event for us to go to! Jason helped the girls pick apples high up in the trees, and they loved picking up pumpkins! I wonder what was going through Chloe's little mind as she experienced everything at Green Bluff. My favorite picture of all is the one of them two walking through the orchard, Lindsay has a full bag in her hands and they are off to pick more APPLES!!

 
  
  

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
  

 

 

 
 
  

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
  

29 years!

I had my sister send me some of my baby pictures! These are the ones my mom and her picked out! I was a year old here.

 
 

Growing up I always remember my mom saying that she was "29" every time she celebrated a birthday! Everyone always remembers when they were 29 years old, it's the age we want to be forever! So, here I am! I'm at the age that I'll stay for the rest of my life! 29!

I'm not  the type of person to panic with age! I think with age comes beauty, wisdom, confidence, and new perspectives on life! I have always remained the same person with the same core values, but I have changed so much since I turned 20. It's unbelievable to think about. 

There is so much I hope to accomplish in this next year. I look at myself and think about where I've been in life, and where I'm going. I have so many new chapters in my life to start! It's only the beginning!

I had a lovely birthday that was spread out over 4 days! Jason gave me a gift on Sunday, which was a new Kodak point and shoot camera! I am excited because the mega-pixels are 12.2! My last one was only a 5. I can't wait to take more pictures with it to post on here!

He was very kind to me, and invited everyone out to dinner last night. We went to Raw! It's our favorite place lately! We love sushi...I'm trying to get Jason to be more adventurous with our rolls! The usual Spokane crowd was there, along with his aunt Diane, and my friend Kendra!

Life is good right now! I look forward to the day when all my birthday wishes come true!

(Jason had a hard time keeping his eyes open because of the flash! He was goofy in a lot of them!)

Look at Duke's tongue in this one!! He is such a licker!
 

My baby doggies at the end of the night! They are so cute...but their eyes look so scary with the flash! :)

 
 
 
  
 
 
 

 
 

Diamond Dash!

Last month I heard an ad on the radio for a scavenger hunt to find a $15,000 diamond ring hidden somewhere in Spokane! I thought "Hey! Where do I sign up!?"

Last Saturday we met all the other hopefuls downtown in the park. There were 250 couples that got a spot in the hunt! Over 400 people applied. It was alot of fun! We got text messages leading us to a building or monument within a 2 mile radius of the park, and on that statue or building were answers to questions that followed. You had to text in the answer, you got 3 tries before it moved on to the next question. Each question was worth points, and who ever could answer the most questions correctly, won!

The hunt was 2.5 hours! We were running all over downtown! I never knew we had so many monuments! We decided not to bring our bikes...but we probably would have had a better chance of winning if we did! Our score was 264, and the winning couple had 414 points. They must have been speedy!! They were a young couple, so I was happy it went to them!

It was kind of like a mini "Amazing Race!" Some couples around us were arguing and getting frustrated with one another, it was funny to hear! But Jason and I didn't argue one bit! I think we were a fabulous team! :)

Here are some pictures of our hunt for a diamond ring! :)

Us before game time!

 

 
 

 

 The winning couple! (I took this off the website, I did not ask for their picture!!! LOL)