Busy Months

Well I should have all kinds of things to update you on since it seems that life has been so busy. Matt has been a little slow at work so we just keep praying that everything picks up soon, mainly for his own sanity. My schedule changed at work so things have been a little crazy for me. We haven't been able to work on the house a lot but have some projects coming up in the near future. Matt did make a little bench right when you walk in from the garage where a small closet was. I wanted it to be open with a shelf and some coat racks and of course he made it happen. Once it gets tiled I will take pictures and show you all. Our bunk bed room is done, just waiting on the bedspreads. It actually even got used when my cousin Dena and her 4 kids all came and stayed with us for two nights. I think it's going to work out well for us to have company since most of our friends have kids and we love to be the babysitters. I think I am drawing a blank of everything else that happened in the month of July. The only thing that stands out is that our good friends Brandon and Rebecca got married! Their wedding was beautiful though we did have to miss out on my cousin Julie's wedding since they were the same night. We wish both couples all the happiness in the world.

We have a lot coming up in the next two months. We have the fair this next week! End of August Matt and I are heading to San Diego for a few nights and going to do the kid stuff like the zoo and Sea World. We are pretty excited for that. Labor Day weekend we are headed to Ellensburg Rodeo with my parents for the weekend. I am pretty sure that is going to be quite the fun time. Late September we are headed to Idaho to spend some time with the Tatarka's and hopefully get to see my friend Tory get married while we are there. So, here soon I will have a lot to blog about with all these trips.

Reception Pics June 2009 (A little Late)

Wow, so I am really late on getting Reception photos up for everyone to see. I told myself I was going to get better at blogging and have really been slacking. Our reception was actually June 26, 2009. For me being someone who likes to wait till last minute on getting things done I think the reception actually turned out quite nice. At lease I know that I had fun and hopefully so did everyone else. Though it was just going to be a reception we all dressed up in the same clothes that we wore for our wedding and had our hair done the same. We decided to make it a dessert reception since it was a Friday night and it didn't start till 7. I think that worked out quite well. We had slide shows, speeches and dancing. Here are some pictures for everyone.

This was everyone in our wedding party!

Matt and Aaron with what they love best (Coors LT) and of course my two beautiful sisters.

My Step sister Robin made our cake which turned out amazing. I can't thank you enough Robin!!


This is all my siblings and their spouses with our parents. This picture doesn't happen very often so it was something I really wanted at my reception. Thank you all for making it happen.

Becca and Braeden. Becca Loves her Uncle Mac!!

My In-laws

My Family

Matt and I!! I Love my Husband!

Update

Since once again it's been a little while since I wrote on our blog I thought I would catch everyone up. We have been working hard on the reception stuff trying to get it all put together. Hopefully everyone got their invite and has RSVP. Besides the reception we have been working on the house like always.

Matt has been working on his "Man Room" whenever he has a spare moment. He's starting to get there and a couple weeks ago we even moved all his tools from the garage. Every weekend something else has been done to it. Here's a few pictures to see where he is at right now and I will update in a month and we can see the changes.


We planted a new front lawn at our house. Though it is on it's own time it is starting to grow.

I also got some bunk beds for my spare room so when our family and friends come to stay we now have one room with a queen bed and one with bunk beds. With the bunk beds I still have room I can have the air mattress in there if need be for more people. Matt and I love having guests and seem to get to be the chosen babysitters.

Flowers for sale

Hello All, I am really late at getting this out since I have been so busy trying to get things in order for my reception. I am involved in Relay for Life again this year in Lynden. Last year was my first year and I had such a good time I am doing it this year even though it is the week before my reception. It is such a good cause and so many people around all of our lives have been affected by cancer so to help do something about it is quite the experience. For a fund raiser we are selling these flower hanging boxes. Each year we try to raise a certain amount of money to donate and we try to come up with different fund raisers. If you would be interested in buying one of these hanging baskets or donating please let me know. The proceeds go to such a great cause. Thank you so much!!

Farm Visit

In the last two weeks I have been busy with farm life. First Matt and I welcomed little Wesley our newborn calf at out house. I looked out the window and there was nothing then about an hour later I looked again and there he was. This is within a few hours of him being born. He is already really entertaining, he runs all over the field at sun down.

My next adventure was with a few of my girlfriends. I happen to have my niece and nephew that day so Anne & Sarah and Jenny & Jalyn along with Ann's cousin and her two girls decided we would meet for a McDonald's and Farm Day. We met at McDonald's for lunch at 11 to make sure that the kids would be full and ready for play time. I had called my in laws to make sure that it would work for them that we all came over and they were great. My father in law had a calf on a halter so they could lead a calf like a dog, my nephew thought that was great.

We had 4 girls all around the age of 2 so we were busy chasing them. Luckily we had the help of my Mother in Law to chase my niece since she is fearless and walks up to any of the cows. I was busy with Sarah climbing to the top of the hay mound since she wanted to make it to where ever the dogs were. Sarah also has no fear and loved to jump off everything. All the kids let the cows lick them and I even made the parents put there hand in a calf's mouth. We had so much fun with all the kids so Thank you to the Kortus farm for letting us all come visit.

My friend Loralei has been saying for quite sometime that she needed to go to a farm since she had never been to one before. To prepare her I took her to get some new boots to be styling at the farm and we caught Wesley so she could touch a cow first. On Monday Matt decided it would be the perfect day to take her to his parents. So we put on the boots and headed out the door. I am not sure what she thought the whole time since she was kind of quiet but she also put her hand in the mouth of a calf and even pet a few cows. She got daring enough that she even leaned down and pulled on a teat to try and get milk out of it. She took a cow wiping it's snot on her like a champ and did good till we had to run from a cow poohing. I am pretty sure she is ready for anything now.

Museum of Flight

Last Saturday Matt had this great surprise date for me. He told me how I needed to dress, which for me he knows me enough to say layers and comfortable shoes. The alarm went off at 7am which I was sleeping like a log since I have been so tired lately but I got up and ready and we were off. I only knew we had to drive a couple hours and then would be there. Here we are ready to leave that morning.

Off we went headed south. Things were going good when at about 8am Matt gets a phone call from work asking if he could come in. He lets them know we are headed south and tries to see if he can come in later or the next day. We end up having to take the exit where you head to Anacortes and have to wait for him to make a couple phone calls and see if we need to turn back or not. After another half hour goes by we find out he can keep heading south so we are on our way again. We made it out of Mt Vernon and were just to where it goes to 3 lanes and 70mph when we thought some crazy car was going to pass us only to realize we needed to shoot across a lane and get to the side of the freeway with a blown tire. Of course it was the driver's side back tire and we were right next to a guardrail so we could pull off the freeway anymore. It was a little scary when the semis went by.

Matt changing the flat tire and putting on the spare. He had no clue I was taking pictures of him at the same time. After the tire got changed and we were headed to Les Schwab he wasn't sure he wanted to keep going since we had already had a couple set backs. After telling him that this is life and we can laugh at it later he had a smile on his face and we headed on. Once we made it through Seattle I did guess where we were going and it was the Museum of Flight. They had all kinds of things going on since it was the long weekend. Matt and I both love airplanes so I knew it would be a fun day.

We walked around and looked at the airplanes and toured whatever planes were open to tour including the old Air Force One.

We even took the opportunity to go into two different flight simulators since neither of us have even done that before. I saw the name of the "Big Stud" and had to take Matt's picture. We had such a great day. On our way home we called up my friend Heather who lives in Mt Vernon and met her at Red Robin for dinner.


Thank you Matt for a great day!!

Save the Date

As most of you know, Matt and my reception is coming up. We are working on something special for the invite so you may not get them till 4-6weeks in advance. I thought I would just let everyone know what the date is so you could mark it on your calenders. June 26 is the date and it won't start till 7p except for our immediate family, you all will be needed before that. It's going to be a dessert reception so plan on eating your dinner before you arrive. If anyone wants to help out on making some kind of dessert I am open to any one's help. I am not the baking type so I am asking for handouts this time. Hopefully you all can make it!!