a panoramic view

A panoramic picture Matt took at my parents house Christmas morning. I think blogger compressed it quite a bit when uploading though so it looks a little blurry on here. =(
Oh well, but we will definitley be using this feature more, its fun!

Merry Christmas!

My favorie time of the year. Lots of time with family and friends, tons of yummy food, music, christmas movies, and plenty of wine and hot butter rum drinks. Here are a few pics I captured with the new camera.

We spent Christmas Eve with the Whitfields and went to church. Had a huge dinner and some festive drinks, and even watched some christmas movies. Even though we are all pretty much adults now... Santa still brought all of us new PJ's on Christmas Eve.... =)

Christmas day we made our way over to Snohomish to spend time with Matt's family. More good food and drinks, good company, and I have to say I think I made friends with Dennis & Chris's (Matt's Aunt & Uncle) dog Walter...maybe next year will be the Christmas we finally get a puppy ... hehe.

New Camera

Matt and I got a new camera for Christmas this year from my parents! We are super excited to start taking more fun pictures and improve our photo skills before Egypt this year.

After doing a bit of research, Matt decided the Canon PowerShot SX 20 IS would be a good one for us. It is not quite as complicated as an SLR (still a "point and shoot") - but still has a great lense, tons of zoom and some other cool features... and I really wanted one with the screen on the back which flips out and angles in all directions.

I tried my hand at some photos today for Christmas and will upload some soon. Also hoping this will get us to start updating the blog more often... =). Yay!

Mexico - part 2

A couple more great Mexico pic's I got from my Mom.

Happy Birthday John! Celebrating John's 21st birthday in Mexico. He was a good sport, and took those tequila shots like a pro! =)

My goofy husband.

Mexico

So much catching up to do... I'll start with the latest. Over Thanksgiving Matt and I went with my family (Mom, Dad, John, Sarah, and Sarah's boyfriend Kieran) to Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. It was so nice after a busy couple months at work to just relax and enjoy the warm weather and time with family.

We had LOTS of mexican food, margaritas, guacamole... even Fajitas for Thanksgiving day dinner. =) A great time, we can't wait to make a tradition of Mexico and using my parents time-share every couple years...

Harvest time

We planted 3 tomatoe plants this year and they grew like crazy. We got quite a few tomatoes over the summer, and we just picked our final "harvest". Since last night was supposed to be the first freeze of the year (possibly hitting 32 degrees over night...booo) we picked all the tomatoes that were left... and the green ones are suppose to still rippen if we wrap them in newspaper inside the house, we will see. Time for some caprese salads and pico de gallo!

Bathroom remodel

So, we decided to remodel our spare bathroom on our main floor off our Office. It was a 2 weekend project that became a 2 month project, haha, typical for us. We are really happy with it though, and glad its finally done!

The bathroom before had old linoleum that was peeling up at the edges, country themed wallpaper (a strip around the middle of the wall), and a toilet from the 70's. =)

We pulled up the floor and put in new tile, painted the walls brown, and put in white wainscoating. We also got a new eco-friendly toilet and some new light fixtures at ikea (the new lights still are not in yet). We almost did small white octagon tiles that we thought would fit with the 1919 age of the house, and then at the tile store changed our minds and got brown stone tiles which I love! Glad we changed our minds, I think they look great with the white wainscoating and brown walls.

Before pics:

In Progress (after I pulled off the wallpaper and painted)

And then after the floor was pulled up...

And after!