Hiatus....

A gap or interruption in space, time, or continuity; a break.

Wow. It's been a long time. 259 days to be exact...

I lost the drive to continue this blog, then it became so long since I posted, it had become harder to post.
Maybe it's time to start back up. Just soo darn much to catch up on. Lots of changes and accomplishments.

Since my last post I have in no real order:

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  Started a huge project on my car with Ryan's help, finished it and it's amazing.




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  I turned 26 and entered my late 20's. Had a great birthday.




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  Celebrated 2 married years with Ryan.




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  Celebrated our doggie's 3rd birthday.




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  Won awards at 2 car shows. Yeeee! :D




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  Attended 6 car shows.




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  Made some wonderful new friends.




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  Have decided to grow my hair back out.




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  Took the Motorcyle Safety course with one of my best friends.




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  Got my motorcycle endorsement.




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  Saw 2 of my FAVE bands live.




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  Visited my mom in Montana.




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  Got my concealed pistol permit.




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  Bought my first handgun.




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  A friend visited from CO twice that I hadn't seen in a long time.




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  Went horseback riding.




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  Went crabbing.




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  Lounged on a mini island.




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  Got some sun.




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  Celebrated friends birthdays.




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  And one of my favorite things of all: I bought my own motorcycle!!

So there you have it, the last 259 days in a nutshell.

Now for some random pictures...

First time on my bike. 2006 SV650s.

Ryan and me at Waterwerks.


West Coast Subaru Show 13.



Ryan and me at my friend's b-day celebration.




Photo taken of Rumble Wagon for a feature.

Laura, Kelsey and me at Cosmic Bowling.

Kelsey and me enjoying some of the last sun of the summer up on Whidbey.

I won Best Street at WCSS! It was an amazing accomplishment.

Ryan and I at the Seahawks pre season game, Hawks won too!

Island Shop Warming Party with the ladies.

Rumble and his gf Trina at PNW StanceWorks meet.

Denis, Laura, Ryan and me at StanceWars July 3rd.

Rumble photo shoot.

More Rumble.

Crusing home after winning Best Subaru 5 Door/Wagon at NOS Forum Fest.

Me at Stance Wars.

Rumble at Big NW Subaru Meet.

My new (to me) bike Kaito!

4 years ago today

I've honestly been lazy. I have photos from Montana that I am planning on posting at some point in my lifetime. Buuuut I just haven't really had a good chance. I will though.



But really, this post is about today....


4 Years ago today... I met up with a really cute guy that I liked a lot to go to a snowboard video movie premier.

4 Years ago today... I hugged that guy for the first time.

4 Years ago today... I kissed that guy for the first time.

4 Year ago today... I knew that I had found the most amazing guy ever and all I wanted to do was spend every moment with him and we started dating on this day.

On this day, Today... I'm married to the love of my life and get to be with him forever. And tonight we're going to munch some yummy Italian food to celebrate 4 years of being together and happy. It might seem silly to celebrate when we started dating, but I love it. I think of that day as one of the best of my life. When we started dating, there was no one else for either of us. We've been connected at the hip since. I'd almost say it was love at first sight. :)

I can't wait for more adventures, hand in hand, by each others side.

Our first official date, September 30th 2006

Another date, October 2006

First time snowboarding together, November 2006

November 2006

Things that are making me happy today.

Just a random list of things that are making me happy today.

Has the week just flown by for anyone else? Not complaining at all!

1. On Tuesday I found out that the new owners of the cottage we are renting at Seabrook totally changed the sleeping set up. What was 3 rooms and 3 large beds before, was turned into 2 large beds and 4 twins. Ummmm... Not gonna work. We have 3 couples coming and none of us are going to sleep on separate twin beds.

I called them and told them we had picked that cottage because of the 3 bed/3 room set up specifically and that the new set up was NOT going to work for us.

Well, the lady I spoke with told me that they could switch our rental to a different cottage, at no extra charge. She gave me 2 options. The one I picked is way nicer than the 1st one, still has a hot tub and is $40 a night more! But we get it for the same price!

I'm honestly even more excited now. We lucked out!

The NEW cottage we're staying in.

2. I got 4 cans of banana chips delivered to me yesterday. I swear I could live off those things if I had to. They are AMAZING!

3. I've been trying to eat healthier and try some new stuff. One of these things is coconut juice and coconut chips(plain sliced coconut). Coconut is said to be very healthy.
The juice is delicious and a great way to rehydrate after a workout. I purchased some from Top Foods last week and it wasn't cheap so I only got 2 cans. Well on Monday, I forced Ryan to go to our local natural food store PCC to see if they had coconut ice cream(which they did and yum) and wanted to check their price on coconut juice. Well, I was very pleased to find it was cheaper than the normal grocery store!
I also purchased some coconut chips to try out. They're pretty good, but I discovered they are amazing mixed into yogurt! Yay!

4. Saturday is my amazing husband's birthday. He's turning 26. I got him something he really wanted for his birthday and am excited to give it to him.

5. We're going camping tomorrow with a bunch of friends. One of them has family property up north on the sound. It's a beautiful spot and I'm excited to camp there. We're only staying one night though because of Ryan's birthday.
On a side note, the Lululemon outlet store is on the way home. :D Hopefully I can talk Ryan into stopping there. I really need a couple more pieces of workout apparel now that I'm going so often.

Where have we been?!?!

Is it already the 18th? No way. This month has gone super fast.

Well Ryan started school on the 4th. He's back at Lake Washington Technical College working towards getting his WABO welding certification. It's been a hard transition. He starts at 6pm every week day and doesn't get home till after 9pm. I only get to see him for about 45 min a day during the week. Just enough time for dinner and a kiss. We're getting used to it though and it will be beneficial in the long run.

Other news which has been keeping us VERY busy... we're doing some mild remodeling of our house. So far we got a new(to us) couch and rearranged the whole living room, including another bookshelf for me(yay!).

We have painted:

The spare bedrooms-light creamy tan in the smaller room, purple in the larger room(for our new roommate)

The spare bathroom-light blue, also added texture and painted the vanity white

The hallway-light creamy tan

The dining room/living room wall-warm brown

We have replaced all the interior doors with new paneled doors, new moldings in the newly painted areas.

We are also going to install new vinyl windows throughout the house and new fake wood flooring in the kitchen and both entryways.

Ryan's dad has been an enormous help with EVERYTHING. We could not have done it all without all his effort and time. I'm so thankful for a father in law with such skills and willingness to help us. It's amazing.

And by we, I mostly mean Ryan and his dad with my input. I have helped paint as much as I can. But I'm not the most skilled person when it comes to home projects.

It's all very exciting and is already looking a hundred times better. I plan on writing a before and after blog post detailing all the exciting changes soon.

See here I am with the mini touch up roller helping paint the hallway!

Thankful...

I'm so thankful for Ryan. He's my rock and what I hold on to tightly when things get rough(which they seem to be a lot lately). I don't know what I would do or how I would get through the hard stuff in life without him. Plus, he is really cute.

Why I love Ryan (and how I know he loves me).

When I got home today there were surprises on the counter.

I've been craving certain things lately. Animal crackers and Tim's Cascade Style Jalapeno chips. Also, my headlight went out this morning.

So not only did Ryan get me a new headlight, waiting for me when I got home, he also got me animal crackers. And best of all, (and he tried to be sneaky) he got me Jalapeno chips! He hid them in the cupboard though so I would think he hadn't got them. As you can tell, I appreciate the small things.

I sure am lucky to have him.

The best 3 years of my life

Yesterday was our 3 years of being together anniversary. I came home to beautiful roses, our blinds finally up in the bedroom and a new shower curtain and rod. All very exciting.

Then we went out to a nice dinner at Claim Jumpers, which was yummy.

Waiting to be seated.

Right before we are about to leave, Ryan says to me "What's that?". I look around and think he is talking about some guy with a really long beard and a tye dyed shirt. "What's what?" I say. I'm now very confused. Finally, I look down to a little wrapped box. He was so sneaky I totally didn't notice him put it there.

He gave me a beautiful necklace. I LOVE it. Such a sweet suprise.

I'm so lucky to be with such an amazing man. I love him so much. These really have been the best 3 years of my life.