Back in the Saddle Again

Back to the world of blogging again. We finally got our new MacBook and have been surfing up a storm on the Internet - reading blogs, checking Facebook, uploading photos, and putting together I-Tunes playlists. It is so nice to have a computer again and this time we will have stringent rules about eating/drinking near the computer to avoid another milk bath incident. Much has happened since I last blogged so I will try to catch you up on the last month of our lives:

August 3rd-6th we got away to the Oregon Coast to celebrate our 1 year anniversary. Although the weather could have been better we had a good time. We even saw a whale in Depot Bay about 100 yards from the rock wall where we were sitting. It was our anniversary gift from God! :)
As soon as we got back from the beach we celebrated my mom's birthday with dinner out at Famous Dave's followed by cake at our apartment. It was our first party hosted at our apartment which was quite fun. We hope to have many more.The day before my birthday we celebrated with our family at Casa Mia. Very good calzones! I'm having fun checking out restaurants in Tri-Cities. On my birthday we went to the Benton Franklin Fair & Rodeo. It was pretty fun although VERY crowded on the day we went. I don't know if I'll have enough stamina to take my own kids to the fair when I have them. It's just so much chaos. The best part of the fair was the rodeo in which we sat through a 5-minute downpour while watching barrel racing and got quite a kick out of the bull who wouldn't go back in the gate after he'd been ridden. At one point he actually laid down on the ground and wouldn't budge for anything. It was a good 15 minutes before they managed to literally drag him back in the pen.August went by fast and before we knew it it was September. We went to visit Chris' aunt & uncle in Snohomish for Labor Day weekend. We saw a lot of family and even got to go sailing on Sunday afternoon for a couple hours. It was a very relaxing and fun trip. Sadly, while we were gone my mom's dog got hit by a car and didn't survive. She was pretty upset as anyone is when a close pet dies and I'm sorry that had to happen.Finally, we picked up our wedding pictures last Tuesday! FINALLY! :) They look great and we're happy we were also able to get a CD of the images to have and share with friends or print off pictures in the future. Yeah!

Well, that you keep you busy reading for awhile. Until next time...........