SUMMER!!!

So, it's been awhile, but I'll try and quickly catch you up with what is going on with us. We have made it back home to Seattle, WA and we love it!!! We love how green and pretty it is. We were initially going to live in Sumner in an apt, but that didn't work out. Instead, we are living in Joseph's grandparents basement and we couldn't be happier about it. We are learning so much from them. They have so much life experience and such great stories, that we feel like we could sit and listen to them forever.
We are both working right now. I work for my grandparents company doing the bidding for a rebar installation company and I love it! There is so much to learn and it's really exciting! It gets really stressful sometimes and for the last week my left eye has developed a twitch. I'm going to have to figure out how to handle it better...or maybe just get an eye patch. Joseph is doing his internship at a company called DMI Drilling. He is enjoying learning all the different aspects of a sub-contractor. The people he works with are really nice and he has been able to go on some fun trips. He ended up in Forks one week for a job they were doing. I was so jealous.
Here are some pics we've taken over that last little while.


This is one picture he took while he was there. He really enjoyed seeing this area of Washinton and how beautiful it was.


This is an enormous bee we caught while staying at Joesph's parents house while they were out of town. I know it looks a little like a spider in this pic, but it's a bee I swear! I have never seen one that big! It was almost as big as the comic strip!


We went putt putt golfing the other day and it was so fun! This is my amazing hole-in-one!


They had a funny uphill hole where Carmen would play look-out and tell us if our ball made it to the top or that we needed to stop if from rolling down to the parking lot as it came back at us!


At the end of the game the guy gave us all ribbons for the place we took...guess who's not on the podium.



It's been a pretty fun summer so far! And it's barely even started! We can't wait to see what else we come up with!

Girls & Boys

So we love living so close to so many friends and feeling like we have a family right here all around us. We get together all the time, or at least every few nights, with friends and generally play games and chat. Last night our neighbor invited us, well Joseph over to play a video game with him. I went with to visit with his wife. There turned out to be another couple there for the same reason. Here's what happened...

Us girls sat on the bathtub and soaked our feet in HOT water with some peppermint salts that smelled so good and felt great! (I was glad that I had recently painted my toes, the red ones on the left.) Then we came over to our apt and played dominoes and chatted. After about an hour to an hour and a half we figured we should go check on the boys (who by the way had vowed they would only play one game since there is homework and it was a school night). This is what we found when we got there...

Total non-responsiveness! It was pretty funny to see how wrapped up in this game they were and how hard they had to work to answer our questions while still playing. So much for multi-tasking or playing just a quick game. I guess they never promised it would be quick though.

New Background!!!

Hooray for Birthdays! Joseph turns 24 on Sunday March 29, so in preperation for it we decided we would change our background and celebrate! We love birthdays! I got Joseph some presents a litte while ago and I've had them hidden in our apt. since then and never let Joseph look in our big storage closet. I'm sure if I wrapped them it wouldn't be such a big deal, but Joseph says that is a waste of papper so I don't. It's been bugging him so much since I pretty much had to tell him where not to go just in case. (Our apt. isn't that big and there pretty much no unused or unexplored space to really hide them in.)But the countdown is on and he can't wait til Sunday!

St. Pattys Day!

So I figure that three months is long enough to go without posting. However whenever I think about our blog I feel like there is nothing new to post. But today we had a little fun. Since I work with the elementary school I've been hearing about this day for almost a month, and the warning to wear green. So I made sure to wear green, and Joseph joined me in this occasion wearing a little green too! It was a fun little day. Too bad Joseph isn't feeling to well. Hopefully he gets over his cold soon.