Pictures to catch up the last 7 months!

So I tend to be really wordy and have a hard time being concise so I'm thinking I'll let photos speak for my absence :)

Last June Race "walked" he actually graduated in Dec. '09 though

I got to ride my favorite animal at wildlife safari! Now I want to ride one on my own and run on the beach or across the desert! At Christmas a guy brought one to our church and I went home and researched all about owning one. Someday I will just you wait!

This is Moses who came to our church. He fell in a sinkhole and it made national news! haha

 4th of July Jet boats on the Willamette River in downtown Portland

We were right under the fireworks!

Only in Portland. These people were hilarious!

Race and I went to the beach for our 1 year anniversary!

We went to a sweet hat shop

My cousin had a beautiful baby- Leila Mae

 My sister and I took my horse swimming :) I love their matching facial expressions!

Bella lives at an awesome place with a fun pond to swim in with water slides, rope swings, etc.

We went to a family camp with my church and these waterfalls are slides and so much fun!

My sis and I and our tall men!

Lady GaGa concert with my friend Beth!

 Shooting water ballons at jr. highers

Cassie, Hailey, and I at jr. high camp

"Ghost-riding" in the Alvord desert!

My truck was in neutral driving itself! It was pretty epic.

Hiking at my uncle's ranch

at the waterfall

Riding at the ranch

They were behind us on the drive down from the mountain and "ate our dust!"

Target practice!

Visiting Beth in Seattle

the gum wall yummy!

Halloween!

 Christmas Card.. it was freezing out and I used my tripod and kept running

back and forth! Late I remembered I have a remote for my camera.. whoops!

Our first Christmas card :) didn't get around to it our first year of marriage..

Christmas dessert at church with my mom

We were matching on accident! haha

Christmas in our apartment-

 This was such a pretty noble!

 I got these pearls and love them!

 My Pottery Barn loves! My main Christmas decoration purchase this year. Last year I got most of the stuff I have the day after Christmas.

I love this gal. I wish I'd gotten the big version too!

My favorite and the most important part of Christmas!

Stockings my grandma made. Mine was from when I was born and Race got his when we got engaged. These are great because they can stretch and hold so much stuff! I'm hoping next year we'll have our own house and a fireplace to hang them from :)

Well there was my lengthy picture catch up if anyone is still looking! I'm going to try and update more often because this took awhile!

I had a great last year and love being married, love nannying, love my church, family, and friends! I am SO incredibly blessed :)

I haven't blogged in foooorever!!

So I totally got out of blogging.. I still love reading one or two a day of my favorites but I think I'm just too busy right now to be consistent! Maybe when I work less someday... but my friend Lauren did a fill in the blank Friday that I just had to participate in! It's on one of my most favorite topics- magazines!

1. If I could only read one magazine publication for the rest of eternity, I would choose I can't choose! I'll choose my top 4-Women's Health, Martha Stewart Living, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping .




2. If I were to run my own magazine it would be about fashion, food, homemaking, relationships.. I feel like my mags do a pretty good job of this already!




3. I buy my magazines (at the grocery check stand or via subscription) Well I get probably 7 or 8 a month in the mail.. it's a little ridiculous! I got an email from this magazine website and they send 5 or 10$ coupons like every week so I ended up subscribing to a bunch for free or dirt cheap but I just have to remember to call and cancel so they don't automatically renew at the end!



4. I prefer my magazines (in print or online) Oh in print for sure! I have to hold it in my hands. Sometimes I go to their websites to try and win stuff I see in the magazine but then you get on their email list which is annoying.. so I have a just junk hotmail account now.





5. The number of magazines I buy each month 0 from the store..they're a rip off..okay once in a while I get suckered in if a Kardashian is on the cover or a really good looking piece of chocolate something. But I get the 3 magazines listed previously, People Style Watch, Sunset, Martha Stewart Food Network, Better Homes and Gardens, and Horse and Rider each month.. probably why I don't blog much anymore.. I have so much pressure to keep up on all of these! I nanny kids though so when they nap I read them:)


6. My favorite magazine genre is (lifestyle, gossip, home, etc...) lifestyle/ home. I used to get InStyle but it was so thick I could never get through it. I do miss it.. Once I got married I got into Martha Stewart and Good Housekeeping which I never would have thought would happen! I like cooking ones but end up saving them forever so instead I bought a few Cooking Light cookbooks and a binder to organize recipes I cut out.  




7. The magazines I read regularly areI kind of jumped the gun and answered this one already. I regularly read gossip mags when in line at the checkout but refrain from buying them unless I'm going on a plane or road trip!

Well this was fun. I think I'm inspired and will upload some photos from my last 6 months of not blogging!

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