ROMANTIC Valentines Day

A Romantic weekend at the Bybee Inn in Jacksonville, OR.... Paul's sister had gotten him a night stay at the inn for his b-day in Nov and I booked a room way ahead of time for Valentines Day! It was wonderful! even the padded walls!! :)... We got to the room and there were 4 choc covered strawberries and champagne and a rose. We then went to town to see where we could eat dinner, we had reservations that Paul made on Thurs for 845 but we didnt want to wait so we walked around town and went to the resturant The Garden and they made all local grown foods! It was delicious and I got another rose. On Friday Paul knew that I had a meeting at the District office and brought a gorgeous bouquet of flowers with a note to wait for me until I got there for my meeting. All in all it was a wonderful Valentines Day!

The rest of the Super Bowl

Sydney, Trigve, Paul, Sydney's Mom, and I had a great time at the superbowl. There was way too much food... and we wore those 3-d glasses multiple times during the night, so did the bunny. Trigve made a Bacon Explosion! It was a great time! :)

Super Bowl

This year for the Super Bowl Paul and I are going over to our friends Sydney and Trigve's house! We are obviously making way too many snacky foods; smoke salmon dip, tzatziki dip, onion dip, hot clam and artichoke dip, 4 packages of pitas for pita chips, boboli just in case... and I made a carrot cake. Obviously I couldn't let it go unfrosted and unthemed so I've spent the morning putting a layer of cream cheese frosting and then making frosting to create the Super Bowl theme. Paul was very excited to see me doing this because he got me a really nice awesome cake decorating kit last Christmas and I have only had time to make like 3 or 4 cakes... Thought these pictures would be fun to share and show everyone that this year I'm safe cooking unlike 2002 when I broke my wrist on super bowl sunday. :)

A New Project

So0 last year for Christmas my wonderful mother got me fimo clay!! About 2 days ago I took it out for the first time and started using it to make some cool beads for necklaces. All the pictures will be up on my jewelry blog... but they are coming out really interesting so I wanted to share them with everyone.

Frost

This was one random day that the fog rolled in and created really cool looking frost on the trees... I don't know how good the pictures are but if they are bad take my word for it it was soo cool that I had to try to take pictures!!

More skiing... 09

Christy and I invite Paul to come with us on Sunday's and this was the Sunday after the knee twist. A short loop still on ice... great fun. This silly knee and then a cold I got has prevented me from going to my awesome work out class for a little while.... I'll be back to it on Thursday though!! We got some snow too so hopefully the ice is covered and Paul and I can cross country ski this weekend too!!

This is the incredibly warm day when Christy and I went cross country skiing on ice! For the record... NOT SMART! It was one of our Friday outings which will be a while before they happen again. On this day I twisted my knee really bad, it's feeling better now, but this past friday Christy sprained her ankle really bad while playing tag at work... we're a pair :)...

Yummy!!!

Paul made from scratch!! yummy delicious cinnimon rolls with choc chips! And don't you fret there was frosting for the top too! It is wonderful to wake up to a hubby that is kneeding risen dough that will be turned into delicious amazing rolls for me!! :)

CROSS COUNTRY SKIING 09!!

TODAY!! Paul and I brought Christy out

cross country skiing for the first time!! She did an awesome job!! There was lots of falling and laughing and I think we went to one of the most difficult trails in Bend without knowing it, because we had never been there before! :).... sorry Christy!.... Anyway it was icy and crazy and we were out for about 3+ hours!! Then we went back to Christy and Alan's house for Quiche that Paul and I made the day before! The day was sooo fun and a great stretch for the impending doom of Tuesday class! :)

Sore Tired Paul

Paul and I started a class that is called TOTAL FITNESS... or for a relatable class for everyone else BOOT CAMP! We start the class with 10 pull ups, 35 push ups and 65 situps.... then the crazy lady comes and we do another 70+ pushups! You run so much that if you throw up you get to sign your name to a ball! I love it! I can't wait to see the changes!! However, Paul is really really tired and sore and the babies took full advantage! When he wanted to get up however Buster climbed on top of him and pinned him to the couch.

December

Where oh where did December 08 go?? Nobody knows because we have no pictures to remember any occasions! Our camera was either left, died, or missing for every holiday. I think some people may have pictures of Christmas and New Years but I'm not sure. We had a fantastic Christmas!! We made tons of cookies and delivered 12 cookie plates! We went over to Paul's parents in Medford for the holidays and had to buy new snow tires to do it!!!!! We ate to much and made the present opening last until 3 or 4! Then New Years we were going to go out cross country skiing but at the last minute Paul checked on the trail web site and there was a mountain lion warning out and so we scratched that idea!! We ended up at McMinnimans down town for about an hour or so with Christy and friends!! It was a blast and ate our grapes!!! (christy's family tradition one for each month of the year, your grapes are your responsibility, and eat them FAST!)
Now we are almost half way through January!