So after not touching this thing for a couple of years, I have decided to get back into the blog thing.... I figure since we now live quite a distances from most of our family, and my family is moving farther away, this would be a good way to keep everyone updated on what is going on in our life. And I am gonna try my hardest to keep this thing updated on a regular basis.... no promises though.
Well I suppose I should catch everyone up on the past couple months, I think any farther back and it would be a little overwhelming. Since Corey and I have moved to Seattle, we have been working, and enjoying the city life. Due to our work schedules we weren't able to make it back to Idaho for Christmas, but our mother's were kind enough to mail us our gifts. So we spent a relaxing Christmas day together, opening presents and eating some good food.
Just after we woke up, we were getting ready to open our presents.... we figured we would take pictures to show our families.... kinda forgot to actually send them, I guess it's better late than never.
The awesome dress I got from Bobbi!! Love it!!
Yay for Mario Kart..... It occupies way too much of my time.... Always has been one of my favorite games!
The lovely scarf from my mommy.
Pretty sure that was not what the belt was meant for..... but whatever...
Courtney got me a pretty wine glass
Awesome movie and sweater..... Corey wears it a lot.... thanks mom!
And of course more scarves for me.... which I love! Oh, and Alice in Wonderland!! One of my favorite movies!
Thumbs up for the red shirt....
Pretty Sweater....
Ernie's new fashionable collar....
Corey got me a lovely jewelry box.... which is already full....
A couple days after Christmas we hung out with Jason and Tiana and went down to the water for a bit, granted I see this every day, but I don't really take pictures.
And of course we have to get a picture of us with the "dinosaurs" The huge red cranes which I call my dinosaurs is my favorite view from Seattle. I love looking out at the shipping yards.
January didn't bring a whole lot, just some work and hanging out. Laura came to visit us at the beginning of February to help celebrate my birthday... and since her birthday was a couple weeks before we had a joint birthday dinner.
Laura and I got some lunch on my birthday at Chinooks, we enjoyed ourselves while we watched Corey work....
For dinner the three of us went to Purple Cafe and Wine Bar, one of our favorite places to eat. They have an excellent tasting menu where we sampled many dishes. We got a couple wonderful cheeses, a beef carpaccio, ceviche, among many other wonderful tasting items. We really enjoyed all of the food as usual.
And of course it is a wine bar, so we shared a great bottle of wine.... I had never heard of this wine, but man was it delicious!!
The central focal piece of the wine bar.... if you can't tell they have quite the extensive collection.
Checking out the wine pillar....
They brought us a couple of birthday desserts, a red velvet cake with the most amazing cream cheese frosting, a little creme brulee, and finally some little chocolate covered caramels, they were all wonderful.
While Laura was visiting, she finally decided to take the plunge, and move to Seattle. She has been working and trying to find a way to get over here for nearly a year. Finally she decided to move in with Corey and I and get over here! After she left I started looking for new apartments to move into with two bedrooms. After looking around at a good number of places, I was getting very discouraged, as there was nothing that was what we were actually looking for in our price range. And also in the neighborhoods that we wanted to live in. Finally a couple of weeks ago I came across from a great apartment, two bedrooms, two baths, two porches, two covered garage spaces, internet and cable included, Laundry room with washer/dryer... It is beautiful. So we turned in our application to move in to that apartment and were approved, so In April we will be moving into a new building, and even better it is just down the street from where we currently live, so the move itself will be easy. We are all very excited about this new place, as the building is brand new, they are still putting finishing touches on it, and it won't be ready for anyone to move into until the beginning of March, so we will be the first people in this place. Here are a few pictures of the new place.... none of us can wait to move in.
The living room/dining room looking from the kitchen towards the front door.... you can see porch #1 to the right.
Looking out at porch #1... we do have a little bit of a view of magnolia.
Porch #2, Nothing special, but it runs along the side of the apartment, pretty cool.
Standing back by the front door looking back across the living/dining room. Porch #1 is just out of view on the left of the picture. Look at that kitchen!! I am so excited for the Big Kitchen!!
Granite countertops, dishwasher (we sure have missed having that), it is really an amazing kitchen!!
Laura's Bedroom, pretty good sized, and she'll have her own bathroom just across the hall.
Master Bedroom looking from the door to the left.... wait for it....
and looking the other direction from the back wall.... it a very large bedroom, which is great!! There is a nice walk in closet on the left as well as an adjoining bath.....
Master Bathroom.... The other bathroom looks almost exactly the same.....
And a blurry view of the kitchen.... still super excited that we found such a great place!
Even better is the fact we will no longer have to save our quarters for the laundry, and it's an actual laundry room so there is some storage too.
That's really all the updating I am going to do for now.... But since I started typing this little thing, it started snowing, and it looks as though it is going to stick this time. All the surrounding areas have gotten quite a bit of snow, but we were lucky that Seattle proper was missed.... I guess our luck could only last so long. We will see if this is gonna be Snopocoalypse 2011.
