Jury Duty Report

So my jury duty went quite well afterall. So I got there monday morning and I was the first group called. I got picked on a jury and it was pretty intersting. I found out later all the other ladies on the jury had sent in letters from employers ect. trying to get excused. That is why they chose us for a 1 day trial. I was very happy to only have to spend one day there and not miss any work-and also happy I was able to get to be a part of the jury for a trial since I was there..rather than sit and wait most of the day. It was a domestic violence case-and I was glad to see justice be served. We annanomously decided on a guilty verdict. I was there most of the day. So I guess I should have had a better attitude about it. It turned out much better than I thought. I accually felt good after it all. It felt good to feel like I was able to serve the community to help make it a safer place for us all!

Go SeaHawks!

Well we are off to the second home game of the season tomorrow. We are really hoping for a better game this week! Last week was a bummer. The dawgs had a bye week-MUCH NEEDED! I hope they can turn things around! The Cougs finally won a game today! YAY..for the first win of the season for washington football...We'll hopefully have a second tomorrow from the hawks. Everyone best be cheering on the boys in blue tomorrow!! Go SeaHawks!

Im so NOT excited for............

JURY DUTY!

Im not sure what is up with this..but Im only 26 right. Well, I have gottron a Jury summons twice already in my life. It's crazy to me. I know people who have never been summoned. It's irritating...it's really a burdon for the office when Im off work-so my dad wrote a letter expalining my job duties and that we are short handed and can't afford to lost me at work for this purpose. Well......they DENIED my letter and sent me a later date. Next week I have to report and Im so annoyed. I would be excited If I got on a really cool case or something-but last time I just had to sit in a room with a bunch of people and wait for about 4 hours each day for a week for them to dismiss me. I think I made a whole 12.00$ too. YAY! I will try to keep a good attitude and bring a good book to read. If I do get on a case PRAY it's a short one...I leave town only 7 days after starting my jury duty and Im not missing disneyland for that!

In 15 days we are Going to.....................

DisneyLand......Knotts Berry Farm......& Univeral Studios

We are so excited to be going on a Norton side family vacation! Cindy and Greg, and Aaron and I , Tiffany and Trevor and Jason and Emily are flying down to LA. Violet, Daniel and Riley are meeting up with us in LA also! I can't wait to see them and give Riley girl kisses! I miss my new little niece. I can't wait for Aaron to meet her. I know he will fall in love with that precious little girl. We are going for a week. Im so excited for Family time!!! It's much needed and we always have so much fun together. Rides, Rides and more Rides....Here we come!!!!!

Happy Anniversery To Us!

Last Monday Aaron and I celebrated our 7 year wedding annivsery. I cannot believe it's been 7 years since the day we became husband and wife. Time Flies..when you'r having fun. :) I remember our wedding day, like it was yesterday. Still perfect in my mind in every way. It's crazy that it's been 7 years since 9-11. It will always remind me of our honeymoon as that is where we were when we found out the trade centers had been hit. It was scary to be out of the country. We were on a cruise in the Carribeian. They thought of turning the ship around but then decided we were safe and would continue. We didn't mind to much since we really didn't want our honeymoon to be cut short. In case some of you don't know. I have the most amazing parents in the world. See...I am VERY afraid to fly. I have gotton so much better since this, but at that time it was pretty serious. We had a few problems....Our flight home had been cancelled, We were only 19 so not old enough to rent a car, All the trains and busses were sold out. Soo...my parents hopped in the car and drove yes DROVE from washington to Miami Florida to pick us up. So instead of our honey moon being cut short we got an extra week..driving across country. We even took a stop at Disney World on the way home! It was really cool across country. I have never seen so many american flags in my life! It was awesome. You could totally see how in every state americans were joining together to be proud americans and raise flags in honor of those hero's who lost their lives in the 9-11 attacks. I still dont feel like we truly felt the effects all of you at home felt as we were on a ship and everyone kinda of had to get on with it and finish having fun on their vacation. They did hold a memorial on the ship and we attened. It was moving and really great. Im glad we went. So...needless to say we had an eventful honeymoon..but everything was perfect for us.

We have had a great life together so far and I can't wait for many more to come. I can't wait to grow old together! I mean i don't want to get old anytime sooner than we have to..but you know. :) We spent our day (SEPT 8th) relaxing in the morning (as it was our day off) then went to a nice lunch at olive garden. We decided not to exchange any gifts this year as we did our living room and went on a couple to many vacations this summer ;) We had a great day-celebrating our Love and Im so thankful God has brought us this far and I can't wait to see what he has in store for our future!

A Living Room MakeOver!

For about a year now, I have had my eye on some furniture I really wanted. We finally decided after 7 years we should retire our furniture and start over. Our old stuff was cute-It was totally me and my husband was gracious enough to allow me floral couches for the last 7 years. Comfort is all that mattered to him! I wanted something new and a totally different look. I wanted our living room to be warmer and a cozy place to relax. We saved up the money and went to town! We DESPERATLY needed new carpet! Builder grade carpet in a house for 7 years with high traffic=really bad! We picked out some great carpet and tile for our entry way. Im slowing doing away with all Lenoliuium (sp?) as I first all of hate the look but it's a pain to clean! We extended the entry which is great because we had like room for one person to stand before. Painted, got new furniture, a new tv, tv stand and the whole bit! Im even changing over some pictures to new frames. It's funny...I've always been a girl who loves the walls packed with pictuers and stuff..but all of the sudden i just wanted Simolicity. Im tired of clutter! I will post some after photos. Im so upset I didn't take many before photos but some of you may have seen our house before. Take a Look...It's still not done so stay tuned.

The Entry Before

The Entry After

My Favorite Little Corner

It's Whats Been Goin On!

I realize I haven't posted in a while. These last few weeks have been busy, busy! Tieing up the last few weekends of summer is always a busy time. We have done alot since my last post. We headed out on Firday Aug 29th for a road trip. We took our mustang Cobra and My parents joined us in my dad's camero. We drove to Portland the first night-My mom and I really wanted to shop at Lloyd Center the next day and since it was my mom's birthday the boys let us shop! We then headed to Clamath Falls Oregon for the night, The next day was alot of driving and FAST driving! We got the cars up to 150 MPH!!!! I almost passed out! I was really thankful God kept us safe and even more thankful we didn't get caught! If you can even beleive it we were just cruising at 80 and we got stopped only 20 miles from Reno- our destination. The cop was nice and only got us for 10 over but did ticket us! Thankfully it was in California and I've heard it doesn't transfer over to your washington driving record. Haha ...my dad and us both stopped at the same time. You know that cop was loving stopping two "red hot rods" :) It was surly the talk of his day! My dad even had a radar and we got him on film stating it was hid fault because he didn't hit the breaks fast enough and his music was up to loud. I asked him if that meant he pays our ticket too since he was leading! LOL! Yep..he laughed thats about it. Well, Aaron had the time of his life racing his car! :) After two nights in Reno (not to thrilled with it) We headed to Lake Tahoe-which was GORGEOUS! I loved it there. We had a relaxing night at the Embassy Suites and headed on the home streach the next morning. We drove home in 2 days. It was fun and relaxing but alot of driving and our own bed never felt so good! Here are a few pics from our journey.

Aaron and Linds enjoying Top down Driving!

We had GREAT weather!

They only had to Spit Shine the Cars at every stop!

Gotta Love Em!

YIKES!!!

Mom and Dad

The Beautiful Lake Tahoe