Happy Two Years!

You might remember that we celebrated our anniversary at Disneyland last year? Well, we thought it was such a great way to celebrate that we did it again. I think this year was much better though since we paced ourselves and lasted much longer.





This year we even went to California adventure to ride a couple rides. Upon recommendation we rode California Screamin and Soaring Over California and both were really really fun!

Here we are in front of the Golden Gate Bridge, we got engaged on the real one.





These truly have been the best two years of my life and I am so grateful for Chris. We are two peas in a happy pod. I love you Chris and can’t wait for the many years to come with you!

***Sorry for the not centered posts, blogger is being really weird and not letting me center anything.

A Little Bit of October & November

Halloween was a while ago but Chris really wanted me to post about it, probably so you could see him wearing the Beckham jersey I made for him. Yes, we were the Beckhams. We had a nice Halloween evening sampling soups with friends and hanging out.





A couple weekends ago Chris and I both had colds, not fun, especially for Chris since he worked so hard that week and then was rewarded by being sick all weekend. I just laughed when I realized what my nightstand looked like. Thankfully, we are all better and can celebrate Thanksgiving without coughing and runny noses.



Here are our gummy vitamins after Chris used the toaster-oven and forgot to move them off the top of it. The gummies on the left didn't handle the heat so well and neither did the jar on the right!



We got to see Kooza, the latest Cirque du Soleil, last week and it was great! Thanks Julie and Ken for those tickets we really appreciate it. Chris worked really late all that week so it was the only time I saw him. The show was really amazing and I really wasn't expecting to like it that much.

The Beach and Aquarium

There are some things about LA that I don’t love but one thing that is incredible is the weather. I went to the beach and the Long Beach Aquarium in October and loved the beautiful weather. I enjoyed the beach with Jamie and baby Ally and our out of town friends Andrea and baby Jamison. The water was freezing but both kiddos couldn’t get enough of it.

On Halloween day we joined Shelly and Josh at the Long Beach Aquarium. Thanks Shelly for the free tickets! We are so cheap these days I don’t know if we would have gone otherwise. Chris and I really enjoyed it and highly recommend the aquarium; it’s only a half hour away! Again, the weather was perfect.

Here is Chris trying to trick the Lorikeet into thinking Chris had food for him. The birds were only friendly if you bought nectar to feed them and I don’t think Chris was the first person to try and trick those birds.

We got to pet sting ray and sharks, it was pretty sweet. Chris is making friends with the cute Harbor Seal. The seals and sea lions were so cute; I really wanted to take one home.

Star fish and Jellies, oh so pretty.

Finally, the New Couch

Several months ago Chris and I went to a silent auction put on by a scout in our ward. I'll admit there were some pretty rockin' things donated by members of the ward. I took a couple laps around the room to see if there was anything I was willing to spend money on (we are poor, especially since I haven't been working for several months) but nothing caught my eye. Thankfully, Chris noticed a very choice item that was up for auction; a custom couch for only $350! We had been putting away a little bit of money every month into "the couch fund," one time we even got up to $600 but then I wanted to take photography classes so I spent it on a new camera…I kind of regret that decision. Anyways, we definitely had enough in "the couch fund" to at least make the minimum bid. I am so glad no one else in the ward had their eyes on a new couch!

I spent a couple weeks looking at couch designs I liked and fabrics and we finally settled on one. Once it was ordered It took a little longer than expected, okay A HECK OF A LOT longer than expected, but we finally got our couch! Overall, I am very pleased with the outcome although it is larger than anticipated. Because our front door is positioned in a pretty tight area the couch had to come through the balcony window which was easy since we live on the first floor, I'm just hoping the size isn't a problem for any of our future apartments.

I was thrilled to say "peace out" to our old couch that was generously donated by my parents. While this couch was comfortable it had definitely seen better days, about 15 years ago. I had to roll my eyes when Chris was hesitant to get rid of that couch.

Just giving our couch one last sit, notice the lovely original floral print underneath. I didn't remember we had to put the couch in front of our building until 12:30am so we got out of bed and carried it out as quietly as possible.

Our new couch! It's an awesome faux suede that has a tiny bit of texture and I really love it. Chris had to warm up to the new couch by lying on it for several hours straight. I've ordered new throw pillows and I'm excited to see how they look.

Did I mention that the couch was supposed to arrive on Tuesday afternoon so we had the old couch picked up around then but the new one didn't come until Saturday? Really cool.

What We've Been Doing

A couple months ago we hiked up Temescal Canyon and this is the evidence. It was a fun easy hike and we actually took advantage of an evening when Chris got home early from work.

My best friend Shelly participated in a triathlon and we went to support her. Unfortunately we only saw her for about 2 minutes before she ran into the water and then we had to go to church, but way to go Shelly!

My best friend from college and her husband were in town for a wedding and we got to spend time with them, yay! Notice how awesome the weather was at the beach that day.

Chris's friend Nate and his family were in town and we had them over for dinner and some games. It was great to see all of you!

We went to Texas, my first time there, for a wedding. Chris's high school friend, Brian, got married and Chris was lucky enough to be a groomsman. The wedding was beautiful despite some heavy rains.

Congratulations Brian and Liz!

I Know, I am Totally Lame

I have been bad about blogging but I don't feel like I have anything to blog about. This is just a post to put something new on the blog. I have become a major TV lover...but I have also been reading a lot so there is some balance in my life. Here are my shows for the fall.

Community

And there are a few more I am ashamed to mention.

I have recently read these books

I am currently reading

And I'm about to read this

Washington

We got to spend some time in Washington with Chris's family and we had loads of fun. The main event was camping in Fort Spokane. I think most people know that I am not fond of camping but I still had fun and it was just nice to spend the week with family. Here are some things we did and things we saw

When the sun was out it was really hot but once the clouds came I had to get bundled up! Luckily the water was pretty warm so I actually got in.

Fishing, I did not take part in this.

Playing Mexican Train at night. I don't know what Joshua is doing.

We're just hanging out in our tent waiting for the rain to pass. There was some incredible thunder, I loved it!

And when we weren't camping we were finding Banana Slugs, going to the Ballard Locks, going to tide-pools, and checking out the lucky pig at Pike's market.

We had a really great time and we miss all you Lanshes and Bredensteiners already!