Gotta Keep it up!!

Ok Folks, So I'm trying to make an effort to keep up the blogging. Is blogging a real word? I keep trying to think about all these interesting things to write about. But they usually involve taking pictures or something like that....maybe I'm lazy. I guess I ought to work on that. We really need to get a new digital camera, so thats the hold up. So..topic for tonight. Since it's starting to get cold and the leaves are turning I fig. I could do my

TOP 10 FAV. SUMMER THINGS FROM 2007:

#1: Getting to go over to England and visit family; we haden't been able to see some family since Jamie moved over here..over 4 years ago! So being able to see everyone and just feel like a normal family (even if for 10 days) was really nice! Jamie showed me where he use to vacation as a kid (Sauntersfoot), which was gorgeous! Pics below.








#2: Getting my new car!! For those of you who don't know me SUPER WELL...my last car was a 1996 VW Jetta with almost 200,000 miles on it. It was sad to say goodbye to my car that was filled with so many great memories, roadtrips, days from highschool, road trips up to college, etc....but now we have a subaru outback that is rockin' and will have plenty of new trips and memories to log into it. I know...i'm the only 24 year old that drives a stationwagon...but you know what, I can pull it off!:) hahaha!

#3: Discovering this really great dog park that is 29 ACRES!!! It's ginormeous!! Which is BIG! Where we are now able to work with Brandi on a heel without a leash (even with other dogs around)...you laugh, but it's impressive!!:)

#4: Getting my first group of freelance jobs, which HOPEFULLY will put me on the track of running my own shop one day

#5: Getting to go out and ride our bikes more often. We weren't out as much as we wanted to be, but a VAST improvement from last year!

#6: Going to the Minnesota state fair. Just when I think I'm starting to fit in up here we go the Minnesota State Fair...and BOY WAS I WRONG! HAHA. Nothing against Minnesotians, they are GREAT people, but I do NOT understand the state fair habits. The MAIN thing to do there is to stare at cows or other livestock or eat....anything fried, on a stick and with at least 1,000 calories is fully available. Our favorite items were the deep fried sniker bar on a stick or the kool aid flavored pickle (i think it was on a stick). No, we did not eat these things...I have my limits. People stay at this thing for days....we were there an hour and a half and decided to go home.

#7: Training for the breast cancer 3 day. This was the most amazing experience of my life! I didn't end up donig the walk because of an injury, which was probably one of the worst things to happen this summer, but I helped to raise a good amount of money for a great cause and met some truly amazing women (and men) through this experience. Plus, the fact that I would go out and walk 10 miles/day on the weekends...taught me a lot about myself.

#8...#9...#10.....

Okay, so I only got to 7....well, I never pretended to be super interesting or accomplished. I guess I'll just have to try harder so that when I'm ready for a recap for fall, I can actually have something interesting to tell ya'll. Until the next post....talk to ya'll later!

My first post

Ok, so Lauren finally convinced me to post something on our new (and first) blog. I'm not so sure about it, but hey, we'll see. There's something scary about the fact that anything I post here could be kept floating around in cyber-space for ever more...

Well, this weekend was a little odd; over the last week its been getting closer and closer to autumn, and then all of a sudden we get an eighty-degree high humidity weekend...not that I'm complaining or anything, but we just got out the winter clothes and started dressing for the season.

I've been really busy with work lately; travelling all over the country for all sorts of cool events ... from grand openings and job fairs, to facilitating training sessions on interview skills. It was really fun getting to travel so much (and building up loads of air miles for a free trip over to the UK) but at the same time, its hard being away from home, Lauren, and of course, the dogs! The travelling also makes it hard for me to pick up the phone and call home ...

Brandi

Speaking of the dogs, Brandi and Bailey, here's a couple of pics...







Bailey















Well, that's enough for now ... until next time ... be safe.

Lets give it a try...

Hello Everyone! Ok. So I decided to give this whole blogging a shot, figuring it would be a great way to keep in touch with family and friends. Considering that our nearest family member is a two hour plane ride and half of them live across the pond:)

So I guess I ought to catch everyone up: Jamie and I are living up in MN now. He was offered a promotion up here with his company, Lifetime Fitness and I JUMPED (literally) at the opportunity to work in a design city. I'm working for a small firm here in Minneapolis, which is really nice. We've got two little ones: Brandi, our 65 pound rotti and Bailey our 15 pound poodle mix...i'm sure we'll have pictures to come. They are quite the pair! They are also our "practice kids" my motto is if i screw them up they can't go blame their issues on me to their shrink. And lets face it I can be a little bit of a perfectionist so...practice makes perfect as mom would always say.

Most weekends we spend trying to chill out or going to the dog park. Autumns here which means I'm trying to steal some time to pick back up my knitting and baking (it's a seasonal thing, i guess). Other than that we're pretty boring! I know I've got you hooked now:) hahah. Ok. well thats it for now, talk to ya'll soon!