A Little Update

With only two weeks left until our wedding I have to say that things are going quite smoothly and most of the planning is done. My mom has put so much time and effort into this whole thing and has done such a wonderful job. Thanks mom; I love you!!

We moved into our new place on Tuesday and I spent all day Wednesday unpacking. The house is actually looking like a home now! For the most part, we like the place except for a few annoying things that we are finding along the way. For example, our bathroom has no drawers or shelving to store any of our bathroom stuff. The other crazy thing is that we don't have a microwave! To all of you older people you might be thinking what is the big deal with that? Well, I didn't grow up in the 60s and I have always had a microwave. That went up on our registry real fast!

Now to change the subject a little bit, Derek and I have been taking dance lessons in hopes that our dancing at the wedding won't be total chaos. For those of you who didn't already know, I am dancing impaired and don't have much rythmn. To add to it, I will be having to dance in three and a half inch heels! If I could have it my way I would wear running shoes to my wedding, but being so short I could only get my dress hemmed up so much before it would start to disturb the "decoration" or whatever you call it, on my dress. However, we have absolutely LOVED the dancing lessons and would like to continue doing them. It is a fun way to spend the evenings!

Only a week left until family starts arriving! My aunt is flying in a week from Monday and my Spokane friends are coming on Wednesday! I am so excited to see everyone!!

Video - Derek and Lacie Post X-Country Skiing

A New Adventure

Derek and I have tried to go cross country skiing twice before and never ended up making it because the first time we left before finding out that chains were required on the pass and we didn't have any. We ended up turning around. The second time we got out too late because we had a couple of apartments to check out and by the time we were done with that it was already 12:30. The third time was the charm. We got up this morning, got ready to go and headed for Stevens Pass. Cross country skiing is a lot of fun but will take a few times to get used to it. We found out that it is quite a good work out as well! We also found out that two and a half hours is PLENTY!!

Ice Skating

We have found an apartment! That means no more time looking and a little more time playing on the weekends, and that is exactly what we did. On Saturday we met with the lady who is going to make our cake and did a little tasting. I love cake!! We picked out the flavors, designs and all that good stuff.

After we did that we headed back down south to Mill Creek so I could see the apartment for the first time. I am very excited! Our new place is going to work for us very well. It is plenty big for the two of us and is in a great location. We will be moving next weekend. I'm excited to have our own place again, but not excited for the whole unpacking thing.

Saturday night we met up with some of Derek's friends for dinner and then went ice skating down in Seattle. As we were skating I realized that exactly one year ago Derek and I went ice skating for the first time together. Kind of funny how we have only been two times in two years and they ended up being exactly one year apart.

I Know! We're Blogger Slackers!!

This is the first time I have been on our blog site in a very long time. In fact, I can't even remember the last time I was on here, but Derek did put up a post in November! So, it's been over a month I guess. I figured it was time since we did promise in the beginning that we would try to keep our blog updated.

For those of you who don't know we managed to get out of Kansas. Derek's transfer request to move back to Seattle was accepted and we made our long trip back on December 12. He is now working in Bothell on an AT&T project and is liking it so far.

I finished up another on-line class so I now have two more classes left and I will FINALLY have my degree! With the move and the wedding coming up real fast we decided it would be best to start up with classes again after the wedding.

Derek and I have been looking for a place to live for the past week or so and all I have to say is house searching REALLY sucks!! Trying to find a place for a certain amount of money that can meet all of your needs is very frustrating. Something will come up eventually though, we just have to be patient!

For now we are living at my parents house and they have two labs and a little lap dog. With that said, Gunther has been ready for his new home probably since December 13th! Bella, the little dog, loves to chase him around. She is actually quite a good babysitter though because with her around Gunther never has the chance to get into any trouble!

So other then the move back, there is nothing else new really going on. I will try to get back into this blogging thing though and try to make sure our posts stay a little more recent!

Gunther's Thanksgiving (Derek)

Thanksgiving is a really traumatic holiday for Gunther considering that during the first Thanksgiving, rabbit was on the menu. With the deep held resentment that Gunther has for the holiday, I decided to make him his very own dinner dish.

I made a salad which consisted of Gunther's favourite foods; lettuce, carrots, and dried bread. After our obligatory toost to our first Thanksgiving together, Gunther was served his meal. To our surprise, Gunther picked through his salad eating all of the bread and then took a nice long nap. I can say one thing for Gunther...despite his resentment of the holiday, he definitely knows what you're supposed to do after you're done eating!

How fancy is your Diet Pepsi? (Derek)

Even though Lacie may be a t-shirt and jeans kind of girl...she likes her beverages to be delivered with class.

I have to admit that the first time Lacie came out with two wine glasses filled with soda pop I couldn't stop laughing. BUT...you can't mock it until you try it. No longer can Lacie's carbonated beverage be misconstrued as a low class drink!