Melvin

Now onto our fur baby, Melvin. Most people have baby stories but Corey and I have Melvin stories. Melvins new thing he loves to do is climb or jump from the dressers into our laundry hampers. He likes to play with the handles on the inside or at least I think. He either jumps out or rocks the hamper back and forth and gets out. At least one time he locked himself in our room when the hamper fill over and didn't right its self and blocked the door. As previously mentioned he can open all the doors in the house. Never a dull moment in our house with our little Melvin.

Trip to Seattle

Corey and I made a trip up to Seattle this weekend to officially meet our new nephew Zander Edward. We each worked a half day Friday and just barely made it to Seattle before rush hour traffic. We picked up some groceries to help make Friday and Valentine day dinner for the new family of three (five if you count the cats). Corey is truly enjoining being an uncle to Zander. I think the pictures speak for themselves. He even changed his first diaper, I couldn't resist a picture. Zander is a great baby still working out his sleep/eating schedule but getting better each day. We both enjoyed snuggling with him. Corey and I also got the chance to play with Kinsey's and Mike's Wii. I lost every single game except boxing. I am proud to say I kicked Corey's butt. I don't think we would ever get a Wii for ourselves but it is fun to play. We also sucked more people into the Settlers of Catan world. It is a board game our friends Reba and Damien got us hooked on. Now we ask everyone we know to play with us. Watch out you might be next. It was a very relaxing weekend. We won't see Zander until end of March where he will be 2 months and will most likely impress us all with what he can do.

Celebrating 7 years together!

You would think with working part-time this blog would be updated daily. Since the last post Corey and I celebrated our 7th anniversary together. We have been together for 7 years and married for almost 3 1/2years. As some of you know Corey and I meet at OSU living in the co-ops together. How we got together was a long trip in a snow storm back from the annual co-op Sunriver trip over Martin Lutheran King weekend. On returning to Corvallis I tried to give Corey money for gas but he refused. In return I made him an Emergency car kit. It had spicy Doritos (only food we had in the car), skittles, large snow scraper for car (he had a pocket size one) and maybe other things but can't remember. After I dropped it off Corey came over to Azalea house, I was in the kitchen hanging out. We started talking and before we knew it it was midnight I apologize for keeping him from saying hello to Audra (his friend at Azalea). But Corey said he came over to see me, he asked me out in the Azalea kitchen for Friday January 25th. And I guess they would say the rest is history. We spent our anniversary making fondue together for first time. We had steak in oil/butter sauce, cheese fondue with veggies and bread and a yummy chocolate caramel sauce for fruit and angel food cake. Finishing the night off looking back out relationship. I have a box Corey gave me filled with little mementos from our time together. During our pre-marriage counseling we were encouraged to talk about how we got together and favorite memories to help slow life down and remember the important things, love. Hope we all take the time out to remind our loved ones just how special they are to us. I know I don't do it as much as I would like. Happy Belated Valentines day everyone!