...pardon the interruption...

After Blogger's breakdown last week, I was waiting for them to fix the cruise posts/comments that had already been written before I continued on, but I think this is as good as it's going to get.

If I wait any longer I will forget all the details...or what details I still remember. ☺

hot, Hot, HOT!

Long time, no blog. Nothing blog-worthy lately, so I am going to resort to the boring-est of all boring topics - the weather.

This afternoon it was 100*. Last week it was 65*. Now, that is a big ol' swing in temps. I miss 65*!.

Jackson doesn't like the heat either so we've been cooling him down with sugar free popsicles. He just can't get enough of them.

We've got a 5K coming up this weekend and higher temperatures to accompany it. Let's hope the good ol' weatherman is wrong...I'd definitely rather get my sweat on in milder temps!!

Picture overload

I've been trying to sort through the thousands (literally!) of pictures (some good shots, some garbage shots) we took while on vacation to post here and it's just overwhelming!

I thought breaking it down into smaller posts would be best...so hopefully I will get together a handful or two of pictures for each place we visited.

Stay tuned. I know you are all just dying of the suspense...right?? ☺

Laughing until I cried

Nie Nie Dialogues is one of the many blogs that has found it's way into my Google Reader over the years.

As I was catching up on my blog reading this afternoon I read one of her posts from yesterday she's written about her daughter and it had me laughing out loud in my office. And no, not a 'ha, ha' kind of chuckle...a roaring bout of laughter...tears and all.

Give it a read here...it may gross you out a bit (or a lot), but it's still stinkin' funny!

Under Construction

So I had this brilliant idea to redo our blog, but the task seems to be a little more than I can figure out on my own! It will be looking quite the mess for a bit, but patience...it will be all pretty in the end.

One Year Down

I got a surprising email this morning...an alert informing me that this blog is one year old today. I then started to skim back through some old posts and relived the past year...good times!! I am sure glad that Mel had the patience to help me set our blog up!

It's no secret that this blog has been down in the dumps/on the back burner/left for dead lately, but that will not be the case for long. With the summer coming I have decided to cut back on the classes that I am taking so that Rob and I can spend some time together and hopefully get out and do things worthy of some blogging...so expect some posts documenting our fun summer...I hope!

What are we up to?

We I have been so bad at keeping up with blogging lately. Here's a little rundown of what has been going on with us lately...

Rob just finished up with his MBA program - yay! He will now have a lot of extra time on his hands. He is contemplating getting into another Masters program next quarter...just not sure which program he will choose.

My Biology program was just changed to pre-med, which kicks everything up a notch. The Anatomy and Physiology class is killing me! We have to do gross stuff like dissect cow bones and sheep brains. It's interesting, but oh-so-gross at the same time. Plus, I am a wuss. I have pictures, but thought it a little tasteless to post them. They really are gross!

With our schedules we don't get to see too much of each other during the week, so we are really looking forward to taking our long vacation together. We haven't really planned out what were are going to do...I just know I want to see a show - Rob, not so much. I am still working on getting him to go with it. I am also planning on taking lots of pictures. We are SO bad a doing that and are trying to work on it...we'll see.

How behind, you say?

In all of the business I have been enveloped by lately, I knew I was falling a little behind in my blog reading, but by how much I did not know. Imagine my surprise when I log into my lovely Google Reader to find that I am nearly 300 posts behind!!

Bad blog reader, I know. It will take me forever to do it, but I will get through every last one of those posts and then hopefully I will have learned my lesson: reading blogs is more important than real life.

I have got to get my priorities in order!

Yes, my pants are on fire

Yeah, I lied a little...so what. I know I said that we were going to make our blog private and then I never did. It wasn't an intentional lie, it was pure laziness on my part. I really just forgot all about it. I haven't posted anything really personal anyways, so unless I decide to do so the blog will stay open. But be forewarned...I am known to change my mind on a whim, so one day I just may feel like making in private. :)

Sorry I cried wolf; it won't happen again. Well not intentionally that is.

Mysterious disappearance

In response to all of the emails I have been receiving lately: No, I have not fallen off the face of the earth. I am still around, but I have lost my mojo...blog mojo that is. Work, school, sick, lazy- you name it, I got it and it's all keeping me from blogging. I am trying to get back on the horse, but it may be gradual. Stay tuned... :)

It has finally come to this...

Even though I am really bummed about it, we are leaning towards making our blog private within the next little while. So if you want to keep viewing it please leave us your email address in the comments. If you don't want to post your email address, just shoot us an email at robnwin@gmail.com and we will send you out an invite.

This invite is really open to anyone who reads our blog, whether we know you are reading or not. So yes, even if you are a lurker you can still keep lurking, just not as anonymously! We just want a little more control over who we are sharing things with. :)

So much for the 100th post

For our 100th post I (with some help from Rob) spent an entire week compiling the traditional 100th post list of unique things about us to share with you all. After I finally finished the list and was reading it back to Rob for his official OK he decided that the information was too personal and he didn't want to post it on our blog. Needless to say, I was less than thrilled with his decision, but fine...I won't post it. But now you all know who the wet blanket of the couple is. :)

As I began typing this up he said that I shouldn't post on our blog when I am angry. Good point, but I decided to do it anyways!

I am such a grump.

I feel undeserving

A few days ago I received a loving shout out from my friend (way back from high school!), Amy and it just so happens that she *hearts* my blog (as I do hers!!).

She gave me this award and I now get to present it to seven other blogs that I love. These seven bloggers will then post the award, thank the person who gave it to them and then choose seven other blogs they would like to pass the award onto.

This was a tough choice...I read SO MANY blogs! My Google Reader is tracking ~60 blogs right now and I never get caught up with it. :) So, after much careful deliberation, I have chosen to pass this award onto

Nelson Newsletter

Mrs. Priss

Odi et Amo

Confessions of a Jersey Girl

Sodermoto

Joseph Family

(No) Sex and the City

Congratulations and enjoy!!

Am I an addict??

I am slowly coming to the realization that I may have a slightly addictive personality. Why is that, you say? Well when I finally joined the Blogger World I spent a ridiculous amount of time clicking from page to page trying to find out what everyone was up to and coming across old friends. It was great! But a few days in I realized that I was spending hours, yes literally hours a day doing this. This was made worse by the fact that I was skipping actual homework to do cruise people's blogs...which by the way resulted in my first C since I began school (technically it was a C+, but that still doesn't really make me feel any better). I finally got a grip on myself (or rather I read all that there was to read) and took a step back from my blog stalking. Right when I am getting back on track, I sign up for Facebook. At first I did it just so that I could see another friend's pictures they posted. Then I thought I should add a picture of my own, but that's it. Next thing I know I started to get all of these friend requests from people who found me through the search feature. I never really had any intentions of getting into Facebook but I reasoned that it would be rude not to accept an invitation, right? It all snowballed from there. I got my first piece of flair (thanks Molly!) and became incredibly amused by all of the flair options there are. I would flip through the pages just laughing at some of them and next thing I knew, I had been doing it for an hour! I really thought I had it under control until someone sent me an invitation to an Alias trivia game. I tried it out and of course quickly rose to Ace level. I then find out that they have trivia for Friends, Sex and the City and The Sopranos. Ever since then I have been answering trivia for my favorite TV shows and feeling completely fulfilled in doing so. Addictive much? Yes, I think so! So instead of showing up at work and earning the paycheck they give me, I am holed up in my office playing the Alias trivia game on Facebook and feeling absolutely (well almost absolutely) no shame about it. I barely switch from the screen when someone walks into my office! I think that I need an intervention, but not until tomorrow...I am only 270 points away from the next level! :) Oh how pathetic!!

I am so MAD at myself!

On a whim I thought that I would change the background of the blog and in the process I lost all of my stuff along the sidebar! I don't care so much about all of the little widget things because those are easy to fix, but I lost all of my links to everyone elses blogs! I think that I can remember everyone that I had on there and can find their info somewhere, but for anyone who really knows me will verify this...my memory is crap! I hope that I can remember to put everyone's links back up. If I have forgotten to put your link up, please remind me!!

Serves me right for messing around with my blog when I should be working!

I am just not getting it...

For what seems like forever I have been working on adding a slideshow to this dang site. So now I have finally figured out how to add it, but it is too small! All of the pictures look blotchy (an improvement on some, I am sure). Now I am starting to think that I have gotten in over my head with this! :) Perhaps I will retire for the evening and start up again tomorrow...

We are hopping on the blog bandwagon...

The past month has been quite busy for us. At the end of May we took a quick trip to the Bay Area where we spent some time in Monterey, Pebble Beach and San Francisco. It was our third trip there, so we didn't really do anything new or touristy. It was a relaxing laid back trip where we just hung out together...much needed!!

Shot from the last hole at Pebble Beach

Look at all of those seals...or are they sea lions???

SF classic - the cable car!

The day we arrived back from California we moved from our small, cramped 2 bedroom 1 bath in Sammamish to a spacious 2 bed 2 bath with a garage in the Issaquah Highlands. The extra bathroom is the most exciting thing about it. Who knew that us sharing a bathroom could be so hard?!? We also love the garage (so that I can store all of my *junk*) and Sox loves the extra room to run around - especially all of the stairs.

This past weekend my brother Ryan and his wife Melanie flew up from Utah to see us. It was so nice to get to spend so much time with them. Ryan had never been to Seattle before, so it was really fun to show him around. Rob and I really don't take advantage of all there is to do around here. Having company gave us a great excuse to get out and do some fun things that we haven't done in awhile. We hit a comedy club, played some pool, took in a Mariners game and ate out alot! The time flew by so fast, but we really enjoyed being able to hang out with them. They are such a fun couple!!