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Costa Rica and my BIG news…

So much going on!  Where to begin!  Well, a couple weeks ago I visited Costa Rica with my mother and grandmother, our very first “girls only” trip!  Although I know they only brought me for my crazy spanish speaking skills, I gladly obliged ;)  It was so fun to get away and discover new places and of course, take pictures.  While we were gone all sorts of crazy things happened, my sister was hospitalized, my grandpa broke his hip, and because of mistaken identity we thought my cousin had been in a car accident!  Everybody, it turns out, is OK and I was sooooo happy to get the news that my husband had been accepted into Dental school!!!!!  We have been hoping and praying for this for so long and I still just can’t believe it has really happened.  He has been accepted into the UW School of Dentistry which is a fabulous school and exactly where we want to be.  He has also been accepted into a new program called the RIDE program which means we will be spending his first year of school in Spokane.  Soooo, this is the big news, we are moving, BUT, we will back, BUT, we will be moving again after two years.  I know, it’s a lot to take in, we will be here until July or possibly until the baby is born (August 10th due date) we’re still not sure how we’re going to swing this whole birth thing, it’s so hard to switch Dr.’s at this point.  Anyhow, have no fear I will continue to travel back to Seattle throughout the year because I don’t want to lose my fabulous clients!  In the meantime I hope you will continue to enjoy the blog and to those of you in Spokane, I can’t wait to work with you!  A few pics from Costa Rica… “bananos natil” these tiny bananas are sooo good, they ripen more quickly than a regular banana so you rarely (if ever) will see them in the states, but they are so sweet…mmm

LOVE the “birds of paradise” flowers, they look like a toucan’s beak :)

These fat and lazy “cocodrilos” lounge below a bridge where tourists throw them raw chickens (the bird was not as brave as I thought, these crocs are LAZY!)

Excuses…

My uncle always says “Excuses are like bums, everyone’s got one and they all stink!”.  Ok, ok, I will spare you the details of the last few months; the first trimester blues (yes that’s an announcement:), the international flight from h@!! (sorry, I couldn’t think of a better way to put that), and the virus plague that has swept through my entire family.  I know I promised pictures so much sooner, but to be completely honest, I didn’t even know where to start with our little trip.  I so hoped to come home and fill you in on magical places, devine food, and pure bliss, unfortunately there were too many mishaps that one post could not contain them all.  I guess I should have known that a trip that begins with my nephew throwing up in the airport lobby and sitting on a NON MOVING plane for 4hrs with a 2yr old only to have the captain announce “I’m sorry folks but it seems we have run out of de-icer and will not be able to depart until sometime tomorrow.  Unfortunately because of all of the other flight cancellations there are no hotels available in area…” oh my, I should have known…  Even with all that went wrong (and a LOT went wrong) we were just grateful to see family, my children met their great grandparents for the first time, the food was devine, and the scenery, of course was beautiful.  This was definitely a once in a lifetime experience and was certainly most memorable (I mean, seriously, how will we ever forget;).  One thing I realized is that I am no landscape artist, LOL!  Child photography is definitely my forte, but I do hope you can still enjoy a little piece of Germany!

A very German Christmas… 
Sammy marveling at the Christmas lights

A building that was turned into an advent calendar for the holidays…

A little shopping.

Switzerland


Christmas lights in Triberg.

Happy New Years!!

Hope you enjoyed a peek at our trip!

Click…

Have you ever seen the Adam Sandler movie Click?  The movie is about a guy who goes out to buy a “universal remote”, most stores were closed so he goes to Bed, Bath, and Beyond.  In the “Way Beyond” :) section he meets an engineer that gives him a remote that meets the “universal” description.  Michael soon finds that this remote is much more than a channel surfer, but that it is, in fact, very “universal,” allowing him to fast forward through various life situations…

We are traveling overseas for Christmas this year so I needed to get a birth certificate for my daughter’s passport, which meant I needed to make a trip to downtown Seattle.  Let me just tell you that I have really begun to love Seattle.  When I first moved here I didn’t dare venture downtown by myself, coming from small town Moses Lake, this was a very. scary.  thought.  I was convinced that a trip downtown, by myself, would certainly end with my face on a milk carton (silly girl:).  After many years of avoiding milk cartons, I decided I could go it alone.  

My Seattle lovin’ aside, the one thing I do loathe is the parking.  I spent 20 minutes searching for the “perfect” spot, the first spot I found was a tight space between a cement wall and a van, so my options were (a) scrape my van against the wall or (b) take out the vehicle that was parked way too close, no thanks.  Option #2 looked enticing until I got to the end of the lot and found there were no spots and no way to turn around to get out, I ended up driving over a curb into another lot to escape.  The next lot would have been fine except it was almost a mile away from where I was supposed to go and uphill pushing my daughter in a stroller, which also would have been fine except I was wearing heels (what was I thinking??).  Sooo we found a nice little lot, less than a quarter mile, plenty of parking, my “perfect” spot.  We headed to the admin building and got the certificate in no time, leaving me with an extra 45 minutes on my parking meter, so I did what any good photographer would do and improvised a mini photo session with my daughter.  I was able to get some fun shots and decided to head back to the car.  We got to the car, all was well, loaded up, buckled in, started backing out and CRASH!  Yes, that’s right, my overly cautious pursuit of the perfect parking spot was no match for my own driving skills!  I was so sick to my stomach, I have never been in an accident or even have as much as a ticket on my record (knock on wood) and somehow I managed to crash into a nonmoving object, genius!  I had no idea who the car owner was or where to find them so I left my info on their windshield and took pictures (good thing I had my camera!).  The damage, fortunately, was minimal, it is mostly a scrape, but I still can’t believe it happened! 

I realize worse things could and do happen but rest assured, Christmas is around the corner and you better believe I will be eyeing the “Way beyond” section the day after Thanksgiving, so next time, all I have to do is…*click* ;)

Here are my favorites from our mini session today.  Enjoy :)