Happy Birthday Jason!

As promised, an update! Yesterday was Jason's birthday and we had so much fun. I had asked Jason before what he wanted to eat on his birthday and he said the trademarked Jason phrase "I don't care". After quickly rejecting my suggestion of tater wedgies and chicken livers, I realized he really did care and he realized he'd better give me some ideas pretty quickly. So he said he'd love to have a pot roast. I, on the other hand, tried to tell him how AMAZING the ham sandwiches are that I make...he wasn't impressed. Something about taking a giant slab of meat and turning it into something edible terrifies me. But I broke out my "how to make pot rost for dummies" manual and we were well on our way to a birthday dinner. As I started to get dinner ready, I noticed Jason eyeing my ingredients and I think that was when he realized I may have spent a little too much on his birthday presents and was now trying to recoup our losses.

"Always save". So what if we have to eat Ramen noodles for the next 25 years, they aren't too bad.

Before dinner Madeline came over and hung out with us. She is just too cute! She and "unkie" played while I made supper.

George, Katie, Oscar, Donnie, and Nancy came over for supper of coconut shrimp, green bean casserole, pot roast, gravy and red potatoes. Then we had dessert provided by Nancy! I have to say, it was a pretty good dinner.

Here's to another great 25 years!!!!!!

Teaser

Guess who turned a quarter of a century today?!?!? More to come!!!

Work and Wedding and Trains OH MY!

Did you miss us? Things have been so busy here. I keep thinking that I need to update our blog since everyone else is, but how boring would it be to read "Went to work last night. Got home. Kissed Jason goodbye. Slept all day. Got up and went back to work". I worked almost every night this past week, so it was nice to have the weekend off and to get away. We went to Attitash Mountain, in New Hampshire this past weekend for Nathan and Megan Blakemore's wedding. Donnie and Nancy rode with us and we left EARLY Saturday morning for the 5 hour drive. The wedding was really nice. Here are a couple of our pics:





Just as they kissed it started to rain which led to a mad dash inside since no one wanted to find out what would happen when you mix rain, chiffon, and Aquanet together.

Once we were inside, we anxiously looked to see who else would be sitting at our table. I'm always afraid that whoever we sit with will not have the same sense of humor that I do and, instead of finding it absolutely hilarious, will be disgusted when I put a giant thumb print in Jason's bread when he's distracted. Luckily, we had a good table. Never the less, I decided to be on my best behavior, so no thumbprints for Jason's food.

Donnie, The Baby Whisperer

Afterward, we went back to the rental house and crashed. Although imagine my complete horror as I learned that Jason and I were going to have to literally sleep on top of each other in the same room as Donnie and Nancy!!!

You sickos! What did you think I meant?? Thankfully I got the top bunk. Otherwise it would have been a terror filled evening as I laid in bed with my eyes peeled upwards just waiting for the top bunk to give way and crush me as I slept!!

On Sunday we had meeting with the Blakemores and then spent the day going for walks and playing games before we had to make the long trek home.

What neighborhood doesn't have an assortment of sheep and deformed ponies to look at?

Then it was back home for us!

As you can see from Donnie's face, he's thrilled to have such a normal daughter-in-law! :0)

THE END!!!!

The Great Adventurers Return

We survived!!! We went camping this weekend with Brad and Clarissa and it was so much fun! We drove to Lake George Friday afternoon and then camped at a campground up there. Check out how much stuff we packed for one night!! I was playing a game I like to call "wonder-what-we've-forgotten" and by the looks of things...we didn't forget a thing!

So we get to the camp ground and anxiously drove around looking for our lot, #139 and it was awesome! Not too far from the bathrooms (a necessity for me) and enough room for both of our tents. As we're excitedly setting up our tent with our chests puffed out because it's the coolest tent ever made, we look over and here's Brad and Clarissa:

They're basically setting up the Hilton of tents!! I KNOW that during the night I heard a splash coming from the indoor pool inside that thing! Sure took the wind of out our sails, but none the less, our tent was pretty nice. That night, Clarissa definitely raised the bar on camp food. We had steaks, diced potatoes, green beans, mushroom and onions for supper!!! No hot dogs and hamburgers for this crew!

The weather was perfect. Just a little shower around 6am that only last for a half hour and then it was back to great weather.

In the morning we were glad to see our site hadn't been raided by wild bears or crazy redneck campers, and we enjoyed a feast of pancakes and sausages.

Once we packed up our stuff it was off to explore Lake George and eventually, Saratoga Springs. We played mini golf where Jason beat us mercilessly by about 20 strokes and I had a massive heart attack as I watched a HUGE snake crawl nearly across my feet on one of the holes!!! No joke, this is a picture the grounds crew took of him:

I'm lucky to be alive. After seeing the snake I crossed Lake George off of my list forever and we all decided to go to Saratoga where Clarissa had heard of these paved bike trails in Saratoga National Historical Park. We had a lot of fun. Ended up biking 13 miles total, 12.5 of those were straight up hill! How I squeezed out a smile for the camera is beyond me!

Then we grabbed a quick bite to eat and headed home exhausted!!!! Hopefully my legs will work tomorrow! Now it's off to collapse in my own bed and not have to worry what that weird crawling sensation is on my leg!!

Bring on the wilderness

So Jason and I decided that if we're really going camping in a few weeks, we should probably buy a tent. Not that sleeping out in the wilderness with things with more legs than I have teeth and gnats suicide bombing your face doesn't sound SUPER romantic and fun, but we figured having a tent would probably be a better idea. When Jason said "hey! Let's go camping" and I said "Great! Hampton Inn or Ramada" it became pretty clear we have different ideas on what camping entails. So needless to say we went out Friday night and bought ourselves a tent. I thought something like this would be good:



Here's what we ended up with:





Hmm...not quite what I'd imagined. So how did Jason get me talked into something with no hot water shower attached and no room to stand up?



TA DAAAA!!! He distracted me with something bright and shiny until he had time to take the tent to the register! He said "look at these cute shoes!! They make you look really skinny! You should try them on and get them!" It worked. As you can see from the picture I'm still distracted by my shoes while Jason works quickly to get the tent set up and tags ripped off before I can realize that, while it says it will sleep two, one of those two should be a midget.

Boy won't it be fun to go camping?!?

On Saturday we went to the farm to help with the work project. It was SO hot but the guys got so much done. Won't be long till it's all finished!

Well I was supposed to work tonight, but got put on call. I'm glad for the night off. Although when the pay check comes I probably won't enjoy it as much! :0) Oh well!! Bye for now!

After Convention....

Hi again!! Like everyone I can hardly believe that convention has already come and gone and now it's almost September!! Jason and I have been married 8 months already! That's REALLY hard to believe. Thankfully we're still having a blast. When one or both of us start showing up with black eyes, you'll know the "blast" has ended ;)

We had a great convention! We had Molly, Ben, Darren, Rebecca, and Tyler stay here and it was so much fun. They were the perfect house guests. Who else does there own wash and leaves the sheets laundered when they go!?!? Rebecca turned 21 on the Saturday of convention. So we celebrated with ice cream cake and IBC root beer! (we're pretty hard core partiers!)

Last night we watched Madeline and Oscar for the ENTIRE night!!! Needless to say, they have not learned the joy of sleeping in! At 6:30AM I hear little coos and kicking and look to see Oscar wide awake and ready to start his day! Here I am hardly able to even find my glasses because my eyes are still trying to cross from lack of sleep and Oscar is ready to be entertained! They are super adorable and even though I didn't get my full 14 hours of sleep in, we had a blast with them.

Today I'm the domestic diva! Washing clothes like a mad woman, cleaning, sweeping, scrubbing.... I'm like a modern day Cinderella! And in the middle of all of that, I managed to make Banana bread. (Yes...I know.... Domestic Diva Extraordinaire should be my title!!) So now that it looks like I did something around the house, I can go take a nap until RIGHT before Jason gets home :0)

Here goes!!

Wow! How many of these have I started on a lark and then 10 months later I haven't written a thing! Hopefully I can be more faithful in putting quick updates on here.

For those of you who don't know us and would like to start stalking us, I'm Christina and I'm married to the greatest guy in the world, Jason. We were married December 23rd and I can't believe it's almost 8 months!! I'm currently working 12 hour nights as a Labor and Delivery nurse at a local hospital and Jason is working at a local tinting business where he can be found putting tint on cars, buildings...and whatever else he can find to make darker.

We're really looking forward to convention this weekend! We're going to have a house full and are so excited about it. Those little home repairs we've been putting off for MONTHS are finally getting done. We bought a new couch for our basement and all new curtains for our rooms. Jason mulched outside and everything is starting to look so cute and put together. We should have had company a long time ago!

Basement

Guest Room

Anyways, hopefully I can be more faithful in updating this blog and posting pictures of our super thrilling and exciting life ("christina reading book.....jason mowing lawn.....christina pretending to be busy so jason doesn't have her help mow lawn....") As for me I'm off to try and get some sleep since I have to work 7pm-7:30am tonight!