Seattle trip.

This weekend we went to Seattle. My salon was going to a hairshow in Bellevue so we decided to make a trip of it. Every time we go to Seattle we like to stay with our friends Sara and Jason. Jason is a friend of Bobbys who he used to work with when he worked at the John L. Scott office up in Bellevue. We love these guys and wish they lived in Portland. It's like a big slumber party every time we stay and we love it!! They have the cutest little 3 year old Magnus, who I adore.

We also decided to do Saras hair while we were up which was way fun... and of course we decided to take some pictures.

Sara and Jay. :)

Welcome to my husband.
Her hot new do. :)

We want to make it to Seattle more. We don't get to spend enough time with Bobby's family which I think is important. Bobby took Monday off (which I always have off) and we went to dinner with his whole family to celebrate his sister Coley and niece Brookes birthdays. His family is wild and so much fun. Glad we got to spend some extra time up there.

Being a wife is hard work.

Ok so I KNOW what you're thinking. All you moms out there are like "yeah you think that's hard just WAIT till you have a few babies." And really... I can't wrap my head around that. Is that a problem that I can't? I mean you could throw a baby at me right now and I'd be happy as a clown but really... are you ever REALLY ready for children? All I know is I still have a ways of perfecting my "housewife" duties.. responsiblities... obligations.. whatever word makes you happy.

But I can tell you this. I am good at the following:

-Baking. I could bake all day and all night if someone allowed it. I'd also probably be 4593 pounds, but I'd be happy. This is not necessarily a good thing either, because even though I tend to go for the "healthy" baking--both Bobby and I are kind of healthy nuts-o's and my husband gets mad at me when there are treats around. Hmph. :(
-Cleaning WHEN guests are coming over. I never EVER knew I would be like this... I've always known I was on the "messy" side... but when people are coming over to my home I don't know what it is but I get a LITTLE crazy. I've never vaccuumed so much in my life. (literally... if you knew my last apartment I went a whole year without vaccuuming... don't judge me, i was rarely home so it really wasn't that dirty). Maybe it's that I like people coming over and thinking "wow she's not as bad as I thought she'd be". I don't know but it's a little OCD.
-Telling my husband when he is wrong. I'm KIND of opinionated and as my family likes to tell me I think I'm always right. But really don't we all? I'm SLOWLY learning that marriages can't really work like this. Yes Bobby lets me have my way 98% of the time, but it shouldn't be 98 it should probably be like 50%? Ya? I'll work on it. Either way I don't know how good of a thing this is, but I do know I'm good at it. :)
-Ok back to cleaning. I'm good at it when I do it. That goes with Laundry. I never realized how much more laundry I have to do when living with another person. Sheesh.


So I'm sitting here trying to think of more things I'm good at but... I think it's always easier seeing the things we're bad at. So the list goes as follows...

-Deep cleaning every week. I didn't think about this when we signed up to live in a place that has 4 bathrooms, 3 bedrooms, a den, and a garage and is 3 levels.
-Organizing. We've been married for almost 2 months now and I still haven't gone through my boxes of "stuff" (non-clothing related) from moving. Yikes.
-I'm bad at taking advantage of my only REAL day off (monday). Instead I'd rather.... go hiking, go shopping, go to the gym, sleep... you know. All the selfish things I get to do. For some weird reason running those erands, grocery shopping, and scrubbing those toilets doesn't sound as appealing as the others. dang.
-Reading my scriptures every day. We're AWESOME at saying our night-time prayers together but shoot that scripture study can be hard sometimes. This is one I am sad about and we are CONSTANTLY trying to do better. We see great things in our relationship when we are studying together.

So I guess I shouldn't go on more. This whole marriage thing is such an adventure. I'm not gonna lie... I thought this newlywed thing was going to be a sinch. Afterall... we've known eachother basically our whole lives... loved eachother for what feels like an eternity.. and dated longer than the average lds couple. I knew his flaws, he knew mine... but I am learning EVERY day things I need to be better at. At the end of the day I love it. I love him, I love us, I love our not so always clean house, and I love that we are always happy to see each other.

Yay for marriage.

And she's gone.

SO this is Cara Jeanne Eisenbach. And I'm pretty sure it's safe to say she is my bestest friend in the whole wide world. We've been best friends since 4th grade, back when she called me pee hair and I called her poop hair (we didn't like each other at first). We were actually ROYAL enemies. Once our 4th grade teacher Mrs. Wilhelms got us to sit down and talk out our differences we've been bff ever since. She's a strong mix between a sister and a best friend. We are brutally honest with each other (she likes to tell me when I'm orange and I like to tell her when her hair looks like crap). She is my traveler. We couldn't be any different. She doesn't want to settle down, if she could she would spend her money on traveling for the rest of her life. Me on the other hand, big dreams were getting married and raising a family. But no matter where we are, we always talk and are ALWAYS close.

And today, (her birthday) I am so very sad. :( She moved to Germany yesterday for at LEAST a year and won't be back in that year at all. She's going to be an Au pair, and REALLY I'm SO excited for her. She's wanted to do this for a while, but I'm just sad to have her leave me. I don't think I've ever gone this long without seeing her.

Besides Bobby, she is the bestest friend I've ever had. She's gone through everything with me. And I will miss her so very much. Love you Cara. :)