Hiking with Dodge

Ben was excited to have a dog. Two of the main things he looked forward to in regards to owning a dog were driving in the jeep with the dog in the back and head out the window, and camping with a dog. Typical boy for you i guess. Well since it's not quite warm enough for camping yet we thought we'd go on a little adventure up the canyon with Dodge. It was funny at first to see him surveying this new territory, but he quickly got into it and began bounding up and down the rocks, stream or no stream. And of course he'll do anything for treats. Wish we could have gotten everything on film, but lets just say we have one adventurous, and now very dirty, dog.

Happy Easter

Although we don't have any kids of our own I'm still not ready to grow up, so we celebrate every holiday as if we were kids still. I love it.



Ben was a good sport and dyed eggs with me.



This one was my favorite :)

Going on Two Years...

Happy Anniversary to us!! It's already been two years. I think about our special day from time to time and am so grateful for wonderful family and friends . I couldn't have asked for more. I love my man with all my heart and not a day goes by that he doesn't make me laugh, either at him, or with him. You're one in a million baby!

Jam Snobs

We have become accustomed to homemade jam. Its painful if we have to ever buy jam from the store because it's expensive and its just not as good. I have been wishing we lived in Oregon because berries are so much cheaper there. Then we learned about a store called Sunflower Market. If you haven't been there you are totally missing out. They have the cheapest produce I have ever seen and its good quality too! This last week we got a whole flat of strawberries for about 8 bucks. Thats right, for one pound of strawberries it was just 99 cents. Not only that but we buy artichokes here often for about a dollar as well and they are usually pretty big. So this is my plug for Sunflower Market, go there, you will fall in love with produce :) So we went to work this weekend making strawberry jam. Actually Ben mostly took over and he
did such a great job!

This was a fun Elementary School we stopped at. Coolest playgrounds I have ever seen!




We've only had Dodge for about a month now but he has already doubled in size! The first few weeks were rough but he's starting to obey now. He will sit on command and sometimes even stay. He's also pretty good at fetch, does great on walks, and loves to ride in the back of the jeep, but his favorite trick is going down slides. When we take him out to play he will pretty much follow wherever you go. So Ben started going down the slides at parks and sure enough Dodge followed.

Puppy

Yesterday afternoon we picked up the newest addition to our family. He sure is cute but he is also a HANDFUL. He zonked out on the drive home in my arms and then when we got him home he pretty much went right to his crate, it was awesome, he loves it in there. He does NOT however, like being in their with the door closed. We are working on potty training him and he his doing pretty good with it, just has a hard time going back to sleep in his crate when he's done doing his business. This made for a hard nights sleep for both Ben and I, but hopefully it gets better. We've decided to name him Dodge. The guy we bought him from had been calling him Dodge because of his mask on his face..."dodge ram", and it kind of stuck with us. Thank you for your name suggestions though, maybe we'll use em on our next dog...haha. Even after all the sleep Ben did not get last night, he still is loving this dog!

Happy Birthday to Me!

I am now 25, hurray! I had a great day, Ben and I both took the day off so we just hung out together. It was very relaxing. He gave me a blackberry and a new ipod nano, my phone and my ipod were both about ready to crash on me so I really was happy to get new ones. I spent most of the morning trying to figure out all the new features.
I had intentions of going out to eat at a nice restaurant, but decided i didn't want to get ready, so we hit up Cafe Rio instead, i never get tired of that place. I even decided i deserved to get an apple beer since it was my special day. I love those. Ben also had brought me home the cutest ice cream cake and we picked up some movies to watch and called it a night. Thanks Benjo for helping to make my birthday such a great day!

Coming Soon!

We're not sure what to name him so we're hoping for some suggestions from you! Let us know what you think we should name him and if we choose your suggestion you win a prize!

Shocking Surprise

I had school all day yesterday so I encouraged Ben to make dinner so we could eat when I got home. When he came to pick me up from Trax he smelled like food so I knew he had done something. I was so surprised to walk in and see that he had make chicken alfredo! Anyone that knows Ben knows he does NOT like pasta. But he knows that I love it. He figured out how to make alfredo all on his own. This is not a dish we typically have at our house, trust me. Just another reason why I love this man :)

Merry Christmas!

Our first family Christmas card photo

We got nearly all of our shopping done in ONE day

We bought a new snow shovel for our new house, let the shoveling begin.


Treats!

Candy making with my mom, we were too busy to take pictures!

Fudge :)





We received some great gifts from others and gave ourselves some great gifts as well!