Merry Christmas!

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Did you know you can go look at old things friends have written on your wall from CLEAR back when?! Ha!

Here are some funny things my friends wrote to me, ranging from 2007 to 2010:

(names will not be revealed to protect the (not-so) innocent)

Congratulations, I thought it was never going to happen. Kidding, but congrats
(referring to me getting engaged)

Hey, you are pretty much the best stalker ever. Okay, well maybe not ever, but I think you're pretty good because I didn't even know you were watching me until you texted me. Even though I thought I heard heavy breathing coming from a bush, but I just thought "It's college, why not?" But next time you stalk me you should leave me a present.

MICHAEL! His name is Michael! And he's beautiful and I love him and... oh ya he's STILL in PRISON! (Hopefully no one reads this and thinks Im in love with a guy whos is prison :)

Heather, you will be so proud of me. guess what I did yesterday for the first time in at least four years? I bought. . . white socks!!!!

She's not dead! Thats all there is to it! We have to watch that episode! Like this weekend Heather! and Im SERIOUS!

Hey H-Bomb! Good luck on your Micro test tomorrow. I'm sure you're going to kill it. I saw some of The Man Who Knew Too Little again this weekend...classic. P.S.-Gueth how many fingerth I have?

You held a duck for ransom! That's AWESOME! I can't wait for the story. lol great now i wont be able to sleep because the suspense will be killing me. ;)

Screthv, the thing is, is that I am sitting by you now, yet still working, and getting NOTHING! I guess I do better when I have distractions :)

Dear Heather, tell Crik that he is in trouble with me and my older sista. 

Of course I remember, that was one of the worst/terrifying moments of my life...seriously! How did we get it out anyways?

Hether!!!! I had no idea you already got your engagement picts! You never talk to me anymore... 

(maybe if this friend knew how to spell my name we would've still talked ;)

...But I think it would of been cooler if you were to see me and then started banging at the glass futilely yelling my name and as soon as I was about to walk away forever, you take a step back and come running at a full pace (even though your full pace is relatively slow, I remember high school) and you lower your shoulder and break through the glass and everyone looks it gets really quiet and I pretend not to see you and run away..

Heather, just wanted to say goodluck at trying to beat me in our upcoming tubing war. And no hard feelings for when you lose, right? Didnt think so :)

Happy Birthday!!!! And congrats on the academic relocation. It's nice that you are starting to take your education seriously.

(I had just transferred to the U from Utah State)

Haha, oh man, our news letters get each other into trouble! Like how I almost passed out/ puked today because of yours!

And a status update from me:

 Heather is so mad that she got ANOTHER parking ticket...that makes 8
Yes it's true, I have gotten 8 parking tickets...maybe more. I've lost count.

Being done with finals and being bored makes for some entertaining finds!
p.s. can you guess which one is from Chris and our very early dating days?

Happy Thoughts

-Only 4 weeks until we will be eating Cafe Rio.

My mouth is watering just thinking about it!

Oh yeah, and we get to see family too... ;)

 SO excited for that!

Homemade Cafe Rio from a few weeks ago.

-I am graduating in June. Holla!

-And Chris only has ONE semester of school work left!

(Unfortunately that semester includes part 1 of boards...)

We have got a serious case of senior-itis going on over here.

-I've decided that even though terms are so old school, they are so much better than semesters.

I can handle a quick 10 weeks of any crappy class.

-It's Thanksgiving break!

3 extra days to sleep as much as I want and spend time with Chris, plus good food.

What more could a girl want?

-Pretty sure it's been raining hardcore for about 3 days non stop.

But I don't even care I'm just so happy about Thanksgiving break.

-We are 6 months away from moving home people!

And that is great news.

-I am married to the greatest man in the world.

He is the L.O.my.L. and we were MFEO.

And that is all folks.

Hope you have a happy thanksgiving!

fall #3

We loooove the fall here in Oregon!

The sun came out one last time so after eating the most delicious lunch ever at Five Guys, we went to see the changing leaves at the arboretum.

I am pretty obsessed with these pink-red trees!

Love these colors!

What the weird tree?! 

Have you ever seen an evergreen/pine tree go yellow, but not in a dead way? 

Although we are very excited to move home in six months,

we will REALLY miss the fall in Oregon.

(Minus the rain!)

There is nothing quite like the fall colors here!

Seattle

A couple of weeks ago Chris had fall break...

and since this was our last break that we will both be here for, we knew we had to head up to Seattle!

It was one of the last things left on our bucket list of things to do before we move away.

The best part of the 3 hour drive? 

Pumping our own gas in Washington!

(Seriously, we can't stand not pumping our own gas in Oregon...the gas stations are always backed up and it takes forever!)

When we got to Seattle we parked our car and took the monorail to go to Pikes Market. 

There's nothing on earth like a genuine, bona fide, electrified, six-car monorail!

And if you don't sing this song every time you hear or say the word "monorail" then you must not be a big Simpsons fan:

 Chris does a great impersonation of Patty and Selma...

Anywho, the Pike Place Market was awesome!

cabbage rose...or rose cabbage, can't remember.

some of Seattle from the monorail

After the public market we rode the monorail back to go to the Space Needle.

 We loved all the views!

 But not so much the freezing wind up there.

We ended our day with dinner and headed back to our hotel to watch our favorite cable shows (house hunters!) and get some shut-eye.

The next day we took the ferry to Bremerton and back.

 It was an hour each way and this face shows how lame I thought it was going to be to sit on a ferry for 2 hours:

 However...we both ended up loving it!

 It was gorgeous and they kept the passenger area warm and toasty.

 We visited the Fremont Troll as well....

Chris having a chat with the troll about his red eye.

And lastly we hit up the Westfield Mall in Seattle....holy ginormous! 

Over 200 stores~ we spent hours there and bought hardly anything due to Washington's ridiculous sales tax.

I was pretty excited to see they had a Delias store (where I order my mile long jeans from)

until we walked in and were the only customers over the age of 12....

It's okay though, I actually got to try on long enough jeans before purchasing them!

It was very exciting.

The Rainforest Cafe had the craziest fish!

And to end our great trip to Seattle, we got a beautiful sunset on the way home.

We loved our quick trip to Seattle and will definitely be going back someday!