Worst date ever!

Back in February my dear friend Sandra set me up on a date. Sandra is on an inter mural soccer team and one of her teammates (Steve) was single just like her friend Mandy. So, she ended up giving Steve my number and after several attempts to get a hold of each other we finally set up a date via text message. The first date was great! We went to Lucky Labrador in Multnomah Village and had pizza and hung out for awhile talking. When we left we were both happy with the date and thought we should get together again. Half way through the week I sent him a text asking how his week was and he asked me to go to the movies. This is where it all went down hill. Let me just start this awesome story by saying 2 things:
1. I am not a fancy person, therefor I don't expect you to be overly fancy. What I do expect is that you are put together.
2. I am totally game with paying for myself, I have done this for awhile now and realize that not everyone believes guys should pay for everything.
Okay, so he was to come to my house and pick me up for the movie after he got off work. He showed up in an over sized fleece covered in cat hair. When I say over sized I mean it hung down to probably mid thigh. His hair was all crazy and not even kinda combed. As unimpressed as I was, I thought maybe he didn't have time to properly put himself together since he just got off work. Shockingly enough not everyone is like me and takes their flat iron to work so that their hair can look nice when they go on the date. He walks me out to his car and he gets in and starts brushing off the passenger seat and says "I spilt some dry cereal this morning, let me just brush that off, you can sit on something if you like." Really? I'm sorry I didn't bring a seat cover with me, silly me I thought the seat would be clean. I honestly don't remember when the movie started but on the way to the movies he mentions how much time we have because the movie didn't start for 15 minutes. We were probably 10 mins from the theater and still had to buy tickets. I am definitely one of those people who can't stand to be late especially at the movies. When we got there he says "oh, I have a free movie ticket and I thought we could just split the cost of the other ticket." The other ticket costing $10. Like I said, I don't mind paying for myself but seriously $10! Dude, if you didn't want to pay for 1 ticket then why did you ask me to go to the movies? After I give him the $5 I owe him for the movie he walks over and says "did you want some popcorn?" I was kind of mad and said no. I figured he would make me pay half and really I wasn't about to share anything with him. He then bought $6 popcorn and then threw half of it away at the end of the movie. After the movie he took me home and I said I had to let my dog out and went inside. As soon as I went inside I turned off all the lights upstairs and went down to the basement and called Sandra.
I went to work the next day and told the guys and even they were shocked. I told my friend Leo that had he paid for the whole ticket, the entire evening would have cost him $16. Leo then pointed out it would have cost $16.75 if he had stopped at the gas station to vacuum out the car!

24 hour trip to Yakima.

February 4th was my good friend Hannah Noel's 30th birthday. To celebrate, her husband Brent asked us to come visit for the evening to surprise Hannah. So, Hannah B, baby Claire, Shannon, Tori and I drove up to Yakima for the night.
We drove straight to Brent's Mom's house where we met up with another good friend Marisa. The night before we left we joked with Hannah N. on Facebook about how fun it would be to be hanging out eating Tillamook chocolate peanut butter ice cream and drinking wine, so when we saw their car enter the drive we left Claire (who she had never met) in her car seat in front of the door with a gallon of Chocolate PB ice cream and a bottle of wine and we all hid in the back room. When Hannah walked in she said "I didn't order this" and then she looked at Claire and said "that looks like Claire", Brent's Mom said "it is Claire" and then the best line of the night was when Hannah had realized what was going on and screamed "where are they?" and came running back to the room we were hiding in. She was surprised to see us all!
The rest of the night was spent talking, eating and drinking. We sat at Brent's Mom's house for awhile and then we girls went out of the town (as much as you can in Yakima). We had a few drinks and headed home to the Chocolate PB ice cream. We stayed up till 2 am eating ice cream, drinking wine, talking and laughing. In the morning Hannah N. made breakfast and we hung out in our PJ's until it was time to leave and head home.
Happy Birthday Hannah!
Tori and I in the back seat of the car.
Talking around the table.
Out on the town.
Ice Cream and wine.
The whole gang in the morning.

Mirette Grace Bixby

Over the last year my sister Brooke and Brother in law Eric have been in the process of adopting a baby from Ethiopia. In December they were finally able to go get her. When they flew home we had a welcome home party waiting at the airport. My nephews Jack and Sully were petty excited to see their parents and new baby sister. As soon as Sully saw them he ran down the hall into Eric's arms. I am not sure anyone was as excited as Jack was to see Mirette, he just couldn't get enough of her. Here are some of the pictures from the airport.

Brooke made the boys Big Brother shirts to wear to the airport.



The Welcome Home Party



Sully running to his Mom and Dad, he was so excited to see them.


Brothers with their baby sister.


I love how excited Jack looks!


Meeting Miri for the first time.

Alive and doing well

So, I have taken a bit of a vacation from Blogging. Truth be told I have been a little busy and just haven't wanted to. All sorts of exciting things have happened since I organized my stuff back in January. So, this next week I will hopefully get all caught up on the blogs. So, if you are a regular member of my life you already know what happens and have probably seen the pictures or in some cases even taken the pictures. Be exited folks, I'm back!