Can you put a Dog on Restriction?

Don' t be fooled by the adorable smile. This morning when Keith left for seminary Jada had to go to the bathroom. So I told him to put her out back and I would let her in when I got up a half an hour later. Well I got up and showered and went to get Jada. When I opened the back door she was not there. So I quietly called her name. (I didn't want to wake Shelly up who was sleeping on the couch). Anyways she didn't come. I figured that she must be at the side of the house and couldn't hear me. So I went upstairs to finish getting ready. I noticed that there was a voicemail on my Cell from a number I didn't recognize. Bare in mind that it is 6am at this point. The lady on the voicemail said that she was at the park about a mile away from the house and that Jada was running around the park by her self. Apparently one of the kids (Don't forget I am currently living at my sisters house for the next couple of weeks) left the side gate open and Jada had decided to go for a morning run. How she got to the park I still don't know. I have never taken her there before in her life. My only guess is that she followed someone there. So anyways long story short at 6am this morning I was running around town with wet hair trying to locate my lost dog. She is so on my NOT NICE list today!

We have FINALLY broken ground on our house

I Can't believe that we have finally broken ground on our house. It feels so good to see some progress. We are the proud owners of a cement slab.

Romantic Get Away

Since my Birthday is 3 days before Valentines day. Keith decided to combine both my birthday and Valentines Day. He took me to bend Oregon for the weekend. We stayed in the River house hotel. It was right on the river. Our hotel room had a hot tub and a fire place it was really nice. Then on Valentines Day he booked me a 1 hour Massage and a Foot rub. It was Awesome. They even severed me Sparkling cider and chocolate Fondue. Loved it. We had a great time. Below are some pictures of our weekend.




We went for a drive and in one of the parks there were like 10 deer just laying around eating the grass, they were nice enough to let us take a picture of them. The one above decided that his butt was the best view. We could not get him to turn around.
Above are pictures of the view from the balcony of our hotel room. I don't think the pictures do it justice.
This is a picture from the bridge we had to cross in order to get to the restaurant.



Above are a few pictures of our hotel room. It was such a nice place to stay. I hope we get to go there again sometime. Thanks for a wonderful weekend Honey I love You!!!!!

25 Random Things

So I kept getting tagged on facebook. To type 25 random things about me. So I figured since I spent so much time trying to figure out 25 random things about me, that maybe my blogging friends would like to know a little bit more about me as well.

1) I love to watch cheesy dance movies. If there is dancing in it. I will probably watch it. And yes occasionally I will try a dance move or two. I secretly wish I could dance like that.
2) I love to sing a long to the radio in my car. Although I don't sing very well so I just turn the radio up real loud so that I can't hear my self
3) I am a closet Kenny Rogers Fan (Or I guess I was a closet fan my secret is out now).
4)When I eat colored candy such as Skittles or Jelly Beans I have to eat 2 pieces of the same color at a time. One for each side of my mouth and it drives me crazy when someone will just take a handful and mess up my color flow. I know weird.
5) I can't stand crumbs left on the counter. If you are going to clean the kitchen wipe of the counter. You kitchen is still dirty if your counters aren't clean.
6) I also can't stand it when people leave their cabinet doors open. I will go behind them at shut them. I promise I am not OCD
7) I am a stress case. I generally agree to do way to much and never ask for help. I know its a problem I just can't seem to fix it.
8)I love cars. When there is a car show in town I beg my husband to take me. I can probably tell you the make and model of most cars driving down the street.
9) I hate it when my toe nails are not painted. They look so naked.
10)I love reading but usually don't have much time to read. I have recently taken up books on tape since I commute and have been known to drive around the block a few times because I am not ready to stop listening and get out of the car. Thus making my commute twice as long.
11) I love my Husband he is my best friend. I tell him everything.
12) I think I am addicted to facebook. I can't seem to get enough of it.
13) I am not a morning person. I need at least an hour to wake up and adjust to the day. And Morning people make me angry especially if I have not been been a wake for an hour.
14) I hate hate hate spiders. They creep me out. I don't like the way they move. And I always make other people kill them for me. I am afraid that if I try to kill them I will miss and they will jump on me. YUCK!!
15) I am generally a patient person. Except when I am at work. I am stressed all the time and loose my patience more often than I would like. It is probably because I am usually being pulled in 50 different directions.
16) I love to go camping and 4 wheeling. But it seems we always get so busy in the summer time and do not get to go as often as I like
17) I hate running but have always wanted to be a runner. I am currently trying to mentally trick my self into liking it. I have been running for about a week and a half. I will let you know how it goes
18) I hate folding laundry. I don't have to much of a problem actually doing my laundry but I never seem to get around to folding my laundry.
19) I am an animal lover. I love my dogs. They are like my replacement children. They think they lack attention and they are the most spoiled dogs in the world.
20) I enjoy baking and decorating cakes.
21) I can not stand Oregon Drivers. They drive way too slow and do not understand the unwritten laws of the road. I miss driving in California
22) I would love to drive a race car. I like the idea of driving fast and not getting in trouble for it.
23)I don't like to be told what to do. If you nag me I will purposely not do it just to piss you off!
24) I am actually liking living with my sister and her kids. They are very entertaining there is never a dull moment
25) I sometimes talk to loud. I forget my volume Control. I think it is a Hatch trait. At least that is what my husband says.

Animal Cruelty

I could not help but post these pictures. They make me laugh every time I look at them.

Brody had decided it was a good idea to walk underneath the mixer when I turned it on. I was trying to make frosting to decorate a cake and when I turned on the mixer the powdered sugar went everywhere. Body had no idea he had anything on his face until Jada kept trying to lick him.


Yes I am this mean. I made Jada where this beanie one night in order to get her treat. She was not to thrilled about it. But she will do anything for food.

It's Official we are Homeless!!!!

For those of you who have not heard the story yet. Keith and I have been think of moving for a while now. For the last year it has just been talk. Well about 2 weeks before Christmas we found this new housing development that was being built about 5 miles up the road. We walked through the model homes and really like them. So we decieded we would sign up to build one contingent on if we could sell our house(with the current market we were not even sure we would be able to sell our home). So we put our house on the market a couple of days later. It was in the middle of a huge snow storm so we did not expect any one to come walk through the house until at least after christmas maybe even new Years. Well 2 days after the house went on the market someone came and looked at our house. That night they made an offer and 25 days later we moved out of the house and are now currently living with my sister Whitnie until our house is finished being built. Which will probably be around the begining of July. It all happened so fast we didn't even have a chance to tell anyone including our family that we had put our house up for sale. Anyways this was our first home and we had so many great memories in it. I hope the next family enjoys it as much as we did. Below are some pictures of some of the upgrades we did.This is what our pod looked like after we packet everything into it. Unfortunatley it was still not big enough and we had to go rent a storage unit as well. Who would have thought that 2 people could accumulate so much stuff in just 5 years.

I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas Holiday. We even had a white Christmas this year. Which sounds wonderful, but it made for a tricky ride up to Keith's parents house in the mountains. The state announced that chains were required on all freeways leading into the Columbia Gorge so we obeyed and put chains on our 4 wheel Drive. Which is kind of a pain. Anyways our chains kept breaking (I guess that is what you get for buying cheap ones) So finally we decided to take the risk and take the chains off. We made it just fine to Keith's parents house. We were a little late. But better late than never. We had a wonderful time. And enjoyed watching the kids open their presents.


This is Calum all bundled up to go out in the snow. He doesn't look to happy though!
So we had at least a foot of snow by Christmas morning. I know to a lot of you that is nothing but for us Washatonians that is quite a bit. No one knows how to drive in the snow so everyone gets stranded and the news channels talk like the end of the world is coming.



On Christmas day we went to my sister Whitnie's house for Christmas Dinner. Santa had gotten them Rock Band 2 for Christmas. We played for hours. I am thinking of starting my own Rock Band.