Our weekend with Allison & Brandon

Heres a few videos/pictures from the past few days.

Allison & Brandon are here!

Allison & Brandon got in to Seatac airport last Thursday and are here until Tuesday evening. So far weve visited Pikes Market, downtown Seattle, the Seattle Wholefoods and Mt. St. Helens. We (and Holly is included in this "we") climbed until we had about 500 more feet to go and then a Ranger came down and told us we had to turn around and go back down because we did not have the required climbing permit. Oh well, we still had a lot of fun and enjoyed some beautiful scenery. Pics to come later. Currently, Allison & Brandon are down in Oregon touring 8 or 9 wineries. Theyll be back tonight and then we will all enjoy some Albacore Tuna that Brandon purchased while at the Market. Who knows what we will do tomorrow but well update again soon :)

By the way, Holly climbed completely on her own 3/4 of the way up, then we put her in one of the bags and josh carried her down. How many people can say their lhasa apso climbed st. helens??? not many, im sure. But mine DID :)

Also, before we left for st. helens on friday we put in an offer on a house!!! The house is a ranch with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, two car garage and a backyard. Its in a brand new gated community and isnt completed yet (just needs some painting and cleaning up left to do). We are supposed to find out if our offer was accepted sometime today so well soon find out. Heres a picture of the house in its current condition...

and upon completion

One year ago...

So its been a really long time since Ive updated this thing (I dont know why it so difficult for me). Anyways, just this past weekend Josh and I celebrated our first anniversary, yay for us! The first year went by incredibly fast and I dont see the years slowing down anytime soon. Lots of things planned for the near future and we are very excited. First up, buying a house. We figure since we are going to be out here for at least another five years we might as well get a little settled.
I got a job teaching at a studio in Renton called Spotlight Dance, what a coincidence. Ive been teaching a lot in the past few weeks and I love it! The kids are great, the owner is wonderful and the studio is growing and actually moving to a larger space.... yay for job security. Ill be teaching quite a bit this fall and Im really looking forward to it.

Ill be back soon with more updates and pictures :)