~Wednesday Writings~

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It's Wednesday, marking the middle of the week, and I am so excited for the weekend! Mainly for the break from work but also because Brian and I are going up to Portland for a Halloween/Birthday Party. It is at our friends house, Linus, who is the coach of the Blazer Stunt team, and his wife Beth, so we will get to hang out with all our Blazer friends that we haven't seen in awhile. We are really excited to see everyone again!

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Brian talked to Horton's, the people who are working on our car, and said they received the welded head from the shop and will put the engine back together. We should get the BMW back on Thursday or Friday. Now, I know I should be really excited, but I think I won't be happy until I see the car in our drive way, ya know? It will be weird to have both our cars in the drive way, since we moved into our new place almost 3 months ago we've had either his car or mine in the shop. I pray we will finally have both cars for a long time!

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Brian is studying hard for his MBA class and I am really proud of him. He stays up late posting entries and writing papers and it reminds me how grateful I am to be done with school. He has such a drive to go far though, and he knows his Masters will help him in his career. Very admirable hun, ♥ you :)

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So Brian and I have been working REALLY hard towards paying off all our debt, that's right, ALL of it. We (mainly Brian) read a book, "Total Money Makeover" and we have been living by it ever since. The book's key phrase is, "Live like no one else now, so later, you can live like no one else." And that my friends is our plan, we are getting rid of debt and contributing to our Roth IRA's. About 2 weeks ago we paid off a credit card and last Friday we paid off the bug! Can you believe it?! We are so excited and have been working so hard to avoid unneccessary spending. We limit eating out, buy only neccesary groceries, no shopping sprees, no cable, and most importantly we live by a budget.

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Brian is enjoying his job and things are going well for him at UPS. He talks about moving into management in the next year or so, but says he really does like driving. My job is going pretty good, some days I feel very productive and good at what I do. Other days I feel like I should be doing more and be overwhelmed like everyone else around the office.

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Well, that is all that is on my mind right now so I will get back to work (can you tell which kind of day at work I am having if I have time to write this entire blog at work?). Have a wonderful Wednesday ♥

~Pumpkin Carving & Beavers~

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Friday night was the 9th annual Pumpkin Carving Contest at Tiff and Eric's house! Brian's sister, Sara, came down and we all went together. Brian and I had this great idea to replicate our wedding cake out of pumpkins, unfortunately we weren't able to follow through. Brian worked really hard the night before, being a good student and finishing his paper for his MBA class. So, we weren't able to get the pumpkins and do the necessary preparations. But that's okay, we were still able to enjoy our friends company and holy cow did people do some amazing work!

The pumpkin(s) on the right was 2nd place.

Chewbaca on the right was 1st place! The back of the pumpkin was carved so when the candle was lit it said Star Wars, you can kind of see it in this picture. Sara and I chatting it up.

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Saturday morning we got up and I cooked breakfast for us, french toast and bacon, on the griddle we got from our wedding, man do I love that griddle! We then got ready and did a little shopping in Salem. Brian needed essentials (underwear) and I had a gift card for Nordstroms so I bought a Columbia vest for the winter :)

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After shopping we went to Bauer's house and had a great time with friends. The Beaver game was on the radio so we listened to them win, Go Beavs! We also brought MJ to play with their miniature pincher, Porter, I think they both had a lot of fun and tired each other out! We decided for Halloween that Porter is going to be a groom and MJ is going to be the bride, they are going to be adorable!

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Still no BMW, after over a month of it being in the shop they are still working on it. I think this is a new world record and we should get a prize or something. We are hoping soon, they told us we would get it the middle of last week so it better be coming soon.

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I guess that is all the news for now, have a wonderful Monday! ♥

~Cough, Sneeze, Kleenex, repeat~

Well, I got sick late last week and man it is hanging on. Saturday and Sunday I could barely talk and I haven't had a good night's rest the past 4 nights. I didn't want to be selfish so I got most the people in my office sick, just so they weren't feeling left out ;)

Brian and I have been decorating the house inside and out with halloween stuff, it looks pretty good too. I will take some pictures and post them a little later. We have some bat lights in the yard, ghost silhouettes in the window, and a pumpkin around our porch light.

We went to a wedding on Saturday, it was for our college friends we cheered with, Chris and Brittany. They were also our old roommates, Brian and Chris lived in the apartment right below Brittany and I, how convenient! It was a very pretty wedding, the reception was held at the Hilton and was decorated gorgeously. We saw so many familiar faces from cheering at OSU and Blazers, it was really fun to see everyone again.

Brian and I are planning a cruise next year, Septemberish, with all our friends. We want to make sure we do some traveling before we start a family and a cruise with all our friends seems like the perfect idea! We are still unsure of details but we wanted to get the idea out so people start saving :)

We are hoping to get Brian's car back this week, yay! Yes, it has been in the shop this whole time, I think 1 month. The head was cracked and a place in Salem is welding it, it has taken so long because they had to pinpoint the problem and take the engine apart. It's going to be weird having both our cars, it seems like ages since we've had both of them! Oh, and they aren't charging us as this should have been fixed the first time around, what a relief!

Well, now that I've bored you with a long, tedious post and included no pictures, I will sign off and post some pictures tonight.

Have a wonderful Monday ♥

~Pictures~

I wanted to post the most recent wedding pictures we received. These are the formal ones, I was so happy with all our pictures and so glad we got so many, I LOVE pictures. Hope you enjoy :)

The wedding party, beautiful :)My new family, so exciting!
My parents, can you believe they are 50?! I mean 39 ;)
Outside Green Villa

This is one of our favorite pictures...

Some attitude, classic :)
The place we got married at was gorgeous inside and out!

~Go Beavs?~
This past weekend Brian and I went to the Beaver game, courtesy of my work :) It was the first PAC-10 game of the season, Beavers vs. Cal. It was fun to get to go and the tickets were pretty good, but the Beavers were not so fun to watch. We will always be Beaver fans, through the good times and the bad, but holy cow our defense was unreal to watch. They were falling all over the field and it would take 3 of our guys to take down 1 of their guys. But again, the weather was fabulous and it was a fun day.
Saturday night we watched movies with Shane and Cheurysia, we had to watch a Zombie movie because Brian loves Zombie movies. I think it was called Sever, it wasn't too scary, but it wasn't too good either. That's okay though, we watched Scary Movie 4 afterwards and laughed quite a bit! Brian went up to Portland on Sunday to help our friends Gretchen and Marcus move into their new house, he said it was a really nice house! While him and his huge biceps helped them move, I decorated the house in Halloween stuff! I was waiting until October because I didn't want to jump the gun:) It looks good, but now that we have a bigger place I think we need more decorations, oh dear, another trip to Target, darn ;)
Yesterday we went and watched my 2 nieces and nephew for my sister and brother-in-law. We had a really good time and it makes it so much easier when they are the cutest kids and the most well behaved in the world ;) I'm not bias at all. I played barbies with Jaidyn and Kailey and our dog MJ kept my 1 year old nephew, Porter, very entertained. Brian read them a bedtime story and rocked Porter, what a wonderful sight it is to see babies in his arms.....don't worry though, we're gonna wait.
Well, I am going to try to post some pictures later, to juice up the blog! But goodbye for now! ♥