Our Townhouse!

Finally some pictures! This is our new place, and we are enjoying living here so far. I posted a whole bunch of pictures of the little community as well as inside our place. The first picture is what you see coming in off of the street. Then there's our lovely front door which we don't use unless people are coming over. We have a 2 car garage but due to the size of our wonderful Lincoln rocket (and our bikes), it's a bit tough to get both our cars in. We need to get more organized and then I think we'll be able to do it. We are located almost directly in the middle of a total of 4 townhouses, but it's quiet so we don't mind. Just a little walk will take you to our pool (which sits directly behind the office at the front entrance), or to the docks where some of the wealthier folk store their yachts! It's a little inlet off of the Atlantic Intercoastal waterway. A fun place to sit and watch for dolphins, manatees, or just about anything else!

Now, lets go to the house! We have a little entry way, then it's straight upstairs to the main floor. The main floor has a living room, dining area, kitchen, and not pictured is our make shift office (which is still a disaster area) and it sits next to the kitchen. Up the next flight of stairs to our 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. The master has it's bathroom right in the room...well at least the sink portion. The only time it's bothersome is when Josh is trying to go to work early and get ready in minimal light so I can sleep. The baby's bedroom is a bit white at the moment! We're waiting to find out the sex before going to town on colors and decorations. It's a work in progress, but it's our home! You're always welcome to come visit, we have more room for you now...so come! P.S. the red car slightly pictured by the front door is NOT the Lincoln rocket...come on now, we take better care of our things!

Fatiue, Laziness, and more...

I always thought that this whole tired thing that comes along with pregnancy went away after the first trimester...well so far for me, it hasn't! I'm still soo tired! I can honestly take a 3 hour nap in the middle of the day and then go to bed at a normal time and sleep until the alarm goes off in the morning! Luckily for me, I have a little bit of "extra" time on my hands right now. My final semester of school is not as time consuming as the past 2 years have been. However, that "extra" time really should be spent doing something productive such as cleaning, organizing, blogging, studying, etc, etc. I'm just lucky to have a very tolerable husband who fully supports me taking care of our baby, and he is extremely patient with my fatigue and constant complaints of "getting big" or not feeling good.

I've promised pictures of our new place to several people...let's just say that we've been slow to get organized enough where I feel good about posting pictures of our pigsty! It's not really that bad, but that really is the reason for no pictures. I've also been thinking of starting to document my weekly or biweekly progress with the pregnancy...so maybe I'll actually post some pictures for you all soon. Keep in mind that we find out the baby's sex in only 2 weeks! We are so excited to find out what we are having and to go out and start spoiling this kid! Until next time...

Trip to Washington!

And we're back! Hello everyone! We have had a very busy past month or so with my clinical year ending, moving into a new place, and then a fun trip to Washington! For the past 6 years Josh has been telling me all about the Ellensburg Rodeo, "the greatest show on dirt"! He's talked about it so much that I wanted to go and find out for myself! So, over the Labor Day weekend, and during my week and a half break from school, we headed to Washington. We stayed in Ellensburg with the Horsley family (thanks again for the hospitality and good food) for 5 days and then spent a few days in Seattle before coming back home. We had a great vacation and loved spending time in cooler weather surrounded by good friends and family! I posted a bunch of pictures from the trip because those are more fun to look at than to read anything I have to say! They are not in order, in fact, they're posted from the end of our trip to the beginning. Have fun! Oh yeah, that rodeo was "The greatest show on dirt"! Unfortunately they can't say that anymore because of a lawsuit from some lame guys (Ringling Brothers) who use "The greatest show on earth".


This is me on a random mountain ledge, we missed the boat to go whale watching so instead we headed over towards the Cascades National Park and went looking for Bigfoot. Unfortunately we didn't find him, but we did find lots of waterfalls, rivers, and beautiful mountains!

Before heading east, we spent a few hours cruising around Antecortes looking out towards the San Juan Islands. It was beautiful! As you can see from Josh's facial expression we were bummed to have missed the Orca watching cruise.

Josh got to see Jeremy Kukes (his long time high school buddy) and his family when we went to dinner at The Palace in Ellensburg.

Old friends, watch out they might be older but they're still crazy! Jeremy, Josh, Eric

Josh and I (and a good picture of my chubby belly poking out! Good thing I'm pregnant!) in Seattle at the Space Center. We didn't go up, but we did check out the music museum next door!

Me loving all the gorgeous fresh flowers at Pikes Place Market! I wish I could've brought some of them home with me!

Fish throwing at Pikes Place Market

Lots of fish, lots of stinky smelly goodness!


We went up to Salmon de Sac and Eric decided he was going to jump off the bridge! We all wanted to; however, both Josh and I were on the injured reserve (I have a baby in my belly and Josh had stitches in his knee) so Eric being "The Man" decided to do the deed himself! Apparently Eric (the smart one of the bunch) had always watched the guys do their crazy stunts and had never jumped off the bridge! He demanded the shorts that Brett had, put them on and headed over to the bridge in the 50 degree weather. He posed for the camera and then jumped! Josh says it made his year!

Eric after his plunge into the freezing river! The bridge is about 25 ft or so...but Josh missed the actual jump with the camera. But don't worry, Brett is going to e-mail us a copy so keep checking back for the update.

This is the group that went up to Salmon La Sac, before the bridge jumping. From left to right, Josh, Jack, Elise, Brett, Eric.

Paula and Lynette eating their elephant ears at the Kittitas County fair! Yum!

Although Josh had 16 stitches in his knee (he cut it open playing soccer 2 nights before we left to Washington) he still wanted to go on a bike ride with Jack. They were supposed to do 100 miles but due to the injury and the cold windy weather, they only went 20 miles. Josh is in Jack's riding gear and it was pretty funny!

Eric, Brett, Josh up at Lions Rock. It was beautiful but very windy and cold!

Josh and I with the infamous Ellensburg bull! It sits in the center of town and apparently Josh has some history with it. He used to sneak over to it in the late hours and spray paint the testicles blue. Oh my husband what a character! ;)

Josh and I up at Lions Rock

We went and picked our own sweet corn! It was so good. Josh took off like a mad man into the corn field (apparently he's done this before) looking for "the good stuff" while I struggled to keep up and kept falling all over the corn!

Jack took us up to Quartz mountain one morning. It was a beautiful drive and fun to be back in the mountains. We saw a coyote and some campers but mostly the place was quiet. We were supposed to be able to see Mt. Rainer in the backround but it was covered in clouds.

Snoqualamie Falls
Josh, Paula, Scott at the viewing area of Snoqualamie Falls.

Paula and Scott at the troll that lives under the bridge in Seattle. It's near the U district (I think) and is a bit random but fun!

A picture of Mt. Rainer from the car while we were on our way to the airport our last night.

2 years of marriage and Yep...I'm pregnant!

Thank you to all of you who have made our little announcement that much more fun! We are so excited to be parents and to answer the number 1 question we've received....Baby Clark is coming March 09! Which really makes me barely pregnant! Currently I am 9 weeks-and no I haven't been feeling too sick, yet. And although I know from a medical stand point (and hopefully some common sense) that our baby is only the size of a grape and I'm not supposed to be showing, I swear my belly is poking out and my clothes are already getting small! Josh keeps saying I'm just going to have a big baby! Maybe it's just gas??? Haha! Realistically I just need to eat better! :)

Below are a couple pictures from us celebrating our 2 year anniversary this past Monday. We went out to dinner and splurged on dessert. It was a lot of fun. I'm so grateful to be married to my best friend and my "match match". I couldn't have wished for a better man to share my life with. I love you so much babe!

The big day has finally arrived!

We had an appointment at the birthing center today and were able to hear a heart beat!

July Fun...

We got a good laugh at this car last night. It's a decked out Lincoln with an obvious lift and huge rims and tires as well as Lamborgini doors! Crazy! We went with some friends to South Beach last night and ate at a place called Big Pink...we got there around midnight and literally searched an hour for a parking space on the street when we finally gave in and payed $10 to park in a lot. We ate and finished our "dinner" at around 2am. On our walk back to our car Josh and Punj witnessed some domestic violence taking place in the street. A man punched his wife so hard that her legs literally flew out from under her. Us girls saw her on the ground after the fact and my first impression was that she was drunk and fumbling in the street. Josh was ready to crush the guy! Anyway, to make a long story short we ended up helping this woman get her face cleaned up and then called the police. When we drove past a while later they had arrested the guy...good thing. I guess you know why we hardly ever go to South Beach!!

Another interesting adventure yesterday...we went to a wedding on a beach in Key Biscayne and following the wedding this religious group started baptizing people in the ocean. It was a bit strange to us, reminded me of "O Brother Where Art Thou". I guess it's good to see them demonstrating some kind of faith huh?

A couple in our ward were married yesterday, it was a beautiful setting but very hot!

Josh and I before the wedding. Everyone was supposed to wear all white which made everthing look uniform and very beautiful.

We stopped at a park near our home last weekend. There is always so much wildlife at this park! It's fun to go and see it all! This spider grossed me out!

This turtle was the largest one in the water, most of the others were a lot smaller.

Josh had fun taking pictures of this iguana. I personally don't like getting too close to large reptiles!

This next bunch of pictures were taken a few weeks ago. We had lots of fun bowling!!

Genie and Jamie
Josh and I
Grant and Genie
That's me...I'm kind of a dork!

The Swenson's and the Recalde's.

Going to see the Marlins play!

At the game!