Never Ending

Since yesterday was Jason and I's day off he decided to surprise me and take me on a little get away!

Although everything didn't go as planned it was still a blast!

We were on our way out of town and drove past one a Jason's friends house so we picked him up and brought him along for the ride!

We headed up to Snoqualmie Pass to go tubing and play in the snow!

The line was outrageous!

There was no way I was going to pay money to stand in line for three hours and get to go down the bunny hill once!

NO WAY!

Jason had the bright idea to head to Seattle for dinner!

Since we were exactly dressed for the occasion we stopped in North Bend and picked up a new outfit!

(:

Then we made the short drive to Seattle's downtown.

We decided on a fun place..

Gameworks!

For those of you who have never been..

It's like never ending fun!

It's a huge arcade for big kids!

But it is still kid friendly..

You pay to put points on a card and you go around swiping the card at the games you want to play!

So much fun!

We ended up eating there too.

It was really good food!

Jason won me a giraffe....

ADORABLE!

After that we hopped across the street to the

CHESSECAKE FACTORY!

Yummm....

Just couldn't help myself! I had to take a few bites on the way home!

The guys stopped at Legends Casino for a little bit and we were home by 11pm!

And now were  back to reality today..

Jason at work at 4am-8pm today

and I'm at home cleaning up from our fun till work at 5pm!

I love days off (:

Christmas

Christmas has come and gone! It's so sad! Everything we looked forward to all year!

Well! Only 363 days left!

Jason and I did a little bit of last minute grab and go shopping at Costco and as tradition states..

I get the honor of having these given to me (:

Aren't they gorgeous!

Christmas Eve

So because we got the privilege of having two Christmas's this year we planned out that we would spend Christmas Eve with Jason's dad Joe!

So we got all of our snacks together...

 And lucky enough this what we came up with! Man was it delicious!

We started digging in when Joe said we have to run to the store to grab one more gift..

Jason and I look at each other puzzled and say Okay?

So we all pile into the tahoe and head for Kennewick.

We end up at Lowe's and start getting this huge box moved into the tahoe!

It was a grill! Not just any old grill!

A Char-Broil 4 burner Commercial series propane grill!

Jason was so excited!

Joe said the only condition is that when he comes to town and comes for dinner we're grilling!

We happily agreed (:

As we moved on to eat Jason had made Ham & we had the good old fashioned dinner.

We decided it was getting late so it was time to open presents!

We thought it would be a good idea to get Joe a vacuum.

A robotic vacuum that it (:

For those of you who don't know Joe is the Lieutenant at Coyote Ridge Prison.

So he works nights so we thought it'd be a good idea to give him something that could clean the house while he was asleep during the day!

Yay us!

Anyways, Joe ended up buying me an awesome camera so I can take video and pictures all the time now! And Jason got to open the grill cover!

Since Joe had to head to work we sent him off with dinner leftovers.

We decided that it would just be better to open presents now than earlier in the morning because we had to get stuff ready for Christmas Day at the McGarys!

Of course Jason makes me go first.

This guy is amazing. It's ridiculous!

And just to start naming things off!

Apron

HUGE Cookbook

Cute Picture Frames

P.S I love you

Shopping Spree in Seattle

Ipad2

Iphone4S(got that early)

New Coat

Boots

Jeans

Shirt

&More!

Jason got an xBox360 + Kinect

some under clothes essentials

Jeans

Shoes

(:

It was a great Christmas!

Christmas Day

We got everything ready to head over to McGarys and loaded up!

Started out by getting all of the snacks together and ready to go.
In which the Ottleys arrived!

Opened all our presents (:

I got some under clothes essentials for the cold!

Muchly appreciated!

 And an awesome giftcard to Hobby Lobby

I think they must have forgotten I'm not too good at math!

 Jason got his favorite game

And an ihome that we can put our iphones on and the ipad2 on!

Coolest invention ever!

And he got a video game for his new xbox360!

Jason and I decided to give a little something extra this year.

Yes, we drew names and we got the present for them!

But we decided that we'd give the parents a lil something!

Decided to give Curtis the Kindle Fire

and Julie a Paula Dean kitchen pots and pans set!

And we couldn't resist getting Gav some Cars stuff(:

 We all sat down for food and man was it good!

Prime rib!

You never can go wrong!

Huge feast of delicious food. We were all stuffed.

Played with our new toys for a bit then did Gingerbread houses!!

I think we won the cutest category!

We were lucky enough to get to help Katelyn make her house!

Aren't we cute!!

After we cleaned up that huge mess it was time for the big kids to go to work!

Blaine was headed to the airport as well to take off for Stephen's wedding this week. But we were off in a flash!

I love Christmas! This year was amazing.

Better than any other(:

Fun Filled Day!

Yesterday consisted of work, food and fun!

I got the lucky chance to get up at 7am to be to work at 8am.

We finally got done with our flight at 11am.

So I raced home and threw on some decent looking clothes and Jason and I

headed to lunch at Olive Garden with the parents!

Aunt Terri was even in town so we "drug" her along too!

It was great to see her! We talked about the McGary family Christmas Party coming up!

Besides the salty water, and the power going out, it was delicious.

After lunch we headed on a road trip to "E-Burg" as everyone but me likes to call it I guess,

 Jason and I got in a discussion how, why is it "e-burg" and not Ellensburg.

I mean come on, I didn't walk around and say, "Yay! R-Burg!!" When I lived in Rexburg!

Just seems weird to me!

Anyways, it was a lovely ride jammin' out to our favorite songs!

Went and did the highlight of our trip at the Kittikas County Courthouse

and headed back on the road when we saw a Yamaha Store.

Oh the toys!

Jason loved it!

After we left that great place we headed down the road and the Chevy Dealership caught his eye!

So we stopped and looked  at the dream...

After we drooled a little bit we headed on our merry little way.

Jason surprised me by taking a quick stop at

MINERS

And let me tell you!

About the word

DELICIOUS!

Grabbed our food and raced back to Tri-Cities for us to both go back to work!

Yay us! It was a fun filled day!

Thanks to everyone who participated!

Where are you Christmas

We finally got in the Christmas spirit today and set up shop!



The stockings hung up

Tree bought and decorated

Even Shadow and Mater got into the action

Now to celebrate the day, Jason's cooking dinner(:

Happy Holidays!

Thanksgiving

We celebrated Thanksgiving this year with everyone at Gama & Papa's house!

Filled with food, nerf gun wars, pool, four wheelers, and sleep!

To prepare for the nerf gun war we got some "toys".

It was like Christmas at our house... Jason loved it!

Our team was the best.

We should have  woulda won,

...we had a few cheaters!

Cough* Cough!

The pool was a blast when Jason was shooting, pretty sure I lost all the games for us!

Yay me!

Horrible partner!

BEST THANKSGIVING EVER!!

p.s. Mom! You're hired for planning Christmas too(:

As Promised!

As I had said in previous posts I wanted to do the "brick effect"

in bedroom #1.

aka Jason's office!

So after I finished cleaning the house I sat down with Mater and we taped out some bricks

It slowly came together and I grabbed some paint and tested it out

Just a rough basic idea.

I wanted to show Jason what it would look like

There are so many different options

Leave the dark brown there and do the white lines

Or paint them all white and do cream lines

SO MANY OPTIONS

The wall looks odd now having a small corner done

In the end I think it'll look good

after my test run I'll only do until the blue line probably!

Too much taping(:

After this fun Mater and I took a walk.

He's never really been on a walk so I decided since it was so sunny

WHY NOT!

Well ladies and gents, we have one lazy puppy on our hands

Around the corner he yanked my arm off to....

Yupp!

Lay down...

My thought out loud and in head was..

"Really?!, You're seriously laying down already.

We just left. And I thought I was out of shape"

Aren't puppies supposed to have energy?

Mater. You're such a goof.

But I still love ya!



Saturday Night

We  Jason had the brilliant idea of getting a fire  pit!

We headed to lowe's our new backyard friend just down the street.

And bought us a cool little firepit

Jason and I are a great team when it comes to putting things together.

I remember dad would grab all the pieces out of the box and just say

"oh this looks like it goes here"

And just start drilling.

Jason grabs the tools  I pull out all the nuts and bolts and tell him what goes where

Its a great team effort... Until I read the directions wrong and Jason corrects me.

(:

We stopped off at our other friend Wal*Mart

grabbed marshmallows and chocolate and graham crackers

After dinner sat out by the fire

Perfect Saturday Night

&I couldnt ask for anyone else to spend it with!



The Creative Curse

My latest day off has driven me to my favorite store

HOBBY LOBBY

once again poor Jason is stuck with my annoying creative flow.

I got the idea for something for our house and figured that would be the best place.

Well I intended to get things for our bedroom

(white walls need something)

To which I ran into a unpleasant amount of reasons to purchase anything but.

I for some odd reason am having a hard time with this room.

The only room without fireworks screeching out of the door when opened.

Anyways back at the story.

I quickly had ideas flowing in and out of my head

I looked down and my hands were full to which I had a few thoughts.

A. Consalidate the return carts the employees were using

B. Just put stuff back and deal with the task at hand

C. Go up front and grab a cart!

Too many thoughts with all my ideas;

Which is when I called Jason

....I'm so excited

for what?...

...all the stuff I got

oh for our room...

... Well, not exactly

Where now...

I ended up purchasing blank cardboard letters and ran up and down each aisle

Everything was jumping out at me and couldnt decide.

I finally came up with the idea to put the letters down the bare hallway

To help tie the kitchen and hallway together of course...

All is said and done it ended up with this.

Black..Lime..White

Till another rainy day full of ideas.

Next:

Jason's office. Aka Old Game Room

The optical illusion of brickwork on the walls!

Stay tuned!

(: enjoy the rain!



Creation

My latest day off has driven me to my favorite store

HOBBY LOBBY

once again poor Jason has to deal with my creative fopauph

Memories

Okay, So for all of you who are thinking, "what on earth could this picture have to do with a blog"

Let me explain...

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away in Cortez, Colorado, lived the McGary Family

We had neighbors who owned turkeys....

(you think they're harmless? think again)

I am traumatized forever.

The male and female turkeys would see me and Blaine walking out to the bus stop

and start heckling towards us.

I remember we would walk out the front door, and start grabbing rocks on the way out our long driveway

VICIOUS! Let me tell you.

These things would come after us and chase us.
So we would sit there in the tree throwing rocks at these turkeys until the bus came for school.

I even remember the male turkey coming over and reliving itself on the backporch all the time

and dad going out there with a broom and stabbing at it.

In turn it just flapped its wings and started pooping even more.

So yes, this picture is taken from inside the Tahoe.

At Jason's friends house.

Where I knew I was safe!

So thank you unknown neighbors for the GREAT memories.

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New Addition

We are now proud parents of a Purebred German Shepard/Lab Mix Puppy(:

He's 10 weeks old and adorable!

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY MATER OSTREM!

New House(: &birthday!

As many of you know the house is finally getting somewhere!
 Jason and I have had loads of long fun nights getting stuff in and situated.

After painting almost every room in the house we started moving everything in.

Let me explain.

Front Room: Was: Dark Green/Light Green Now: Cream/ Light green

Kitchen: Was: Yellow/Blood Red Now: Yellow/White

**thank you to aunt Rachael for vinyl for wall**

Mstr BR: Was: Dark Grey/Purple Now: White

Bathrooms are both a a tan color and accented with green in the guest bathroom & red in the master.

The walls are finally filling up with many different decorations!

**thank you HOBBY LOBBY**

BIRTHDAY!

My birthday was on a Sunday this year. So Jason the amazing guy he is threw me a surprise birthday party Saturday night!!

With family and friends! It was great (:

It was a blast!

Thank you everyone again for the gifts!

Especially Jason.

Check out these gorgeous things!

And a cotton candy machine(:

 And he got me some beautiful flowers that are now on the table!

NOT PITCURED: Starbucks Travel Cup!

My brithday was great!!

Thank you once again(:

&BABY: I love you!

Thank you for making me feel special on my big day

and creating memories I will never forget!!

Save the Day!

I honestly feel like I don't give this girl enough credit.

She is a GENIUS!

No words can describe. I know it's kinda ridiculous.

I hate to say it.... But she might be my new KESHA!

Her new song "Domino" brightens my day.

It's one of those songs you grab you're girlfriends, hop in the car, with the windows down, sun shining!

...................................................

 Helps me get through those long work days!

I catch myself singing on the tarmac..

Embarassing?

How could you be? With a brain like hers!

So thank you Jessie J.... THANK YOU!

Oregon Coast

Well, since the only people who really read my blog were with me this weekend. I think I'll just post my experience through my pictures!
It was a blast! Thanks to everyone (: