Mother's Day and B-Day Parties

We went over to my mom's house for Mother's Day and celebrated all of the moms and Russell's and my birthdays. Here is a picture of all of the moms - DeAnne (my Aunt), Shelley (my Mom) and Lenore (my Grandma). It was very fun to see everyone and eat such great food.

We got some great stuff for our birthday's too... Here is Russ with our new clapper. Haha, we are so lazy that we need this in order to turn off the lights before we go to bed. It has been working great so far.

This is what my mom got for Mother's Day from my little brother (and probably a little Geir too). They tore out all of the grass in the front yard and adding landscaping instead. It looks so much better. The plants in the front are suppose to grow about 5-6 ft tall and will make the little sitting area secluded.

Overall it was an great day and amazing weekend.

10K Fever!!

This weekend was our 10k race. Steven and Raime came up to run it with us. Steven wasn't able to run the race with us because he has gout on his knee. So he decided to sit this one out. It was a painful race, but Russ came in FIRST in his age group and I took SECOND in my age group!!! We saw lots of fun people there racing with us and got some fun pictures.

These are my racing buddies, Natalie (with her sister) and Sheri (with her kids). They rocked the race too!!

Here are our before race pictures, and the starting race line. This was the 10k racers all lined up ready for take off.

Here we are about a 1/4 mile into the race. At this point we were still willing to smile and give thumbs up. Near the end I was not willing to do anything but barely lift my feet off the ground.

Here is our after race photo, we are a lot more tired than we look, I promise.

After the race we ate some great pizza at Garlic Jim's and then relaxed our legs in the hot tub. After a much needed shower we went down to Marina Beach in Edmonds and had a little BBQ and took some fun pictures.

Annie and Herbert

Today we met Herbert, Annie Wilcox new HUSBAND!!! Yay, they were married a week ago and are on their way to FLORDIA. They are going to spend the summer there while Herbert works and then move to Idaho to finish up two years of school.

It was so good to see them and get to hear more about the past year and what their plans for the future are. We wish them the very best!!!

They are such a cute couple and compliment each other perfectly!!!

Russell's Birthday

So not much has happened from Christmas to Russ's Birthday. Except study and taking the CPA tests. But there are not any fun pictures that can go with that.
Here are some pictures from Russ's birthday, he turned the big 25. The only good thing about this age is that our car insurance premiums go down, wahoo!!

We went for a walk down to a local park and took some fun pictures and then came back and had some cake/rice crispy treats.

I went out and bought these candles the other day and didn't really pay attention to the type of candles they were, they were just the cheapest. Well they turned out to be the type that relight themselves... oops. It was pretty amusing watching him try to blow out the candles over and over again.

I'll just say it didn't work out so well for Russell, but I thought it was hilarious!!!

Christmas

Sorry this is like four months late, but I have to catch up.

Christmas this year was crazy. On Christmas Eve we went to my Aunt Terri's house in Carnation and had the classic Hall Christmas dinner of pizza. After we opened presents we had the annual Christmas Wrapping Paper Fight. I caught some cool pictures of the action.

Then on Christmas Day we woke up and went to my mom's house in Edmonds and had breakfast and opened presents. While we all enjoyed our loot, Christmas dinner was cooking. After we ate dinner we had our annual food coma enduced after Christmas dinner nap. It was pretty amazing.

Then we raced over to Russ's parents house on Christmas night. All of his family came home for Christmas, so we spent the rest of the weekend with them. It was fun to see everyone again and eat so much amazing food! We were also able to take family photo, which was really fun and entertaining.

Happy Thanksgiving

No Thanksgiving would be complete without a Turkey Bowl. Russ and Steven (his brother) were on one of the teams and I was on the other team. Obviously I played harder, because our team WON!!! This picture is the aftermath of playing in the pouring down rain and mud. It was a lot of fun.

On Friday, Pam, Raime (Steven's new girlfriend) and I went Black Friday shopping. I know, we are crazy. We went to Wal-Mart, Target, JoAnn's and Fred Meyer. I think the worst place was Wal-Mart and Target. But the good news is that we got all of the things we set out for.

Saturday we went to the Festival of Trees at the Red Lion Hotel in Vancouver, Washington. Here is a picture of one of the trees that was decorated with a Santa's Reindeer and sled. It was a lot of fun, there was a little stage where we did a little dancing and picture posing. We also got to sit on Santa's lap and take pictures.

Here are all of us with Santa. The first one is of Pam and Frank Rigby, Russ's parents. Then there is Russ and me. And then Raime and Steven.

After the Festival of Trees we went home to play games. We played Perudo and the guys were totally insensitive and kicked our butts. Here is a picture that I took with my new digital camera of how bad they beat us. I was orange, Pam was green and Raime was black. It was not a good day for women. Now that I have a good, fun camera, I should be posting more. We shall see, of course.

Russell Got A Job

So Russ was contacted over the summer by a tax firm called Bader Martin. He met them at a tax recruting event about six months before and didn't really think anything of it. However, they emailed him regarding an interview for a tax summer internship. That worked out really well for us, since we were going to be moving down to the area for school in the fall. Apparently he made a good impression on them there and they offered him a full time position for when he graduates from the University of Washington. YAY!!!!!! Russell finally got a job after two and a half years of living off me... hah, just kidding. He always calls me his sugar mama, but he will soon be my sugar daddy! So he will graduate in June and start working on July 13th 2010. We are so excited that we will finally be done with school and can start being grown ups... :) Who knows what will come after that... stay tuned!