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!

Mariner's Game

Here is Russ and me at the Mariner's game. A guy at Russ's work had season tickets and he could not go, so he gave them to Russell. They were the 13th row right along the first base line. It was so fun, and being so close we could actually see what was going on in the game. I think I watched more of this game than of any other I have been to or watched on T.V. We felt all grown up that we were sitting with a bunch of season ticket holders.

Here are some of the pictures of the players. We had such a good time, but they did lose, so that was a little sad!

Seattle Underground Tour

We went on the Seattle Underground Tour a few weeks ago (look I am almost caught up with all of my blogging). It is kinda funny how you live in a place your whole life, but don't go do all of the touristy things. So we finally decided to go on the tour of the first Seattle that was built with David and Cody Koenig. We had not seen David and Cody since they left for Honduras about a year before, so it was really good to catch up with them.

This is a picture from the tour of a crapper, as they use to call them after the creator. Apparently they didn't really have the sewer system set up very well, so they dumpped all of the waste into the ocean. But when the tide came up they would have all the sewer waste floating on the streets. Pretty gross!

Seattle burned to the ground from a glue fire. And instead of rebuilding the city the government built on top of it. However, the business owners did not do this so when the streets were a 10 feet above their entrances, there was a little problem. So they built the sidewalks as you see below. With the skylights to provide light for the sidewalks. This one you could still see people walking on it from above and how it would provide light for the walk. There is a lot more to the history, so you should really go on the tour, it was very informative and fun.

Casey Goes to Montana

In August I went to Montana with my Mom, Geir, Jake and my grandparents. Russ was suppose to come with us, but he got a job and that was a little more important. I didn't get a lot of pictures, but here is one of Jake and Sami. She is the family MONSTER dog. We went swimming

together and she thought I didn't know how to swim or something. I jumped off the dock and she jumped after me. And then she decided to drag me into shore by my arm and thumb. The brusing did not go away for about a month. It was actually kinda scary, she is a little bit stronger than me and nither of us could touch the ground at that time.

Later we went to Glacier and I got some good pictures of the wildlife. Geir and I went walking around trying to find a some other wildlife or something. But all we could find were these mountain goats that were not scared of us at all. Some were even walking along the trail with us.