North by Northwest: September 2009

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

September already?

Yep, thats Nick, with his weldor inside the pipe, welding away- and who ever said management can't actually do the work...

Crazy view of the Lake in McCall

It feels like this year has blown by at some sort of incredibly fast rate! September 16th, already!

Things have been busy so here is just a quick, how-do-you-do, yes I still know my blog exists, entry:

Poor Nick has been back out of town for, well, since May of this year. He was in Toledo working on a pipe project which was with his Dad. They even got to room together at the sweet Comfort Inn in Newport, lucky them! After leaving the Toledo project in August, Nick got to go back to Ontario (Oregon). There are, of course, goods and bads to Nick being in Ontario. The bad? Well, Nick is gone. The good? It makes it easier for me to fly out to Boise and drive up to McCall!
Which brings me to BUSY! After hosting Amanda's bachelorette with Jessica, I had one weekend off (however, Nick didn't come home until Saturday and left Sunday) and then the following weekend was Amanda's wedding (as mentioned in the prior post). The following weekend (Labor Day), I flew out to Boise and we headed up to McCall for a weekend of Tennis, walks, studying (for the CPA exam) and general R&R.
This past weekend, Nick headed back to McCall (alone) and I headed to Eugene to see my parents, meet up with a classmate from School Year Abroad Spain (Junior year in high school) and my Grandpas somethingith birthday party. I also met up with Kate, a classmate from Sheldon that I haven't seen since Junior year in high school! It was great to catch up with her, with Ben from SYA and great to see my family.
That brings us to Nick. Poor Nick has not been home in 3 weeks. Sad. And when he does get to come home, he has to drive back from Ontario (400 miles) on Friday and then turn around and drive back on Sunday (the same 400 miles). And a BORING 400 miles at that. I'm not sure about you guys, but have you ever driven I-84 across the state of Oregon? You dont get flatter or more boring than that drive. The guy must really love me to want to drive that all the way back just to see me for a day and a half!

So-other than a ton of additional stuff happening these days that I just cant remember at the moment, that is what we have been up to.

This is hail in McCall-they have some of the coolest weather up there-snow like you wouldn't believe, hail, thunderstorms, rain...I truly love it up there!

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

I always thought it would be entertaining to do a post called my best friends wedding (haha). Well, over the weekend, specifically, August 28, 2009 - my best friend (since I was 2) got married to an amazing guy (Josh). I would like to add that it was my wonderful husband's idea over years ago to introduce them (what a matchmaker).

The wedding was held at Roche Harbor, San Juan Island, Washington. Ali (also a bridesmaid), Russell (the pseudo babysitter) and Tanner (the ring bearer) drove 6 hours up on Wednesday night after a disastrous run in with the spray tan machine (orange fingers and toes anyone) and a near complete meltdown of Russell as he recounted a friends episode where Ross spray tanned his front 3 times and his back 0. Off we drove and finally made it to Whidby Island, WA where Amanda graciously lent us her garage room attachment thingy. Tanner experienced his first night in a sleeping-bag (Ali, seriously, this kid has got to get out more!) I almost forgot the best part-none of us eat fast food, like ever. We were STARVING and the cooler with the sandwiches was burried in the trunk-"lets go to Carls JR" some bright individual said in the car. Russell got sick (sorta) and the rest of us felt like garbage.

We awoke the next morning and headed to the ferry landing where we met up with Jess and Neil, Scott and Heidi and, unbeknownst to us, pretty much everyone else in the wedding party. We took the ferry over (1 hour of pure beauty) and then settled in at Roche Harbor Resort (beautiful, historic, amazing). Rehearsal dinner, rehearsal, drinks, bed.

We spent Friday morning primping, makeup, hair, mimosas, food, repeat. The wedding was AMAZING and fun was had by all!

Memorable moments:

Carls JR disaster
Spray tanning (were our fingers supposed to be orange?)
Tanner in a sleeping bag
Tanner waking in the middle of the night ("mom, i'm really scared!" "Tanner! Grab your pillow and get in bed!"
Tanner not being able to fall asleep "mom, I feel weird" "weird sick, or just weird" "I dunno, just weird, whats that on the ceiling, mom, turn on the lights"
Russell breaking the blow up bed he was sleeping on "kenzie, does this thing have a built in pillow?"
Russell talking about Sarah, nonstop
Amanda and Josh looking amazing! And so sweet with eachother
Quality time with the girls
Kenzie stumbles into the room late at night and Russ, Ali and Tanner are in the room "Ali, Russ doesnt have any blankets and is still dressed" "He's drunk, just stop talking to him and he will go back to sleep"
Jessica waking up the whole old hotel because she left her room key in the room for her middle of the night bathroom trip and then pounding on the door for hours while Neil was passed out.
The first dance song stopping and the whole group clapping a beat for Amanda and Josh
Losing our voices singing Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal (how many times does he say Annie are you okay?)
Discovering Ceu, a brazilian singer.

OK, pictures!