Golf Tournament

I found pictures from the golf tournament. It was an overcast day, with the sun peeking in for a few minutes every hour. Typical. For some reason there were lots of swings that day...and they weren't practice swings ;)

Jaci and Conrad

{our friends from Wyoming. They miss their homeland too :) }

The sun, Nate and Me!

Thankful

In the spirit of November and thankfulness I thought I would share one thing we are thankful for-- the free tickets. We enjoy doing activities in the area, mainly sporting events. With them being so costly we can't go to all the ones we want to, but we have generous friends and know a few people with connections.

We are thankful for our connections and generous friends in the Seattle area!

Nate and I golfed with our friends in a tournament. Unfortunately we didn't win the grand prize or any door prizes. (I would have won the longest drive for women, but they didn't have a stick for the women. There was a playful disput with all the women and the guy in charge :) ) Our friends did get their name drawn for Mariner tickets! They invited us even though we didn't finish with a win.

Her company has had season tickets since 1973ish...they are really good seats!

one row up on 3rd base

the media

Ichiro tush

LA Angels

thankful smiles :)

Can't remember if we won or lost. The game was in July :)

We also received tickets to the Sounders game in a suite from Nate's company! 

Free food and drink, num!

Soccer isn't bad. A quick 90mins and then you're outta there. If only we didn't sit in traffic for an hour that day. That was the day of the little league championship. We watched it on our phones to pass the time. 

 I think the Sounders won :)

Hunting Beard

It's that time of year that the winter, hunting beard starts to grow.

Nate made a deal with two of his friends/co-workers to start growing a beard for the company Christmas party, Dec. 10th. He was jacked and hasn't shaved since that day. He also told my dad {the best, fastest beard grower}  he was embarking on the winter beard journey. Dad didn't want to feel left out and decided he was going to grow one too starting that day.

Here are their week 1 beards.

Who's winning? :)

fruit fly trap

I don't know if it is this area or not, but there are a TON of fruit flys. I googled how to get rid of them with out bombing the house.

Turns out all you need is apple cider vinegar and dish soap (cut the surface tension)

Nate and I bet how many we would get the first night. I said 5 and he said 2 or something.
I counted...5! I win!

Then a few days later this is what it looked like. Gross, I know.

Just the Kids...plus Rick

Labor Day weekend was spent at the lake. Ahh, one last boat outing for us. Here are some pics to prove how much fun we are. No captions are necessary :)
{I'll spare you the pics of the speedo Nate made..ha}

 First two were from earlier in the day. When mom's were allowed ;) {jk!}

Pumpkin Carving

We had a few friends over for some Halloween fun! Taco soup, hot cider, Carmel popcorn, and wine ;)

Nate had a buddy wanting to help carve his "fire face" while I (of course) picked an intricate design! Next year I'm just doing a triangle face :)

Night exercise

My mom sends me "care packages" when she gets sweet state farm goodies. In one of my packages was 100ish mint chocolates and light collars for our doggies.

Here they are in action at 7:00pm. (it's not supposed to be dark yet!)
We let them run wild and the lights helped us keep an eye in them.