Another month bites the dust...

Here I am again...time keeps flying by and its almost my birthday! Just two weeks! We have been staying busy working trying to spend any spare moment going to do more fun things the most recent being bowling...he won of course but we both suck with a high of like 80. I am most excited though because we got a new bed finally!! Kinda a early birthday present for both of us. Its a temper pedic...between that and new 500ct sheets it's the best bed I have EVER slept in Josh and I took a nice long nap today to try it out so I know.
I have been thinking alot about how much life has changed in the past few years lately...I knew it would change but boy the experience of it all has been an adventure. A good adventure. I'm learning alot about myself and how to live and breathe being a family now; a unit and not just all about myself. It's exahasting at times but completly worth it. I have no idea how i'm going to manage with kids as well! Haha Josh is enough! But I sure love him I can't wait till we have a family. (no not soon) Life just flys by though that is for sure. Josh and I are approaching our one year anniversary already! I just can't believe it. Anyway, so a new bed thats about as exciting as it gets here in the Ryen home. Oh besides my car being keyed a few days ago. errrr...but we won't get into that. lol...I'm going to bed Ill try to write more often.

April is over!

So April is over and may is almost here...I can't believe how fast time flys by! I will be 21 in less than 2 months people! I have no reason to really be excited I don't drink or gamble but I guess it's exciting that I have been alive for more than 20 years. Anyway enough about my age. I'm home sick at the moment and pretty bored...I'm trying to keep myself busy on the computer so I can get better. I'm meanwhile coughing up a lung or two.

I wanted to update everyone on how easter went this year...This was the first year Josh and I actually had an easter egg hunt. Last year my parents attempted to do one but the dogs managed to get into the eggs and eat all of the chocolate, of course they left all the money (kinda surprising) but my parents took that back and we had no easter egg hunt. Sad huh. So this year was just me and josh against keri. The hunt consisted of dad giving keri a bunch of clues as to where the eggs were, Josh wasn't very helpful in finding the eggs (he can't grasp as to why we run around the yard like crazy people to find eggs with money in it)and I was running around trying to find all of the obvious ones. Keri and Brittany both use violence to win the "big money egg" two years now I have been crippled by them and unable to find the winning egg. But I'm not mad, it's on like donky kong next year! Josh will also be ready you can be sure of that! So keri won this year. I have yet to find the money egg in my 18 years or so of looking on easter...It will happen though I just know it...even if I am the last hunter.

Snowqualmie Falls

On Sunday, I woke up expecting to work but to my surprise someone picked up my shift for me and Josh and I were able to spend the whole day together! (this is super rare since I work weekends mostly and he works days) Josh and I have been trying to be more active and we both love the outdoors. It was a beautiful day and we have been talking about going hiking. So Josh decided to take me to snowqualmie falls and climb down the mountain to the bottom to see the falls! I thought it was the perfect workout because it started out super easy just going down a 1/2 mile hill but then after we enjoyed the falls and the surroundings going back up the hill was super hard; for me anyway. hehe. It was my kind of work out because you only had one option and that was to go up the hill..... there was no giving up.Josh is in alot better shape than I expected and so I was very much alone feeling quite pathetic stopping every 50 feet or so to stop the intense burning in my legs. Overall though the whole day was very enjoyable and look forward to another challenge like that again.

NEW coupon blog!

So I have realized this blog is going to be taken over by my coupon adventures and that I needed to start a new one to keep that from happening. So if you want to follow me one coupon adventure at a time the address is....
www.coupontosave.blogspot.com 

I also have links to the real coupon queen websites if you want to take on "couponing". So in the meanwhile, I have been slacking on blogging because honestly nothing really exciting is going on with Josh or I. We are working hard, enjoying being married and best friends and looking forward to where life takes us next. Hopefully somewhere new and exciting. I'm looking for some change in my life but I'm not sure what that is going to mean quite yet.

Just a thought..

So I've just gotten home from work i'm bummed because Josh is already sleeping and I hate coming home and having no one to talk to. Especially since I wanted to do some sort of april fools joke to him. I still might wake him up to do one, but that would be kinda mean. Anyway, so lately everyone knows I am starting to get kinda crazy with coupons. I just got to thinking how worth is it to keep doing couponing and is it really saving me that much money. The way I see it relistically i'm still spending the same amount of money but i'm getting ALOT more, but somewhat alot of junk food. Josh likes it but I don't really like having it around the house. I do have enough cereal to last us a very long time and my "stockpile" is going really well. I'm still trying to figure out where to put everything. Anyway, I'm sorry my blog seems so boring. Probably because at the moment, my life is kinda boring. This is my new hobby Josh and I are trying to meet more friends because since we've gotten married it seems we have none anymore. So Josh and I are working alot since we are saving saving saving to hopefully buy a house sometime next year. (I wish) But we should have enough saved if we wanted to buy one. :) We really want to move to the eastcoast to buy a house and settle down but it's hard when our jobs and families are here so we will see, who knows what the future holds. I can't believe it's already April and Josh and I have almost been married a year. Josh purposed this time last year. It brings back good memories. I love him so much.

Lifestyle change.

We have purchased an elliptical!! We are excited to get it put together and ready to use it. Both Josh and I need to exercise and start living a healthier life. I'm sure this is our starting point. I have decided this will be in our living room until I loose 20lbs and from there I can decide if I want to move it to the spare bedroom. :) Anyway it will hopefully be a great investment in our health for the next 10-15 years. Ellipticals have sure come a along way. Ours does not make one sound! Its amazing. I love it!

X6200 Folding with Deluxe console

The X6200 is our top-of-the line elliptical model, featuring a large, stable frame design with patented folding pedal arms that allow compact storage. The long pedal arms with pivoting footplates and 19.75-inch stride give the X6200 its superior motion, while the variable-durometer footpads and multi-position handgrips give you a comfortable workout no matter how long you exercise.

My husband is the VALENTINE KING!!

When I walked in the door from a very very long day at work (yes, I had to work on valentine's day) this  "T-shirt and Jeans" were hung up on the lamp as I walked in it said "Put me on and then walk to the tv".

  Once I walked over the tv there was another little post-it note on the vcr saying "Push Play". When you pushed the play button the best part of the movie The Wedding Singer came on when he sang to her on the airplane. It's one of Josh and my songs. Durning the middle of the song he came out and finished listening to the song with me.

Josh then took me over to a little display on the table with the biggest card on it I had ever seen. Inside he had wrote a note to me with the little candy hearts. It was so sweet and so romantic.

And lastly, he took me into our room and this was what was waiting for me. WHAT MAN THINKS OF THIS?? He had made our blankets shaped into hearts!!!! AND candle light all over the room with romantic music playing. He put so much time and energy into this...and even went as far as to take all these pictures so I could show off how wonderful he is. I have the best husband in the whole world. I love him so much, he is my everything, my rock, and my forever valentine.

The Holidays are over...

Well, Josh and I are now back into the daily grind of married life and everything that goes with it. For the past 8 months its been go go go with planning the wedding, getting married, going on our honeymoon and then with all the holidays Josh and I are trying to figure out what to do with our lives besides work! We are finding that this whole "grown up" thing is'nt that fun after all especially when it comes to filling taxes, Josh and I both expected a very nice return this year and were very dissappointed to find out we were'nt getting even half of what we thought we were. Dang government takes all your money when you get married. We are trying to save up enough to buy Josh a new car cash his "free" car won't go into reverse or any other gear exept drive. hehe. poor thing. :( He's such a good man, just a few months ago the transmission in my honda went out and I went and bought a new car. I'm very impatient. But, Josh is much smarter then me and is willing to wait for what he really wants. Hopefully he will have his car but Feburary. Were kinda debating to let it die or try to trade it in...I think were going to start car shopping on sunday.

So I know I wrote in an earlier blog about my wedding video being shot in resoultion but guess what!!! It was'nt I don't know what happened but the rough draft dvd that the videographer gave me was awful but when I got my money back and took the "raw footage" to a place who converted it to a dvd the footage was fine. You can imagine how thankful I was but seriously what a bunch of dummies Lumina photography is. If they would have tried to help in any way they would have figured it out themselves and probably got some if not all of their money! Some buisnesses just can't take responsiblity for their mistakes and unfourtunatly Lumina Photography is one of them.

Anyway other then those things the Ryen household is doing very well. We signed another lease here in lovely renton since our rent only went up 15.00 it made since to just stay put and save more money. The apartment complex is getting remodeled meanwhile and so that will be nice once it's all done. Were sad to hear Josh's parents are moving to Texas in less then a month. Those two are always moving on short notice...but we love em anyway. I guess it's time we share them...hehe. We will see them Christmas as Josh and I plan to venture out their for a week or two. Life is going by so fast, I just can't believe how time flys by. It's amazing to look back on my life and see how far I've come in my life. I'm sure its the same for Josh as well. We have both made some bad decisions but in the end the man upstairs was sure looking out for us and we both are very thankful for where we have ended up.

Wedding Video!!!

Everyone was SOO excited to get our wedding video back from the videographer after a VERY LONG 6 month wait. Unfortunatly he shot the whole wedding in low resoultion and so it is very blurry but for those of you unable to make it this will give you a blurry glimpse into our special day! :) I'm trying to upload it as soon as possible!....

Josh and Lindsey's Christmas and Happy New year!

Josh and I had a wonderful first christmas together. The Rich family got us for the holidays this year; we will be attempting to switch every other year. It will be hard to not see my family for Christmas especially since all my siblings are there and I hardly get to see them but it is the same senerio for Josh, most of his family lives on the East coast. Marriage is all about compromise and Josh is so great with my side of the family. He fits right in, I just knew he was the man for me when he could dish out just as much as take all the pranks and jokes my family loves to play on him.

Josh and I kinda splurged this year spending way to much money on each other and so did my parents they bought all of the wives in my family a KITCHEN AIDE STAND MIXER!!! I LOVE mine. I use it all the time and it makes me feel like a real "cook". It is my new years resolution to not only try to cook very delicious food that my husband will eat but also healthy food! Josh and I both need to loose some weight and start eating better. The Kitchen aide is sure an inspiration. I'm in love!..

Josh got me a very nice camera for Christmas, my sister and everyone else it seems has been getting in to photography and that has always been something i've been intrested in, so I thought "why not?" and asked for it for Christmas. Its not a fancy SLR (professional camera) but its a step down for a more user friendly device. It is tricky though I def have to read ALL the directions to make sure my pictures come out. Here are some that I took of the delicious shepards pie and pudding dessert I made. Both were SOO Yummy!

THE OTHER LOVE OF MY LIFE!!!