New house, New job, A Vacation + 2 years!!

Josh and I finally moved!!! We moved into a beautiful 1350sq ft rambler! It has 3 bedrooms, a bonus room and huge back yard! We are so far are loving having no attached neighbors and living in a much better area. We can blast our surround sound all we want, open our blinds without people seeing in, and have lots of space! I have learned to really appreciate beautiful flowers since at the moment I seem to be unable to grow any. And the value of grass you can actually walk in. I have taken on "yard duty" since I was raised in a family where my yard always looked nice, and I get alot of satifaction from seeing such a beautiful end result. We are looking forward to the memories we will have in this home. Our first real home together.

My House is still a work in progress so bare with me...

                                    Open Living and Dining room with kitchen to the left side

Bonus Room/Exersize Room

Great Backyard

Josh and I finally moved!!! We moved into a beautiful 1350sq ft rambler! It has 3 bedrooms, a bonus room and huge back yard! We are so far are loving having no attached neighbors and living in a much better area. We can blast our surround sound all we want, open our blinds without people seeing in, and have lots of space! I have learned to really appreciate beautiful flowers since at the moment I seem to be unable to grow any. And the value of grass you can actually walk in. I have taken on "yard duty" since I was raised in a family where my yard always looked nice, and I get alot of satifaction from seeing such a beautiful end result. We are looking forward to the memories we will have in this home. Our first real home together.
I started a new job for a chiropractic office which is giving me loads and loads of experience and I am hoping will open more doors for me in the future with the experience I gain here. The hours are not as ideal as I thought 11-7 sometimes 8 puts me home after my hubby which makes it hard to cook dinner and spend time with the person that means everything. But were plugging along hoping it's a means to an end and will all be worth it in the end. It's about time I know what it's like to work a 40 hour week. It is challanging but I'm learning alot.
We celebrated our 2 year anniversary already! I can't believe it's been 2 years since our "I do's".Being married has been the best thing that has ever happened to me and I have loved every minute even those some of those minutes were challanging, life is worth living with Josh by my side. He is an amazing man and I am so lucky to be his wife.

The weekend of our anniversary we went to a family reunion in McCall, ID. We drove up on wed afternoon the 8 hour drive and got in about midnight. We woke up on thursday to a day full of boating! We rented a pontoon and jet boat it was soo much fun! We could drive the boats right up to the sandy beach and go swimming, the weather was PERFECT! The water was amazing, we tubed and even wake boarded, I tried to get up and almost did but by the time I got the hang of it my arms hurt so bad I could barely bend them. Friday the guys went golfing and the girls went to a shop that made pottery and jewerly. I painted Josh something for his birthday which just got shipped to me and looks amazing! I'm really excited to give it to him next weekend. I can't believe its so soon! So then that night we went to the best ice cream place in the world. Homemade ice cream with mountain size scoops! It was delicious and well worth the wait ( the line was around the corner). Saturday we went white river rafting which was sooo fun! We got to go through some level 4 rapids, push each other out of the boat, jump out and swim, enjoy the sun and best of all being together! Sunday we started driving back, we stopped and brundage mountain and rode the gondolla ride up the mountain and took pictures at the top. We drove the 5 hours to Cour'd lane, ID to make it to the long awaited Wolf lodge steakhouse! We waited an hour for them to open then ate the most delicious steaks you have ever tasted. Heaven in your mouth! Last time we were there I made Josh share with me the 40oz Rancher. Yes 40oz of meat and he wanted it all to himself. So this time I promised him he could order that and I would get something else. HE ATE THE WHOLE THING IN ONE SITTING!

 It was literally melt in your mouth so it was not to hard. Josh says "he has a special place for steak in his stomach" boy is that true! haha. We finished driving home, and was exhausted and eager to get to bed for an early morning! I was about to go to bed and Josh turns to me and says "babe guess what?! We don't have to work tomorrow! You did'nt really think I would'nt spend all day with you on our anniversary did you?" I was so happy he went through all the trouble to talk to my boss and get me another day off of work and then surprise me! We spent the day relaxing, we took a walk, went to a movie and dinner of course and just enjoyed being together and winding down from the very eventful weekend we had together. It was a wonderful time I am sure we will remember for years and years to come.....Happy 2 years to my sweetheart. xoxox.

More Pictures of our Trip....

This is the cute fox that hung out with us...

The lodge we stayed in

On our way up the gondola ride, very fun but also alittle scary being so high up.

We had such a beautiful view on top of brundage mountain did'nt we?

The Famous Wolf lodge, our favorite place

Keri ate with some indians that were there instead of us...

It sure was a great trip!

New start.

I finally quit The Cheesecake Factory after 3 long years! It still does'nt really feel real...maybe because I had already been taking a break from it since I got into my car accident. I was off for a month and then came back and put in my two weeks...God really does work in misterious ways. I have been praying I would be able to find something else to get me out of serving. And then just like that a blessing in disguise. I was rear ended pretty hard and was out of work for about a month and in the midst of it all was offered a job as a chiropractic assistant. It's alot harder work than I expected for an "office job" but I hope that once I understand the "details" of this job it will become second nature to me like every other job I've obtained. Josh and I are ajusting to the new schedule since I don't get home till 7 mon-fri so he gets to cook dinner and clean up a bit before I get home, the roles are reversed! I do miss all my free time and this job takes most of it but hopefully at some point I will find a happy medium.

Josh and I are enjoying having the weekends off together, this past weekend we spent in snohomish with Josh's grandma. Our first destination was my first swap meet then we made our way over to an outdoor antique strip mall; the biggest one I have ever seen! Saturday was absoulutly beautiful so we enjoyed spending it outside and spending time with family. Memorial day weekend we spent relaxing at home as it was the first full week at my new job, we went on a wonderful hike though to Twin falls in North Bend, it poured on us but was worth the adventure together. We hope to do another this weekend.

The days seem to be bluring together and I'm exhausted but thought I would write and update a bit.. Happy Summer! (if we get one ;)

Then and now...Valentines day and new adventures...

Its been so long since I have written and I have not because well.. for awhile there I didn't find anything we were doing all that interesting. Once again we have decided to stay in our current apartment. I redid the living room as a reward for staying. lol...josh bought me new black leather couch's for Christmas so that helped the "look" and I spoiled him with a new big screen TV. So we will probably not be getting each other presents for the next 10 years trying to recover from how much we spent this last Christmas. lol...
Josh and I are slowly but surely taking steps to make sure that Josh's tool gets on the market if its the last thing we do. There is just so much to do and know before you can even get the tool patented. Not to mention the money out of pocket it takes for a couple pieces of paper. Like $6,000 and that is super cheap supposedly for a patent. Not to mention all the money it will cost to build the tool. Yikes! We may be living in a box for awhile. hehe Josh has had two mentors helping him along the way...hopefully he will continue to be helped through this very confusing process...I want to help but I know nothing about tools and patents. I am hopeful this will work out and at the very least have the tool for josh to use!
I am getting back into couponing, since I was on medifast I did not feel much like shopping for food I could not eat. But I trying to get back into the swing of things. Josh for Valentine's day helped with this. I wanted a peg board thing to hang all the items I got that need to be hung up (yes like in the store) I did'nt know what it was called but josh did and  I had only mentioned it once before. lol he told the guys at work what he had got me and they thought he was crazy. lol he replied "You don't know my wife she will LOVE it" lol and I do! I was so excited about it! I feel so much more organized. Check it out!

That night we had our amazing version of "death by steak" or steak with a blue cheese onion cheese sauce. We used pepperjack cheese instead of blue cheese though bbq'd by josh and I treated up to chocolate fondue that was soooo good!!!!!!!!!We just made way to much!!

We started a new side buisness. Buying a selling used furniture and making it look new again. I love love love it so far...exept for dealing with the weird people on craiglist. I hate all the spamers. Like last night I probably e-mail back and forth with this older couple or so I thought for over 2 hours. They even went as far to pretend they didnt know how to use paypal and paid the wrong e-mail address lindseyryan@hotmail.com ryan with an A instead of ryen with an E. Then accuse me of getting the payment. It was very suspcious. So I decided phone calls are the only thing I will accept from now on. Anyway, so far it has been something so fun for me to keep busy with and make us some extra money. I hope to eventually just do this full time. I love it.

We are selling stuff like this...that keep in mind before they looked like this they needed ALOT of TLC!!! Now look at them...

Random thoughts.

I just got home from work and had seen that one of my best friends updated her blog which reminded me to update mine even though nothing significant has happened. I was telling Josh we need children for this reason.
 Anyway, I've been feeling really really good lately. I started a weight loss program called medifast..you eat 5 of their meals per day and a "lean and green" of your choice per day. Lean being something like chicken and a green vegetable. I LOVE IT! I have lost 9 pounds already and I've only been on it 8 days! Not only doing I have a ton more energy but I'm much happier as is anyone who looses weight. I've struggled with my weight my whole life...being up and down and finally I am on something that is actually teaching me what I need to do to loose weight and it really is to eat. Eating 30 minutes after you wake up starts your metabolism..(I never ate breakfast) and then eating smaller portioned meals every two to three hours while your awake keeps your metabolism going. I'm also much more conconcious about what I used to put in my mouth without even thinking; like most of us do. Weekends are definitely the hardest because it's the most social time to go out and eat with friends. I can still do it but the weekend is a much less structured time then durning the week. It is kinda pricy but for the results you get and the life changing habits you form it is worth every penny. And I count all my penny's so it has to be good stuff. :)

I'm so excited for the holidays...it does'nt feel like it though this year. It does'nt really feel like anyone is in the holiday spirit quite yet which is dissappointing but I did have a guest at my table today tell me to have a good thanksgiving and although a small gesture really made me feel good. It is time to start saying Happy Holidays, Happy thanksgiving, and smiling more. I always try to be nice to everyone but I am going to try to be that much happier and nicer to people this holiday season there is much to be thankful for and although times may be hard for alot of people right now it can get alittle better with everyone showing alittle kindness this holiday season.
Josh and I are going out of town for Thanksgiving and then before we know it off to Florida for Christmas and New years..it is his families year to have us and it will be my first year away from mine for christmas. It's exciting to leave for two weeks and have our little get away but I will be missing my family alot. While we are there we will hopefully be going to Disneyworld. Josh has told me we must but its so expensive to go and I can think of alot of other things to do in Florida with that money. Anyway, when we get back we will be looking for a new apartment which I am SOOO Happy about! I have for the most part enjoyed living where we are at and the rent has been also very nice but its time to move up and out of renton. We hope to move closer to Josh's work so North Seattle area close to Greenlake. I love greenlake it is sooo pretty and I would love running there. Ballard is also a nice area. Anyway I have already made this much longer than I had planned but know that the Ryen's are well. We are happy to alive and healthy and thankful for all of our family and friends. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Beth’s Cafe and The locks in Ballard

Today was a super fun day! It’s unusual for me to have a Saturday off from work so we wanted to make the most of it. Josh and my dad had gone to this pretty famous diner in Ballard called “Beth’s Cafe” it has a 12 egg omelet with limitless hash browns that could potentially feed probably 5 people. They are famous for their eggs and have been featured on Man vrs. Food and other misc shows. Anyway we decided we would go there to eat for breakfast and looking past the fact that it may not have been the most sanitary restaurant to eat the food tasted great! lol I hope we don’t regret it later. :) Anyway then we went over to the Ballard locks which a very cool place around this time because the salmon are swimming up to spawn. Some of them are just huge! Today we also saw a sea lion! I have never seen one before up close like that and it’s always great to see them in the “wild” instead of at the zoo. We then came home and enjoyed some killer ribs. Broiled for 4 hours and put on the BBQ and just fell off the bone! So good. I give myself props. (Josh too since he worked the BBQ)

*Sorry no pictures we forgot the camera. We seem to never be prepared. :(

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Our cats Lilly (white) and Elle mae (black) which I never post pictures of because well they just are'nt all that intresting but Lilly decided to run away the other day and we realized just how much we love OUR cats (not cats imparticular) and needed to take some pictures of them. Btw Lilly is fine she made us miserable for about a day while we didn't know where she was but luckily she had scratched on the back door of our neighbors two doors down and they took her in until they knew who to contact.

I FINALLY saw a GIRAFFE!!

Woodland Park Zoo!

We have been wanting to go since we started dating because Josh could not believe I had not ever seen a giraffe up close before (that I can remember). It's really challanging to do things together because Josh and I rarely have a day that one of us is not working but we managed on saturday to wake up early enough to enjoy a couple hours of the zoo! Which is HUGE btw! We did'nt realize how big it was or how tired we were going to be after we went! We saw some really BIG snakes and cool things like the pinguins and zeebras. It was also awesome to see these HUGE brown bears and a Lion and Tigers OH MY! I'm not sure if we would go again until we have kids because there are alot of animals that you don't have to pay 17.00 to see and the ones worth seeing are'nt doing anything but sleeping or hiding because, well, they probably don't want to be at the zoo. But overall very fun experience and loved being with my husband.

There were A TON of these turtles just swimming around eating.

This was not the biggest snake we saw but because of the lighting it was hard to get a good picture but boy to snakes super creep me out!

haha The flamingo's were so cool I had never seen these either with the exception of on mobile home lawns.

The Giraffe's!!!

We don't know for sure who's eggs these were but are'nt these HUGE!

Do you see the other Hippo just hanging out under the water...we thought that was very cool!

The lions never did anything cool they just laid there but we did see a Mountain lion while we were there and it was jumping all over the place even on the roof we were under! Creepy!

This guy was cool but obviously alittle camera shy. These poor animals though they probably hate it there. :(

Our bedroom mini makeover! :)

I have been DYING to do a mini make-over on our masterbedroom since we got married and finally after a year it has been done. I would have painted as well but I don't think we will be living in this complex much longer. My best friend sarah and I are killer when it comes to decorating together and this picture does not do it justice. But I just love it. Its so much brighter and welcoming...not that I want anyone to really go into the master bedroom but anyway....hehe love it!

Please excuse the decor I think this is the only picture I have of the old bedroom. Josh did that for valentines day.

We made it! Celebrating our first year of Marriage!

Sorry I have not written lately, besides finding myself very preoccupied and busy doing I'm not sure what I have found myself very uninspired to write on my blog. I have actually somewhat been trying to ignore the fact that I have one. So here I sit writing to overcome this feeling and get back on the blog banwagon. So...

Josh and I just celebrated our 1 year wedding anniversary. I sure cannot believe it have been already a year time has flown by so fast and this past weekend has brought back so many fond memories of our beautiful wedding last summer and our honeymoon as well. We both wish would could have gone back to Florida for our anniversary and celebrated but we are going for Christmas this year for 2 weeks so I guess we will try to celebrate somewhat then. Meanwhile I took a stab at actually planning our Romantic Weekend getaway to beautiful Seattle. Haha I short 45 minutes away. (hey whatever counts) Josh's brother Jeremy is staying with us forawhile and while we love having him around it was nice to be by ourselves with no obligations or others around us. We really needed the time to reconnect since this year has been very crazy. So as you can see below I pulled out all the cards as Josh usually does for any special occasion for me. Including a Whirlpool suite, rose pedals and lots of candles, romantic music, lots of chocolate kisses, and of course a romantic heart shaped pizza to enjoy. We also got to taste our year old cake....It was DELICIOUS! I was so surprised! We are blessed to have mothers who took extra care of wrapping it for us so it would taste just the way it did on our wedding day. It was a wonderful weeked with Josh. He is the light of my life and brings laughter and Joy to an otherwise boring world. I thank god for him everyday. I love you Josh.