What a beautiful tree!!!!

YAH!! I am so excited to finally have the Christmas tree all done! My Grandma gave Josh and I her old Christmas tree this year and today we picked up some ornaments so we could decorate it. I also spent a good portion of the day wrapping presents. Im pretty much done. :) It was my goal to have all my christmas presents done early this year and to not procrastnate. I am SOO excited for christmas. Especially because it will be Josh and my first together. Im so excited to see Brittany and Shaun and my little neice and nephew. Its such a magical time of year; it instanly brings happiness to Josh and I and hopefully to the people around us. We want to wish everyone a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

I am thankful for...

I just thought I would take a minute to tell everyone the things I am thankful for since thanksgiving is right around the corner...

1. First of all I am so thankful for my family. I have been blessed with a very loving, kind, and giving family. They have taught me so much and i'm so thankful for the bond that we now have with each other. I look forward to it getting stronger as the years go by.

2. I'm so thankful I have met such a wonderful man to marry and start a family with. He is always finding ways to help people in whatever they need before he ever thinks of himself. He is so kind and loving. Im just so thankful god blessed me with him in my life.

3.And lastly, I'm am so thankful that I have a roof over my head, and both my husband and I have jobs. There are so many people this season without work and means to feed their families. I pray that god will bless there families to not go without.

Anyway that was my 2cents for today. I truly feel blessed to be where I am right now in my life.

Halloween! AND ♥Anniversary♥

Yes, That was Josh this last halloween!!! I know he was so scary. Haha we had a VERY good halloween. Josh and I went over to my best friend Sarah's house (pictured <<) who lives in Olympia (also where Josh's parents live) and spent halloween night there. We started the night easy we went out to applebees all dressed up. Josh was so scary; as in the picture and sarah was a very pretty bird--which at the moment is escaping my mind. I was'nt dressed up, I know-lame. Anyway, so we did that and on the way back decided to go scare Josh's folks which we successfully did and very well at that. Josh kept opening there garage door and hiding until he finally popped out and scared the daylights out of them both.( poor things they both were in their jemmies. We finished the night by me playing mommy driving them both around the neighborhoods to treat-or-treat. I think they thought Josh might have been mentally retarded as he never talked and Sarah was sweet enough to go up to the door with them. They scored on candy!!! haha. We were enjoying that, having fun and of course-me being the cultz I am--- hit my head on a treadmill!!! They spent the rest of the night convincing me I was'nt going to die and that I did'nt need stitches. It sure felt bigger then it was. hehe. So that was our evening.

♥The night before Josh and I celebrated our 1 year knowing each other. Last year on halloween was really the first time we had our first "date". We both went to a halloween party with mutual friends. Anyway Happy 1 Year Anniversary baby! I love you!♥

Its official!

I am now LEGALLY 

Mrs. Lindsey Renee Ryen!!!

I went to the social security office today and changed it finally. whoops! Josh kept calling me Miss Rich it feels so good to be legally Lindsey Ryen now. Im still practicing my signature it definitley needs some tweaking. It's weird to think I am legally no longer "Lindsey Rich". Its going to take some getting used to but I'm so happy to be married to Josh and apart of his wonderful family. He is everything I wanted and more and I thank god daily for him in my life.

FOR SALE---UPDATE: SOLD!!!!

Depressing as it is, I have to get rid of my girly bed. It is so cute and I wish I could keep it but we have a queen now and since we will be moving in march most likely to a one bedroom my bed has to go. :( Lol okay so other then that, life is going really well for Josh and I. Josh is working extremely hard and just as impressive as ever. He also was offered a side job on saturdays for his parents apartment complex pressure washing. :) I on the other hand have not been so lucky, it has been SOO slow at the cheesecake factory, last week I worked 9 hours! It will be busy closer to the end of Oct but it's sure hard getting to that point! Go out to eat people!!haha BUT, thankfully I have such a wonderful husband who can provide for both of us. He is so great I love him so much.


As for moving, YES! Finally we are planning to move in March. We are not moving far away perphaps to kirkland or bellevue. Although Josh would prefer it be North Carolina. I want to start looking now since March will be here before you know it and the holidays eat up alot of time Nov and Dec will hardly count! I'm so excited to move, this was my first place and I have alot of memories here including some bad roomates, and creepy neighbors. I'd like to keep that here and move into an apartment my husband and I can finally call our own. HOME!

Creative Halloween

(I did not take the above picture but I thought it was creative)
I cannot believe it is already mid-October and Josh and I have been married for over two months now. What can I say time flys by when your having fun. Josh and I met last year on Halloween so we have been trying to decide what to do for it since it will be our 1 year marker. Maybe a nice dinner out, maybe just sit at home eating as much candy as possible and a scary movie, or of course go to a halloween party. I guess alot will depend on if I get the night off or not. We will be extremly slow at the Cheesecake factory where I work so I hope I don't. Anyway we have been trying to brainstorm CHEAP ideas for costumes and I came across this website which had some funny very inexpensive costume's that you could whip up in about 10 seconds, most things you would have around your house. :) Im going to show this sight to josh when he gets home and we will decide then. I will post our decision after halloween. Here is the website if anyone wants to check it out. Here are a few of the ideas though....

http://www.costumeideazone.com/

First Class Male

*Buy some stamps and paste them on your face or glue some onto an old shirt.

Leafblower

*Wear a baseball cap with a leaf dangling down in front of your face. When someone asks what you are, blow on the leaf.

Mastercard Ad

*Wear whatever clothing you choose. Attach a sign to your back that says "Shirt: $30...Jeans: $50...Shoes: $70......Halloween costume that took minimal effort: Priceless.

♥Our Honeymoon to the eastcoast!!♥

We were so happy to be off to Florida and on our way to a long two week ocean filled vacation! So we were headed to Palm Beach for the first week.We loved being in Florida! We loved the sunshine and most of all the water! The ocean is beautiful there, its not like washington ocean. You can actually swim in it and its WARM! We spent the first week in palm beach shores at a marriot resort right on the ocean and it was heaven. Then we rented a car for the second week to drive up to North Carolina, where Josh is from to meet the rest of his family and friends that were unable to come to the wedding. We also visited Ripley's belive it or not musemn that both josh and I really enjoyed.To finish our honeymoon Christi (Josh's sister) was kind enough to let us come stay with her family, also a resort right on the beach! ( I KNOW THEY LIVE THERE) We loved spending time with our little neices! We can't wait to go back to Florida and re-live this experience again!

The newest addition to our family!

Alright so I decided to give honda one more chance and I spent the most money ever on this nice little car. Which I now call "beauty" hehe. Its a fully loaded, 2007 honda accord ex-l.  The ONLY reason I got this car was because it still has a nice long warranty on it NOT because I trust honda. Anyway, of course I sound very bitter right now but its only because I feel like I just lost a couple thousand dollars to something that was'nt my fault. Anyway just my recommendation don't buy a honda between the years of 2000-2005. But, I guess after all I did have a happy ending it was just ended with a much higher price tag. $$$

I hate HONDA!

So my 2001 honda accord is a HUGE issue right now, the transmission went out on it along with numerous other things such as the airbags won't deploy and somthing wrong with the ignition; only to find out it was a recall trasmission from honda. BUT because I was'nt the original owner I never got sent the recall notice. So now I am 3 months over my warranty with no car and potentially -3,000 in the hole for a new transmission on top of the money I still owe on purchasing the car. My family has been awesome letting me borrow their car for the time being while we try to get honda to pay for this. It just makes me so mad that because they made the transmission wrong its MY fault and I have to pay for it. Maybe it was bad judgement on my part and I should have known to look into any recalls for the car before I bought it but never the less unforuntatly I will not be buying another honda EVER again for their lack of customer service thus far and for the obvious fact that this was there fault and they are not fixing the problem. Why does transmission always seem to put bad reps on cars. I thought Honda was suppose to be a repretable dealer. Anyway thanks for reading, I just needed to get this off my chest. :)

She got the shot!!!

I CANNOT BELIVE IT!

I am the happiest bride in the world. I was panicing because no one got a good shot of both Josh and I leaving the reception until I saw this that my wonderful sister in law Jocelyn took. Its perfect and I absoulutley love it. Thank goodness for friends and family to rely on for more pictures when the photographer won't stay an extra hour or two. The other pictures are also from Jocelyn and there are some really cute candid's of the reception. Thank you Jocelyn!