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. :(

Let me introduce you to...




                      

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.

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.