Scott & Kirsten

Random Thoughts

2011-12-11T11:43:00.001-08:00

I Simply Love my husband more and more everyday. I am grateful for all the little things in life. Even as little as when he texts me randomly through the day just to say he loves me. I am so blessed :) We are very excited for tomorrow and I'll share once I can take some pics. We are very very happy! (and no it's not a baby) We simply can't wait!! This month is going to be awesome and stressful at the same time but so excited for this new chapter. Yay! I am just so thankful for everything in my life. The good, bad, sad, happy.....everything. Without it all I would be who I am or be where I am. I have an amazing family and through the many ups and downs we all stick together and love each other more. I guess I just wanted to get out how I'm feeling right now. I'm a very happy girl :) Stay tuned...

Caribbean Cruise 2011

2011-11-29T10:29:00.001-08:00

Some of you may know that Scott and I went on a cruise on October 15-22nd with his parents Wendy and Bill, and let me tell you...IT WAS AMAZING! We first flew out of Portland and into Orlando, Florida where we stayed the night before boarding the cruise ship the next day. Our first stop was Labadee, Haiti where the cruise ship owned a private section of land. There we swam in the Caribbean ocean for around 6 hours. The water was so warm and SALTY! Yeah don't ever get that stuff in your mouth. Haha but the Island was Gorgeous! We loved it. Also this is where we got SUPER burned because we are all super white and it was about 100 degrees out with a sun level of 10 and also sun screen didn't seem to help much, Haha so we were in some pain the whole trip but it was worth it.

Our next stop was Falmouth, Jamaica. It was gorgeous there! We mostly walked around the town and saw the sights, we even took a trolly at the end of the day that drove us around the city. We got to see how the people really live and how most of the city is very impoverished. It was an amazing experience to see how other people live. It definitely makes you grateful for what you have. We were able to visit on of the oldest churches on the island and go inside and walk around. It was beautiful. Jamaica was one of our favorite stops for sure. The people were so friendly and always nice. :)
After Jamaica our next stop was suppose to be the Grand Cayman Islands but since the weather was so bad and because it was the only port we went to that the boat couldn't dock next to the island we couldn't go. :( We were very sad but once we saw the 15 foot waves crashing against the boat we totally understood.

Our final destination was Cozumel, Mexico. It looked like a jungle. It was so cool! We didn't spend much time in Cozumel because we took a 45 min. ferry over to Playa Del Carmen and then a bus to Tulum where we saw the Mayan ruins of Tulum.One of my favorite experiences in life so far! I have always loved old ruins and always hoped I would see some someday. They were located on a cliff over the ocean. Let me tell you, you won't ever get a better view then that. It. Was. BREATHTAKING! I would definitely love to go back someday. Oh! and there were iguanas everywhere! We saw about 12 just walking around the ruins.

Oh and the ship itself was amazing! It was HUGE. Our room was an inner one with no windows. The bathroom was very tiny but it worked. I only got nauseous the first few days and only when I was going to bed. I only felt the movement of the ship when I was in our room, but I took some Dramamine and it took care of it all. We got to eat food whenever we wanted, watched movies in the theater, saw many shows/plays, swam in the pools and hot tub, had fancy diners, played in the casino, relaxed on the open decks, read, played games, and most of all we just really enjoyed ourselves. The staff was awesome! I haven't met nicer people in a long time. Every night we got back to our room and there was always a towel animal waiting for us on our bed. Our room was always clean. I would love to go back on a cruise. I get sad sometimes looking at all my pictures because I want to go back so bad! I definitely recommend it to anyone! Now here are some of my favorite pictures......

Our first view of the ship

The main shopping center on the ship

Yumm Ice cream

These were so good!

The formal dining room where we ate dinner every night.

The Casino! I won $70 :)

Our little tiny room

Haiti

Haiti. This is where we swam for 6 hours.

Haiti

Jamaica

This is my favorite picture from the entire trip. This guy was awesome! (Jamaica of course)

Tulum

Cozumel

On the back of the ship

Lame is ME

2011-11-29T10:27:00.001-08:00

Blogging is really hard for me! I never have time and when I do have time I don't really want to sit in front of my computer anymore. Haha so I have 30 minutes before work and I'm going to try and play catch-up.

3 Years!

2011-08-21T11:10:00.000-07:00

Today is Scott and Mines 3 year anniversary! It has been amazing being married to this man. He is so wonderful, hard working, kind, caring, funny, and the list could go on and on. All I know is that I am the luckiest girl to have snagged him. He makes me so happy and I love him more that anything :) Maybe I'll take some Pics today at the fair, but maybe not also. haha Cont....Ok so I did take some pics and here they are. My little sis Tia and bro Mark came along with us and had a ton of fun! Even though it was super hot outside. Overall we had a wonderful anniversary :)


Love this one!


Mark wasn't too happy with this ride....haha But Tia loved it! (She's sitting next to him)


Mark decided he wanted to hold this......Ewwww......


I love him :)

November

2011-01-09T11:52:00.001-08:00

So November was a bit more exciting! But still really not interesting. I decided to really start selling my old camera while I was trying to save money for my new one. Who knew that it would take so long and would be such an annoying process filled with Scammers and really dumb people. HAHA! Oh how I don't really like Craigslist or Ebay. The highlight of November would be Thanksgiving! I love Thanksgiving! It's the first really Holiday of the year that my family all gets together. I love my siblings and I love when we are all together. We are so alike and yet so different, but we have so much fun. In November I did the most photo shoots I have ever done in one month. It was awesome! So for Thanksgiving We cooked 3! not just 1 or 2, but 3!! Turkeys at my mom's. My Mom and step dad made a Smoked Turkey and a traditional oven roasted Turkey. Scott and I then made a Fried turkey. Scott had always wanted to fry a turkey for Thanksgiving and this year we did. He was so excited and it was very cute. :) We had to go out and buy all the equipment to do so and it was a bit expensive, but very worth it! Those 3 turkeys were the BEST and I mean BEST turkeys I have ever had!!!! They were so delicious and juicy. YUMM! Oh and before we went to my moms to cook our turkey we went over to Scott's parents for a little while to say hello. Sadly this year we didn't get to eat with them because we had to go cook our turkey. I love his family! they are so wonderful and understanding and I always feel bad that we don't hangout with them as much as I would like. They really are amazing. I feel very fortunate to have such awesome in-laws. :) After our Feast of turkey we all just hung out and played games. I love family time! It seriously is my favorite. Put all my family in one room and I am happy happy lady. November was a great month even though Scott and I didn't really do anything but work. Here are some pictures of Thanksgiving day. Enjoy.

My step mom and my brother Mark Came!


My Niece Cadence ( My step sister Lindsey and her husband came up for Thanksgiving :)

Katelyn making Delicious Brussels Sprouts

Just my Gorgeous step mom.

October

2011-01-09T11:37:00.000-08:00

Well I am going to break in down into months. haha October was not very eventful. Scott and I didn't carve pumpkins or hand out candy or even dress up, but we did go on our annual family trip to the pumpkin patch at Lone Pine and picked out pumpkins. (sorry didn't take any pictures)I always look forward to our family trips with my family. I love traditions! It was really really muddy that day and all our shoes were pretty disgusting by the end of it. So all in all we were pretty lame in October.

I'm Sorry to whoever reads this...

2011-01-07T19:22:00.002-08:00

This is just a quick note to say that I will be updating soon. My life is busy and I have way too many pages to update and this is always the last one I do. :)

My Birthday weekend

2010-09-12T15:31:00.000-07:00

So my birthday was on Sunday September 5th, woohoo! haha It's not really a big deal. Just another reason to spend some time with the hubby and family. And those are my two favorite things to do. For my birthday I really wanted to go camping! Scott and I hadn't been at all this year, so we decided it would be fun. Unfortunately my birthday usually equals labor day weekend, but we lucked out and got a campsite in Florence anyways. I love camping at Honeyman! It's so amazing and awesome there. Plus I really love Florence. So for an adventure Scott and I on our way to the coast decided to go North of Eugene and then over and then down to Florence and on our way home we went South of Florence, then over, then up to Eugene. Definitely a longer way to get to the coast and home, but so worth it. The drive is amazing! While at the coast we visited the beach, ate salt water taffy, bought a new candle, made s'mores, rafted in the middle of the lake and lounged, caught some really cute salamanders, went to the beach at night, made foil dinners, made yummy breakfast of eggs and sausage, went to the fish ladders in Roseburg, and most of all just enjoyed each others company. It was a great trip! Can't wait to do it again. I love adventures with Scott. He is so fun. :) Oh and the day before my birthday we had a family party for me at my mom's house. I love my family. They mean the world to me and I don't know what I would do without them. I wish life wasn't so busy, so that I could see all of them more often. I am very fortunate to have a family that is so close. Thanks everyone for making my birthday so awesome!

Above is the Fish Ladder. It's a Maze of Cement to help the Salmon and other fish get up the dam to go up river. It was actually pretty cool, because you could go down and see the fish as they were trying to swim up.

Happy 2 Years to us!

2010-09-12T15:07:00.003-07:00

Ok Ok I know our Anniversary was over 3 weeks ago, but I have been super busy! But in a good way. :) I have been doing a ton more photo shoots lately and weddings. It's keeping me busy along with my actual job where I make real money...blah. haha

So. For our anniversary we wanted to do something fun and different, but not too expensive, since we are on a budget. So my amazing husband came up with the idea to take the train to Portland instead of drive. It was the best idea ever! All I wanted for our anniversary was to spend time with each other and relax, because with our schedules, we don't get to relax often. And honestly he is my favorite in every way. He is my favorite person to be with, my best friend, my husband, the one I can always turn to, and the one who will love me now matter what I look like, the mistakes I make, or how emotional I get sometimes and drive him crazy. He loves me for me and I always tell him I love how much he loves me. He makes me so happy :) There is no doubt in my mind that these past two years have been the BEST. Who cares about the hard times we have had, because the Amazing times are all that matter and are the only ones that I care to remember. No one is perfect and I have learned that no matter the problem, we can work it out, because "us" is what is important. I just wish everybody could be as happy with their husband as I am, but sadly I know that is not the case. I feel truly blessed to have found the man of my dreams, the future father of my children, and the man I wake up to every morning more in love with and excited to spend the rest of my life with. What else can I say.... I just simply love him. And you know you are meant to be with someone when you get each other the exact same anniversary card! from different stores on different days! haha

Ok Ok I'm done with all the sappy lovey stuff no one cares about but me. :) So our trip was so much fun! we took the train from Eugene to Portland and it took about 2 hours and we got to sit back, relax and not worry about driving. I would definitely recommend it to anyone. It's more expensive then driving, but for Scott and I it was an adventure and well worth it. Plus we both had never been on a real train before. Luckily getting around Portland without a car is pretty easy with the Max. Love that thing. Once we got into Portland we checked into our hotel and then went straight to the Portland Zoo. :) So fun! I love all the animals. But I did get a little side tracked and took a lot of pictures of the people there. haha the outfits crack me up. I'll post pictures below. so anyways, after the zoo we actually took a nap for a couple hours and then went off to dinner downtown Portland. The next day we just relaxed, ate breakfast, then boarded our train to go back home. It was a short trip, but an amazing one. We definitely needed a weekend of just us.

Haha so my own section of What Not to Wear:

Now Some Animals:

Portland Train Station:

Scott and I:

Click to enlarge any photo.:)

Something to pass the time...

2010-07-31T16:52:00.002-07:00

Scott and I are going on a much needed date tonight to a movie, but I don't which one yet. So this is what I'm going to do to pass some time while he is at work and I know it has been forever! to say the least that I have posted anything. I really just don't have much to write about. Scott and I do about the same thing everyday.....and that is Work :( haha

In the past couple of months we have hiked Silver Falls, Rescued a Kitty ( Which is so so Sweet and needs a new home..lol I don't want 3 cats) , Floated down the Willamette River, ate a lot of BBQ, had family in town, and I think that is really it on the fun part of things so far. We are definitely looking forward to our 2 year anniversary in 3 weeks! :) I Can't believe it's been that long already. We have something fun planned, but will share later once I have pictures. Scott and I are doing great! Just keeping really busy. So here are some Pics from the last few months because I have nothing else to write. :)

Scott, Mark, and I (Tricia went too!)

SiverFalls

Kate, Tia, and I eating Sushi with my mom. YUMM!

Special Agent Jack Bauer (AKA the cat we saved)

Alice in Wonderland

2010-04-30T10:33:00.007-07:00

Scott and I went on a date last night to see this movie because we have been wanting to for awhile now. Overall I think it was entertaining but not great. I feel as though they left out a lot of information. The Red Queen was my favorite though. She made me laugh :) lol It was one of those movies that I wished I would have waited to see once in was on Dvd. I would definitely recommend seeing it, but I wouldn't pay the $9 for it in theaters. Next I really want to see Iron Man 2 and The Last Air bender when they come out! :)

Randoms

2010-04-28T12:37:00.003-07:00

My kitties :)

2010-04-21T11:53:00.003-07:00

I know this makes me sound like a nerd...but I love this show! haha it makes me happy. Scott will even watch it with me most of the times. He doesn't like the singing but he thinks it's pretty funny. So if you have never seen it, you should give it a try. :) I for one love the singing. Tuesday nights with Lost and Glee, couldn't ask for more. lol

Pictures

2010-04-12T11:34:00.005-07:00

Last week my mom's brother and his family were in town from Utah and I had the pleasure of taking their family photos. :) It was my first photo session when it had been raining, but overall went really well!

Life as of now...

2010-04-03T14:20:00.002-07:00

So life has been busy! Scott and I took an awesome trip to Utah for 10 days in March to visit some of our friends and family :) It was so fun to get away for awhile. We mostly just relaxed and ate a whole lot of yummy food! I just love being with my husband, it doesn't matter where we are. He is my favorite. :) While we were there I took some pics for one of my good friends Elizabeth and her amazing family. She has the cutest little boys ever! I love them. (Pics on my other blog)

So here is an update on life since my last post...

All in March I became the new Assistant Manager at Cafe Yumm!, Found out I have Hypothyroidism, which basically means my thyroid doesn't function that well so I have to take a little pill everyday to make up for that. It's nothing serious, just annoying. :) , and finally, Scott and I decided to pay off all our debt in hopefully a year. So we made our monthly budget last night and are going to stick to it. It's amazing looking at where all our money goes and it's really sad at how much money we waste. Scott and I are not big spenders to begin with, I for one hate to shop...so I know we can do it! :) I am so excited to not have any debt. In the last couple weeks we paid off all our credit cards! We no longer have to worry about those. Now on to school loans and paying off our new car. I know it's not going to be easy but if we stick strictly to our budget then we can get about 80% to 90% of our debt paid off in a year and then we get to buy a HOUSE! I am super stoked! and then kids will hopefully come into the mix. We really want to be financially stable before we have children. I want to be a stay at home mom and not having to worry about money. I want my kids to have the best start and all the attention they deserve.... and I want kids so badly! I want to be a mom more then anything :) I know we can do this! I can't imagine only having a house payment every month, it's going to be so nice. I love my husband and all he does for me. He wants to make our future the best it can be and this is the first step and sets the foundation for the rest of our lives. Here's to being grown ups and having a life plan. IT FEELS GREAT! :)

Some Shots of my little brother on the day he turned 12

2010-02-26T16:31:00.006-08:00

A MUST SEE...

2010-01-18T16:34:00.002-08:00

AVATAR!!!

Scott and I saw it in IMAX 3D Last week and it was AMAZING!! Truly it was. The graphics were awesome! I highly suggest it. :) The End.

NEW CAR!!!!

2010-01-16T12:36:00.011-08:00

GOODBYE JEEP WRANGLER :(

HELLO 2008 PRIUS :)

For awhile now Scott and I have been wanting to get a more gas efficient and a more future family friendly car. So on New Years day we went to the Toyota car dealership just to "LOOK" at this Prius Scott saw online for a really really good price. We got there and loved the car of course! It was in amazing shape, got awesome gas millage and was also way too technical for me at first. haha So we bought it that day after a ton of negotiating because it was just too good of a deal to pass up. So we said goodbye to Scott's Jeep which we loved and brought home a new car. It's still really strange that we don't have his Jeep anymore. I have so many awesome memories of that car and it is missed. BUT! I am so excited about our new car. We have taken it on a few trips lately to test out the gas millage and it didn't disappoint at all. When we took our little trip to Florence we filled up the gas tank in Eugene then drove the 50 ish miles to Florence and the drove all around town and the coast and then all the way back to Eugene. We used I think around 125 miles or so that trip and when we got back to Eugene we filled the gas tank back up to see how much we spent and so we could calculate our average gas millage. We ended up spending a little over $6 for the whole trip and a little over 2 gallons of gas, which averages out to 74ish mpg that trip. WE WERE SO HAPPY! Scott's Jeep got about 16 mpg. So, we are excited for when we get to take our road trip to Utah in March! I'm very interested in how much it is going to cost us. A few things about the car that I've had to learn are that it never sounds like it's running. You can hear the engine barely at all to the point where it's kind of creepy. haha It has a 6 inch touch screen that contains a backup camera, so anytime I'm in reverse I can see everything behind me. The screen also is where you control the music, climate, and you can see your average millage and what source you are using whether it me the battery or the gas engine. To put the car in park is just a separate button and to start the car is a button too. With our car you don't even need to stick a key in, just as long as it is in the car you can start it and drive. It's creepy and awesome! So we love our new car. I'm excited for all the adventures it's going to be used for. We are very happy with our decision. :)

The Oregon Coast ...aka Love :)

2010-01-14T18:28:00.008-08:00

Scott and I went to the Florence Coast last Sunday and it was beautiful as always. It's truly one of our favorite places to go. These are some pictures I took :) While we were out of the Jetty we saw a bunch of seals. They were so cute!

Christmas 2009

2010-01-08T20:38:00.003-08:00

So Christmas this year was amazing and I loved every minute of it! We had a very busy day. Scott and I woke up at 7 so that we could open up our presents for each other at our apartment first and then we went over to his grandma's house at 9 to open presents, then to my parents house at 11 to open all of those presents. So we had A LOT of presents to open, but it was fun! My family was nice enough, well TIA was kind enough to let us push opening presents to 11 instead of 9 so that Scott and I could be there. I don't want to have to choose between houses for Christmas morning and if I can get away with it then I won't choose, I'll work around it. haha Luckily enough both of our parents live 5 minutes from each other. It makes it so nice!!! I feel as though we got super spoiled with gifts. My parents and his are too giving and they got us so many nice and neat things. One of my favorite things I got was my ipod nano. I have never had one before, so it's been awesome having one! I got Scott a blu-ray player so that we could watch all our favorite movies in high def. on our majorly humongous t.v. that I love! Back in November we spoiled ourselves and bought a 58' Samsung Plasma t.v. It is so awesome!!! We love to watch movies together and a big t.v makes it that much better and now with blu-ray, there is really no need to go to a theater haha. Scott bought me some accessories for my Nikon camera which I'm really excited about. :) Later on on Christmas Day my step mom came down with my little brother and we opened presents with both of them. My mom was smart and we had Christmas dinner the night before, so on Christmas we all got to relax and play tons of games. I love my family and having them all around! After Christmas was over it was sad to have everyone leave. My older brother Chris went back up to Portland, Cameron left for Idaho a few days later and Everyone else had to get back to work. BOO! I really wish we could all hang out a lot more. I always hate when Christmas is over, it's my favorite time of year. For New Years my Man and I watched movies and forced ourselves to stay awake till midnight. I really could have crashed around 10, but that would have been lame. So I stayed up. Overall being home this Christmas season way more then made up for not being home last year. Being with family is AWESOME :)

These are my Christmas Kitties. Got to love them! :)

Oh Blogging

2009-12-11T19:53:00.005-08:00

I really don't know why blogging is so hard for me. I mean, it's so easy! I guess it really just comes down to the fact that I'm lazy and have nothing interesting to say. So at my rate, I am now blogging every couple months. haha So, my goal now is to get better and do it more often. I think I end up waiting so long that I start forgetting everthing I wanted to blog about in the first place.

So the only thing I can think about blogging about is Thanksgiving and how amazing it was to have all my siblings there! It's been a couple years since we have all been around the Thanksgiving table because Cameron was on his Mission and Scott and I were in Utah last year. It always means so much to me to have my family around. I love them so much and it's crazy how old we are all getting! Tia just turned 11 last month! where has the time gone? I remember when she was in diapers dancing around in my mom's heals that were 10 times to big for her. and when she would roar like a dinosaur on command and drink milk out of the gallon that was almost as big as she was. Soon she will be a teenager and then start high school, go to college and get married. AH! It's so crazy! Katelyn is almost 20 and getting more beautiful everyday, Cameron is 21 and leaving for college in January, Chris is 25 and living up in Portland going to massage school, and I'm 23, married, and living my own life. We are all adults now and I never thought the time would come where we would be separated and only seeing each other every once and awhile on holidays or other random events. So That's why Thanksgiving meant so much to me. To have all the people I love in one place for that one day was amazing! So I am looking forward to Christmas where we can all be together again before more of us move away and makes it that much harder for all of us to get together. I have amazing parents, all 4 of them! I couldn't have asked for better. They each have contributed in their own ways to the person I am today and I thank all of them for being there for me. and I love that they are all family oriented and strive to get us all together as much as possible. :) Oh and last but not least, I love this time of year!!! It's absolutely my favorite. I'll try to get better at blogging and doing it more than once every two months. lol Life is Wonderful and I couldn't be happier :)
Tia and Katelyn 2005
Tia and Katelyn now....I have such pretty sisters :)

Chris, Kate, Cam, and Me Then and Now :)

Family Pumpkin Patch Trip :)

2009-10-29T17:52:00.010-07:00

Just some Pictures from our Pumpkin Patch trip to Lone pine last weekend. I love it! We try to do it every year :)

It's just about time...

2009-10-29T16:42:00.006-07:00

Well I haven't blogged in over 2 months, so It's just about time to do it again. I honestly think it just takes that long for anything interesting to even happen. Scott and I just do about the same stuff everyday and everything else really isn't interesting to read. lol In the past 2 months we have moved into a new apartment. We did this back in September and we love it here! we are still trying to get everything organized and put together. I bought our first kitchen table last month and it's awesome! I have never owned one before. At the same time we moved in we adopted 2 kittens that were 4 months old at the time. A brother and sister that have extra toes on their front paws. So they are our special kitties. We love them! The little girl's name is Pickles (she's the black one) and the little boy is Pancake. We thought they should have silly names and they are the best Kittens ever! we lucked out big time. They are pretty much my kids. :)
Hmm... What else, I have started doing Photography a lot more since I got my new camera for my birthday in September and I'm having so much fun with it! I love it so much! I'm still trying to figure everything out and working as much as I can on it. It's very scary for me to put myself out there with so many talented photographers who are a lot better than I am. Everyday though I am learning more and more techniques, so that makes me happy and comforts me to know I'm only getting better.
My parents are remodeling their kitchen finally and it's almost done! The last of the tile is going in today! It looks so good! My parents deserve it for all the hard work they do. I'm glad they finally did something for themselves. The Kitchen is amazing! My brother Cameron got accepted to BYU-Idaho and will be going there this winter and I'm really excited for him. I loved it there and I know he will too. Oh I forgot I haven't even blogged since my birthday, so I should probably say something about this amazing camera I got. So for my birthday, my amazing husband, my parents, some of my grandparents, and my siblings all chipped in for my new Nikon D5000 Camera. It's the best present I have ever received. I love it so much. I'm so grateful to have a husband and family who believe in me enough to buy me something that expensive. But, believe me I am putting it to good use and using it whenever possible. I usually will make up things to take pictures of. haha I made a Blog of some of my work so far and it is growing fast. It's KirstenWilsonPhotography.blogspot.com. Stop by and let me know what you think. :)
So I honestly think that's all that has happened in the past couple months. I'm pretty boring. oh and I just want to shout out that I have to most amazing husband in the world. I can't believe I was lucky enough to find a person who loves me as much as he does. My love for him grows daily and I'm so excited for our future together! I know this is mushy, but it's true. I couldn't have asked for anyone more perfect for me. So I guess now for some pictures to brighten up this boring post. haha
So these aren't the best pictures because getting 2 kittens to stay still for very long just doesn't happen. But at least you can kind of see their extra toes. :)

One Year Anniversary =)

2009-08-22T16:09:00.012-07:00

Scott and I just celebrated our one year anniversary yesterday August 21st! I can't believe it has already been a year since we got married. It has honestly been the best year of my life and I am so thankful for my husband and our life together. He makes me so happy and knows me better than anyone else ever could. I am just so excited for our years to come and what we have in store. He is going to be an amazing father some day and I can't wait to have a family with him. For our anniversary we went over to the coast because we love it so much. We stayed in Florence over night and then traveled up to Newport the next day. Our hotel was nice, mostly because it was on the beach and all the rooms had an ocean view. It was GORGEOUS! Yesterday was the best day I've had in a long time! It was so nice to spend time together without work and the hassles of everyday life. The day started out with us walking around Florence and eating lunch at a really good restaurant with really good fish and chips and then we traveled up to the sea lion caves (the largest natural sea cave in the world) which is occupied by hundreds of sea lions. sadly, when we went there weren't any sea lions in the cave, but it was still beautiful! to get down to the cave you have to take an elevator 200 feet down through rock. it's scary! haha we were lucky enough to see a gray whale swimming around in the ocean right in front of the caves, so that was really cool!

The Whale blowing water

A really cool water fall that created a rainbow outside the cave

View looking towards Heceta Head lighthouse

This is where all the Sea Lions normally are inside the cave ( Main Part)

After the Caves we headed up to Yachats and fed some seagulls and then we finally ended up in Newport where we went the the Wax museum, Underwater sea world, and the Ripley's believe it or not museum. They were a lot of fun. I loved wax museum, it was my favorite of all 3! Inside the wax museum they had this rotating room thing that I loved and hated. Inside was a bridge you would walk across, but it was dark with tiny lights everywhere and the bridge stood still but the walls circled you. It was crazy and made you feel as though you were going to turn upside down. So fun, but made me so dizzy! The underwater world was neat because it looked like a boat on the ocean, but you walk inside and it's a gift shop, but then you go 10ft downstairs and it's a giant fish tank underwater that consisted of fishes, crabs, eels, and sea life all native to Oregon and they also had a diver go in and show you all the different creatures. And then there was the Ripley's museum. It was pretty cool. The shrunken heads were awesome but really gross. The only thing is I wish they would have had more real artifacts rather than replicas. But still fun!! Finally after Newport we headed to Corvallis for dinner and then back to Eugene to eat some of our 1 year old cake topper. haha and it really wasn't too bad. So our anniversary was Amazing! I loved every minute of it and I love my husband so much! I can't wait till our next one. :)

One of the Shrunken heads...yeah, you can see my camera, but It wouldn't go away. haha

Wax dragon and mermaid

Lord of the Rings characters in wax

Some headless man in wax...

ET in wax! It was freaky cause I couldn't really see him till I took a picture of him with my flash. It was kind of creepy.

Scott in the weird rotating room thing. This picture came out weird, cause it doesn't look like that. It's pitch black with tiny neon lights everywhere.

Scott kissing Johhny Depp

Apparently Scott likes him more than I do...I didn't try to kiss him. lol

Performing for wax people. I think they were famous, but I couldn't figure out who they were suppose to be. I think the one in black and pink to my left was Barbara Streisand.

And Finally Scott cutting into our wedding cake. I couldn't believe it wasn't disgusting. lol :)

Family Time

2009-08-22T15:32:00.011-07:00

Earlier this month the Mulder side of my family had a very needed reunion up in Lincoln City. I hadn't seen most of my family in oh 10 or so years. Everyone lives so far apart and it's sad we don't see each other as often as we would like. But everyone finally made it in one spot and I got to see all of them...well some longer than others, but still awesome non the less. I wish I would have had more time with all of them. We were only up there for a night and part of the next day. I want as I get older and begin to start my own family, to strive to stay close to my own family. I think it's very important to know your cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, ect... I love my family to death and want us to stay close to each other. :) So hopefully in the future we will have more reunions and I'll be able to get to know everyone a little bit better.

On another note, my step sister Lindsey and her husband Mark came to visit us here in Oregon from California a couple weeks ago with their little girl Cadence. It was so good to see them! I hadn't seen Mark and Lindsey in 4 or so years I believe and this was the first time I have ever met my niece. She is so adorable and smart! she will be 3 on Christmas day. I feel so fortunate to have had so much family around this month, it's sad that most of them are all gone. So while Cadence was here I decided to take some pictures of her because she is goofy and very adorable :)

Cameron is Home!

2009-08-22T15:15:00.005-07:00

Ok ok ok, I know it has been forever since I actually wrote anything on here, so I am making myself sit down and do it now. lol Oh really not that much has happened in the past couple months. Cameron is home now! yay! He got home late Thursday night on August 6th and is looking awesome! It is so good to have him around again. He is one of my best buddies :) Right now he is living at home trying to figure out what to do for school and work. His spirit and strength amazes me and I look up to him so much. I love having people like him around me, because they only lift you up and make life fun!

His First Night Home

Cameron and I before his Mission

Since he has been back I have found that he hasn't really changed that much, he is still the fun loving, funny, witty, silly brother I had before, but now he is older, wiser and definitely more spiritual. He is still the same person, just a lot more experienced in life. I have very handsome brothers and am proud of all of them. :) lol. Anyways, I love my bro and am so happy he is home again! I still can't believe he is 21! It's crazy to think he is that old already. haha

Summer Time Pictures

2009-06-23T12:42:00.019-07:00

These are just some pictures I took for fun yesterday. I'm trying to get better at using my new camera.

WE MADE IT!

2009-06-11T10:40:00.008-07:00

Ok! so we finally made it to Oregon! well, actually we got into town late late Friday night at 12:30 6 days ago, but i'm a slacker so i'm just now doing this. :) The trip was very very long, but really not too bad. We woke up in Provo around 5 a.m and started packing up the rest of the stuff in the u-haul and cars and then we fixed the apartment and locked our door for the very last time. We headed out on the road around 7 a.m after we hit the wal-mart to stock up on drinks and snacks. Tia and I rode in my car and Scott took his car with the u-haul on the back. Tia and I watched about 6 movies on the way home; well she watched, I listened haha it definitely helped the time go by a lot faster. We hit some traffic in Salt Lake, but it wasn't too bad, and then the rest of the trip till Bend, Oregon went on without a hitch! Well that was until Scott blew a tire on his Jeep around 8 p.m! We had just pulled away from the gas station and about a mile down the road I see Scott pull off to the side very quickly and I was confused, so I of course pulled over too. I got out to see if I could help and by that time Scott had unloaded basically everything out of the back of his car looking for a wrench to take the bolts off his bad tire. He finally found one, but with our luck it was too big for his bolts and so I went to my car and found mine, but it was broken. haha so that was awesome! He was able to get 4 of the 5 bolts off but the 5th one was impacted on so it would not budge. We ended up having to call road side assistance and have them come help. It took them an hour to get to us and about 20 minutes to get the tire fixed. So all in all, we were stuck in Bend for 2 hours. Blah! Which is the same amount of time it would have taken us to get home to Eugene. So instead of arriving home at 10 p.m we didn't get there till after midnight. By that time we were tired and hungry after already driving for 14 or so hours. After we got back on our way the trip was rainy, foggy, and very dark; which for me is awful because I have really bad night vision, even with glasses/contacts. So it was scary!! Anyways, we finally got home and all my family was still up to welcome us home with a banner on the window saying "Welcome Home Scott and Kirsten". It was cute :) Lets just say we are very happy we are home and that we made it all in one piece.

2009-05-30T16:27:00.008-07:00

Just a walk down memory lane! haha I get to see them soon!!! well not Cameron yet...but still very soon!!!

Homeward Bound :)

2009-05-20T16:45:00.007-07:00

So it's official everyone! We are moving back to Eugene finally! Yay :) We are so excited and can't wait to see our family and friends again. It's been way to long since we have been back. Actually we haven't been back since we got married 9 months ago. crazy! We are hoping to hit the road sometime during the first week of June (most likely towards the end of the week). I have 13 days left at Jamba and I'll be sad to leave my awesome co-workers, but i'm definitely ready for a new adventure....haha even though I've already lived in Oregon. Scott and I are so excited to be around our families and be a part of birthdays and holidays. We missed all the holidays last year sadly, so it's going to be so nice to spend Thanksgiving and Chirstmas with our families this year. For those of you who don't know, Scott's and my family live in the same city, which makes moving home even more awesome. I'm really looking forward to getting to know my in-laws better. They are truly amazing people. Also, I'm set on getting scott behind our boat somehow....maybe in a tube or something....but it's going to happen...just watch. haha so that is one of my goals this summer. :) Ah! we love Oregon so much!!! I'm so excited...as if you couldn't tell. lol and my brother Cameron gets off his mission the first week of August and I get to be there when he gets off the plane. I simply cannot wait! I feel as though this summer is going to be the best one yet. :)

Easter Time :)

2009-04-15T10:34:00.010-07:00

Easter was really Uneventful, but awesome that we could be together without work. We colored eggies! which we have never done together before and it was so much fun! It was way cute how Scott got into it. I was proud of how good of a job he did. hehe :) I beat him though, he even admits that I made the best egg. Some of his were really good! It was a really tough call. It's just so much fun being together without worrying about work. I love it! Scott and I finally figured out how to Play with Tia and my family back home on the Wii Mario Kart. It's so fun! I love the fact that even though we are not in Oregon, we can still feel like we are together through a game. lol I think Tia, Scott and I ended up playing it for almost two hours on Easter, while we had Tia on speaker phone to make it more real. I lost of course almost every race, Scott and Tia are just too good. It was basically Awesomness! haha. Hmm.... There's not much to update other then the stuff above. Scott and I are doing really great! Just still keeping busy with work and school. We miss you all very much! cross your fingers so that we can move home this summer, because I know I am! Oh and we made a dozen eggs, but I only took pictures of some of them. So here they are....

Kirsten's
Kirsten's ( This one won)
Scott's
Yay for Oregon! ( Kirsten's)
Kirsten's

It's About Time!

2009-04-15T10:04:00.007-07:00

Ok, so I have been slacking a lot lately on updating my blog. Bad Kirsten! Anyways I don't really feel as though we have done a lot lately, but that's because we really haven't. hehe But I do have some pictures.Scott and I went to the Festival of Colors last month in Spanish Fork and it was awesome! Basically it's an Indian festival celebrating the coming of spring. They hold it out at what looks like an Indian palace called the Hare Krishna temple. It's so Gorgeous!!! I wish I took Pictures of it, but I forgot. Thousands of what mostly consists of college kids gather together and throw colored powder at each other at the sound of a bell. It's so cool looking! But sadly Scott and I got separated during the start of the throwing, because I had to use the bathroom that was a million miles long and he went to buy colors, which they were out of. I was really sad that I couldn't find him, but I eventually did. I didn't get pictures of us covered in powder because I didn't think about it and I didn't want to get my camera dirty. So basically it was a way cool experience! You know besides the tons of car accidents on the freeway caused by dumb college drivers and them being out of colored powder. haha :)

I found this picture of the temple online, Just to give you and idea. So Pretty!
I don't know these people, I just wanted to show how colorful people get. Hehe :)

This is only Part of the Group on one side of the Temple, People were wrapped all the way around.

Vegas Trip!!!

2009-03-26T11:51:00.007-07:00

Midday Napping...

2009-03-02T17:22:00.003-08:00

So Scott and I just woke up from a very well deserved nap and I decided I would re-cap last week for us, even though it was very uneventful. lol :) Basically all I did was work; I'm training to be a manger at Jamba, ha ha and that usually involves me going to work super early sometimes to learn how to open the store. But I'm excited! Scott just got moved to full time at work as well and that is awesome! Though I will see him a tad bit less often, i'm still excited that we can now save some extra money for some things we need. On a typical work week I won't see him until he gets off at work at nine pm or so, because I tend to work in the morning/afternoons, ( Which I love!) And he goes to school in the morning and then goes to work after. I am not sure if I have mentioned this before, but I think that cheese is probably the best food ever. I could eat it day and night, every meal. ( Ok so that was scott, he is random) ha ha anyways... Sunday was our only day together last week and it was amazing. It's so nice to just be able to do anything, even if it involves just being a bum. lol We wanted to go for a walk, but of course that turned into going on a drive, which turned into a two hour drive around western Utah. I loved every minute of it! It's so pretty out there and since we had never been out there before we just kept driving; hence it taking two hours. It's so nice just to be able to talk without the interruptions of everyday. So the drive was the best! ok I think that's it for now, Scott's getting antsy to go to the store!

2009-02-25T19:04:00.003-08:00

My Awesome Family =)

2009-02-25T19:01:00.015-08:00

My older brother Chris (right) and basically my other brother Brad. lol I have known him for so long that he is like a brother to me. These guys are my favorite ( Besides my husband of course, hehe ) I couldn't have asked for a better older brother!!! He is so wonderful and I'm excited for when I can hang out with him again!!
My amazingly GORGEOUS sister Katelyn! Just thought I had to show her off. I'm so Proud of her, she's such a wonderful and hard working woman! LOVE HER!
The most Manly men you'll ever meet! lol This is Scott's dad and my Step dad BBQin' for our reception. They loved it ( at least I hope) haha and they did such an amazing job!!!
Twins!!!! My best friend who also happens to be my mom!! Love her!
These are my wonderful Grandparents! On the left you have my mom's mom, and then my Dad's mom next to her and then finally my step dad's dad. Seriously they are Amazing people!!
This is actually what my step mom looks like now..ha ha I thought she might like this picture of her better. lol

My Daddy and my Step mom Tricia! Amazing people! I love them both so much!!!!!! I didn't have an updated picture of them, but o well, this works.

This is my Brother Cameron who is on a mission in the West Indies so he couldn't make it to the wedding, sad day! but he is coming home in close to 5 months!! I'm so excited!

This is Scott's side; from left to right you have his sister Kim, Brother Chris, Dad, Sister Jennifer, Mom and his brother Mike. I love my new in-laws!

This is my side of the family...well sort of, there are people missing, but included in this is my step dad, my mom, older brother Chris, little sister Tia, Sister Katelyn, and my little brother Mark.

Blogging Randomness

2009-02-25T16:00:00.005-08:00

Ok, so I've been trying to figure out this whole blogging thing and I think i'm slowly getting it. Finally! Mostly thanks to my friend Jen for taking the time to show me what to do. ha ha Anyways, I thought this would be a good way for me to update friends and family on our lives, because i'm really bad at writing letters and calling. Ok, so this is hopefully the first of many posts! Yay!