When you wish upon a STAR, your DREAMS come TRUE

Last night was so special to me! Skyler and I broke the law, PARTNERS IN CRIME! But for a good reason...there is a park about 5 minutes from us that is right on the Ocean! Yesterday was a gorgous day, so the stars were so bright and clear at night. Around midnight, we bundled up and took our quilts to the park. We cuddled under the starlite sky for about an hour, just talking and loving eachother! We loved it! The law breaking went on somewhere between seeing the sign reading "Park Hours 6 am- 10 pm" NBD We are now making star gazing something we do quite often! Maybe we'll go during park hours and sit by the ocean! Sounds nice, nah we like to break the rules sometimes ; )

Take me out to the ball game...!

My very first, Seattle Mariner's game! Wednesday night we headed to Safeco Field to watch the Mariners play the Tampa Bay Rays. Naturally, because Seattle hasn't been doing very well they lost, and we didn't even stay the entire game because we were FROZE! BUT, it was super fun!! We did the whole sheebang, and spent a ridiculous amount of money on food at the ball park, so worth it though. I had the world famous GARLIC FRIES!!! they were so delish, and Sky had Fish n' Chips! I smelled like garlic until Friday I swear!! Seattle is such a pretty city, and it was a pretty clear sky for the most part, just got chilly when the sun went down! Skyler is such a fun date planner! He's the best!!

...Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday's at their Finest

On Friday nights Skyler spends the evening with his brothers at his parents. They do boy things so I usually relax at home!!! So tonight I did took it easier on my workout for the day and did a Yoga! And it was actually a great work out! I actually broke a sweat! After my personal yoga class I made homemade Cinnamon Rolls to celebrate May Day tomorrow!! You're probably thinking what the heck is May Day! haha its celebrated on May 1st! Different cultures celebrate it differently, and my culture is to bake Cinnamon Rolls! (what I'm getting at is...I really didn't have a reason other than they're challenging but fun to make and I've never made them without mommy assistance ; ) My May Day celebration turned out very delicious smelling! One thing I was a little worried about was I made a double batch on accident and forgot to split the dough before rolling it into the cinni rolls! So each roll was double what it should have been! Needless to say they are MASSIVE cinnamon rolls. CinneBon you better watch it! : ) Tomorrow Skyler has planned a DAY DATE!! Cucumber sandwiches, a park, Seattle sunshine (mean's no sunshine), and my Skyler...tomorrow will be perfect! Going to bed now. My apartment smells scrumptious! Sweetdreams everyone!

This is before they went in the oven to raise and cook, I was banking on an overflowed mess!!!!

YUMM! and none of them overflowed the pan, a few of them puffed way up because they were forced up instead of out by the surrounding rolls! HA.

Eight Legged Nightmare!

SO! Skyler and I went for a run late Sunday night! It was so fun, relaxing, and much needed! We came home and naturally Skyler went to take a shower...all of a sudden I hear "BABY DO NOT COME IN HERE!!!" A little background info, I am scared to death of spiders. In 4th grade I had found a spider in our basement growing up and had a nightmare that spiders were attacking my head, I was so terrified I couldn't walk through the halls at my school I was so convinced they were getting me. I could go into great detail about that story because I remember it like it was yesterday! Needless to say I still have that nightmare sometimes. ANYWAYS! I walk into the bathroom and Skyler is crouched over the tub and saying "don't look you don't want to." But I did anyways because I had no idea what it was. .00001 seconds later I was standing on the toilet scared to death. The biggest spider I have ever seen was sprawled out in the tub!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't get closer than I was on the toilet to take a picture but not even exaggerating it was as big around as a baseball! OK, prob more like a tennis ball but still that is HUGE! it was soooo creepy! K so I'm like where did it come from, oh my gosh if there's one there's more, how are we going to get it out, how are we going to shower?? Within seconds I had asked 25 questions at once. Oh and did I mention the body of the beast was enormous! So, Skyler gets a pitcher of water and our genius idea is to wash it down the drain...well then I was like what if it crawls back up???? So we get the bleach! Sorry Sucker, you're dead now! (I'm itchy typing this story). After examining the crime scene for a few minutes, I was able to shower, staying clear of the drain. BUT, I had yet to take a bath since yesterday!!!! Hopefully we won't see anymore of those anytime soon! Oh and I didn't have a nightmare Sunday night, LUCKILY!

The Picture doesn't even do it just!!!! magnify by 2000 billiontrillionmillion and it might do it ; )

Nike Headquarters!

This past Thursday Skyler had the opportunity to visit Nike Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. He was selected by the Zumiez Lead team as Player of the Year in 2009. This trip was one of the things he won for recognition! Way to GO! Sky, Troy, and Taylor the other co-worker who won the award as well flew to Portland Thursday and spent the day there. Skyler had so much fun! They also got to visit the Nike Employee store where all of the latest Nike merchandise is discounted to employee price! $$ LUCKY! So, Sky got a few new things and suprised me with new hot pink and grey running shoes!!! I LOVE THEM!!! He's the best!!! So thoughtful of him. What a great opportunity it was to visit Nike. Skyler deffinitely deserved it for working so hard and always doing his best! Thank's Zumiez for recognizing his hard work! Take a look at some of the pictures. The Nike campus is GORG!

Let the Holy Spirit Guide

Hi everyone! I thought it was about that time to update our Blog, I promise some day I'll update weekly!

I finished my internship a short while ago and I was offered a job!! So that was very exciting for us. The only down fall was the hiring process has taken so long. If you know me well, I do not do well not being busy all of the time. So, I have been setting personal goals for each day that I am home playing "house wife" It has been tough finding things to do that don't cost money of course, since I am currently not working!! But the great thing is Skyler and I both have faith, and we know as long as we keep living our life righteously and obey the Lord, He will bless us. We are given trials and challenges to make us stronger. With that said, I received my orientation date of Thursday the 22nd, that's next week!!

Something very exciting that is coming up is my graduation from Medical Assisting school!! My mom, and hopefully my dad and Kyle are coming to Seattle for my graduation!!

Skyler, and I have both been researching information to start school either this summer or fall. My passion has always been Dental Hygiene, once I got married a quicker goal to help Skyler support our new family (Me and Sky) was Medical Assisting and I really do love it, but probably not a long term thing.

I have set a goal to run a 5K this summer. I haven't picked the race yet, but I love running and would love to run a short race like that! Last time I ran a race was the Thanksgiving Day Race in Ohio, and I'm pretty sure I walked the 2nd half!! ha. No walking this time!

I think that is pretty much all for now, really nothing to new in our busy lives!! We miss our family and friends and think about you often. We will write again soon!

We are still alive!

Hi everyone we're back! It's been a LONG time! Things have slowed down for us and I have time to blog and catch everyone up on our AMAZING life! So excited! We've had so many exciting things happen in the past few montsh so let's get started!!

In december, 2009, Skyler and I celebrated our first Christmas married before I left for a week or so and flew to Ohio. I got the iPhone with a Juicy Couture cover, gosh he knows me well doesn't he! Sky got new clothes, new Acqua Di Gio! oolala and lots of new dress clothes! In Ohio it was fun to spend time with Mom and family! I also got ot see friends wich were so fun! Oh and how could I forget I had my wisdome teeth pulled as well, how fun that was, NOT. Swollen cheeks, lots of drugs, and celebrating Christmas! It wasn't very pleasant the few days after my surgery. Sick and very love sick for my Skyler, but Mommy took good care of me! I was lucky to have her during recovery. So, I made it back home to Seattle right before Santa came on Chrstimas Eve. We spend the night at Skyler's parents for Christmas morning. Christmas morning Santa brought me a Tiffany's charm bracelet! I was soo suprised, Sky is so good to me! I'm very spoiled! Well I take that back, WE spoil eachother! HA We had a very fun Christmas, filled with so many blessings and lots of love. Merry Christmas...goodbye 2009!

Sometime in December I made my first sugar cookies and we went to a light show!

January flew past, I think this was when I was ambitious enough to make my own Bread!! yummy!

February! Valentine's Day!! My favorite holiday! Of course Skyler suprised me with 12 roses, Dove Chocolate, breakfast in bed and a snuggly teddy! It was such a fun day with my Valentine!

Somewhere in the mix of Feb and March we bought are very first CAR!! check it out!!

March! My 21st Birthday and graduated school! Sky got me Tiffany earrings for my birthday and took me to the Macaroni Grill!! Happy 21st to me! I tackled the Washington DMV, got my horizontal license! wahoo and I am officially Ashley Brown and a WA resident! Pretty excited about all of that! I spent my Birthday pampering myself with a mani and shopping! Mom got me my pink stethescope for my Internship, Mom and Danny sent me a care pacakge of scrubs, and I also received many cards wishing me Happy Birthday from family!! Thanks to my family, I love you all and am very blessed to be so loved! Just recently I finished school and have now started my internship at Virginia Mason in Kirkland, WA. I LOVE IT! Skyler is still at Zumiez and is planning to start school back up in the fall! March as been so fun filled and it's not even half over. My bestfriend, Brooke, comes to Seattle in 11 days! Can't wait! Now you can see why I haven't blogged in awhile, whew!

*Above* My first day being a Medical Assistant! (Mom scrapped it, isn't she good!)

So I've pretty much briefed everyone up until now. We are so thankful for our blessings. We love our families and friends, near and far, and we think of you often!