Dog Park

Since our house won't be ready until October we are finding new ways to keep ourselves entertained. We don't have t.v. or internet in our apartment and the dogs are loving it. Lots of attention for them. We found this awesome dog park that is just minutes away.



This park is huge! (acres and acres) No leashes allowed, and it's fully fenced! Lucky for us because our little Ruby is an escape artist sometimes.



There are lots of pretty trails in the park, so Ben, Baby, and I get our exercise walking for over an hour everyday.



The park is covered with rasberry and blackberry bushes. So, as we're walking we can have a little snack.



I like this :)

Its Growing......

My bump is starting to grow like wildflower.




Meanwhile, Ben is starting to get his practice in holding a baby, Rowdy will have to do.

We Bought a House

Ben and I made an offer on a house yesterday and we got it! We are so excited. We saw this house and made an offer the same day. It's 4 bedrooms and 2 1/2 baths. It's pretty cozy though. It's a little over 1500 sq ft. The biggest advantage of all is a decent sized backyard where our puppies can run and run. Unfortunately, the house is in the last stages of being built so we won't be able to move in until October 22 but that's okay at least we found one. Here are some pictures of the model we purchased.

Point Defiance Park and Baby Pics.

Ben and I went to Point Defiance Park today on the Puget Sound. Amazing place, and it's only 10 min. away. Anybody who comes to visit, this is the first place we're taking you. All of these pictures are from this park.

Here is the Bing Crosby Flower Garden. Apparently, he is from Tacoma.





Then, we went for a walk along the water. The dogs loved this. Washington is very dog friendly so we could let them off their leash and they got a chance to run and chase the birds.



This is us still sitting by the water, and behind us was a forest. We thought that was cool.


Lastly, we walked through the picnic area on the way back to the car.

And I found the biggest Christmas Tree I've ever seen! I love Christmas.


Here's a quick update on the baby.


I'm 16 weeks and my belly just barely rounded out. This whole time my belly has looked like a pooch but just barely on Monday morning it turned into a small firm cantaloupe. I love it. You can't really tell in these pics though. Also, last night I felt the baby move for the first time. I was so excited. It felt like it did two little somersaults or waves going on inside. So cute. I can't wait for it to feel like the baby is doing this inside. Lol.

First days in Washington

Let me just start by saying I love Washington. There is so much for us to do here and it looks just as I pictured it. I'm excited for all our future adventures together here. Now enough about that, lets talk about our first couple days here....

We drive 13 hours to get here from Utah. No problems. The dogs are being great and we split it in 2 days so it really wasn't that bad. Then when we get here everything changes.....

1. We got an awesome internet deal on a hotel that is pet friendly for $44 a night (cheapest we could find)but we check in and apparently they have a pet fee they don't mention which is $50 a night. (Now not so awesome $90 hotel.)

2. Then we dropped the dogs off and had a good time going to the base and other towns exploring for a place to live. The one place we loved is only building no already made homes for sale. Unfortunately, they said the earliest it could be done would be end of Jan. early Feb. (baby is due Jan. 26 ) That won't work.

3. After a long day we went back to the room and took the dogs for a walk and then at 9:30 Ben decided to go to Walmart to buy some groceries so we could save some money. He buys groceries comes out around 10 and the battery in the car is dead.

4. He tries to find someone to get him a jump. No one would help him. He called our insurance and luckily they sent someone out 45 min. later. After 3 jumps Ben finally made it back at 12:30 a.m. (With McDonalds for dinner and a movie for me, isn't he amazing?) But we had no dvd player in the room to watch it :/ so we watched it on the laptop with subtitles because you can't hear it. lol.

5. Next morning we get another jump, take it to walmart to replace the battery. There's a long wait but we have no choice and they say they'll call us so we just waste time in Walmart. Guess what, they never call we go check on it and it's been sitting there. (oh well, at least it's fixed.)

6. It's still pretty early and Ben's b-day is coming up and he wants a new phone so we go look for an iphone. Apparently Washington doesn't like it because we couldn't find it anywhere. No one would sell anything to us. Horrible service. Half of the time we would walk into a store and not one person would be in there. Weird.

7. Forget the phones, we realize our registration for the car is expired in 2 days so we run to the registration office, bring the title we have and it's the wrong one. We could only get a temporary paper registration until we mail off for our new title. And it would cost us an extra $23 on top of what we need to pay.

8. Ben's license expires on his b-day so we go to get a new Washington license, he can't have one until he proves he is a resident here. How does that work, since you have to have a Washington ID to be a resident? Weird.

9. As we were running all these errands occasionally I would run into some man or teenage boy who would try to hit on me. What kind of men like to hit on pregnant women? Gross. (unless its your wife, that's okay)

10. Ben was supposed to check in on this day (Friday) but when he called in turns out Friday everyone was off. Good thing he called in. Monday he checks in now.

11. We decided to go to Walmart again to get some stuff we had forgotten, and just our luck Ben was wearing a byu hat and the cashier said he didn't help mormons. But, he was just kidding I guess.

12. Then went home and went down to the front desk to pay for the internet so we could use it, turns out its free and everyone can get it but us. Joy.

13. Now I'm just grumpy, go to bed, wake up next morning to take the puppies outside at around 8 and I hear all these sirens. Turns out there was a criminal in our hotel and a guy is getting arrested right where I need to take the puppies. (Now I feel safe)

14. Last but not least, we go to church yesterday. I was so excited to make a friend and I had so many military related questions on decisions we should make so I wanted to get their advice. We even made sure to go to the ward right next to the base so there would be military. We get there, the bishop tells us Ben is the only pilot in the whole ward. Very few military. It was fast and testimony meeting and a lady got up and told us someone had gotten shot at her work that week. (freaky) I went to relief society there were only 3 rows in that room and the first 2 were all new visitors and half of them had just barely gotten baptized. The people were very nice but I don't think that ward is for us. The area is sketchy right there and I think I need to find a ward with more friends that I can make and more support for when Ben is gone all the time.

15. That is all I have for now. Ben and I thought all of this was very comical, and I would've blogged about it sooner but refer to number 12 (free internet didn't work for us)