Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat ...

This morning I had to go get a filling. I haven't had one since I was a kid and it was in my baby teeth still! I've been really good with brushing and all that, but I somehow got one anyway. I was really nervous about going in because I remember the huge needle they used to get the Novocain in there. So I went in and luckily they have this gel stuff that numbs the gums first. So they numbed it and then put in the Novicain...I tell ya, that stuff is great! Didn't even feel the injection! I was actually super nervous, just waiting for it to go in and I waited and waited and waited and then he just putted it out of my mouth. Apparently it was all done! The rest of the procedure was pretty straight forward and I didn't have any issues. Now I just have a really numb mouth on one side. You should have seen me trying to get my chapstick on...oh man. Rich was laughing pretty hard so I'm sure it was pretty funny.

On to the Victory!!
I had so much time off this past month. It's been great just getting to relax and catch up on sleep and make all kinds of Christmas goodies! Speaking of which, I still have all the stuff for my Magic Cookie Squares that I never made...Looks like I'll be having some Christmas goodies in January!!
I've really loved having so much time off to just do the stuff I want to do and not all the stuff that I have to do like when I'm in school.

And the Defeat...
I start school again on Monday :( This weekend is my last weekend before school starts again. To make it much more bearable, we are going to go up and spend some time with Adam in Seattle!! We're pretty excited to go up there and spend some time with him. I hope we get to go do some fun things and go see some fun stuff. It's been a while since I've been in Seattle. I can't wait!

Well, I better get packing! Hope to update before school starts on Monday, but I don't think there will be any pictures (very sadly...). Our camera has decided to go kaput on us...most of the time. It gets this really weird looking pink streaks all over the screen and then all over the pictures when you try to take a picture. Maybe it will cooperate this weekend and we can remember our good time in pictures :)

WE'RE STILL HERE!!

I'm so sorry for not updating the blog in so long. Rich has been busy at work and this past term turned out to be really busy for me as well. I got out of school for the Christmas break a little while ago, but I'm sad it's almost over. So if you don't get any updated for a while, it's because school started again, Sorry!! I also apologize for how long this blog update is going to be, I'm trying to make up for lost time here.

Let's see, where did I leave off?? AUGUST!! Man, it has been a while. I'm such a slacker! So in September, I had my birthday and school started again. I was working full time during the summer and that kept me pretty busy. I'm enjoying my job and Rich seems to be enjoying his job too. It's pretty hard to beat the place he works for, there are a lot of good people there. Here are some pictures of things we did during September:

Our flowers were blooming like crazy and we had some nice honey bee visitors!
Then we went to a wildlife refuge near our house and we saw all sorts of things. We saw tons of white pelicans, otters playing on a log, lots of frogs, and a white egret!

Then towards the end of the month we got a new goldfish and we went to Rich's company's camping weekend at Silver Falls...and yes, my hair is dark brown.
Cooper and Kiki (mini ausies!)

So that was September! In October our flowers were still blooming! Rich and I went up to his parents house one weekend and we helped refinish their deck before the rain came. We helped my parents clear the blackberries out of their backyard so they would have a nicer view of the field behind their house (sorry, I don't have any pictures of that). We carved pumpkins that molded immediately :( And we took a day trip to the beach. We went down through Monroe and down to Florence. Then up along the coast to Newport and back home to Corvallis. And a quick stop at the wildlife refuge again...just for the fall colors.

In November we went down to Medford to visit my BFF and her hubby. One day while we were down there we decided to go to Crater Lake. It was so cold and there was snow and icicles everywhere! We went to my parents house for Thanksgiving and Rich's family came over too. It was fun having that many people around. I don't have any pictures of Thanksgiving but Meghan does and you can look at them here!

Now to December...We haven't done a whole lot this month. So far, we had a couple humming bird visitors and we got a Christmas tree so I'm going to just post pictures of the tree. Hopefully I get some more pictures soon of Christmas day which is only 2 days away!!! This year has gone by so fast!