New House!!!

Better late than never right? :) YES, we have a new house!!! And YES, it is AMAZING! Here are the things I love:
- it feels like 'home' :)
- the main room downstairs (kitchen, eating, great rooms) feature a wall of windows looking out the backyard into protected greenspace that is a marsh! Amazing. You can hear crickets and frogs and see birds, deers, and other critters playing! so fun!
- we live next to Marymoor park - in fact, it is our back yard!
- we live 1 mile from the bike 'trail', and there is a really wide bike lane all the way there
- we have community lake access ... and a boat dock!
- we got to pick out the floors, cabinets, counter tops, tile, etc! and we love it!

... and here are some photos! Amazing, Amazing, Amazing!!!

The details: Our Engagement Weekend

As I noted in the last post, it's been a busy month! And a super exciting month too :) But I know some of you have been paitiently waiting for the details ... so here is Story #1 - the story of my engagement to Jonathan :)

It was all a surprise to me in the end, but we had such a fantastic weekend leading up to it, I feel I should blog about all of it ;-) 

Friday night was our regular monthly 'date night' .. We try to go to new restaurants once per month while Emily is off with her mother.  Canlis has been on our list for a while, and it was Jonathan's turn to book - so he chose that! It is a very high end/fancy restaurant so we had to get all dressed up ... here we are, at the restaurant.

 

It was a great meal, and even better company. We really enjoy connecting over dinner :) I feel lucky to have such a great partner!!

 

 

Saturday AM we headed off for a mountain bike ride. I wasn't aware of it, but Jonathan was thinking of proposing to me on the ride. I foiled his plans by signing us up for a group ride - we wanted to check out a new trail, and with our Joe and Molly I knew we wouldn't get lost :)  We did get pretty muddy though - sorry, no pictures - was too wet/cold :)

 

 

Sunday we decided to go for a run at Couger - we love running the trails there. It's a Sunday morning favorite!  Usually we share water but Jonathan decided to use his own water belt that day ... I figured he was just thirsty ;-) Little did I know ...  Also, as a funny note: I was a bit stressed going into the run - we had so much packing left to do for moving day - but Jonathan really wanted to run in the woods, so off we went!  Of course as soon as I was running on the trails for 5 min, my stress levels were much reduced :)

 

We got to one of our favorite viewpoints, and per tradition, Jonathan took a self portrait of us. He then suggested I try to get one of the view. It was kinda cloudy so that didn't work too well.

 

While I was trying to get a photo of the view, Jonathan was busy getting the ring ready! Of course I said yes ... here are some after shots! We look a little happier, yeah? :)

 

 

 YAY! So happy :)

 

 

All is quiet on the Westren front ....

... and you know what that means! It means SO much is going on, I haven't had time to blog!!!! I don't even know where to start, so i'll start with the most exciting part: JONATHAN PROPOSED!!! And of course I said 'yes'!!!! So excited!!! We will get married this summer, in Nova Scotia (on the farm). A small family wedding ... with Emily as the cutest flower girl ever :)   So HAPPY :) Oh, and my new ring is amazingly beautiful :)

We have also fully moved into our new home - pictures will come soon! Emily had her first egg hunt in the new place last weekend ... and we have Jonathan's family all visiting us now - our new place had loads of room for visitors and entertaining!

It's been an exciting month, that is for sure!!!  More later - still busy unpacking and visiting with Otto, LaVerne, and Jennifer! Emily is in heaven :)