Spring??? Anytime now would be great.

Happy Easter (yesterday)
My sister and her husband and dog were here the whole weekend. Penny followed their dog around well, like a puppy dog, all weekend. Made Penny quite exhausted. The Easter bunny came and hid eggs around the apartment. Our parents had to find them. An orange one was hidden in a bowl of clementines and a yellow one was hidden with the bananas...made it a little tricky. And it rained cats and dogs all day yesterday and today.

We are planning a trip to San Diego at the end of May/beginning of June. Dave has an aunt and uncle there so we are crashing there and playing with them. We are very excited to experience hot weather....we really hope it will be hot by then!

I've now been working all through March and half of April. I'm still a temp but I've been transferred from the temp agency's payroll to the company's payroll. I'm a little closer to becoming permanent. Dave started a job with the Census. He thinks it will last through next year.

and today I'm recovering from a chocolate hangover...The second purpose of Easter is to give, receive and eat chocolate!!!!

I found more pictures of Penny. This one is when whe was a little puppy. She is holding her pink stuffed hippo which met a most unfortunate demise a few weeks ago when it's head was ripped pen and all the stuffing came out.

Oh, and here she is with her first sheep. Yes, this one is gone too. She spent a weekend with her buddy Drake (my parents' dog) and they ripped it up. She got a new one for Easter. Let's see how long that one will last.

This is Penny playing with two toys at once. She is quite the mulit-tasker. Okay, that's it....I've turned into a crazy woman who only talks about her dog. Really, I have other interests!

working...and dreaming of summer

I've now been working for 7 continuous weekdays. May not seem like much to some but for us it is a blessing. Plus I got to work 7 hours of overtime last week! That will really fatten up the paycheck.

Dave is looking really diligently for employment. But in the meantime, he is so helpful at home. He spends time with fluffy Penelope...playing football. This picture was taken in late October last fall when Penny was only 4 months old. She is bigger now...but she is so cute in this picture.

He also makes me breakfast and packs my lunch and drives me to the park & ride in the morning and picks me up in the evening.

It snowed again today. We moved back here for the warmer weather and shorter winters....but I guess it followed us here. I still can't believe how often it has snowed. Penelope loves the snow and rolls around in it whenever she can. I am dreaming about summer and going to the Everett Jetty...see below. It is so peaceful and beautiful. I got so tan last August going there every weekend. Really can't wait again for summer.

So even though it is wicked cold outside, here's to dreaming of summer. Where are some of your favorite places to be in the summer?

So sorry for infinite delay

I have had so much time and I have not updated this since July 2008. How pathetic is that? I did pass the Washington bar but I am not yet practicing as a lawyer. I've been temping on and off since August at a claims administrator. It is a cool company that is actually growing which is a miracle in these times. I was "off" for the entire month of February and I could have updated this lots of times but I didn't. I am back temping as of last Friday and I think it could go for awhile. I hope and pray that they hire me on permanently. It is a pretty low stress job. I mean I have to pay attention to a lot of detail but I don't have to argue in court or be responsible for a client like my old job.

Dave is looking for a job now too. He was working for my dad but his company went under in December. He's applied to tons and thankfully the people in our ward are helping him. They know lots of people and in this market, it's all about who you know. We just need health insurance...I don't care what kind of job it is.

We are still living in Woodinville where it snows a lot. It just snowed here last week...I will include a picture. Oh it is up on the right I guess. Still getting used to this blogger thing. That picture shows our backyard of our home...we live in a daylight basement apartment of the house of my best friend. Our dog loves it...see below.

We also got a puppy in September. I have one picture. I don't know where the others are. So here's a picture of her taken last week. Ok that picture got put at the top. I don't know why. I've seen people put pictures in between the text but I'm not sure how. That's her new red bone pillow with not one but two squeakers that my dear friend Carla got her. She loves it. Her name is Penelope Fair and we call her Penny. She is an Old English Sheepdog. We got her when we went to the Puyallup Fair. She wasn't at the fair but right outside. That was a good story...I should write about that one later.

That is all for now...Can't write everything now because then I'll have nothing to say later.