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Another year has gone by!

These anniversary photos are more than a little delayed, but we sure had fun doing them while my (Kristina’s) Dad and brother were here to visit. Our theme for our sixth anniversary was Six Shooters and Shooting Stars. I had a blast making Jupiter out of cardboard and fabric scraps. Dad hung the stars with expert precision. And you’ll notice our newly refinished living room floor which is so beautiful we couldn’t possibly walk on it! So sit back, pretend it’s November 5, and enjoy our new photos!

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We’ve been married for 5 years, 1 week, and 3 days! I know! It’s a wow!

The Nazario Dudes came to town this weekend and took our annual anniversary photos! THANKS DUDES! Thanks also to detective Dan Stark who gave us the idea for this year’s theme: “It’s Natural.” You’ll notice an abundance of natural things in these photos…

1) Logs and leaves
2) A banana tree
3) My naturally wavy hair and blue eyelids
4) Love, love, love

You’ll also notice a necklace that belonged to the late Grandma Violet Mae Beenken, the most naturally beautiful lady in the world.

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I’ve been wanting to have an easy way to put things up on the current events section of our website for some time now and K made it work for me! She’s the best! I think I’ll marry her=]

So…actually we took these photos on the 7th…but we were pretending it was the 5th. =) Check out our super duper new TV…it makes for great 3D entertainment!

View Photos of Our Fourth Anniversary!

Posted By: Kristina

Two weeks ago we owned a rusty, old, dark blue 1970 VW Beetle. If you took a gander at the golden and off-white two-tone Beetle that now sits in the garage, you’d never guess it was the same Beetle we had two weeks ago! Here’s a rundown of what we did:

We pulled the Beetle limb from limb.
We sandblasted gooey fuzzy upolstery stuff off the inside.
We ground off the 1/2-inch thick tar-like old undercoating.
We reundercoated it.
We scuffed. And scuffed. And scuffed.
We ached.
We watched a video of this crazy guy from the ’80s redoing a car.
We pounded.
We welded.
We hardly ate or slept.
We analyzed every ding.
We masked and primed.
Then masked and painted.
Then masked some more and painted some more.
We said oops.
Our motto became “Well, it will look good from a distance.”
We learned that people who work at paint stores don’t necessarily know how much primer and paint you’ll need to cover an entire car.
We ran out of primer.
We bought more.
We ran out of paint.
We bought more.
We finally finished…well, almost…still have to clear coat it on Sunday. But now it’s Sabbath and we are off to enjoy our much-needed day of rest.

View Photos of Us Redoing the Beetle!

A rainy Oregon coast anniversary. A cozy home and a whole day off. Check out our Third Anniversary Gallery!

Posted By: Kristina

Four motorcycles and a trike sat in our driveway this last week (August 6-15). The 3 visiting motorcycles were those of our Johnson parents and Uncle Craig. The trike? A surprise for Journey from her uncle and auntie in Oregon. The line-up made a cute site…especially when it left our driveway and headed for a trek through town (with Uncle Seth test-driving Journey’s trike the whole way).

We enjoyed more than just a jaunt into town with the visiting relations. A leisurely but exciting 4 day trip was planned and executed. It took us on scenic drives overlooking the coast, forests, lakes and waterfalls, filbert orchards, and included a trip to the Harley store in Eugene (where I got some smokin’ new riding boots and jacket).

Since pictures speak louder than words, why don’t you check out our Cycle Trip ’08 Gallery?

So the last three days have been the nicest weather in the history of the Oregon Coast. Brenda’s staying with us until she starts working at Big Lake Youth Camp. We’ve been chillin’ and enjoying the great weather. And painting our whole house. Off white, but a couple light pea green accent walls and a couple light brown accent walls.

Tonight we had dinner on the beach and then played in the waves. We skipped rocks back and forth across the super shallow parts of the water. Kinda like catch only lower. Then Bre and Seth decided it was warm enough to go swimming.

Posted By: Kristina

We skipped church today. It was so beautiful outside that we couldn’t wait to go to the beach. So we packed up some essentials and drove the van down the hill to the beach. We spread our blanket out on a dune of sand sheltered by sea grasses and overlooking the waves. Sethi played his guitar while I read. Jaidi sunbathed. Then we ate a sourdough baguette with flavored olive oil, fresh fruit salad, carrots and cheese.

We watched this little girl – around 5 years old we figured – with pink leggings under an orange dress and a wavy brown head of hair. She was trying to catch the foam from the waves in her purple plastic bucket…without touching the water. She’d run away from the water as fast as possible and then as soon as it started drifting back toward sea she’d run back to catch up with the foam and try to scoop it into her bucket. So funny!

Two little puppies are staying with us right now – Black Jack and CeCe are my dad’s pomeranians. For those of you who know Jaidi, these two are about half her size and twice her energy level. I took a few pics of them in the backyard today. I’ve been trying to teach them to stay, so getting them to sit still long enough for a picture was a work of patience – for both me and Jaidi who already knows how to stay and was frustrated that I would make her practice with the babies. =)

So, here’s some pics of our new place. It’s a duplex and out back is a little golf course which is fun ’cause we get to watch all sorts of people. High school classes, hippies, retirees, dads and kids, hot golfer chicks, etc. Tonight we’re going to have a classic relaxing Sat. night…movie and popcorn, so I included a pic of Sethi and me (with brown hair) in the office (where we’ll watch the movie). Bre and I painted the walls dark teal.

More lata…

I’m trying to get RSS built into our site so I can be cool like the rest of you loco bloggers! Bear with me while I learn. It’s not going to happen over night.

Oh, while I’ve got you here reading this horrible excuse for content, if anyone knows how to set up RSS feel free to get in touch and help me out before I have live feeds to webcams in Chinatown or something equally disturbing.

Thanks,

Seth