Been Awhile.....

So, I got a new camera for my birthday (thank you hubby!) but it is broken already so I haven't wanted to post blogs without pictures. Thus I am lacking in posting....I will try to catch up.

My birthday was fun! I had that nasty crud though so I was pretty out of it. It was still a good day though. We went to the Seattle to tailgate before the game that day (as always) and as we were getting set up Shawn, Nick, Bryan and Ashley surprised me and showed up and it turned into a mini tailgate/ Katie birthday party! So fun. And Todd's wife Melissa was there too which was fun. She is great and I love her! And yay for the Hawks winning against Josh Brown!!!

My Hawk family

I love my husband!!


Awesome cake that Shawn and Ashley made for me

I started school again the day after my birthday and I'm working my way through that...... the quarter is almost over thank goodness but that means that my final papers and projects are coming up. Boo. Wish me luck!

We had some other birthday fun for Ashley one week and then Shawn a few weeks later. Good times with good friends.

Shawn's surprise party at my house!

Ashley's birthday at Applebeees
I will add Halloween pictures once I still them from Ashley!

From Sarah's Blog.......

4 Random Things I Love About My Husband

1. He works hard so that I can finish school

2. He can always make me smile

3. He loves me for who I am and never tries to change me

4. He will watch chick flicks with me =)

4 Jobs I've Had

1. KinderCare- Infant &Toddler Teacher/ Cook

2. Nanny!!!

3. Hilton Garden Inn- Night Auditor

4. Edmonds Family Medicine- Medical Receeption

4 Movies I've Watched More Than Once

1. Dirty Dancing

2. Breakfast at Tiffanys

3. Sweet Home Alabama

4. Sound of Music

(there are SO many more)

4 TV Shows I Watch

1. One Tree Hill

2. House

3. Hereos

4. Greys Anatomy

4 Places I've Been

1. Italy

2. Greece

3. Cozumel

4. Australia

4 of My Favorite Foods

1. Steak

2. Bacon Burgers

3. Mexican

4. Potatoes (any kind I love 'em all)

4 Places I Would Like to Visit

1. Hawaii (again)

2. Australia (again)

3. London

4. France

4 Things I Look Forward to in This Coming Year

1. Holiday Season (and Christmas music...oh I love Christmas music)

2. Buying a house in the summer

3. Seahawks!!!!

4. Learning to snow mobile

(and I can't wait for Candace and Jason and Kristie to move back home)

I TAG: Kali, Candace, Char and Susan!!!

New Apartment

So we moved into our new apartment in Everett almost 3 weeks ago and we're finally pretty much settled in. Our place is beautiful and we love it. It has a huge kitchen that I love and a large attached garage that Brandon loves. I still need a dining room table and I found the one that I want but we don't have the money for it yet. I'm just glad that we have some of the same tastes...it makes for less of a discussion about things. I'm still a little upset with the 12th Man flag on our living room wall but hey, go hawks. I knew we should have gotten a 2 bedroom so that Brandon could have had a room for all his man-stuff but for the next year, I'll live with this. I could have used the extra closet space as well. I would love to add pictures but because my camera is broken and we can't figure out what's going on with one of the lenses on Brandon's I fail to have pictures to put up so that you can see our domain.
I know most thought that we'd be buying a house after our wedding but with me going to school full time I can't work full time as well so we're still saving and hopefully we'll have more money to buy a place either next year or when i'm done with school. We'll see where the market goes.
We finally have internet (thank you husband) and cable so that we can watch the Seahawks games and i can watch my girlie shows. I'm still trying to convince Brandon that we need DVR or TiVo so that I can just record them and watch them when he's not around instead of being held up in our bedroom while they're on but I haven't won this battle yet so we'll see how it goes. I don't like missing my shows =)
So again when I get a new camera I will take mass amounts of pictures and post them.

Wedding/ Honeymoon

I am finally getting to this after a couple of months of constantly being busy! Our wedding was beautiful and we had about 200ish people show up. It was gorgeous (thanks friends for helping set up!) and the food my mom made was excellent. Everyone looked beautiful and we received some really great gifts. I basically cried the whole freaking day though. Something I now wish that I wouldn't have done. And I'm not very happy with the pictures. But I can't take it back so I'm done being upset about it. Bottom line is Brandon and I are now married and we love it. That night after we left the reception we checked into our hotel (he took me to the Silver Cloud hotel right next to Qwest field yay...go hawks!) we realized that we forgot to bring food with us so we went out to try to find a grocery store. We have no idea where one is in Seattle and we ended up in the Renton highlands at a Safeway! We ended up getting tv dinners, strawberries and chocolate to melt. Then had to find out way back. We had fun. The day after the wedding we had an open house at my aunts down in Maple Valley and opened all our presents and ate left over food with most of the family from out of town. It was nice. It was a crazy weekend and then we both had to go back to work on Monday. The cruise line cancelled our original cruise (we were supposed to leave the day after the wedding) on us in April and we had to reschedule to leave a week later. So we went back to work for a week. It ended up being a good thing that they took the ship out of the fleet that we were supposed to be on because it was an older and smaller ship.

Honeymoon was SO SO SO great! We went on a cruise around the Hawaiian islands and it was beautiful! We did a ton of stuff!! We went on this zodiac raft and snorkel adventure and we saw whales and tons of dolphins in the open water! It was crazy and so much fun. We had a great great time! We both want to go back. And we found out we love cruises! Hopefully we will be able to plan another one soon.

We have been married for almost two months now! It seems like we've been married for awhile. I have a great husband and I'm loving being Katie Karr =)
-I will add pictures when I get Internet at our new apartment.

Lake Tahoe June 2008

Some of my best girls and I went to Lake Tahoe a few weeks before my wedding. We had such an awesome time!

I know, I know

I have a lot to post about and I promise that I will soon! But we are just getting home and getting settled from the honeymoon and I am still exhausted! I'm writing myself a reminder to post about: Lake Tahoe, Chelsea's attack (she's ok!), Seattle bachelorette party, WEDDING, and now honeymoon. So give me a couple days and you can all catch up on my life for the past month!

The Duce Family

Beautiful, I must say.