Moving on Up....Northwest

Life has been crazy lately. I am way behind on updating. The biggest thing going on right now is Steve and I are moving to Seattle, WA! Steve took a job with a new company and it will require us to head to the northwest. We are excited, nervous, overwhelmed and mostly stressed, but we know in the long run all the emotions will be worth us taking on this great adventure. Steve really puts everything into words better than I do so you should click here and find out more about our move. :) In case you are unsure about how far we are moving (1,800+ miles) or where Seattle is here is a picture of our journey.

Life Goals

Steve and I have almost completed one of our lifetime goals....to drink 200 different beers at the Flying Saucer. We are at 194. Today I received a message from a saucer friend that Steve and I were on the website. Here we are on the list of who is up next to be immortalized in the Ring of Honor. Stay tuned for a post about when we finish!

28th BDay

A few weeks ago (February 25) I turned 28! I love my birthday, just absolutely love it. A couple girls from work also had birthdays the same month so we all decided to go out together that Friday. They turned 23 and 24, and their party abilities are way above ours are any more. We realized this the next day of course. haha.

So we went to a local Olathe bar, then afterwards hit Funkytown. There really are not words to describe this place, other than AWESOME. haha. It is a crazy place. I would love to hit it up with my girl friends. I know it would just be a blast with all of them.

Saturday, after spending a lot of the day recovering from Funkytown, Steve took me out to a few places in Kansas City I had been wanting to try out.

First up was lunch at Dog Nuvo, a gourmet hot dog place. While the hot dogs were good, they still did not compare to the hot dogs grandma used to make me...with bacon, cheese, mustard and the hot dog fried in the bacon grease of course!

We also went to Christopher Elbow for some fancy chocolates.

Aren't they pretty and fancy!?
Afterwards we hit up the Flying Saucer of course. It was a nice day. Steve always knows how to treat me to a good day. :)

Valentines Weekend

This year for Valentines Day/Weekend Steve planned a dance lesson for us. We had such a good time. It was a private lesson in ballroom dancing. We learned the basic steps of the waltz, the rumba and the hustle. It was so much fun to do something different and so nice of him to plan it.

After dancing we decided to drive by this pizza place that Steve always tells me I would love, he had eaten there and I had not. Every time we would try to go the place would be closed. They have really random hours, also it is in this very small house. So we drove by and it was actually open!
The pizza was delish, as was the beer we had with it. It was a perfect night.
We continued the celebration the next night with beers at the Saucer (of course) and a fancy dinner at Cafe Trio.

It was a great weekend with my husband trying a new things and getting to check some things off our Kansas City to-do list.

Dogs in the snow...

Yuri loves the snow and is a maniac running all throughout it.

Chewie is not the biggest fan. He would much rather stay inside in the warm house, snuggled up near a blanket on the couch.

Blizzard 2011

The next snow storm we had after we went sledding was actually deemed a blizzard. The news channels went as far as calling it such ridiculous terms as snowpocolypse and snowmagedon. While their broadcasting was over the top, there really was a ton of snow. It was snowing up to 2 inches an hour, roads were shut down and everything was closed. Here are a few pictures of our house once the snow fall had slowed down.

Sledding

A few snowstorms ago(we have had 3 large ones so far this winter) Steve and I decided to go sledding. We picked up two sleds at Ace Hardware, I chose the good old saucer sled and Steve went for the toboggan type sled. Afterwards we bundled up and then we had to find a good hill. This wasn't an easy task. It seems that around Johnson County most of the good sledding hills end at major roads and people still sled on them! I was not up to that. So we drove all around one of our larger parks and finally found the perfect hill. We sled for a good hour or more. It was just as fun as we remember it being when we were kids. :)