Is this scary??

I was talking to Kathy at church last night, and she told me this small little fact that I found kinda weird. A lot of people don't know who I am, so when they ask her who Branden's girlfriend is, she shows them a picture of me. And, strangely enough, she said she's had TONS of people say how much we look alike. So I decided to post a couple pictures on here to see what people think. Do we really look like siblings like people have said? Cuz that's just....odd! :D lol

And Sabrina told me a long time ago that a friend from school thought that Branden and I were brother and sister too....I don't see the resemblance, but apparently there is one!

And I promise, we are not related! :P

Good Times

Here's a random assortment of pictures for your viewing pleasure! They range from before Christmas on....Enjoy! :-)

Gotta give credit to Ruth for this picture and a couple others. I stole them from her Facebook! Brooke was hungry and decided to fry me up! lol...have you ever seen such a ginormous frying pan?! :P

Me, Ruth, and Karen--At our Christmas with Tim and Becka's family

Playing Mexican Train Dominos at our Christmas

Mom and Sammy at our family Christmas. We had it at Brian and Miranda's with their family and Mom and Dad and the kids! Awesome to see them all again after 5 long months away from my Mommy and Daddy! haha:)

Dad reading the Bible--Christmas story maybe?--with the gorgeously decorated Christmas tree in the background. Miranda is a talented decorating lady!

My family is shrinking! There were only 6 of us siblings at our Christmas this year.

New Years 2009-Diana, Lyssa, Rhesa, Brooke, and Me. A bunch of kids--Over 100 of us--went up to Van and Laura Matsons' for their annual party. It was tons of fun even tho I had to get up at 5 in the morning and probably shouldn't have even went! Oh well...you're only young once, right?

I guess a part of their tradition is to make a giant sign with the last year on it so that everybody can shoot it up at midnight. So there was a huge 2008 made out of Christmas lights. After all the guys were done shooting a bunch of us girls shot Branden's pistol. I didn't want to cuz I thought I'd probably shoot someone, but surprisingly I didn't! :) And it was fun, so I'll hafta take him up on his offer of shooting lessons!

Sabrina's sweeping skills. We figured that nobody would find the dirt if she shoved it up under the cupboard there! Not sure how long it stayed before it actually got picked up...Lyssa pry didn't let it sit on her floor too long i'm assuming! :D

Lisa sweetly posed for me at Starbucks. Isn't she just beautiful?!:)

Haha...Brooke and I went to Seaside one day because we were bored! So fun to do spontaneous things. This sign had a meaning when i took the picture, but I really can't remember what! Something that two over-caffeinated girls thought was hilarious anyways!

A big boat somewhere along the way on the drive to Seaside. I stupidly left my camera in the car when we were actually walking around town and down on the beach. So I wasn't able to get any good pictures of the water or our sand drawings-just some fuzzy ones on my phone. But it was a gorgeous day! Sunny and warm-50 degrees-with no wind! Couldn't believe it'd be so nice there in the middle of January!

Multnomah Falls

Awww...I love my boyfriend--and surprises--so I had a blast today! :)

The other day Branden told me he was going to pick me up after work today and that i had to wear shoes with good traction, but that's all he'd say. So I kinda figured we were doing some climbing or something, but didn't know where we were going. As I'm sure you guessed from my title, we went to Multnomah Falls. Pretty exciting for me because I've never been up to the top and have been wanting to for awhile now.

Branden had planned it so he'd get off work early, we'd climb Multnomah, and then eat at the restaurant there before heading home. But apparently people need plumbers so he didn't get off as early as planned. By the time we got there it was after 5 so we ate first and had to make the climb in the dark. Needless to say, we were the only ones walking the icy trails in the cold! But it was super fun! Couldn't really get the greatest pictures in the dark but I did try!

Branden and I on the icy, frozen bridge

The bridge-You can't really tell in the picture, but the mist from the waterfall had covered the entire bridge and the trail on both sides of it and frozen into a thick layer of ice. It was almost impossible to walk on the trail because of the incline. We had to hold on the edge and pull ourselves along, and Branden dragged me for awhile! The bridge was pretty cool tho, because we could skate on it!

The best pic I could get of the water in the dark--the one downfall to going when you can't see anything!

A gorgeous snow heart we found...

When we got back to the bottom, Branden chased a mouse around with my camera to get pictures. Got a few good ones, but the dumb thing kept running away! :P

And then, because he's apparently one of the few people who trust me with sharp objects, Branden bought me a sweet pink engraved pocket knife. He must not be too worried that I'll start swinging the thing around and stabbing people! :D

Despite the cold frozen terrain, I had a ton of fun! Definitely a memorable way to spend our 5-month dating anniversary! :)

Family

I have this big, loud, obnoxious family--But of course I love them all anyways! :-)

A bunch of us at the Minneapolis Zoo, July 2008

Bethany, Michael, Lorena, Trevor, Jen, and Meredith.
Summer 2008

My baby brother Michael...Such a squisher!

Brian's kids with Grandpa and Grandma

Sisters :-)...There are nine of us, ranging in age from 14-33, and we'll probably never get a picture where we're all smiling and looking normal!

Mom with her "babies"-Lorena, Michael, Mom, Me, and Jennifer

First Post!

I've finally given in to pressure and boredom--mostly boredom--and decided to start a blog. I'm sitting at work with nothing to do, as usual, so figured I might as well pass some time on here. Hence the name of my blog ;-)!

So think today I'll pretty much just go through and put pictures on and whatever else I can get done before my client lady wakes up! Not gonna promise lots of updates or anything...this could actually very well be my only post, as I tend to start things and then totally forget about them!

Enjoy :-)