Maine

So, my mom and I went to Maine for my cousin Fabian's wedding. This is what is looks like out your window while driving through Maine. The eastern United States is like a freaking forest. Along the freeways, all you see are trees, in the towns, all you see are trees. You don't even know there is a town there. I like my desert, I like seeing the city.


You drive over alot of cool bridges on the coast. This is the only one I took a pic of.

This is our cottage that we stayed in in Belfast, Maine. It was pretty cute, and a little crowded. My mom and I stayed there with my grandma and my great aunt. It was interesting, to say the least, being with my mom's mom.

This is the view from the room. (a little crowded) You can see the ocean in the background.
The leaves were changing colors and since you are in the forest you see alot of it. Every tree is right in front of you. Red, burgundy, yellow, orange, and green. In the words of some "oh, look at that," "oh, isn't that gorgeous," "oh," "oh," "oh!" It was pretty, but the comments got a little old from the surrounding party, especially since all you see are trees. It was not like they were few and far between.

Another pic of the ocean. We didn't really get to any awesome sandy beaches.

We got to Maine Wednesday night and Thursday was a nice day. Then hurricane Kyle, turning into a tropical storm, started to hit and the weather got pretty nasty. It rained non-stop the rest of the time.

This was going into the airport. We flew into New Hampshire and then drove 3 hours to Maine.

This was the window at the church they got married. It was a nice church.

Here is the cute couple. Brittany and Fabian 9-27-08. They had a nice wedding.

Fabian was the perfect groom. He couldn't keep his eyes of his bride. He had us all in tears when he started to cry while she was walking down the isle.

This pic is awesome (a little fuzzy though). I think they look like models.

The whole group.

Kyle had to add his touch to the pic. Such cute sister-in-laws. Jessica and Daviana, you two looked hot. (the two on the left are Fabian's siblings)

Group pic!! Jessica, Kim, Aunt Dolores, Mom

They were nice feeding each other.

There reception was decorated really cute. They did a fall decor. They placed you by putting 'I love you' in a different language, and then you sat at that table.

I love lanterns. They are so cute at weddings. I loved them at Terra's wedding too.

Awesome flower arrangements on the table. It was funny, one of the glasses was filled with champagne so when they did the toast my mom took a drink thinking it was sparkling cider. She was so mad when she took that swallow. We all laughed.

This was the table for the wedding party. They had alot of candles lit and little lanterns, giving it a cozy feel.

Outside they had the corn stalks, leaves, and like 10 pumpkins that were painted gold.

Where the place cards were.

On Friday, before it got all rainy, we went to main street in Belfast to walk the farmer's market. They had these cute things to take pics in, so of course we did.

Here is Kim's photo.

Jessica's photo.

This one was perfect for my mom. She is always buying lotto tickets. This will probably be the closest she will ever get to winning, unfortunately.

This was actually not on main street, but was at Perry's nut house (as it says).

Kim's turn at the nut house!!

We had to go to somewhere to eat lobster. My mom was the only one who gave in. They either complained because it cost too much, or it was too much work to crack the shell and get the meat to eat. But who wants to work to eat their food?? Or, you can be me and just say "yuck"!! They brought her a bib, who told them she would need it?? lol

a close up of the bib

I took a pic of the lobster (she actually had the stuffed lobster) for everyone. Whenever I said I was going to Maine I would be asked to get them some lobster. So here is there lobster. (I am poor so I can't afford to send it home, and besides I never actually ran across some fresh lobster to buy. Maybe the next time I go to Maine I will actually be working and can afford to buy you all some! yum, yum)

Anyways, that was the main idea of the Maine trip!! It was quick and we didn't see alot because we mainly did wedding stuff. Thanks mom for taking me, I love you!! I owe you a trip when I have some money. We will do something fun and see lots of stuff!

We went camping this weekend with my parents on the Monroe mountain. I was hoping for a good weekend, but everybody told me it was suppose to storm. It started to rain Saturday night and we got lots of fog. It was cool because you could see the fog rolling in. It would just go right by you. I just hoped it would not snow, like people kept on saying, and luckily it didn't. It wasn't even that terribly cold. It ended up being a pretty enjoyable weekend.


Kiana killed me when she wore her goggles with the helmet. She looked like a bug.

She had to pull this mean looking face when I was taking a pic of her on the 4-wheeler. We actually let her drive it. She did pretty good. She was only scary when Yhostin was in front of us because he would go fast and she would try to catch up to him (she would get a little to close to things you shouldn't be close to).

Kiana and Yhostin

My cousin brought two of his bulldogs. They are just a month younger than Britain, just turned one. They are so stinking cute. This is Rosey with my dad. She was the runt of the litter and she is still really tiny (can't really tell in the pic). I wanted to steal her because she was so cute and little and full of wrinkles.

This is her sister patches. Patches is a little bigger than Rosey. I don't think Britain looks like a bulldog compared to these two. They have the face and all the wrinkles on their body.

Rosey

I took a million pics of them. When I would try they would move because they wanted me to pet them instead.

Yhostin got this seat cover for his b-day from my parents. Before we had towels covering it (the seat needs to be replaced--haven't got to the interior part of the job yet). My mom wanted to see it because I told her it looked good so I posted the pic.

Around the first part of August we had bamboo floors installed. I took before and after pics so we could remember the difference. I hate carpet (it is so disgusting). It was a long week and a half. First of all, the guy came Wednesday and told us he would have it done on Friday. He ended up also coming Saturday and still took Monday to finish up. All this time we had no room to sleep in and the entire house was a mess. It was not a fun time. After he finally finished, it took us a week to get everything put back together.

Our bedroom before....

and after! (I should have taken pics before we moved stuff back in so I could take at the same angle. The corner of the room I take a pic of is the corner that is less messy, even though it is still kinda a mess.)

(Forgot to upload the before pic.) Alot going on in here but you get the main idea.

Kiana's room before.............

and after! (not exactly the clean corner, but the best way to see the most floor)

This was part of the nightmare we had to deal with for the time it took. We slid this dresser into the bathroom because we ran out of room in the kitchen. It was in front of the door so you had to shower and go to the bathroom with the door open. I even studied one night on the toilet and used the dresser as a desk (there was nowhere else to go in the house, everybody was sleeping downstairs, kitchen was a mess, and I don't think one floor was done when I had to study).

The filled kitchen (minus our mattress, it went in the next morning)

Another view of the kitchen.

Here is a video (slightly long) of the fog, you kinda get what we got. This was light compared to what we saw.

Just being kinda boring!!!

I hope you enjoy the next hundred pics. They are of Britain's birthday party. She turned one on July 31. We got her a vanilla cake and some vanilla ice cream. We did this for London last September, and had to keep up the tradition. At London's party I put the candle down and of course he got burnt. I blew this one out before I gave it to Britain. We had a lot of birthdays this week. Yhostin's was on the 27th (we went to dinner, I gave him a pedal bike to ride, it has already been stolen though, we barely had it a week), his mom's was on the 30th, and Brit's on the 31st. Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!


These are her presents. New toys and some of her favorite treats.


Chowing down. Chula did not join in. There was a bowl for all of them. I guess she is watching her girlish figure (especially since Yho's dad keeps on telling her she is overweight, she did give in a couple of times to the awful temptation when I hand fed her the cake).

This stuff is sooooo good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brain freeze!!!!

Such a cute face.

Oh, I am full. Got to stretch out and rest.

Got to get every last bit!! (and they did, even the little bits that were on the concrete, the bowls were clean) I can't forget the bit I am saving on my chin.

They loved the bones. The smallest dog was the one with the huge bone in his mouth first. I think it is longer than him. They all fought over the bones, even though there was one for each. Here Chique Tio is hiding from the others, they like to tease him. They would get close to steal his bone and he would growl at them.

Yummy! I finally got it from the others!

Here were the four bowls before. Ya, we are kinda weird. We love our puppies and like to celebrate their b-days.

So besides having birthday parties for everybody, I thought it would be nice to paint our bedroom. I didn't take a before pic. It was this ugly blue color, slightly lighter than navy blue. I thought it would be an easy, one day project. Ya, one day to tape and prime. I wanted to quit. I am done painting for awhile. It was a nightmare.

Here is an after. You only get one corner because the other three are a disaster. We went with gray. It looks really good with the white borders. We went and bought a new bed frame and dressers to match. I bought black sheets to match as well. We have a down comforter so our black sheets don't look so black.

(don't know how to rotate the pic in here, i will try later)

we went shopping on Saturday, we bought her a couple of cute outfits and swimming suits. This is her ready for church. she looks so cute, and grown up. they have a lot of cute clothes for girls her age. we are addicted and want to buy everything. no more shopping for us.

We went to the pool on Friday with my friend and her kids. It was a nice hot day!! Kiana and Yhostin enjoyed the water.

This is at Danyell's house. We went on Saturday after Kiana's swimming lesson. It was here first lesson, she really enjoyed it. It is a decent sized pool. It gave her some time to practice what she learned earlier. It is awesome for the kids. (and maybe the occasional skinny dip at night, ha-ha)

Kyleigh is so stinking cute in the pool. She loves the water and always wants to get in. She got brave and now she can just float around with her arm floaties. She will count to three and dunk her head under or lay on her back and kick her legs to get around. She does really good, except for the occasional time when one floatie comes off and drowning becomes the alternative.

A close up over the edge. I couldn't get her to give me a good look because Kiana could not stop yapping, so Kyleigh was constantly distracted.