Justin's grandpa was appalled when I told him we don't have television at our house. He said, "Well what do you do then?"
I laughed and responded, "Just sit around and make animal noises at each other."
Not really though, we have been watching these shows courtesy of the Logan City Library:
Little House on the Praire (Justin had never seen them before and they are awesome!)
Rocky III
Rocky IV
So inspiring!
Ok, so the list is short, but I sure do like the library, because what else would we do with our time since we don't have television? Hahaha.
Justin and Ruth Blazzard
Monday, January 23, 2012
Addie- Pattie
Meet my adorable three-year-old niece Addie. She is independent as they come and only if you make friends with her will she actually talk to you. I luckily am one of her friends. Over Christmas, Addie offered to paint my fingernails. What an artist!
She even did butterflies on them.
I let her borrow my camera to snap some pictures. When you are 3 I guess this is what you see.
Addie you are fantastic and I am so grateful you are my niece!
Justin and Ruth Blazzard
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Portland Trip
To kick off our two week christmas vacation, we headed up to Portland, Oregon for Justin to investigate some jobs in the logging industry. We stayed with one of my good friends, and team mates from my State FFA Officer year, Kaci Sinteck. Her Dad is actually the general manager of one of the companies Justin went and looked at. It was a fun trip, full of rain or mist, great food, great company, and a ford focus for a rental car.
This is the suitcase I packed. I had to take a picture because this is the first time I had ever traveled that far with something that small. It worked out great (for the most part) and no checking bags at the airport!
Us at the airport before leaving Sunday morning. I had to borrow a couple scarfs from my sisters, just so I could make a trendy impression. :)
Here is our trusty car. We went to pick it up from the rental car office and the guy asked us what type of insurance we wanted. I said, "Well we don't have to get insurance right?"
He responded with something about laws in Oregon and this is the cheapest insurance you can get etc.
I was still confused. So I asked him again, looking simply for a yes, or no answer.
Again he had some elaborate answer about laws in oregon and if the car is out of comission, etc.
We didn't pay for the insurance. It was fine. Great sales answer thought car guy. We also ruled out ever buying a Ford Focus in the near future.
Before we went up there my family and Justin and I had a discussion about 'real loggers' who spar trees and pack their chainsaws with them. Well, I just so happened to see one of these 'real loggers' while in Portland. My friend Kaci's boyfriends Dad was having a person trim some trees for an advertisement for a winch line. It was pretty cool.
Justin as a Jedi at the movie theater.
Our last day there we had some time to go see a few tourist attractions. Multnomah Falls is east of Portland and is right off the freeway. It is a giant waterfall you can hike up to and is beautiful. Not to bad of a hike either.
Portland Temple. Beautiful!
Lastly we went to OMSI (cool science museum in Portland). As we were coming over the bridge we saw this huge submarine in the water. Justin commented on how cool it was to see one and a little weird too. He said they cary nuclear warheads. Well when we got to OMSI we discovered there were no nuclear warheads on this submarine. It was an old World War II sub and we could tour it. It was really neat to go through, smelled like diesel fuel and was very tight living quarters for those who ever had to stay their longer than 35 minutes. This sumbarine is still in working condition and has been used in several movies, one being The Hunt For Red October.
When our trip was over I was grateful to be flying back to Ontario where it was sunny and there were less people. It was a great trip and we had a lot of fun with the Sintecks!
Justin and Ruth Blazzard
This is the suitcase I packed. I had to take a picture because this is the first time I had ever traveled that far with something that small. It worked out great (for the most part) and no checking bags at the airport!
Us at the airport before leaving Sunday morning. I had to borrow a couple scarfs from my sisters, just so I could make a trendy impression. :)
Here is our trusty car. We went to pick it up from the rental car office and the guy asked us what type of insurance we wanted. I said, "Well we don't have to get insurance right?"
He responded with something about laws in Oregon and this is the cheapest insurance you can get etc.
I was still confused. So I asked him again, looking simply for a yes, or no answer.
Again he had some elaborate answer about laws in oregon and if the car is out of comission, etc.
We didn't pay for the insurance. It was fine. Great sales answer thought car guy. We also ruled out ever buying a Ford Focus in the near future.
Before we went up there my family and Justin and I had a discussion about 'real loggers' who spar trees and pack their chainsaws with them. Well, I just so happened to see one of these 'real loggers' while in Portland. My friend Kaci's boyfriends Dad was having a person trim some trees for an advertisement for a winch line. It was pretty cool.
Justin as a Jedi at the movie theater.
Our last day there we had some time to go see a few tourist attractions. Multnomah Falls is east of Portland and is right off the freeway. It is a giant waterfall you can hike up to and is beautiful. Not to bad of a hike either.
Portland Temple. Beautiful!
Lastly we went to OMSI (cool science museum in Portland). As we were coming over the bridge we saw this huge submarine in the water. Justin commented on how cool it was to see one and a little weird too. He said they cary nuclear warheads. Well when we got to OMSI we discovered there were no nuclear warheads on this submarine. It was an old World War II sub and we could tour it. It was really neat to go through, smelled like diesel fuel and was very tight living quarters for those who ever had to stay their longer than 35 minutes. This sumbarine is still in working condition and has been used in several movies, one being The Hunt For Red October.
When our trip was over I was grateful to be flying back to Ontario where it was sunny and there were less people. It was a great trip and we had a lot of fun with the Sintecks!
Justin and Ruth Blazzard
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