New Home

WOW it's been along time since I blogged :( Well much has happend. Since August of 2009 we had been on a serious hunt to buy a house, we found one, put an offer on it (short sale). It failed to be accepted by the bank. We attempted again in Feb 2010, failed again. They told us, 'buy it on the courthouse steps', blah blah, blah blah. Well, we never gave up, November 1, 2010 it was sold back to the bank in forclosure, our anniversary!! Well there was alot of stress between then and December 28th (the day we closed). But that is history, we are now settled in our lovely home. Hopefully before summer we'll host an open house, but we have a lot of TLC to put into our home. It wasn't lived in for 2 1/2 years, gutters need cleaning, needs new paint, ect.

Nothing else is really new other than our home. Work is good, staying busy with that, Chris and life. :)

Books to consider

A few weeks ago, I decided I wanted to start getting into reading again. I'm not the best reader but I enjoy it, especially since it is winter time I have more time to read. So there are two books that I have picked up but I will talk about Shattered Silence first. This book is written by the oldest daughter of 'The Happy Face Killer'. Just knowing that kind of sends you chills but the book is a great read. She goes through her life from the beginning. The first chapter will put you to tears, well it did me. She talks about her precious kittens she has and how she loves to mother them and take care of them. A few pages into it she tells of how her father hates cats and loves to torture them. Now, not only does he like to inflict pain on the kittens, he does it in front of his children. WOW red flag!! For these four kittens she has ,he ends up hanging them up on a clothes line until they die. Now not only is that cold but it's the fact that this frantic 5 year old is clinging to her mother begging her to stop daddy from hurting 'my babies'. This book is, yes, heartbreaking but ends with triumph over fear and a broken heart.

The Blue Bottle Club is a FABULOUS book. A+. It's a story about a reporter who has a story she pursues about these 4 friends who leave behind in a blue bottle their dreams. The reason behind the reporter finding this bottle is the city had condemed the house the bottle was found in and was being torn down. She saved the bottle and began her search for the 4 friends. It's a great great story. I would highly recommend it.

Ok so in conclusion about my new book adventure, I bought another one to read. Costco is a great place to buy books for discount!!!! ANY ways the new book is

I'll be sure to let you know how the book goes!!!! I heard it was a book about Laura Bush and her life but in a novel sense instead of autobiography!? Not sure we'll see!

Coming Soon....

.....November 1, 2009, which not only happens to be the first day of Winter Sunday Market, but our first anniversary. Wow, almost a year?
There are these ladies who come in about 3 times a week, give or take, they both are married and know Chris and I. On Tuesday, Cori, one of the ladies, mentioned to me, 'Someones anniversary is coming up'. My first thought, 'wow that long already?' But my response was, 'Yeah, I know'. Pretty pathetic, I KNOW! Both Jen and Cori were talking about what they did for their first anniversaries and blah blah blah...O.K. so the events that are taking place on Sunday, November 1, 2009: first day of winter sunday market which means I am working (11am-4pm), and Chris's working as well, GAY! Now to explain what our plans are going to be. For our wedding gift from David and Heidi Fasteband (Chris's boss), they gave us a $250 gift certificate to Shelter Cove in Cresent Lake, OR. Which is to be used for our 1st anniversary. Here's another, POOP. We are unable to get work off until DECEMBER! So for Chris's work schedule his first weekend available is not until December 11th-13th, and for me, well none. From November 1-December 20th, Sundays, we will be open because the winter sunday market is being held in the same building that my coffee shop is in. I am pretty much booked every weekend until 2010! For our solution, since everyone has left and gone to college and I have no one to work, December 11th-13th will hopefully end up working. Shasia said she will we on winter break by then and told me she will work!! I am not sure about Henry's schedule but maybe we'll squeeze him in too! So our plans for November 1, 2009: if Chris is not working nights, go to dinner somewhere nice. Even though we will not be able to celebrate on the actual day, we will be together and celebrate in our own way! LOVE YOU GOOB!

Life, Love, Happiness

The more I am being committed to God, the more I see His perfect timing of everything. It's so amazing to see how important my job as a wife really is. Not only do I need to take care of home, obviously, but be in constant prayer for everything. Lately there has been so many blessings taking place and I believe it's all because of my relationship with Jesus flourishing and growing! In these past two months Chris and I have grown so incredibly close to each other, in a way I can't even begin to describe. Chris and I have completely broken ourselves in humility toward each other and to Christ. To be painfully honest and come together in love and friendship. I see troubled marriages around me and it hurts. Couples getting married for the wrong reasons, years and years of thinking someone else is the bad guy when in reality it's you the whole time, or couples who can't put down themselves to truly figure a way to communicate. It's hurtful to me, because no one should give up. I feel like a little high school girl sometimes with the way I feel towards my marriage. It sounds so silly but our infatuation has turned into LOVE, true love. Deep down intimate committed love for each other. I love you, Chris Bigelow, now and forever!

Baaka Baaka and Mini Mouse

Nicole is not going to love me after this post. I'm sorry I just had to post these adorable pictures of her children. Last night I spent the night at the Brown's. Adam is away for the week in Atlanta and Chris is working nights, so we decided to have a wives evening! Anyways, the kids were crazy wild. VERY EXCITED TO SEE AUNTIE :) We read some books, I gave them baths and snuggle buggled. As we were all snuggled on the couch, they pipped up and wanted to show me what they were wearing for Halloween! Soren said, "Novie's going to be Mini Mouse and I'm going to be Baaka Baaka". I looked at Nicole, "Baaka Baaka". She explained the rubber chicken he loves so much (she has a post about the rubber chicken). Then they came out and showed me these outfits! Soren's outfit is from Old Navy and Novie is borrowing Fi Fi's old Mini Mouse! They are SOOOO ADORABLE!!! Soren's pants are backwards, the feet are just like chicken feet! It's so sweet :)

Trigger Man and LIFE

Soooooo, we have a new addition to our little Bigelow family, (no I didn't have a baby). He's furry, cute, lovie and Sophie's second brother! His name is Trigger. He is the second litter of pups. RC, Chris's older brother, and Nicole (his wife) have 2 kids and 2 large dogs annndd they both work. Sadly, they had to give up Trigger. So now Sophie has a play mate! Her and Trigger get along REALLY good. They play ALL day long. Although she can be quite the brat sometimes, they are buds. He doesn't go pee unless she does, he follows her around, he plays with her toys....and on and on. I wanted to post pictures up when I got him all shaved up but this are the ones I took when we first got him. We have had him now for over a month. He a huge sweetie. He loves attention, always wanting to please and most of all snuggles :)

The last two pictures are of the both of them drinking out of Synnove and Soren swimming 'cool' and playing tug-o-war with their duck! These are my children. They are cute, furry and cuddly!

LIFE UPDATE!

Now that we have the both of them we are desperatly in need of buying a new house with a fence. WE FOUND ONE! BUT we haven't heard anything more. We put an offer on the house August 31 and still haven't heard. The situation is kind of messy. The house actually isn't on the market, there is a divorce, bankrupcty and the house is in the process of going into forclosure. IT'S A MESS. So we are hoping to buy it before it goes to auction, obviously. I would post up pictures, but I don't want to jinx myself (I know silly). But I'm trying not to get my hopes up. The home is absolutely perfect. It fits our needs completely. But we are in the waiting period... AND IT SUCKS! So please pray for God's Will!

New hair!

Since I was about 16 years old I have had LONG hair. Here are a couple pictures of my hair before (through the years).
"Don't mind the weird photo"

I am standing on the left, in white. Notice how long my hair is!! This picture was taken, I think 2 years ago.

You can't really see it but my pony tail is LONG!

NEW HAIR!!!!

I love my new hair. In this picture I haven't styled it, you can't see all my cool razor layers :)

But I HAVE NO MORE HEADACHES! :)