Golf

This weekend my friend Danae took me out to an amazing Golf course here in Washington. I was a little hesitant b/c I have never been golfing before, but she was so patient with me and taught me so much. My first couple of holes I was topping the ball A LOT. But as Danae stood behind me she told me "SCOOP!" and sure enough it clicked. We played 18 holes and actually were waiting for the guys in front of us to finish up all the time. Made me feel good. :) We had so much fun, and I liked it so much we played 9 holes the next day. :) I can't wait to show Brian my skills. He'll be proud.

Our New Home

After an eventful week, Brian and I have finally settled into our new home. It wasn't easy, but with the help of my mom, we got it done. Here's a little story on how we found the house...

A few weeks ago my mom and I came up here to house hunt. The day before we had to leave, we went and looked at a three bedroom house that I ended up really liking and drove by a house that we thought was really cute, but was way too small. The only problem about the house I really liked was the owner was in the process of evicting the current tenants. He assured us that the house was mine, he just needed time to take care of those guys. Well time was what I didn't have. I came back to Cali thinking that I would be able to move us up there the last weekend of March, maybe even a week later. Well, the week I was getting ready to move, I get a phone call from the owner and he says that the current occupants are contesting the eviction. Hmm... That didn't work for me. I was stressed at that point, and all of you that know me, know how stressed out I can get. Luckily my parents came to save the day for me, AGAIN. My dad said that he would still drive me up to Washington that weekend to look at places, that way they wouldn't have to cancel the airfare back home that they had already booked in advance. I had a place to stay just in case. So that's what we did. A few days before we left, I contacted a few owners of houses that I saw on craigslist and made arrangements to view them that weekend. We got into Seattle on Saturday at 3 pm and had our first (and ended up only) house to look at 4. When we pulled up to the house, my mom and I discovered it was the house we drove by but thought it was too small to live in. All the other houses that were its size wouldn't have been able to fit our furniture. Beginning to feel down, we took a look anyway. Low and behold, it ended up working out! It fits all our furniture and is the cutest little place!

We are able to have Tyce here, which makes this place even better. Next week my friend Robyn is moving back up here from San Diego and is going to bring Ty with her. I can't wait!

Here are a couple of pictures! Remember, if you're ever in town you have a place to stay!!!

Before I end this I would like to thank my parents again for all their help and support. Mom, thank you for staying an extra week to help me settle in and keep me sane. I love you guys.

Spring Training

It has finally arrived! I'm off to Arizona for Spring Training. I will be spending two weeks with Brian there, then will come back home here, and fly up to Washington to look for a place. It will be a 3 day trip up there, then I will head back home and start getting things together before I drive up to WA at the end of the month. Brian and I are super excited to get back up there!

I had a blast being with the people I love and missed. Thank you for all the great times. And thank you to those that I begin new friendships with over these past few months. Every moment spent with all of you has been memorable!

This isn't goodbye yet. We'll save that blog for a couple of weeks from now...

Have to share it...

I'm in the process right now of making my portfolio on Keynote. (it's like a powerpoint for MAC) I've been picking my favorite pictures for this and wanted to share a couple with all of you!!!

The New Year Begins...

Hope you all had a happy holiday and were able to spend it with all your loved ones.

Christmas day I went to Urgent Care. Had the stomach flu and was given a shot that knocked me out for 2 days. It continued for the rest of the week, but feeling much better now.

Just recently we lost a loved one in our family. The New Year hasn't been what we wanted or expected. As hard as it is to accept, it makes us stronger and it definitely puts things into perspective. Family is the root of life; they're your support system; the ones that will continue to be there to pick you up when you fall and give you the unconditional love that you need.

With that, Brian and I wish you all a year full of love and happiness!

Happy Holidays

Tis the season....

This month has been crazy for the both of us. Brian just got back last week from Germany. He helped out at a baseball clinic for an old friend. Everything was very successful. As for me, I have been working two a days with water polo. I recently took the CBEST and passed, so in January I will begin substitute teaching. Looking forward to it!

These next couple of weeks we'll be spending a lot of time with family. It'll be nice to finally have a couple of days off to spend time with the ones we love.

We wish all of you and your families and Merry Christmas! Enjoy!

We're Back!!!!!!!!

So as most of you know, Brian and I are living back in So Cal during the off season. But it won't be long before we head back up to beautiful Seattle! As much as we miss it there, we're happy to be home with our family and friends.

During my six months here I'm going to be coaching polo at North and at Cal State. Both of which are my alumni. As for Brian...well he's super lucky this off season! He's been enjoying the time off, but I can tell he's getting bored, good thing he's leaving for Germany in 3 weeks! Lucky guy! He's going to be helping a friend with a baseball clinic. Hopefully he'll be able to do it again next year, that way we can experience our home country together.

As I mentioned before we will be heading back to Seattle in April, that is becasue Brian has been asked to come back to Seattle next year. He did such a fantastic job this past season, he deserves it. I'm excited for him.

I know I haven't updated "The Life of the Schweiger's" website in a long while. I was super busy with editing wedding photographs and packing up our apartment in WA. BUT, I hope to start working on it again pretty soon. Probably once polo gets going and I have a set schedule, which pretty much means....oh next year sometime. haha No... I'll get working on it soon. Until then, I'll keep posting blogs!