Friday, August 29, 2008

Baby Face

Last night I had my very first facial. My best friend Brandi gave me a gift certificate to a spa in Anacortes called the Majestic. This place use to be an old motel and had burnt down years ago. Someone restored it and now its so amazing and so beautiful inside.

When I walked in they gave me a soft robe and slippers to get into. Then I went into the tranquility room and drank White Ambrosia tea with honey to relax by the warm fire place. Then I went into the facial room where I had an hour long facial. I had their signature facial, a perfect combination of traditional facial techniques using the mineralizing and rich benefits of the sea to balance the skin. The bed was curved to my body so it was so comfortable and it even had a heater so it was nice and warm under the sheets. She did so many treatments on my face, neck, and chest. Did you know that your chest ages before your face does? I didn't know this, but now that I do I'll definetly start taking care of it. While my masks were setting on my face with hot towels she massaged my head, neck, arms, and hands. I was so relaxed. After my facial I went back out to the tranquility room to relax and drink some hot tea and have a few healthy snacks. After that I went back into the locker room where I could have taken a shower with all of their spa treatments for your skin, body, and bath. There was everyhting there. It was so perfect. I had to go home and make dinner for Brad so I skipped the shower spa. I was soooo hungry. Never go to the spa hungry, you are more relaxed. I left the spa not only in a really great mood, but I felt so relaxed. This morning when I woke up, my skin felt like a baby. So soft and all the blemishes and spots on my skin disappeared.

So I've decided. Every month I am going to try and do something for myself. A massage, a facial, get my hair done, manicure, pedicure.....stuff like that. I have spent so much on bills I have forgotten about taking care of myself. I'll save the big and expensive items for every three months and do the small things inbetween. The neat thing is that all of these things are under $100...most actually under $50. I'm going to book my next thing for myself for the end of next month. Not sure what yet...... so much fun. I would love to have all of my bridesmaids and the mothers to come to the spa before the wedding. It would be pricey depending on whatever one wanted, but it would be so much fun and so relaxing. I'll have to talk to them and see what kind of packages they have for groups, maybe we can come up with a day at the spa for my girls at an affordable price. This is so much fun. I am getting sooooo excited.

Monday, August 25, 2008

Pain in the Grass

This weekend Brad and I went to one of the Radio Station events that I work for called Pain in the Grass. I got free tickets so Brad and I went with Brian, Jen had to work :( As soon as we got there we parted ways since I had to work :( The cool part is, I get into concerts for free, I get paid to sign autographs, take pictures with fans, and stand there and look pretty. That's it....money made. Woo hoo. I had a pretty good time, hanging out with all the rockgirls and meeting my fans from age 5 to age 80. Little girls come up to me and tell me they want to look just like me, its so cute and I am so flattered.
Here's my autograph photo, warning....its a lot of boobs
My biggest fan
My Best Friend Brandy and I
The rockgirls and a fan of ours, his shirt is funny

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Four Months

Brad and I have only been together for 4 months.....unbelievable. It seems like I've known him my whole life and that we've been together for years. In the past 4 months, we've been on dates, spent time with family and friends, fell in love, moved in together, done amazing and fun things together, and now we're engaged. It all seems so quick. My parents knew each other 6 months and then were married and they have been married for 32 years now. When you know...... you know. And I know.....he's perfect for me.

Here is the perfect example of why we are meant to be.....

A Picture and Text message to Brad:

Four Months with this Sexy Face.......

Response from Brad:

I got the better end of this deal......

Monday, August 18, 2008

Garage Sale and Hawks Game

Saturday was the big Herman, Tesch, and McGill family garage sale. It was such a beautiful and hot day. We were all up bright and early at 6:00am over at my mom and dad's house. We had a great time with each other. We all sold quite a bit of "our junk". It was really nice to fianlly get rid of it all and make some molah! Brad and I left making about $60, my mom and dad made about $200, not sure what everyone else made, but they did pretty good :) Grace made a killing. She sold lemonade for $0.25 a cup and made about $30 profit! She also sold some artwork for $0.10 a piece. I bought the masterpiece titled "Peacock Lady". It was so cute.

After we wrapped up the garage sale, Brad and I took off to the Seahawks game in Seattle. Josh and Mishal gave us tickets to the preseason game vs daaaaa bears. They were such great seats, except for the fact that they were pretty high up and really close to the edge, I was a little scared.

We found free parking and ate before the game to save some money. So all in all we made money in the morning and only spent about $25 on drinks and food :) I now understand the term the 12th man. That crowd was sooooooloud. Brad told me that he's been there when it was louder. I love how we support our local sports...the best in the nation! Towards the end of the game, you could see the beautiful view of the space needle and the bright red sky. It was so perfect. We won in overtime, it was such a great game. I love watching sports with Brad, he's so passionate about them. I love sports too, its so nice that we like a lot of the same things.
What a great day with my future hubby.

My ring looks so pretty in Qwest field :)

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Oak Harbor Car Show

Every year I look forward to going to the car show and seeing all the really neat cars downtown. My Dad use to tell me all about cars....how they looked, the engines they have in them, and the story behind the cars. It explains my love for old cars. This year my new "Dad" had his car entered into the show. Brad and I walked around and took a look at some of the classic cars. I like the look of the old chevys while Brad likes the old Fords. Later on that day, Mom and Dad came down to the show with Petie, our family dog. Dad and Dad Tesch were talking about cars and having a great time. I love having such a big family now and that our dad's can have fun together and "talk cars". It makes me so happy. Dad and I walked around together, where he told me more about the cars we were looking at....I got to see what my Grandpa's car looked like, what my dad's first car looked like.....an awesome skyliner. Super cool car worth about $35,000 now. I love how I know the make model and year of old cars.....you could tell them apart because they were all special, not like cars today. 1936 Chevy Crest......pretty sweet huh?
Suddenly the sky opened up and it started to pour down raining. Brad and I walked to the car show so we walked home in the rain, we were soaked, but it was really cute :) We were so happy to find out that Dad Tesch got his very first Trophy!!!!!! 2nd place in his division.....he was really surprised and very excited. I think the spare bedroom in their house will probably be called "the trophy room" now :) Congrats!!!!!!!!

Friday, August 8, 2008

Cannon Beach

Brad and I just got back from our very first vacation together to Cannon Beach, Oregon. It was so nice to get away with Brad especially since we've been engaged for a week or so now and I feel like there is so much to do.

We drove down with Mom and Dad Tesch.....yep Mom and Dad....so exciting :) We camped there and shared our big tent with my soon to be sister-in-law Jenn and soon to be brother-in-law. You'd think sharing a tent would be hard, but the tent was so big that sharing a tent was awesome and saved us both money :) Mom and Dad Tesch stayed at a house nearby with a bunch of family friends. My soon to be brother and sister in law Mark and Anna, stayed at a house with their kids (my new nieces and nephews) a mile or so away right next to the famous Haystack Rock with Anna's parents. The houses were both very cute and beachy. I loved spending time over at the houses eating dinners, sitting around the fire, talking with friends and family, playing games.....we had a great time. Brad and I did great when we played the board game compatibility. We were in first place for a while, but we ended up in third place. Not to bad for a newly engaged couple. We relaxed in the beach. I listened to music and read my huge wedding planner book, we even started to make the big guest list for the wedding, not an easy task. Brad went boogie boarding and even tried to surf. He was pretty tired by the end of the day.


A few weeks ago I called the famous Haystack Bread Bakery to order Brad's Birthday cake. He looked so happy when we all started to sing happy birthday and when I came around the corner with the cake. I love that smile. The cake was soooooo good. It was white chiffon cake with raspberry filling and white butter cream frosting with a hint of almond and orange flavoring with Happy Birthday Mister Tesch written on it. It was perfect and so yummy.


My favorite thing about Cannon Beach was getting up early in the morning and looking for Sand dollars and seashells for Laney....my new.....daughter. Wow.....I have not only said yes to marry the love of my life, but now I have an entirely new family. They are so wonderful to me and make me feel so welcome and happy to become Mrs. Tesch. I haven't met Laney yet, but she called a few days ago and mentioned that she would like to meet me. It makes me so happy. I never imagined that I would fall in love with a such a wonderful man who has a little princess. I can't wait to meet her.

Our last night in Cannon Beach was spent at Marc and Anna's place with her folks, who are so much fun to be around. The boys played outside while the girls painted nails and did bjore strips.....we even talked the guys into doing it. Shhhhhhh.
Gracie Lost a tooth!!!!


On our car ride home we stopped at the Nike factory. Brad + Nike Factory= Bad Idea. We spent way too much money, but oh well. When we got home, Brad showered and went straight over to Grandpa George's house to stay the night. Grandpa George wasn't feeling very well and needed to go to the hospital the next day to have exploritory surgery to see what was wrong. Its so hard to stay at home by myself now without Brad, so I decided to stay over at my folks house. Brad makes me feel safe and when he's not there I don't want to be either. So now I'm trying to get back into our normal routine now. Laundry, cleaning, working.......I wish we were still in Cannon Beach.