Almost Christmas!

So Carson and I had a wonderful Thanksgiving with our families, it was some good eating. Tara, Jamie, and I went to Michael's on thanksgiving and I must say we found some pretty cool things. I am happy to say that I am done buying presents for Carson until his birthday, which is nice because now I just need to get some presents for the nephews, Jamie, and my parents. Well classes will be out in two weeks and I am so excited that my first quarter of the med. asst. program is almost over, I am looking forward to a break from the homework for a bit, but I am really excited to get into the lab next quarter and learn all of the clinical stuff. Life has been pretty boring these past couple of months for us since we pretty much just work and go to school, but I am looking forward to Christmas, YAY!

The strangest day of my life!

So this past thursday was the strangest day of my life. On my way to work I decided to stop at the sell gas station on G-way and grab a soda, as I was checking out an elderly gentleman fell off the curb and hit his head. The lady checking me out rushed outside to help him, he was bleeding from his head and had a bad laceration on his arm, so of course I called 911. He happened to be 91 years old, I am not sure what happened after he was taken to the hospital but I think he is ok because his car wasn't at the gas station the next day. That is the first thing. Then about 15 minutes before I am suposed to get off of work I my co-worker tells me to look out the window, and what do I see a cop car. I look closer to see 2 cops with their guns out and pointed at the car they had pulled over. Shortly there after 5 more cop cars pull up and anotehr cop pulls out a shotgun. They go on to get 6 men out of a early 90's ford escort. Anther co-workers husband is the chief of police- and she got the story for us on what was going on. Apparently all of the guys in the car were 18-19 years old and they were in Richland and apparently one of them flashed a gun at a pedestrian. The pedestrian called the police but hte richland cops didn't get them however they called the other police stations and the west richland police pulled them over. It was a huge ordeal the police stopped traffic for a 1/2 hour and no one could leave the dentist office until all of the men were hand cuffed and in the police cars. So that is a synopsis of the strangest day of my life!

Last pictures

So I love this set of pictures with Carson and Jakob, they are soooo cute!
It only gets better!
Roundhouse kick to the face!
I also promised a picture of kitty a long time ago so here is Trouble playing in a box!

More pictures from our trip!

This si a picture looking straight up the inside of the tallest light house in Oregon.
Unfortunately you have to be a certaing height to go uo to the top of the light house sou we had to take turns going up so someone could sit with the boys, this is a picture from the first landing on the stairs looking down. Jakob was sad he didn't get to go up, eh was like 2 inches too short.
I just love this picture of the boys.
This is a fun picture of me and Carson when we were doing family pictures.
Carson and Cameron skim boarding.

Latest Update

Zakry eating some chocolate and smiling for the camera!
Carson with his first crabs of the day!
Carson under the sea, just kidding! This was actually one of the first underwater breathing helmets, it is on display at the Newport Aquarium and it has ladders so little kids can get in a take pictures too.
Me under the sea with Jakob on top of my head. Believe it or not my six year old nephew Jakon took this photo!

So again it has been a while since I have posted anything, but not much has been going on around the Maestas household. Recently Carson and I went with my family to the Oregon coast for a family vacation. We had a blast, Caeson got to try surfing the first day he swallowed a lot of ocean but the second day he did much better. He also tried skim boarding while there and I think he really enjoyed that one. Th ebeach house we stayed in was amazing, it was a short walk from the beach, however it was at the top of the hill and you could see up the oregon coastline from the second floor. Some of the other activities we enjoyed were crabbing, the Tillamook chese factory, Depoe Bay, the Newport aquarium, the outlet mall and other fun things like playing at the beach. since the whole fam was there we also took family pictures with Cameron and Jamies camera. We had an amazing time and hopefully will be able to go again in the near future. On the drive home we stopped at the Japanese Gardens in Portland however Carson left the mamory card to the camera in the computer so Megan took picutres for us(thanks Megan) so we are going to get copies from her. In about a week I will start the Medical Assistant program an am looking forward to being back in school. Carson is not going to school this semester due to marine stuff but he will be starting his masters program in the winter. That is an overall upddate for now. Oh exciting news, one of my best friends Meiske had her baby this past we, her name is Ava, I am very excited about that.

Medical Assistant

Well I am happy to say that I have been accepted into the medical assistant program at CBC and will be starting classes this fall. That is the exciting news in our household. Carson and I have been busy working on the house. We have chopped down two trees and are close to digging out a huge hole in the backyard to put in a koi pond. We have also been busy painting out upstairs living room and I am ashamed to say that it has taken us quite a while to finish it (1 1/2 months) hopefully I will be able to finish it this weekend while Carson is at drill and will be able to surprise him when he gets home. Who knows maybe it will earn me a few brownie points. We are looking forward to the rest of the summer especially our trio to the coast with my family at the end of August. Also good news but sad at the same time is that my grandma burch passed away on Monday 7/7/08, I am sad and will miss her but I know she is in a better place and is happy where she is. That is what the Maestas family has been up to in the past couple of weeks. Hope to write again soon!