Dining room, hobbies and Porter

March has been quite an adventure! Near the beginning of the month we spent most of our time working on our dining room. Mostly just a fresh coat of paint and some new blinds but it made quite a difference. Since Nathan and I work mornings now, it has been amazing to be able to get so much done on that room and I think it looks great. Here are some before and after pictures from the dining room.

Before Pictures of the dining room

Nathan Painting

After Pictures

I have been exploring some new hobbies as well this month. With the warmer weather I wanted to give geocaching a try; something I had heard about during my PDA training. It is essentaially treasure hunting with a GPS, but the treasure is just a Tupperware with some toys and random stuff in it. Nathan and I found our first geocache last week. It was pretty cool. It was neat to have something to do outside and a way to guide where we were hiking. We went again yesterday and ended up climbing a cliff in Ute Valley Park to find a cache :)
Another new hobby that I have picked up is called letterboxing, which is very similar to geocaching. People still hide boxes and post clues online. The major difference here is that when you find the box, there is a stamp in it. You stamp the log book with your own personal stamp and get to stamp your own personal log book with someone else's stamp. I thought it was a neat way to commemorate the visits to so many of the places we usually go. Another unique feature to letterboxing is that the stamps are usually handcarved. Naturally being the arts and crafts type person I am, I went out and carved a stamp as soon as a could. It came out pretty good.

My Stamp

As many of you know, Nathan and I adopted a "pitbull" puppy in September named Porter. Well our "pitbull" puppy is almost a year old now and is only 12 lbs. and is clearly not a pitbull. We have recently decided that it was not a good match for us and is no longer apart of the family. Unfortunately him and Lucy have a difficult time playing because of the difference in size. We hope he is placed into a good home because he is truly a sweet dog.

Well that is all for march. Wedding plans are coming together and we are looking forward to seeing you all then!