Mr. D.C.

Tom got the results of his final National Board Exam today. He totally passed! In fact, I think it is safe to say that he knocked it out of the park! So it is officially official now, Tom is a Doctor of Chiropractic!

So what are we going to do now that he is done with school, and a certified Chiropractor? Well, let me tell you. WE ARE MOVING TO CACHE VALLEY UTAH! Yep Tom got a job working in a Chiropractic Office in Providence UT. It is a super nice office too. It is called Advanced Spine Chiropractic and Health. Here is the link to the website.

So, every one who lives in Cache Valley should come and have Tom adjust you, after February 1, cause that is the day he starts. We will be moving the last weekend of January, so if any of you want to help us with that, you are more than welcome.

I know that I have posted a picture like this before, but this is the Finished Product! Tom has collected one pencil for every test that he has taken during his Chiropractic Education, including one for each Board Exam (there are 5 of those). I once counted how many there were, it was well above 250. Wow, that is a lot of work he did.

Graduation Congratulation

Let me brag about my hubby for just a second. He graduated on Saturday.

He is now officially Dr. Thomas Fullmer D.C. Yes, that is right, I am married to a doctor.

I am so proud of Tom. The Chiropractic Program is pretty intense. There are some quarters that he was carrying nearly 40 credit hours. But he worked super hard, and made it through, and I could not be prouder. There were times that I felt like a single parent, because Tom would be out the door by 7:00 am, and would not come home until 10:30 or 11:00 at night. There was one quarter when Owen only saw Tom on

the weekends. I am glad those days are behind us, but I am grateful to Tom for how hard he has worked.

So here are some pictures from the Big Event on Saturday!

There were around 68 graduates from Western States College of Chiropractic. Here is a picture of them taking the Chiropractic Oaf.

As great of a Commencement Ceremony as it was, Owen got a little board. Thank Goodness Grandpa was there.

Tom and some buddies

The FAB FOUR: Here is a picture of Tom and his closest buddies from school. These 4 guys turn into LITTLE BOYS when they are together. Tom says that it was their way of staying sane during the program; but mostly, I think that they wanted to see what kind of crazy thing they could get Tom to do, join some extreme weight loss competition, or run across the tables like a raptor during a lecture. They have that kind of friendship that you know is going to last for years. Thanks for being there guys.

I think I have a Mechanic

Have you ever looked at you kid and wondered what they are going to be like when they get older, or what they will be when they grow up?  Well, I am pretty sure that Owen is going to be a mechanic.  His two favorite toys are: 1) Cars, and 2) Tools.  

Playing with them together is his favorite thing to do.  Check it out:

Who knows, if it all works out, I just might not have to pay for car repairs in the future.

Welcome Home Daddy!!!

Tom spent last week in Utah, shadowing chiropractors.  It was really weird not having him here.  Owen and I really missed him.  Let me tell you, I am so grateful for video chats, it made week bearable to be able to see and talk with Tom each night.  

When we picked Tom up from the airport Owen was so excited.  As soon as he was his Daddy walking towards him, he was in a mad dash to his arms.

Neither of them could stop smiling, they were so glad to that we were all back together.

  

I am glad too.  Having Tom gone really made me appreciate him more.  I love you Tom, and I am so glad you are home.

Almost There!!!

Yesterday, September 11, 2009 was Tom's last day of class EVER!!!!!!  Can you believe it?  He is almost done with school.  Now all he has left is a quarter of working in the Clinic, at test called OSCIs, National Boards Exam, and State Certification Exams, oh yeah, and GRADUATION!  And then he will be a real live Chiropractor!!!!!  Holy cow, time flies!

WAY TO GO, MISTER!!!!  You are almost done!!!!!

This is a picture of Tom on his very last day of Class, EVER!!!!!

Hot Dog!!!!

I saw something today that I honestly thought I would never see in real life.  Owen and I were driving to the store, when I see a childhood dream parked in the parking lot of a hotel.  There sitting proudly, and ever so identifiable was the WIENERMOBILE!  Holy Cow, I was so excited!  So I pulled into the hotel parking lot, got Owen out of the car and took a picture of this exciting moment in my life.

This is huge.  I mean it is not everyday that you get to see the WienerMobile!

Attack of the Blue Lake Monster

Yesturday, Tom spent the day at Blue Lake Park treating people at some sort of Health Fair.  After he was finished, Owen and I met him at the park to have a picnic dinner.  The dinner was nothing fancy just Burger King, but there was a squirrel who could not get enough of it.  She kept on sneaking up and trying to grab fries out of our bag.  At one point she actually climbed up on Tom, to try and grab the french fry out of his hand.  

After our encounter with the Blue Lake Monster, Owen and Tom went for a run through the Water Play ground.  They had a great time, but I swear when ever Tom gets around things like that, the little 8 year-old boy in him comes out.  Seriously, I felt like I was watching my 2 LITTLE boys running through the water.  What am I going to do when I really do have 2 little boys?!?!?!

Owen's Big FISH Tale

Last Night, Owen went on his very first Fishing Trip, and HE CAUGHT SOMETHING!!!

Fishing has always been a favorite pass time for my family when I was growing up.  My Daddio absolutely LOVES to fish, and I believe that it was one of his prime objectives of life to teach his children to love to fish as much as he does.  Some of my earliest memories are of being out at a lake some where fishing with my family.  So, of course, I too love to fish.  

Last year, Tom a couple of his buddies picked up fishing as their new past time (or sanity saver from school).  With some advice from my dad, I got Tom a bunch of fishing gear for his Birthday;  which has been a very well used gift.  

Owen quite often sees his Daddy leave with all of his fishing stuff, and wants to go too.  He loves to get into Tom's tackle box and rearrange it; and his favorite thing to play with is Daddy's fishing rod.  Tom keeps it hung up in a closet, but some how Owen always manages to get it down and runs around the house trying to catch things with his pole.

Well last night, Owen actually caught something.  Tom came home from the store the other day with a "Lightning McQueen" Kiddy Pole, and announced that we were going fishing Saturday Night.  So Last night we went up to this little fishing hole, by the Clackamas River, called 

Small Fry Lake.  It is so small the we drove past it three times before we actually found it. It was A LOT of fun.  It was the first time that our little family had ever been fishing together, and I can't wait to go again.

Owen is Going to Have a Baby BROTHER!!!

Yes that is right, WE ARE HAVING ANOTHER BOY!!!!  We had our ultrasound on Monday morning, and the very first thing the technician said was, "Wow, it looks like you having another boy."  It was pretty obvious.  They also changed my due date...again.  They have moved it from December 27th, to January 7th, and now they are saying that it looks like it is going to be January 1st.  I think that I am going to claim January 10th as my due date, this way I will not go super crazy if he comes a little late.

Anyway, so here are some of our babies first pictures.

I guess that it is standard procedure, at my hospital, to a 3D ultrasound when they are looking at the bay's profile, so here are some first glimpses of what this Baby Boy just might look like...

It is kinda hard to tell what you are looking at, but the baby's head is blob in the middle. You can see his nose and a little mouth.

And here is a cute profile picture of the baby with his little left arm curled up under his face.  What a cute boy I am going to have!!!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MISTER!!!

I know that it has been way too long since I have posted, I blame it on this pregnancy.  I have been so tired, that when I am not working or playing with Owen, I am sleeping.  As a result, blogging has taken the back seat in my life for the past month and a half.  I promise, I am going to get better.  I have a ton to update. 

So what brought me out of my Blogging Hiatus?  It had to be something Monumental...Right?    

Well yes, it is.  TODAY is mine and Tom's THIRD ANNIVERSARY!!!  I honestly cannot believe that we have been married for 3 years.  It some times feels like we just met yesterday, and then there are times that it feels like we have been married forever, and hat we have always been in each others lives.

So, I just wanted to tell Tom, and the rest of the world how grateful I am that he is my hubby, and that I love him a whole LOT.

Big Gulp Anyone?

We all know how much Tom loves to experiment with all these crazy diets and cleanses. So far he has done the following: the lemonade diet, the ape diet, the all meat diet, the P90X diet, the carb-hour diet, and the cabbage diet. He has seen decent results with most of them, but I am worried this the Big Gulp Diet is not working for him.

***Ha, ha, ha.  Just kidding.  This is not Tom, and he really hasn't done ALL of those diets, just most of them.***

One Exciting Birthday!

Well, it is official.  As of today, I am now the big TWO-FIVE, a quarter of a century, $.25; however you wanna say it, I am now 25 years old!

I don't know what it is about my birthday, but for some reason it always ends up being a big DRAG.  Now, I am not trying to whine or get sympathy, I am just saying that for some reason, I always have expectation for my birthday to be something, and it never is, so them I end up sitting our moping all day.  So it is definitely my fault that I usually end up having a Gloomy Eeyore Birthday (except for my 13th birthday, when my period started for the first time).

But today I am determined to have a HAPPY BIRTHDAY.  Tom has to work at the clinic until 7:00, and I have been feeling sick all day.  But I am still determined that today is a GREAT Birthday! Why? Well, let me tell you.......

We are going to be adding a BIRTHDAY to our Family!!!!  Yep, that is right, We are having another BABY!!!!  That is the birthday that I am excited for!  I am due on the 27th of December.  Yeah, I know, awesome planning...a Christmas Baby.  So needless to say, we are NOT going to be moving right after Tom graduates in December.  Nope, we are going to stay put for awhile.

Being FAT is funny!

My sister and her family were here last week.  It was a blast to have them visit.  I love hanging out with her and her hubby.  It seem like when Charis and Craig, and Tom and I all get together, there is always something to laugh about.  Last week was no different, only it seemed like the funniest things revolved around the few extra pounds that most of us accumulate as we get older. 

The first funny story took place at the play 

ground at Washington Park.  It is a really cool play ground, with all sorts of slides and bridges, and it is wheel chair accessible. Anyway, one of the slides is an incredibly tight spiral slide.  It is so tight, that I think anyone much older then ten would get stuck on it.  My 20-month-old niece really wanted to go down this slide, but she was too scared to go down alone, so my sister decided to go down with her, and about halfway down she gets stuck.  Once she got off the slide, some snotty kid commented on how long he had to wait to go down the slide.  Without missing a beat Chairs turns to him and simply says, "I am sorry, but that that is what happens when FAT people go down slides."  The kid was shocked, and I swear Craig and I wear about to wet our pants, we were laughing so hard.  

Now you have got to understand, my sister is a far cry from being fat, in fact she has been loosing weight.  But holy cow, what she said was so stinking funny.

The next funny story happened later that night while we

were out to dinner.  We went to this fun little burger join in Sandy Oregon, called Calamity Jane's.  The burgers are really good, and the patties range in size from 1/3 lbs to 1 lbs.  Well, the waitress took each order, with out specifying what size patty, then she gets to Tom and she offers either  1/2 lbs, or 2/3 lbs, or 3/4 lbs (notice she did not offer the smallest size).  As the waitress was walking away, Tom says to us, "Should I be offended.... Hey FATTY, want bigger PATTY?"  Holy cow, I don't think any of us could stop laughing the entire dinner.

So now you know my funny fat stories.  It was great having my sister here.  I loved seeing her and cute kids, and Craig too.  Owen loved having his cousins around.  And we got to go see some more the the Great Northwest, that we probably would not have seen otherwise.  SO thanks for coming guys!!!

Already a Prankster

I try to work out 6 days a week.  Three days a week I do something at home like palates, or Turbo Jam; the other Three days I go out running.  There is a nature/jogging trail that is just up the street from us, so that is where I usually go.  The trail has been super muddy lately, so when I get home, I kick off my shoes, and leave them by them front door.  

The other I was getting Owen and myself ready for our run, I had him in the jogger, and I went to pull on my shoes.  When I slipped my foot in the shoe, something did not feel quite right.  I pulled off my shoe, and a handful of RAISINS fell out of my shoe.  Baffled, I look over at Owen, and he was looking very proud, with the biggest smirk on his face, almost as if to say, "HA HA, I got you Mom!!!"  And then I remembered that he had had raisins for a snack the day before.  I guess he did not eat them all, like I had thought.  I am going to have to start watching this boy more carefully.

This one is for my Mom!

There are two thinks my mom can not get enough of in this world: 1) Her Grandchildren, and 2) Alpacas. So I think that she will really like these pictures.

We went for a Sunday drive today, and happened upon an Alpaca Farm.  So, of course we had to stop to take pictures for Grandma.  I hope you liked them Mom.

Garden Catstrophy

We finally got around to transporting 

our plant starts into our garden.  The starts were all looking really good while they were in the starter container, then we moved them....  Have you ever attempted to garden with a ONE-year-old?  Well, they lets just say that they like to help, A LOT; and that they are SUPER CURIOUS; to the point that the plants don't survive.

Owen was so fascinated by these green stringy thing that I was putting in the dirt, that he just had to get a better look at them.  I soon as I would plant them, he would pull them up, and start pulling their leaves off.  And the few that I managed to keep him from uprooting when they were first planted, he has since plucked.  Ohhh Goodness.  What will I do with this boy?

Here is what my starts looked like before we planted them:

This is what the garden's looked like right after we planted.  You have to look close, but you can actually see sprouts in the boxes.

A few short days later, here is what the gardens look like after Owen got to them:

 

So what started out as my great dream to have a garden this year, has been temporarily been delayed.  I think that I am just going to have to try and plant seed directly in the dirt, and see if they grow.  Maybe the Boy wont pull them up if they gradually appear.

At least my tomato and herbs have survived so far:

Our Newest Toy!

For Christmas each year, my parents give their married kids a certain amount a money with the instruction to buy something their family wants/needs.  Then on Christmas, we bring it wrapped up, to my parents house so that they can open what they got for us.  Kinda silly, but it has turned into a really fun tradition.  The Christmas before Owen was born Tom and I decided that we needed a camera so that we could capture every moment of our new baby's life.  

Well, we have fallen in love with taking pictures (of more then just Owen).  Both Tom and I have really grown to enjoy photography.  A couple of months ago, I mentioned to Tom that I would ONE day like to have an SLR camera.  He actually remembered this; and well, his idea of ONE day was much sooner then mine.  Little did I know, but Tom has been saving up a little bit for the past couple of months to get me an SLR camera for Mother's Day!  How cool is he?  Yes, I know, he is the coolest.  

So, now we have entered a whole new world of photography, and I can hardly wait to learn how to use my new toy!!!!

1000 Days!!!!

WARNING:  The following Post is full of MUSHY content!

Today Tom and I have been married for exactly 1000 days!!!  I can hardly believe it!  

I fall in love with him more and more each day!  I am so blessed to have him as my husband, and as Owen's daddy.

Heres to 1000 Great Days!

Our Wedding Day

August 15, 2006

Honeymoon at Yellowstone

Graduating from USU

December 2006

At the Oregon Coast shortly after we moved to Portland

Spring 2007

Probably not the most flattering picture, but here we are just minutes after Owen was born.

February 20, 2008

Hiking in the Columbia Gorge

Memorial Day 2008

We went to Canon Beach for our 2nd Anniversary

August 2008

Celebrating Owen's 1st Birthday at the Pool!  

February 20, 2009

Idaho Falls Gorge

March 20, 2009

I can't wait for the next 100,000!

I LOVE YOU A LOT, A LOT, A LOT!!!

I fixed it!

SO I fixed my Facebook account.  You should be able to find me now.  My email address is:

diffendoofer@hotmail.com

We Finally Did It.

Well, it is official, Tom and I have now joined the "Evil Network" as I call it.  You might know is as FACEBOOK.  Go ahead, look us up: Rosie - diffendoofer@hotmail.com, Tom - Thomfullmer@gmail.com.  I think that it will be fun being able to reconnect with people, but I honestly don't see myself falling in love with it.  

I mostly created the account so that people could find my blog.  Lets be honest, I am too lazy to give the world constant updates on more then one website; Anyone who is linked to my Good Reads account can testify to that; I rarely update that.  But I guess we will see how I do with FaceBook this time around.  Hopefully, I will keep it active enough for it not to get closed.  :0)

National ODD Day - 5/7/9

Well, today was National ODD Day, which takes place when three consecutive odd numbers make up the date. This only happens six times in a century!  So needless to say, I have spent the entire day trying to do random odd things, such as: going with my friend Jenn to Walmart to make Mother's Day cards for OURSELVES; driving all the way out to Oxbow Park just to take a picture of a outhouse (and when I got there, I forgot to take the picture); and posting a personal ad on Craig's List for my single friend.

But of all the dumb things that I did, and saw today, this has got to take the cake.  My mom sent me this email today, and Oh Boy does it ever fit in the "ODD" category.  

You have to watch the whole thing, it starts getting really crazy about 1 minute into it.

What in the.......?!?!?!?

On Wednesday afternoons Tom works at the School's Chiropractic Clinic in Downtown Portland.  The clinic does not close until 7:00. Which means that after finishing up paper work, hoping on the train, and then carpooling from the train station, Tom does not get home until close to 8:00 pm on Wednesday nights.  And Owen and I are more than ready for him to be home by that time of night.

Well today, on the way home from clinic, Tom calls and tells me that he "has to go get something" from our friend's Jeff and Amy's house before he comes home, and that he would need me to pick him up in about 30 minutes.  It sounded a little suspicious, but I figured that Mother's Day is on Sunday, and maybe he had something up his sleeve; so I did not ask questions, and dutifully went to pick him up at the time he asked.  

When I got over to Jeff and Amy's place, Tom and Jeff were nowhere to be found.  So I asked Amy where they were, and she just smirks and says, "Oh, they are in the garage.  They will be out in a minute."  So, of course I ask what they are up too, and She says, "Oh you will see!"  

By this time, my head is swimming trying to figure out what kind of surprise Tom has for my, and why he has been keeping it in the Jensen's garage.  Well, would you like to see?  

SCROLL DOWN.........

Yes, that is right, HE BUZZED HIS HAIR.  There I am sitting in the living room, anticipating some great big surprise, and Tom walks in with next to NO HAIR.  Well, I guess I was definitely surprised, just not the way I was expecting to be.  And of course the first thing he says is, "What do you think?"  

What do I think?!?!? I think I like his head full of hair.  I think I would have liked to have been consulted before take away all my husband's hair.  I think it makes him look WAAYYYYY different.  I think he has a nice shaped head (which I could never see before).  And I think that I am glad that balding is NOT a trait that runs in his family.  Hallelujah!!!

Well, I guess I gotta look on the bright side; what is done is done.  It will grow back in a few weeks, so it would be silly to get mad about it.  But until it grows back, I have all rights to tease him.

Here's one more look at his new due (ok it is a couple more pictures):

The Wooden Shoe Festival

One of my favorite things about living in

 the Northwest is all of the Gardens.  Last Friday, Owen and I went with a couple of friends to my favorite garden yet... The Wood Shoe Tulip Farm in Woodburn OR.  It was amazing!  Sadly, Tom had to work at the clinic, and could not go.

I could not believe how many 

different colors of tulips there were, or how many acres of flowers there were.  The flowers seemed to stretch on for miles.  GORGEOUS!!!!!

It was a lot of fun too. 

 They had a

 lot more than the never ending expanse of Tulips and Daisies.  It was like a festival, with carnival rides, crafty boutiques, yummy food, and great activities for kids. 

The weather was perfect, and flowers were beautiful.  The kids had a great time climbing on the hey stacks, swing on tire horses, and having rubber ducky races.  And I loved the flowers.

Duck Races

The Cutest Tulips EVER!!!