All About Me

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So I'm Whitney. I have a wonderful husband and daughter. I'm a wife and SAHM.
I love the beach/ocean and pretty much anything to do with it (maybe not rip tides). My new favorite quote is: “The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.” --I. Dinesen
So that's not necessarily ALL about me, but that's what the blog posts are for! ;) NEWS: I have decided to make this my collections only blog! Most of the pictures on this site are postcards where the pictures have been photgraphed by others and I do not claim that I have been the photographer, publisher, or anything but the recipient of a postcard. Thanks for reading!

Friday, November 20, 2009

Unofficial!

So I recently joined the PostCrossing Forum! It's really cool! It's getting expensive though and Eric's not too thrilled about that! I've sent out 11 cards in the past 2 days. At least 22 are being sent out today! It's craziness, but super fun! If there weren't so many cards I would post pictures, but sorry- that's a no go! I promised Eric that I would slow down if he would go buy me some International Stamps! I have some coming in the mail, but that's taking too long so I want to go to the Post Office to buy more! I will use them all!
Instead of posting pictures, I'll write the countries from the TAG cards:
China x 2
Poland x 2
Netherlands x 2
Italy x 2
Lithuania
Indonesia
Japan
Germany x 2
Finland
Canada
Russia x 4
USA-TX, OH, MA, NC, CA, WA, NY
Portugal

Today I also finished sending out my Round Robins!

I'm in USA and Around the World RR (Group 5) so I sent cards out to:
Portugal
France
Japan
Taiwan
USA- AZ, PA, WI

In the Water RR (Group 144) I sent cards to:
USA-MI
Russia
Germany
Netherlands
Turkey


Woohoo!!

Somehow I only ended up sending out 22 cards, but my list says I have 24 cards... I'm trying to figure out where those extra cards might have gotten to. Or what- I just don't know! We'll see who doesn't get one and I'll resend I suppose. I'm sorry!

EDIT: I found those missing cards- they were still in my scanner! Whoops! hehe I didn't have enough stamps anyway so I will send those out as soon as I get my new stamps in the mail!

One Postcard In- Another Out!

My postcard to Russia finally made it so I sent out another card! This time to a little girl in France! I hope she likes it!
Just waiting on all 5 cards now! The card to Taiwan has been traveling for 11 days. Germany, Greece, and Finland for 3 days. And now France for 2! Woohoo!

Monday, November 16, 2009

Three Postcards Out/One Postcard In!

So today my postcards to China and Illinois was registered! So that means I had three (the one to Portugal on Sun) to send out. They are to Finland, Germany, and Greece! That makes the total sent to Germany, 4 and to Finland, 3. This is a first to Greece!

--Here are the sent postcards--

Germany:
Finland:

Greece:


Today I also had a surprise in the mail! It was a postcard from Belarus! Pretty exciting! It's been a while since I've gotten a postcard from anywhere! She sent it out on Nov. 2 so it took about two weeks to get here! Good to know if I'm ever sending anything to Belarus! hehe




Sunday, November 15, 2009

Two More Postcards Sent

I sent out two more postcards last Monday!

-Here they are-

To Illinois:

To Taiwan:
So far they have been traveling for 6 days. Surely the IL one will be there soon! And today my Portugal card (sent Oct. 28) was registered! That means I can send another card! I'm just waiting on the time to cross over so it starts counting on Monday instead of Sunday. ha

Mom In Town!

Mom came into town last weekend for Faylen's birthday! It was so great to see her! I miss her so! We celebrated Faylen's birthday with her pretty much all weekend.
We went to Deception Pass Bridge for the first time on Sun. We've lived here off and on for 2.5 years and have never been!
It was thrilling- but I'll probably never do it again- at least not if Faylen's there. I was never scared of heights until Faylen was born- who knew! haha I just focused on taking pictures while crossing the bridge. In the beginning Mom almost didn't go. Little did she know we were all thinking it was a bad idea! haha It was fun though!
On Mom's last day she, Faylen, and I went to Burlington to go shopping. It was fun! She got Faylen's Christmas present and Eric's bday presents. I told her all I want for Christmas is for her and Randy to come out here! We'll see if it happens, but it would be a great end to the year!
Here are some pictures of the weekend:


Sunday, November 1, 2009

Two More Postcards Received!

^^ Here is my postcard from Massachusetts! ^^



vv And the one from Spain! vv

Koda!





On Friday we picked up Koda! We also went down to Oregon so we could say we have been there! haha
He's a great pup! A little whiny, but that's ok. The nights have been pretty rough. I'm sure our neighbors hate us! haha
He and Gambi get along really well! It's fun to watch them play!
He's sort of getting the potty training down. Well he knows when we say "Go potty" that he's going outside and should pee. He's still pooing in the house though and that's really annoying. haha We're working on it. Ok he just awoke from his nap. Time to go!