CA Nephews

Well, I never got a chance to post about our trip to CA, other than the cousin reunion. So I thought I would just put up some of the cute pictures of our time with the nephews, Will and Charlie Vidito. You can see more pictures of our trip on my facebook page.

The boys are growing up so fast and it was so fun to watch and play with them. Will went shopping with Grandpa and Jay, and they all walked around with their sun glasses. I got a chance to finally hold Charlie and love on him and take lots of cute pictures.

Uncle Jay with Will and Charlie

Aunt Mandi with Will

What a cutie!!!

Ahhhhh =-)

Ok, will give their parent's props too. =-) James and RoseAnne, you have two very cute

kiddos that we love!!!!

New Day Counseling

Here is a 360 video of my office. Enjoy!

No client's yet, but I just got my business cards. So I am still in the marketing stages. Please continue to pray for the Lord to bring the clients, to help me network, and for Him to continue to proved as I wait for the clients.

Cousin Reunion

After our trip to Bellingham, Jay and I headed down to California to spend some time with my family. We had a great time, but of course packed a ton of things into a few days. =-)

One of the highlights of the trip was a cousin reunion. It's been years since all of us have been been together. And overall everyone was there, just a couple were unable to make it. Here are a few pictures we took.

Jennifer Lord, Me and Erica Caudle. The three of us have been friends since Jen and I were 3. Wow!!!! Man time flies! Love you girls!

All of the cousins

All of the cousin's kids. Man getting this picture was an event in its self. =-)

All of the cousins and spouses.

The Country Fair

After the Mariner's game we headed up to Bellingham for three days. We had a relaxing time and enjoyed seeing our friend Jennifer and her family, Jay's family, exploring Bellingham and then going to the Whatcom County Fair. Jay was super excited to take me, the city girl, to the fair as I have been to very few. Jay's brother Joel, hooked us up with some great tickets for the Demo Durby, which was a very loud but a fun experience. We ran into our friend Deb Slater, I was able to meet several of Jay's friends from school, visited the many animal barns, we hooked up with the nieces and took them on some rides, and the highlight for me was we saw a Cow giving birth. That was quite the experience, but pretty cool! The fair was great, and I have a feeling it will be an Allen Annuel tradition. Here are some pictures from our trip.

The Demo Durby

I love this cow, he is Scottish. =-)

A momma pig and her babies.

This lamb, I don't remember exactly what is was called, cracked me up. He kept baaing as I took pictures and he had hay all over him. Too funny!!!!

Jay and our friend Deb Slater

The new born baby calf. =-)

The momma and her baby. =-)

Jay wanted to get me on a tractor. Doesn't that sound like a country song. =-) We thought this was a really cool one, and it turned out that it was Judy's (our sister-in-law) family's tractor.

Jay, Annika and Alyssa had a blast on a few rides.

Seattle Mariners

Friday, August 14th, started our marathon vacation. We headed up to Seattle to join our friends the Hines for a Mariner's game. We had a blast being with them, but unfortunately the Mariners lost to the Yankees. Jay will tell you he hates the Yankees, but I must admit it was pretty cool to see them. They are a Baseball team that has been around for years. =-) Sorry Jay, but don't worry I'm not a fan. Now Dodgers and the Lakers might be another story. he he

Anniversary Surprise

First of all, we want to say thank you to all of you who called us and sent cards on our anniv. What a fun treat. I personally didn't expect that at all, but it made for an extra fun day. =-)

Jay was so wonderful. He loves to surprise me so he planned this year's anniv. celebration. He said he figured we would have plenty of anniv. where we do dinner and a movie, but you only have one 1st Anniv. So he pulled out all the stops!!!! What a wonderful husband. =-)

Jay arranged for us to stay at a beautiful hotel in down town, called the Hotel Monaco. If you get a chance, check out the website I've attached. It was very European and very magical...as my sister would say. =-)

We had a wonderful dinner at McCormick and Schmick's down at the waterfront. Then we walked around and enjoyed the city lights, saw the River Place Hotel, where we stayed on our honeymoon, and tried to enjoy the HOT evening. Yes this was in the midst of our heat wave. But all in all, it was a fun evening.

Later on we had fun eating our one year cake... which was fresh from the bakery, watching our wedding video and give presents. Jay gave me this ring I had been eyeing. It was great!!!!

We had a wonderful anniversary. Thank you Jay for blessing me. I have the best husband ever!!! I love you!!!! Now it's my turn to plan our next anniv. and I've got a year to start planning. =-)

Playing Catch Up

Wow, the month of August has flown by. It feels like just yesterday we were celebrating our one year anniversary. Now we are at the end of the month and preparing for football season, and the blossoming of my business.

August has been a great month. Full of celebrating, vacation and launching New Day Counseling. God has been so good. Jay and I are excited about the new season ahead. We have had the summer to rest and spend some good quality time together, we've made some new and fun memories and I've ended my 4 year journey of Grad school and begun a new business. So now it's time to look to this new season of life and see what the Lord has in store!!!!


Today's devotional spoke a lot to Jay and I, especially this line, "You are positioned for victory! You are positioned for power! And you are positioned to receive everything God has in store for you!" AMEN!!!!!!


Bare with me as I have several posts to share with you. However, before I post my Aug. pictures here are a few pictures from the end of July I wanted to share.

In mid July we went to Las Vegas. Jay was there for work and I joined him later in the week. This was my first trip there. Other than it being over 100 degrees every day it was a blast!!! We stayed at New York New York, we went to two shows: Jersey Boys and Love, we saw the lions at MGM grand... I love this picture of the Lion, we went to the M&M store, had dinner at the Rain Forest Cafe, and had fun touring around town. The one picture of Jay with the two guys is Kenny Vance and Brian Wheeler. They all do a show together called Wheels at Work.

One evening in July we got together with our friends Darryl and Tana for a double date. It was a blast. We had dinner at a yummy Italian restaurant, went to my favorite spot in Oregon, the Rose Garden and then ended up at Dairy Queen. Afterwords we went back to their home for some Wii action...we were sold, we need to get a Wii!!!!

July was also Jay's birthday. Since we were in Vegas over his actual birthday we decided to keep his celebration small, but he got nice gifts. =-) And of course his favorite cake, an Oreo ice cream cake from 31 Flavors. =-)

Oh and yes he got a Wii.... come on over!!!!! =-)