New fall layout, thought it was time for a whole new change. What does everyone think? The picture is of Mount Baker the local Mountain here in Washington.

I'm still sick, so I shouldn't stay online for long. I haven't been sleeping that much, I feel really tired. I might go to the Doctors to check my throat out, seeming it's so sore.

It was my sisters 17th Birthday today, so I called home and wished her a Happy Birthday. She liked her gifts, talking about gifts. I had 3 packages in the mail today. 2 off my mum and 1 off my Sister, I had some Chocolate.. Galaxy, Maltesers, Dairy Milk. I also had some other different British things, oh and some local Newspapers.

Ugh I'm sick, my sore throat got worse. I have a full out cold, I think my throat has an Infection too. I haven't slept properly all weekend, I've been coughing so much. I've also been having these wired dreams, I keep dreaming I'm back in the UK again. That I'm at my family home, in the living room with my sisters and mother watching a TV show. What's really wired is the show I'm watching is a show called "The Last Train" that was aired back in 1999. It was a Drama series that me, my mum and sisters were really into, and it was on every Thursday night. It's so freaky that I'd dream about that, I told my mum and she said maybe I'm just homesick and need the feeling of being home while sick.

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My Grandparents (my dad's side) phoned yesterday which was really nice, Clayton had a nice chat with my Grandad. They get on so well which is good, my Grandad is sending us our Family Tree, which I think I'm gonna have framed. Also this morning we had a nice phone call off my niece Joanna & my nethpew Ethan, that was fun. Talked to my sister for a while too, it's great that I get a call off everyone every week.

Well that's it here, I'm going to go and lie down.

Been quite busy the last few days, I'm helping Clayton's Broker our friend Marsha out with a few things, I'm also starting to Baby-sit her Grandson Ben, he's 9 months and such a cutie. I'll probably be Babysitting him 2 full days 9-5 Wednesday & Thursday while his mom goes to class. I spend all day today with him, he's so cute and such a good baby. I love looking after babies, I miss my niece and nephew so much. Clayton's already starting to get that look with me, like I'm gonna ask him to start a family now hehe. I know I love babies, but I don't want to start a family just yet in a few years when we have a house and we are both ready and stable. Ooh talking about babies, congratulations Anne.

I also have a very sore throat, Clayton passed on his cold. Hmph I hope I don't get too sick, I hate being sick. Tomorrow, I'm spending the Afternoon with Marsha she's going through a few things with me. Clayton is spending some time at his Rail Road museum. Sunday we haven't anything planned, I need to catch up with my house work, it's funny how everything piles up when you neglect things over a few days.

Anyway that's about my news, have a good weekend to all.

Hello blog world, things have been going pretty well here. My weekend was good, even though Clayton was working for the most part of it. In actual fact so was I, I spend most of the weekend working on my websites. I'm working on changing the whole layout of my website, I decided I had enough of the cute graphics. I'd just like a much more mature site. So I spend the most part of the weekend searching for websets.

Yesterday I went shopping with Stefanie, which was really nice. Stef came round to my place at around 10:30am to pick me up, and then we headed to the mall. We went round the shops, we then went to have some lunch and bought some Chinese food. She wanted to buy a Birthday Present for Collin, and some gifts for her family, as she leaves on Saturday to go back to Germany. I also bought a Birthday present for Emily my little sister, and a few cards for family.

Stef and I also bought, these nice sweatshirts we both liked the monkey. They were on sale from $44 to like $20, which was good; I needed something for the winter.


Natalie & Stef with matching hood sweaters.  

After that we went to Starbucks and had a Latte, which was really nice. Then we headed back to my place to watch some movies. Clayton came home, and we all went out for dinner. It was a nice day, I had a lot of fun, it was cool to get out.

Wow it's Thursday already, where do the days go. Been a quiet week so far, I've worked on a few of my websites, I found such a cool Welsh webset so I'm working on my culture pages. Today has been a fun day, Clayton had a day off he's been putting a lot of time in work lately. So we haven't spend much time with each other, he made me breakfast in bed this morning and we snuggled and watched TV for a while. We were debating on going out, but seeming we wanted to save the money we decided to stay in. Which was good enough for me, we had a lazy afternoon playing Monopoly and such.

Then his mom came round and dropped off a few Disney VCR movies that were Clayton's when he was a child. His mom said they would be good for our future children hehe. She also gave me a feather bed blanket, seeming I was complaining I was cold in the nights. So can't wait to try it out tonight, it's meant to keep you really warm.

Early this evening, we went searching for a VCR in the Garage that Clayton's uncle said we could borrow. So guess what we have been watching, we had a Disney movie night. I know you guys are probably saying what Disney?? lol but I kinda like "The Little Mermaid" and "Aladdin" oh and "Beauty & the Beast" got me a little homesick really, as me and my sisters would watch them movies when we were little.

Talking about movies, my mum has informed me that my dad has bought a DVD recorder. How cool is that, my dad can now tape me the shows from the UK that I miss and send them out to me. Seeming I have a multi region DVD player I can play the DVDs. Oh I so can't wait to get a few episodes of "Most Haunted".

Awww look what Sanna just sent me...

Isn't it cute, I love it thanks Hun. Clayton says thank you too, he says it looks like him, hehe. Oh speaking of Sanna, check out her new site Cutielicious Graphics very cute stuff. Wish I was good at the pixel painting. I'm getting there though.

Hello blog world. Life in Washington State is going well, Clayton took me to "The Seattle Welsh Women's Club" Friday. We left around 9am to be there by 11:30, the meeting was held at a local library. I was a tiny bit nervous to just walk in the room, but I'm glad I did. The women who are there are really lovely, there were about 3 Welsh women there from Cardiff the Capital of Wales, they had emigrated quite a while ago. The rest of the Women were American but had Welsh Descendants. It was an Interesting 2hrs, it was great to socialize a bit. Granted there were no women there my age, but I felt so welcomed. I normally can make friends with Women who are older, compared to my own age anyway. The next meeting is in October; they are actually playing a show that was recorded on a Welsh Channel, so that'll be cool to see. Also they are giving me a job of working on their website, I told them I was good at the web design. And they are all interested in giving me the job now. So that's good, I have another website to work on, to show off my talent.

After the meeting, Clayton took me to "World Market". I had never been there before, and he knew there were British foods there. I bought a few things, a few bars of British Chocolate, some Baked Beans. I got kinda of a deal too, the lady didn't put like 3 things through so it was like under $10. I didn't realise until we were half way home, and we weren't going to go all the way back.

My Saturday was kinda lazy, Clayton worked a little. He came home and crashed seeming he has a small cold. My Grandparents called, so I had a long talk with them which was nice. I also talked to my mother, she's sending me a large care package out, full of my fave foods and also some local newspapers. Can't wait to get that.

Today I mowed the lawn, all three sections of it. My arms are now aching, I then came in and relaxed watching some TV, including the new series of "Charmed". So cool that I can watch it before my sisters!

Please take a moment with me to remember those that suffered or who were lost three years ago today.

Please take a moment and light a candle for those who suffered or lost thier lives that day.

We'll never forget!

Printers don't you just love them, you know we've been having trouble with our Lexmarks all in one printer. Well we had a replacement one shipped out to us last week, and guess what the replacement printer isn't working. Clayton was on the phone to them on Wednesday sorting it out, he went through a series of tests with him. And surprise surprise it didn't work. So they shipped us another replacement, we had it today. It's working good so far, but our Black ink cartridge run low from all the testing. I told Clayton to phone them and get them to ship us some ink, which they are actually doing.

Grr I'm fed up of printers, so I couldn't get to scan our wedding photos in. I did however scan one in, so I think I'll just post this one on my blog. This picture is actually my favorite, I'm going to get a large one and have it framed.


Clayton & Natalie  

Oh I don't think I posted about this, but I bought a Playstation over ebay. I really miss playing Tomb Raider. I used to play it back in the UK, so it arrived yesterday and I've been really hooked on the game. Today we went too a Game Store where they sell used games, we bought Bust A Move it's like a Tetris game. I thought it would be good for Clayton as he can only play with one hand as he has a disability with his right hand. It's kinda cool cause we can play 2 player games, we've had so much fun.

I've been feeling quite homesick the last few days so I went searching online for Welsh people in Seattle and you never guess what I found "The Seattle Welsh Women's Club" I just literally got off the phone with the lady. And they are having a meeting tomorrow, she told me to come a long, problem is Clayton's working he's trying to re arrange his shift. I would so love to go, she says there are many Welsh Expats in the group. They arrange Welsh craft stalls, and they even have a Saint David's Day in March. I don't feel so homesick now, knowing that there are some Welsh people out here.

Well my weekend was pretty good, we went down to Clayton's parents Saturday night. It was Clayton's Moms Birthday. We had a lovely BBQ, I'm so glad things are a lot easier with the In laws now. Clayton's mom and I ended up talking about Aromatherpy all night, she's getting into it a lot more. I love Aromatherpy, and use to take classes for Swedish massage back in the UK. I said we'd have to get together for me to give her a foot massage, too bad I left most of my oils back home though. I've been looking on e bay for some Essential oils, and massage Oils. After dinner we ended up watching some home of Clayton when he was small, hehe that was fun.

Last Thursday we went to change my name on my Bank account and put my name on Clayton's account for us to have a Joint Bank account. Yay I also got a Debit Card, through our Joint Account too, so that's cool, I can be a bit more independent. We also went to change my name on my ID card, so I now have my Washington State ID card in my married name.

We got our new printer sometime last week too, we send the faulty one back. At least this one is working now, so I can scan my Wedding pictures in. Watch out for them in my Photo MSN group. I've also been working on a new website called "Sunflower Designs" I'm going to be making unique websets and selling them for about $5. It's gonna take me a while to get everything in order, but watch the space for my new site. I've been doing some computer work for Marsha Clayton's Real Estate Broker, and our friend. It's kinda cool, gives me something to do and some extra cash.

I think that's about it, I haven't got many plans this week. Probably just be working on my new site a lot.