Three Trips, Three States, Three Posts - Post Three

Our third and final trip in the three week, three trip saga was a weekend with friends and their kids and a family cabin on Vashon Island.   The weather was perfect, the food was delish and the company was so much fun!  Here is a shot of our home for the weekend. :]

We took the ferry over on Friday night and took a take home pizza from Saucy Sisters and it was SO good!  If you ever want pizza on Vashon, go there!  We all turned in semi early that night, everyone was tired from the work week so after a glass of wine and some laughs, we hit the hay.

I love the room we get when we stay there because of these guys. :]

The next morning we were up and at em and BBQing by 10 am.  We took walks on the beach but mostly just sat around talking and eating! We brought over a bunch of pig out in the park sausage from Spokane that we grilled up and snacked on throughout the day.

We spent all of Saturday and Sunday out on the water.  It was so relaxing!  We played music all day, had a constant flow of snacks and food, spent the day SUPing and had fun conversation!  It was a great weekend!

 

 

 The dogs had a blast too...

 

 

We ended our nights with smores and a campfire...

 

and the mornings looked a little like this! :]

So that sums up our summer travels! Nothing fancy but lots of fun!

Snopacalypse 2012

Everyone in Western Washington is snowed in today!  It is SO beautiful and wish that we could have snow days more often or at least have it stick around a little longer.  It's supposed to all be gone by tomorrow.   :[

Right now we have about 6 inches.  That is the most snow I have seen in our area in a looooong time!

It just stopped snowing but I hope its cold enough to stick around for a while. :]

This morning we took a family walk to Starbucks and I took some photos!

Got a Spring in my step.

I love spring and I welcome it with arms wide open after a season of high energy bills, dark afternoons and windshield scraping in the AM.

I realized something lately and that is how much I LOVE fresh flowers.  I've always loved flowers but it is amazing how they brighten up a room.  I bought three bunches of tulips and put them on the coffee table.  I love them. A lot.

So I vow from now on to have fresh/seasonal flowers in the house all throughout the year. =]

12 Days of Christmas: DAY ONE

A Little delayed but I think its a good way to start off the 12 Days of Christmas Blogathon that will be hosted here, on my blog.

We had snow at our house!  It was a very exciting thing for me not only because we rarely get snow but also because we live in a valley so when it does snow we never get any!  I think we had about 4-5 inches and it stuck around for a good 3-4 days!  It was fun to see our little downtown area covered in white and it made me extremely thankful for our cozy, warm, home :]

PURTIEEE!!

It all started around lunchtime on Monday, the week of Thanksgiving.  It was snowing all morning but just a light dusting that turned into quarter sized flakes that were coming down so hard - you could barely see through them!  Both Justin and my offices let us head home early and I am so happy they did.  I made it home in 20 minutes (which NEVER happens) and it seemed like as soon as I stepped in the house, poo hit the fan.   TRAFFIC WAS HORRID.  I am NOT exaggerating - NO I'm not!  My poor future brother in law was stuck on a bus for 7 hours.  7 hours to go less than 20 miles.  A friend of mine left work at 3:30pm and didn't get home until 1:30am! 

Snow and Seattle DO NOT MIX.  When we get snow - we shut down.  Justin and I were told to stay home on Tuesday and the roads were still a mess from the night before. 

Anyway, all this purty snow I'm talking about was put to massive shame when we showed up at my in-laws house to celebrate Thanksgiving.  We drove over Wednesday after work (yes, I said work.  I had my snow tires put on so I had NO excuse not to make it in) and got into their neck of the woods around 9pm.  The snow there was above my knee and the City of Spokane was still able to function and go about their daily lives.  Quite the opposite of what we had just experienced in our homeland.   Oh well.  We had a wonderful, relazing weekend and I gained about 1,000,876,982,235,987,344.02 pounds.   I'm serious.

 Justin and Buddy

 Joy, Peg and Whit

 Rupert and Buddy

 Whit and Kev

 We watched a ton of home videos and I HAD to snap this picture of my man as a little guy!! SO CUTE

Whit, Mamma Llama and I

My mother-in-law and I did some Black Friday shopping (the non-agressive kind) and decorated her Christmas tree. They had a live fire roaring daily and it was so peaceful to feel the warmth and hear the crackling while watching the snowfall outside.  Justin and I built the biggest snowman I had ever seen and I slipped and fell while trying to shovel about 103.2 times.

The Countdown to Christmas has officially begun...GOBBLE GOBBLE!