i know were not catholic....

but meet my godson. i am a godma! and i am in love.

to the zoo we go

oh, how i love the baby michael and little molly!

happy 4th

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of [property].

team peeta

when does mockingjay come out?

rollin' in a hummer

some lady crashed into me at a stop light last week. when i dropped my car off to get fixed yesterday, they brought me Hyundai for my rental. um no. when the guy handed me the keys i said "so do you have anything else....like that hummer h3 over there i could have"? it worked. here's my ride this week.

summer hates seattle

it has been cold, cloudy and rainy for all of may and june. we've had one day of sun. its terrible. last year we had a beautiful may and june. i think we had been out wakeboarding about 15 times by the end of june. this year - once. you know its bad when in the evenings i put on my wakeboard and pretend to wakeboard in my living room. this seattle weather is cramping my style. jake captured my "patheticness" with his camera phone.

i fail at ace

we've been busily working on our house, which means jake sends me too our local ace hardware to get whatever he needs to complete, whatever i want him to complete. we learned that i stink at this. i end up going back about three times before getting the right item. the ace workers totally know be by name and laugh every time i come in. now i just hand my phone to the worker so they can talk to jake directly. yes i am totally that woman. oh well. hopefully i'll get better at this whole home improvement thing.

here we are in front of our new home. we got big plans for the exterior which include new front door color, pots with flowers and one day a fresh new house color (we're thinking dark greyish).

jake's parents came to visit us for the weekend and to see the house. we took them to dinner at our neighborhood golf and country club that jake and i joined a few weeks ago. the golf course runs through the neighborhood and the country club is beautiful.

i bought fabric at ikea and to make these pillows after seeing them on little green notebook's blog. jake's sweet mom taught me how to sew them. she was a great teacher. i was successful and they came out great. i love them.

i know this is blurry. i only posted it as you can kinda see my braces. they're bad. i am sad for myself.

saturday was spent morning shopping in seattle looking for some mid-century, 1960's end tables and credenza. jake's parents were good sports. we rewarded them with tickets to cirque du soleil in the afternoon. jake and i have never seen it and totally enjoyed the amazing acts. it was fantastic.

this photo is for brooke. still waiting for a couple more paintings/prints to come.