Gettin' Hitched

It is hard to believe that all these many months have fizzled away and our wedding day is in three very short days! We are already feeling the love as many friends and family members are arriving. I've been documenting what I've been working on for the wedding and will make a giant update after the dust settles. In the meantime, I hope we can take it all in...

What a Whirlwind as Told in Reverse!

R had his jazz night school show and the ensemble gave a great performance...

Joe and Ryan back up the live karaoke at Joe and Emma's Goin' Away to Austin party.
Todo: Africa was a real hit!

His and her raspberry picking. We had to hunt, but we got enough for a few big jars of raspberry jam...

Below is evidence of the wedding invitation factory we had going for a few days. Ryan on vine stamp detail, me on addresses and blossom branch stamping. Whew!

The sour cherries in the backyard are ripe for the picking. They were like colorful little gems!

Wedding cake tasting at the Forbes. Dining outside with these locally (up the street) made candle-baby candle votives. Summer is here!

Made this summer skirt while making my way through the Gilmore Girls catalog. Great company when working on projects...

Surf trip to Neah Bay with Kris and Christine. Here is the furthest-most tip of the continental US.

Look at all these lounging Rez Dogs. They just become your companions for as long as you stay.

Grilled over the campfire salmon, couscous, and wilted kale and greens. Fine camping fare!

Kris keeping the fire and his surfing attitude stoked...

Carmel-Walnut Upside Down Banana Cake. Enough said.

Finally finished my map of the world puzzle. Geography and Puzzles, together at last...

Lady S. and Sir T. celebrate one year of love, life, and parenthood. It was a lovely show! Favorite part beyond celebrating these two amazing people had to be the PRETZEL SAUSAGE BUNS! What!? Nice find Sooze!

Fun adventure at Pike's Market getting our favorite little doughnuts from our favorite punk rock employees...

Ry's younger brother's business competition team kept cleaning up at all the different events. Finally we have a giant check in the family!

Reach the Beach was great this year. We only rode 30 miles...fine by me. The weather was great and we had lovely time hanging out with Uncle T. and the Portland crew at the finish.

Jeanne and Kyle's 'The Usual'...and a mighty delicious brunch at that.

Spring Break and Weather Gone Wild

Spring has been a moody one. Wind, rain, sun, snow/hail, big puffy white clouds, darkness, sun. The season can't make up its mind. Spring break came and went in a flash with a quick week at home and then the other week in Boston for our conference presentation. We got to spend some time with family, make some homemade pizza dough, play outside with the annual cherry blossoms and refresh some of the dusty corners of the house.

In the crafting department: New pillows! Such an easy way to add some change. I love this material and I'm half tempted to make outfits that match the throw pillows...I've resisted the urge so far...

Ry's baby brother just keeps getting older...and more robotic apparently.

Hyacinths how I love thee...

Music building magnolia...

Old favorites...
One of the best parts of a wedding...sampling foods and desserts. Below Trophy Cupcake's variety of samples. What is amazing is this is for one person. Gulp....yes we did! Favorites include the lemon, vanilla-vanilla and snickerdoodle tie, red velvet, and our ultimate favorite: triple coconut.

Ry's unemployment has yielded many delicious kitchen adventures. We are now starting to prefer our homemade pizza to some we have in restaurants. A sure sign of success.
Here is Pizza Margherita Senza Basilico:


We also checked out this in 3D...for $14.50 a person! Wowza.

I still think the Cheshire Cat is my favorite in any version of this story.

I'm still on a Julia Child kick in the reading department. I finished this:
And now I'm making my way through this...

Ry and I have been on a steady dinner diet of a variety of cheeses (local small farm goat cheese and camembert), crostini crackers, fig jam, olives, almonds, and wine. We can't stop having it for dinner. It is our homemade happy hour. Nothing else sounds quite as good.

We also polished off Season 3 of Madmen.


Ah yes, the good life.