Say Cheeeeeese!

I realize I mentioned several times that I would follow up a couple of my posts with pictures. Well, I lost my camera USB cord and just found it last night, so here’s a recap of some of my summer so far, in pictures.

Todd with his parents- riding the Seattle Streetcar

Todd with my parents— our wooden boat ride on Lake Union

Me- sailing the ship. (this is the only picture where I'm not eating my hair.)

Aye Aye, captain!

A view of my apartment from Lake Union (or near proximity of my place)

my pieced-together panoramic view of GasWorks Park

My awesome birthday present from Todd, a Mac Mini. I named him Cooper. And pretty birthday flowers from my NY friend Kaddie.

Kayaking fun!


Followed by some yummy mexican food at Agua Verde cafe

Agua Verde Paddle Club


Oddly, in all these photos it is cloudy. I think it's because they're from June, which was an oddly cool/cloudy month. Apparently I don't carry my camera on sunny days....oh, and I guess it didn't help that I had no more storage space left on my memory stick.

Additionally....I ran 3 miles Monday and 3.5 miles this morning with no foot problems.
We're heading back to Kansas early tomorrow morning for several bridal showers and final wedding vendor meetings. Should be lots of fun, though I'm kinda dreading the heat!

Two months

We have passed the two month countdown to the wedding. It’s starting to get real. And very busy.

Thankfully, the invitations are out of my hands now, and I’m excited to say that I’ve already finished one project for someone after they saw the invitations I made. A PAID project, I should add. I like to think of this as a small stepping stone on my path to someday having my own design business.

I hate it when I go too long without blogging. There’s too much to try and have a full recap and nothing seems as special as it was when it recently happened. So, I’ll just pick up with this past weekend and move forward from here.

Having my longest running hiatus since my stress fracture, I was beginning to think I was slowly morphing my way into being one of those people who don’t run. It was a frightening thought. But I didn’t want to further injure myself, so I waited. And waited. I learned to love the boxing and strength training classes at my gym, but still felt guilty being inside when the summer in Seattle is so perfect.

Saturday, after 5 weeks of waiting, I ran. I ended up going about 2.5 miles and my foot did not hurt. Congratulations, self.

Saturday was also the annual Microsoft Company picnic, so Todd and I caught a bus to the campus and hopped on a charter bus to the picnic site at the base of Mount Si. This is no picnic site like you’d find in a park. This is acres upon acres of free games and food and entertainment. It turned out to be a great day and while we had fun, it’s probably our last company picnic for several years.

Sunday was fun day. After church we took a drive in the convertible to my favorite cherry stand by Snoqualmie. $1 per basket! Yummy yummy cherries. $7 later I was a happy girl.

But by far, the best part of the day was the slip-n-slide soiree hosted by our friends Ryan and Aubrey. There were about 15 of us frolicking around enjoying the sunny day. But this was no ordinary slide, this was a surf-n-slide, with a small surfboard you were ‘supposed’ to slide on. While that didn’t fare too well for most of us, we found other ways to entertain ourselves and finished the day with some tasty bbq. Oh, to be young and carefree again……