1-2-3 Catch Up

The next few posts will be old news to most of you. But due to being busy and having very limited access to a computer, we have to play catch up now.
For starters, here is a picture of our home in Seattle.

We've been living inhere for 3 months now and really enjoying the neighborhood. It is super quaint and remote but just minutes for the city. I think they put something in the water so that only younger families live here.

Missing a Few of My Favorite Things

I miss many things lately.
I miss my family.
I miss my friends.
I miss Grants Pass.
I miss our home.
I miss a working computer.

On the up side? Alden is turning ONE YEAR OLD on Saturday July 24, 2010. We are beside ourselves with excitement and wonder. More on that later...

Whirley Ball + Clown Outfits = Another Job Obligation

The people in this video are part of the studio that Dustin now manages.
I'm not sure which I feel more sorry for, really.
Whirley Ball is made up of two teams with five players on each. Similar to bumpers cars, you are able to crash into others relatively harmlessly. Dissimilar to bumper cars, there is a whiffle ball being sought after and passed via plastic scoops. Getting the ball to the basket-y goal more than the others makes you a winner. Getting it there in a clown outfit makes you crazy cool.

You Pick. I Pick. We ALL Pick Berries!

We weekended in Portland with the Anuschat Family and got quite domestimicated for Father's Day. We spent some quality time on a trailer ride out to the strawberry fields where we picked 'til we popped. Then we prepped for the next day's festivities of canning our first batch of jam. Megan and I pulled it together and made some really beautiful jars of jam while the boys worked on the back yard chicken coop. Then we all sat down and wrote some folk songs while whittling a loom.

Another Victim of Spaghetti Pie

Wha? We're having WHAT for dinner tonight? Did you say Spaghetti Pie?
Don't get an ego, ma, it wasn't all that.

Alden's New Digs

Jungle Garden Tour

So after the wedding and after all of the extended family moved on to New Orleans, Dustin, Alden, and I were in New Iberia, LA for a day by ourselves. We went back to Avery Island where the Tabasco sauce is grown and produced. It was so fun the first time that we seriously thought about doing the tour again but decided to enjoy the Jungle Garden as it promised alligators and a Budda statue.
These trees are so peaceful and soothing. The limbs extend down to the ground and seemingly rest on it.
GATORS!
Joke Alert! What do you call a baby alligator? A GATOR TOT!!!! hahahhahahahahahha shut up.

I believe I asked for the large propeller boat. Sheesh.
Spanish moss... you know, like you can buy in the bags at Michael's?
The view that this Budda statue has had for over 70 years. I'd be blissed out, too!


Hot doesn't even begin to describe this day but it was worth it to get out of the car during the tour to see all of this!