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!

Go Here. Do This.

True, it is a fantastic waste of time. But fantastic nonetheless.
Go here. Now.


That's correct. You, too, can have Mena Suvari hairs or any celebrity hair style if you have a picture to upload and approximately 76 hours to waste trying on all 336 female celebrity hair options available.

LA Vacay

Thanks to my cousin, Mark, and his new wife, Laurie, who were getting married in Louisiana in May, we got our first family vacation. Just 24 hours after moving into our new place in Seattle, we boarded a plane to the hottest place in North America: Lafayette, Louisiana. We arrived in the still of the night, rested, and then we got directly into the hotel pool. Aside from going to the wedding and being at the following pictures' locations, we stayed in the pool or laying down. Best. Vacation. Ever.
Eating fried food at The Bon Creole
Eating fried food at The Pelican... I tried the frog legs. Hey, I never said I didn't eat amphibian.
Blunt. But why? Maybe a patron or two got tipsy and fell into the croc infested water? I'll bet that's it. So, no, I won't sit.
The two July 24th birthday kids! Great grandma Shirley and baby Alden.
Sugar cane fields
Paying via a paddle fitted with a close pin to tack down money and receipt. Even the natives don't like sticking their arms out in the heat.
Tabasco barrel covered with salt from Avery Island. That barrel is better preserved than I am!

Lady Killaz (their rap name)
This church was beautiful and the ceremony was epic. Fairly short for a Catholic wedding which Alden appreciated. :)