Crab, Crab and more Crab...

I had to share this picture with you! On the last day of our trip, we were able to crab and caught 12! So, needless to say, we had our neighbors over and ate crab for 4 days. I was also able to freeze some meat. Here is our crab cakes that I made (for the 1st time) and also some lovely Yukon Gold potatoes from our garden. Yummy!!!

Circa 1980

My Beautiful blue eyed girl wearing my t-shirt from when I was one. How cute huh? My Mom kept ALL of my baby clothes for me. I went through them and kept a few things and this one of them. How funny huh?

San Juans 2009

Every year my loving and wonderful parents share their beautiful boat with Jason and I and allow us to take it to the San Juan Islands for a fantastic trip. We look forward to it all year. This was our first time taking it with 2 children, and although it was a little less relaxing and a little more stressful, we had a wonderful time. We are so lucky to spend a little time in the beautiful islands in our own backyard! There is a never ending amount of beauty up there that even left Reese staring out the windows for more.
The boat is mored in Olympia, so on Friday we left and just headed to the Tacoma waterfront. They put out a log boom and put on a great air show, street fair and have fabulous fireworks. Since the weather was so great, is was the perfect way to spend the 4th. We were able to anchor right in front of The Ram, and dinghy into shore to go the street fair. We made Reese's day when we found some pony rides and then finished with letting her stay up for the firworks! 11:00 is even late for me these days, she was tuckered:)
Anyways...here are some of the pictures! Enjoy, it is good to be home!!!

Bon Voyage

This is where Jason, the girls and I will be calling home for the next two weeks! We leave tomorrow for our annual San Juans boat trip. I am exhausted from all the prep work, but it will so worth it as of tomorrow around noon when we get to take off.
So, I hope you all have a wonderful and safe 4th, and we will see you in a couple of weeks:)

What an excellent day Saturday turned out to be! Sunshine and upper 70's. We couldn't have asked for a nicer day for Payton's 1st birthday party! We love all of our family and friends that were able to join us and help us celebrate a special day in our little girl's life. We love you all!!!
Here are a few pictures from our day. Enjoy...

It is hard to imagine that this was Reese and I playing in the baby's room the last night that I was pregnant over a year ago now! We were all 3 soooo anxious to meet little Payton. How could I have known what an amazing little girl I had growing inside me. She is our sunshine and I think that all 3 of us are so lucky to have little Payter with us. She has made Reese into an amazing big sister, and us closer as a family! You are a blessing Payton, we all love you!!!

Random, and more Random

I haven't posted about much lately, so here is a couple of weeks in review...
WARNING-A compilation of a lot of random stuff!



One of my best friends, Jodi (most of you know her:)) had a baby girl a couple of months ago, so I made her this little outfit! The headband I kind of made up from an idea I was given, but the skirt pattern I got here, which I got from this blog (thanks Echo!) And I got the shoes pattern here. The whole thing turned out so cute, I made one for Payton and Reese too! Maybe if Jodi comes out to see us anytime soon, we can get a picture of all three of them together...Just an idea Jod...


This is how I found Payton the other day...quite as a mouse:) I didn't know where she was, but low and behold, she was doing laundry! Sweet little punkin.


Last week I got to excape for an evening and go out to celebrate my good friend Becky's (she is the one in the middle) 30th Birthday! Jason finally went to bed because he didn't know where I was. We sat in the same booth for over 4 hours just chatting eachother up. All of us had escaped from our kiddos for an evening and I don't think any of us were in a hurry to get out of there! Happy Birthday Becky!!!


Talk about eating the fruits of your labor (or veggies:) This was a wonderful salad that I made myself the other night. Everything but the gargonzola is from our garden! I even made a balsamic dressing and topped it with hard boiled eggs from Scarlette and Penelope:) UMMM YUMMY...


Here is the last of my random pics! I had to include this one. How do you know that your dogs are out of water??? They try to drink from the pool:) Poor Bella, luckily I figured it out and gave the poor thing something to drink!

Happy Father's Day Everyone...I will be back this week for Payton's 1st Birthday!