You might recall that I'm a very lucky lamb and have a fabulous BFF called Tadpole. Tadpole is more than a BFF truth be told, he's like a family member and I love him dearly.
His fur baby Ashley is really unwell and is headed for surgery today. If you have some spare prayers and love could you send it Ashley and Tadpoles way? Thanks friends!!
This was Everett Homecoming weekend. Luckily for us we were all organized so it was a pretty easy day for the young pup. So easy in fact that Mr Big and I decided to start the day with an antique show at Rust and Ruffles. This is basically a old junk and craft festopia, and we love love love this kind of thing. Mostly it's an idea gathering mission. When you are in the company of so much creativity it kind of rubs off on you... As you might expect my mind is overflowing with ideas for projays. I loved that there where tonnes of inspirational quotes around as you travelled the booths
The only bummer is that most of the vendors only took cash, so I couldnt buy this awesome little collection of initials that would have been perfect at Castle Allen
After a few hours of junking it was time to get into homecoming mode. Lil Gary was in full chill out mode when we got home do I grabbed him to pick up a few groceries. I thought it was hysterical while we were there we had the following convo:
Elliott: (picks up ham steak) when I get married this is going in my wedding gift registry
Me: OMG - it looks like a mouth
Hilarity ensued...
Next was trying to get said boy outdoors for some pictures. The light was really poor ( it is late October after all ) but I think we got a couple of good ones. I can't believe this was his last homecoming dance. July is coming way too soon. He looked do handsome ... I think you can see where he gets those good looks from ...
Elliott went with his gal-pal Mairin. They made a fine looking pair!
And I was thrilled to have them plus Elliott's BFF and his date at the Castle for photos
Next day we set out for a day in the country. We got to visit two pumpkin patches and invented a fabulous coffee concoction - a hot buttered rum mocha latte. Try it, you'll thank me later
I really need a few days of this
I loved this window
Our haul - corn stalks, three pumpkins and some babykins. Can't wait to put them up at home!
And so.. Halloween is soon to befall us. Being from the antipodes I never celebrated Halloween. Now I'm here in the states I do as the Yankees do and immerse myself in culture. Still though I'm not a fan of the gruesome or scary... Even though the fam LOVE IT.. This is more my style:
But this is more the style of my fam
You gotta love em!
Have you ever seen those ladies with huge handbags in the fashion
Magazines ? They usually look like lollipops dwarfed by their arm candy but it's a fashion statement I guess. As you know, I myself have a certain penchant for a larger bag, but I think that's in the hopes that someone will mistake me for a lollipop rather than a beluga whale.... Anyhoo can you imagine my excitement when unnamed friend was seen like this
What you see seeing here friends is no CGI (computer generated image) its real. Unnamed friend has not one giant sized bag, not two... Neigh. It's four giant bags. Wow. Impressive.
This past week we visited Chunkanut Drive. I'm not sure if you've taken this stretch of 21 miles but I highly recommend it if you love nature. It's breathtaking. You weave through the old highway with views of Puget sound one side and huge boulders and trees on the other. If you start in Skagit Valley like we did you end up in Fairhaven which is a. The delightfully named hamlet b. Home of dos padres - best melon margarita in the world, and home of the most lip smakingly scrumptilicious homemade habanero jelly. It's also where we decided to wash the car.
All that nature on Chucks drive got me in a silly mood and while the car wash paused, changing cycles I decided it would be a great time to wind the window down and touch the washer twirlers, ya know those big yellow things? Well in the midst of my personal adventure the cycle changed and as I rolled up the window one of the tentacles from the twirlers caught in the window and amputated itself. Most people would have simply opened the window to released the tentacle to the wind... But not me.
Said item was the EXACT yellow of a Lance Armstrong live strong bracelet ... And I wanted to take a little gifty poo to my BFF Tadpole who, coincidentally we were meeting for wine soooo I retrieved it, tied a knot with love and gifted it to my bestie.
A few days later I revealed that origins of the bracelet to Tadpole, suffice to say I think he is not sporting a yellow carwash tentacle any longer BUT... Now I see that he would wear a friendship bracelet to display our mutual amor for one another. So sometime soon I will be crafting one for him. Stand by for photos.
Happy day one and all
While stalking someone else's blog I was struck with a realization that apart from a childhood short stay in a Rotorua Motel with ill fated bunk beds and a leaky roof... I, have never had a summer vacay.
This seems wrong. Am I the only one that dosent have summer vacays?
Maybe the reason is because I'm always working towards a vacation in NZ to visit with family? Or maybe it's just really poor planning in general on my part. I think me needs to pow wow with Mr Big to plan a getaway of some sort, course a summer vacay literally is not possible for me - we have our lovely kids for the majority of summer - but how bout a fall or winter getaway? Maybe Whistler or Bampf? Ah sweet dreams....
