oh my goodness, oh my goodness!

Jason pulled off a BIG birthday surprise for me with the help of brooke & the rest of the family. I'll tell the whole story soon!

paperweight

nearly four years after receiving it, this graduation gift has finally found its way to my desk. and nearly every day i have a moment where i think, "holy cow, this thing is useful!"

inauguration day art

our first christmas tree

...that's taller than 2 feet. yay for our True Value store for having a great tree selection AND stands still available only 11 days before christmas.

Looking out over the city

i liked this part of the speech

our little old man

yesterday was peet-i-versary. he's been our pup for 3 years (which makes him about 4 years old). this is the best picture i have of peet with his happy-dog-park face on. he smiles at the dog park, or at the end of long walks. it's the greatest thing to see our little old man smile!

Chang Thai

This is our favorite Thai restaurant from our old neighborhood. We ate there or ordered delivery quite a lot. Often enough that at one point the delivery guy said, "it's been awhile!" when we hadn't ordered in awhile. We moved to our new neighborhood about five months ago, and haven't been back since. It's a 20-some minute drive in good/no traffic.

Last night we had an errand to run in North Seattle, so we decided to have dinner at our old spot. We got there and found it closed. Permanently.

Farewell, Chang Thai. We'll miss you.

Give them back to me, or I'll...

Happened to catch a few minutes of this on TV last night.

(Also: I'm leaving on vacation today, and may or may not be posting while away. If not, I'll be back by the middle of next week.)

Parallels

2 years, and still celebrating with carrot cake and green kermit mums. Happy Anniversary, Jason!

Graduation Weekend

Waiting for The Underground Tour:
Enjoying sunshine (and strawberry lemonade) at the West Seattle Farmer's Market:

Graduation, of course:

A celebratory margarita:

And, as always, my two favorite people in the world being goofy:

Kansas Marching Band (thanks, Dad!)

Dad just sent me this picture from my freshman year of college. I'm right in the middle of the front row - between the guy with glasses and the girl whose pants are too short!

Thanks for the picture, dad! Can you believe it's been 7 years?

For Grandma Benson on her birthday

I happened to see these growing on campus while walking to my bus this afternoon.

Three years ago today

Three years ago today: my graduation from KU, and the day Jason asked me to marry him (though I didn't know it yet at the time of this picture).

Happy engagement-versary, Jas!

golden birthday roundup

First there were cupcakes: (thanks, Christina!)
and then there was knitting:
then there was strawberry shortcake (and a party!):
...and even more cupcakes (these ones were chai latte cupcakes - thanks, heather!).
overall: an awesome 25th birthday! my friends totally rock. and note to self: take more pictures next year.

Sisters

If only we could be together to celebrate! Maybe next year...

Jason rocks!

He got me a Wii for my birthday! Holy cow!

still a favorite wedding shower gift

vintage thermal teapot from aunt cec

Happy birthday to Jason!

(birthday was actually Wednesday, but I had temporarily misplaced the camera cord). Happy belated birthday, Jason!

Valentine's flowers

Thanks, Jason!