Staying in Touch

Turkey

A few pics from our trip to Turkey last month.  We absolutely loved our trip...it was really hard to voluntarily get on the plane to come home.

  

 

We live in a beautiful city.

Babies on A Wall

Top of the Leader Board

After almost a year without golfing I am now atop the leader board for week 14 at the Green Lake Golf Course with a stunning par round of 27.  No matter that none of the holes are longer than 115 yards.  I need to swing by and actually take a picture of the leader board...I may just win a round of free golf (valued at $7). Awe yeah, I still have it. 

On a somewhat related note, we saw the smallest golf bag I've ever seen.  Cutest little golf clubs and golfer boy to go with it.  To understand the size, the club leaning against it is a regular size pitching wedge.

Skates

Look!  It's Kevin Nealon.  With gray hair and on roller skates!  Damn, he's good!

Mountains

Memorial Day Weekend.  We've always been leery of leaving town on this "start of summer" weekend...will there be any camping spots?  What will traffic be like coming home?  Despite these deterrents, Aaron and I packed up the car and ventured into the North Cascades.  And I must say that it's exactly what my soul needed.  We found a perfect campsite. Spent some time in the mountains. And the drive home was worth the weekend outside.

 

 

5 months later

Wow.  It's been 5 months with no post whatsoever. My bad.  I feel like life has been a bit crazy for me...lots of change, all positive, but it has definitely overwhelmed me a bit and logging on to blog about all that change seemed like a chore.  Two of the main highlights of the last 5 months...

• Got promoted at work, did two jobs for 2 1/2 months while I replaced myself...some days I wonder why I wanted to get promoted, but some I don't.  I'm sure now that I can focus on 1 job, that will skew more towards the don't.
• Got engaged (so happy!) at the beginning of April and finally picked out a setting two weekends ago...t minus 4 weeks until it arrives!

So...I'm back on...I think I have the mind space to do this again...

Here's a few pics of the engagement day...beautiful sunshine, and a perfect moment.

Night and Gray

No pictures in this one...because they would be gray and ugly.  For only the second time in the six years Aaron and I have lived in Seattle, I feel like I'm experiencing a bit of seasonal affective disorder.  The first time was a couple of years ago when we broke the record for the number of consecutive days of rain...which I think ended up somewhere in the 30 day range.  Ugh.

So...this is to vent a bit...it's been gray every day for as long as I can remember and it's annoying me...there are only two times of day: night and gray...you can't tell the difference between 9:00 AM and 2:00 in the afternoon because you can't see the sun...it pretty much sucks and I really, really, really hope the forecast is right and the sun is able to break through for even 10 minutes. I'm not optimistic because they were already wrong about today...not mostly sunny so much...I for one didn't see the sun AT ALL...and believe me, I'm looking pretty hard for it.

 Today      Wed     Thurs       Fri          Sat
       
Mostly    Partly     Partly      Partly     Partly
Sunny    Sunny     Sunny      Sunny    Sunny

First Day Skiing

 

 

 

Snowy in Seattle

It seems as though the entire country is experiencing crazy winter weather...and Seattle is no exception.  This past Thursday, a snow storm hit Seattle.  I ventured into work but was ultimately sent home at 1:30 PM since REI was closing due to concerns about employees getting home safely.  My commute home took approximately an hour and 20 minutes (normally 35 min).  I didn't go into work on Friday...too icy and I don't trust Seattle drivers. :-) 

It started snowing again on Saturday afternoon and by 9 o'clock last night we had about 5 inches of snow.  Aaron and I geared up and decided to go for a walk.  It's amazing how quiet the city is with snow - and for the most part, people were on foot with sleds, skis or snowboards in tow (so funny to see people toting skis around in the middle of the city).  We went to Gas Works park - normally a lush green this time of year, it was completely covered in snow and sledders.  Some skiers had built a jump and were doing tricks, everyone else had anything from cardboard, to a metal pan to actual sleds to take advantage of the snow.

Everyone was happy and waving hello to each...children were having a blast and adults were acting like children.

A few pics of our evening walk...