blow me some glass...

Recently I headed on down to Seattle to meet up with some ladies at the Rainier Glass Blowing Studio. I had tried my hand at glass blowing before and ended up making a Christmas ornament but let me tell you, this place let's you choose from a ton of cool things to make.

friday photo...

I know I am bias but I think I have the cutest kid ever. While playing Halloween bingo at school Ethan decided to eat the candy corn markers. Definitely my kid. :)

let's all go to the lobby...

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Halloween. I know that our family did and Ethan got a TON of candy. I am sure he is thinking about how to put a lock on it to keep his parents away from it as I write this.

To continue the Halloween tradition we also did another group costume this year. Well, it turned into one when Ethan wanted to be red licorice which then turned into Red Vines since I had to make the costume from scratch.

I bring you 'let's all go to the lobby'...

a perfect pairing of wine and a camera...

During the summer a living social deal caught my eye and I made a leap and acted on it. It was a camera class that also included a wine tasting. What could be better than that??? So I signed up and finally had some free time so I headed down to Woodinville, camera in hand with no clue what I was in store for. It was a class lead by Cork and Click and it was a blast.

a dogs day...

When we woke up this morning it was raining and Bindi immediately became depressed since she knew that we would not be out for our normal weekend morning walk. Usually if she doesn't get her walk she mopes on her bed for the majority of the day and does these HUGE sighs telling you that you suck for being a wuss and not taking her out in it.

pumpkin patching it...

This past weekend was our annual pumpkin patch family outing. We have been going since Ethan was born and this year we were able to join some friends of ours for a meet up at Craven Farm in Snohomish. Let me tell you that this farm is a great place to take kids. They had a really cool 3-D display that you could walk through telling a fairy tale about how pumpkins were brought to the farm which Ethan went through twice. They also had pumpkin slingshots, hayrides, a petting zoo, and food. Even though it was a foggy day we ended up having a great time searching for our pumpkins.

More pictures below...

aloha and mahalo!

Jeff and I just returned from a week on the lovely island of Maui. We did a whole lot of nothing this trip and it is exactly what we needed. Our decisions consisted of going to the beach or going to the pool and we were fine by that. I was even able to finish a couple of books which rarely happens when on vacation.