date at the diner

Ben & I went out with the Heavilands on Sunday night for a double date for the dine around Seattle deal. Basically, many fancy restaurants around town offer a special 3 course meal for a discounted price (still expensive, but not as much as it is normally).

We picked Steelhead Diner this time and it was DELICIOUS!! Everything we had from the salmon brandade for the appetizer to the braised short ribs to the chocolate pecan pie was mm mm tasty.

Pioneer Woman: FAIL

I was so excited when I found out that pioneer woman was coming to Seattle.. Lake Forest Park for that matter! I ordered my cookbook and was all set to go. I had been to the bookstore for a signing before so I felt confident as I waltzed in and knew exactly where the line started for the signing. I saw women EVERYWHERE.. yet only 2 girls were in line. I thought to myself "does everyone not know to line up?" I called my sister excitedly talking loudly "I'm 3rd in line! I can't believe it!" As I was talking, I noticed a ticket stub sticking out of one of the other girls' book. I got off the phone and asked if I needed a ticket.. they probably felt so bad for me, knowing how many people were in front of me.

I casually stepped out of line and headed up to the counter for a ticket. I was handed a ticket with an H on it. The person said "there are 50 people to a group so.... you have a while." I walked away trying to calculate how many ppl ahead of me that meant... 350? is that right??? I quickly called my sister back and broke the bad news.. we'd be here for a while.

We tried to remain positive and waited around for a while.. it took over an hour for the first group to go and we started to get discouraged. We might have even timed how long it took one person to get through the line and discovered if our calculations were correct, we'd be there for over 4 hours. We bombed. YES, we bombed!! I walked away from the opportunity to meet the woman that makes pictures of butter and onion look like a masterpiece.

tear.. i'm just going to have to dry my tears while eating a whole pan of her cinnamon rolls.

Cama beach

What a FUN weekend! Our community group went to Camano island this past weekend and stayed at a Washington state park called Cama Beach. It is an old fishing resort built in the 30's that was recently renovated into fun little cabins!

We had gorgeous weather!


On Saturday we all went for a beautiful walk to Camano Island State Park


There was lots of fun things to do around the park... like horse shoes!


and boat building for little kids.. oh wait.. there are no little kids pictured here :)


We got to see some beautiful sunsets

and share in the joy of incredible community.

Tulip adventures

We love the tulips so much that we went up north two weekends in a row. First with our community group and next with my mom and the Heavilands.

We've been every year since we moved up and I can't get enough!

a milestone for the wagon!

The ol' wagon hit a new milestone this weekend! We were dating and living in Flagstaff when we hit 200,000 and now we're living in our new house when it hit 250,000.. wonder where we'll be when it hits 300,000.

baby shower extravanganza

It is the season for baby showers! This is definitely a busy time for babies being born. We have four women in our bible study pregnant and due before July.

We celebrated Stephanie at our last women's group on Wednesday. She's due soon- in 3 weeks!

I got in a little snuggle time with Adelle's little guy- Owen.



Adelle busted out her new machine to whip us up some tasty drinks


the woman of the hour!



All the ladies

Happy Easter!

My mom was in town for Easter weekend! We had lots of fun on Easter even though it was drizzly and chilly! We went to an awesome service in the morning, had a tasty brunch where I made this recipe, did a little Easter egg hunt for James and relaxed in the afternoon.