Monday, July 14, 2008

Chelan week day 2

There is a gorgeous fountain park down by the ferry terminal with some submarine esque fountains. We headed down there to play in the water and entertain Miss Hailee. This is one of the BEST pics of mom and Hay
While we were there Dominic called his parents to let them know the boat was about to leave, they were going to catch it to head to chelan a little before us....they were the LAST car on and just barely made it. In fact, I think they held it for them! This is definitely the way to do it, no wasting time :) Can you see their car just about to head on??

Ok, I admit it, I'm my mother's child and there is NO fighting it.Hay was SO scared of the submarine things and refused to touch them...couldn't have that so I marched her right over and forced her to...she loved it from then on.
That big foot is Dominic and the little one is me...just incase you thought maybe the little one was Hailee
The ladies
Best view in the place! This little girl just adores her uncle, can you tell? After we finished up they dropped me at the Boatshed for lunch with some old friends. The FAB 4 have not been in the same place for at least 8 years and that will NOT be the case in the future. It was so lovely to catch up with everyone. I'm just so proud of us for becoming intelligent, gorgeous, and successful women...special note....there is a NEW member of the fab 4 in this picture......NO it is not me.When I finally got back home, thanks for the ride hunny, I was slightly intoxicated, hot as heck from sitting on the deck, and tired! We just hung out on the deck again. When is the last time you saw a full grown man in a house this small?? They're playing tea party I believe.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Day one of Chelan week 2008

First stop, Starbucks! Well the guys went golfing (no camera went along for the ride) the ladies made the treck a Seattlite makes regularly and got our coffee!




A perfect donut for a princess, pink and chocolate! of course she just ate the frostingAnd since we had the toddler and the weather is unseasonably warm we took our caffeine to the park and enjoyed some sliding, swinging and laughing!
We had a set lunch date with the Garguile clan and no place but Noah's Ark would do. The choices are so tough because everything is so darn yummy...With our tummies stuffed to the brim we arrived back at the Jensen residence and enjoyed the view from the deck and some 'pool time' before retiring back up to the deck for wine and chattingDon't forget your sunglasses Kiwi, it's sunny out there :)Hailee learning how to get 'kisses' from eclair. Please note my mother's facial expression in the background...hahahahaIt's not a party without some karaoke, ok my hubby doesn't even need a microphone to start singing but since Hailee had a pink one on hand, why not get the crowd involved??Tired after a long day of doing....well not much....we were off to bed

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

A clean wedding dress

My cleaned and preserved dress arrived back from wedclean.net last night (actually we had to go to UPS and get it at 830 since I wasn't home to sign for it). Since it was so late I didn't pull it out and check it over but I did examine the bodice which looks to be in perfect condition. The box is humongous but I'm hoping it will fit under the bed since it's dark and dry down there. I just have to say that EVERY time I see this dress I just love it more. It is exactly what I wanted! Just seeing it in the box reminded me of our wedding day and how wonderfully lucky I am to have such an amazing hubby! Here is the boxed up silk, beads, and veil




Saturday, July 5, 2008

Completion!

Just in case anyone way wondering...were they going to show us the back...here it is! There are some peaks back here that require the extention ladder as well as climbing on the roof for the chimney...but it's done now (thank god! If I never need to use that tall ladder again it'll be too soon!) The lovely Japanese maple in our back yard did make it quite complicated to determine ladder placement, and this was only worsened by the new dove family that decided to nest in said tree. I am determined to help these 2 birdies have babies this year since Kiwi caused a dropped egg last year, must be the midwife in me :)




Now the final reveal, first the original nasty hunter green that almost cost us this house (I refused to even look at it since it was so U-G-L-Y on the outside but eventually caved because of the internet pictures of the new kitchen)

BEFORE

After


What do you think?? GREAT improvement huh. Now we're trying to figure out what color to spray the screen door so there is more of a pop around the entry way but that will certainly wait until after Chelan.
But we did already buy this climbing plant to help add some color and flowers to the entry way. Hopefully it lives in the full sun out front.

I can't forget Dominic's sandwich that he made himself for lunch today, he was so proud :)

And he took this shot of Eclair soaking up the Central CA sun while I was slaving away on the HOT roof. Hope everyone had a great 4th! I didn't show fireworks because we didn't do any...we respected Arnolds wishes to help prevent fires in this tinderbox.

Friday, July 4, 2008

CVS deals

My wonderful $6 shopping trip at CVS and Walgreens
Our gorgeous first born....she's so darn beautiful