Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...

Just when we thought the weather couldn't get worse around here, look at Pullman yesterday!

Another weekend, another yacht party...

Today I went down to the waterfront to hop aboard a yacht for a fundraiser thrown by my cousin Ashley. Ashley has started an organization called The Indigenous Education Foundation of Tanzania http://www.ieftz.org/ to help build schools in Tanzania, a place where she traveled to & lived for a semester during her junior year of college. She went to Africa with her twin sister Haley, where they fell in love with the people in the village of Lashaine. At this time there was no clean water source, no electricity & no school for the children. Now, after starting this foundation there is a one classroom school with 41 students, and they built a 20,000-liter water tank and 3km long pipeline, which runs directly to the school. She is doing some very amazing work! It was very fun to see her on her brief return back to the US where she & Grosper, another co-founder of the organization, are here to do some fundraisers before heading back to Africa at the end of the month.

Shopping & The Roanoke

Today Jamie & I went up to Alderwood to shop & avoid the rainy day. We hit up Forever 21 & the accessories store "For Love 21", two of the best stops at the mall. At one point we were standing in line amongst at least 15-20 teens & tweens, and I asked Jamie "When do you think we'll be too old to shop here?" She contemplated for a moment and responded "32?" and then we were both kind of still thinking for a second and she said "Nah, we'll probably still shop here after that!" and I said "Definitely!" I then said "Maybe when we have daughters who are old enough to shop here?" and we both nodded in agreement. That'll give us a few more years... ;)

After our mall trip, we headed back to Seattle and went over to AJ's place to meet up with some friends who were watching Big Brown & having some drinks. We joined them for a little bit and then we all headed to Ivars for dinner and then to the Roanoke Tavern on Capital Hill for a few more beers...

A perfect night IN

Tonight Jamie came over & I took some photos of her cards for her to put on her online shop. She is so very talented, the cards are adorable! She also came with a bottle of wine & a dish of her yummy mac & cheese ready to pop in the oven. She was my dream visitor! After dinner & being a photog, Courtney came over & joined us and we watched a movie, had some wine and chatted. A perfect gloomy, June night to stay inside.

Here is a sneak peak at one of Jamie's amazing cards:

Is it January 6th or June 6th?

Ummm...what is up with this weather??? It has seriously rained for about 4 days straight, why am I wearing a winter coat today?

Happy Birthday Richie!

Hope you have a fabulous b-day Dad!!!

One woman's trash is another woman's treasure

On Sunday Jamie hosted our 1st annual Girlie Swap, and it was quite fabulous!!! Everyone brought old clothing, shoes, housewares or anything else they wanted to swap, in hopes of coming home with something "new". Everyone left very happy, with all sorts of new stuff. I can't wait for next year! Below is a photo of the swap, as well as a photo of Courtney, who we thought like looked Avril Lavigne in her new sweatshirt (and tie). Unfortunately the tie was taken to GW, although we all wanted her to keep it ;)