Hello, Canadia!

Wedding!

Preparing for Amanda's wedding is so fun for everyone: there are already emails flying around among the girls about what dresses to wear, shoes for the garden, and how excited we are for Amanda and Christian's future. I found this pretty, handmade bracelet in Olympia last weekend.... So fun!
Xoxo

Dinner!

I recently got a vitamix and have enjoyed making fruit and veggie smoothies and an almond-milk milk shake. Tonight I decided to try my hand at soup... It blend fast enough to cook the veggies! Definitely some tweaking before it is ready for company, but it isn't half bad!

Sunshine, here i come!

Horray!!!! I just got a job in Prescott, AZ!!! I'll miss my family, but I'm excited to move out of an un- fun job situation!

Xoxo

boys and golf

Potlach Manor

Lia and Ben invited us out to Hood Canal this weekend to enjoy some relaxation with friends and family.  Despite threats of thunderstorms all day, we were able to get outside and play between the raindrops.  We even got to see a whale!  It was a great way to spend a day

Our well-earned rainbow

Rocks in the water=entertainment for hours

My feet on an oyster-carpet

 I really liked wearing the waders, which sounds weird, I know.  But the feeling of being in the cold water while being neither cold nor wet was pretty neat!

The effect is lost in this a bit, but this is actually a 360* photo from the camera on my phone.  So neat!

In other news, my contract here has been ended early and I will be moving somewhere new at the beginning of May.  I'm conflicted: I miss the sun and the warmth, but I have enjoyed living near my family more than I ever expected.  I'm just praying for the right thing to come along!

xoxo

shh....

...my family is sleeping....

xoxo

Smitten

xoxo

Apartment and sunshine!

Sooo.....this was a really fantastic weekend!  It was sunny and warm and I got to spend time with all of the people that I love!  Easter with my kiddos made me so joyful and thankful to have stayed, but the sunshine and warm weather hinted that I might not be able to stay here (too few days of sun for me).  Still, like my patient said, this is the most beautiful place on earth 6 days out of the year.  I got a little sunburn on my nose hanging out on Ben and Lia's back porch looking at the snow-covered mountains.  So incredible.

"I built your bed!"

The view out my little back porch

My new neighbors

I'd like to note the *sunshine* out my windows!!!!

I really love spring flowers!

We had brunch with the mountains.  Pretty awesome!

xoxo