a few instagrams

Anders and I actually woke up early on Sunday morning only to discover we were out of coffee, which pretty much meant we HAD to leave the house even though it was only a quarter till 8. Somehow going to get coffee at our neighborhood coffee shop lead to packing up the pup and heading to Richmond Beach. It turned out to be great, though. We had the whole beach to ourselves and got an early jump on the day. Who would have thought not having coffee would work out so perfectly. Here are a few instagrams from the morning!

home opener

We spent Friday night at the Mariners home opener, and even though they lost and even though the lines to get food were the longest we had ever seen, it felt SO good to be watching baseball, outside, in semi-warm weather. Summer is coming, people!

photobooths!

I have a rather large passion for old-fashion photobooths. I get pure giddy when I come across one, and I'm lucky enough to have a husband who will play along with me. He and I have been collecting photobooth strips every since we got together...our first one being at the Oregon Country Fair. So you can imagine my excitement when we ran into one at Montana (a bar in the Capitol Hill neighborhood)! They just happen to have cowboy hats outside of the machine, so we popped those on for the picture. The only thing cooler than a photobooth is a photobooth with a theme!

If you want to track down your own photobooth, I use the locator on this website. It's not very well maintained, so it's not always accurate, but it's a good starting point. 

Here are some of my favorites!

this is not a fashion blog

I keep a fashion board on Pinterest, and I use it to save pictures of outfits that I like. However, I have to say that I do run into a lot of problems with the board. Usually when I pin an outfit one of three things happens...

1. The outfit is out of my price range. 2. The piece of clothing in question is no longer available or in my size or 3. The picture is simply of a pretty girl in a pretty outfit with no information about what she is wearing! 

Earlier in the year, I had pinned this dress that I absolutely loved and, sure enough, there was no buying information that went along with it.

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Every time I opened Pinterest, I had to look at this dress I couldn't have. So, I decided there was only one thing to do. MAKE IT!

I looked and looked for black and white fabric similar to the dress and had no luck, so I had to settle for this textured black stripe, but overall I'm pretty happy with the end result.

Here's a side by side!

Hmmm...maybe the side by side was a bad idea. Why is this girl so tan!

spring mittens

Hey there! I finally finished my mittens from this post. Better late than never, right? 

one picture

Remember our trip to Mexico? 

Our friend, Kevin, just sent me this picture he took of us in the airport on our way home. 

I think this means we had a good time and also sums up our year thus far :)

Also, I think it's funny that there is an armrest somewhere under me.

our weekend

 One house. Ten adults. Eight kids. A 40th birthday. A pinata and a helium shark.