daily snippets

thanks to my sister in law kim's idea to do a daily blog entry for a year i was inspired to at least try the same thing for a week. mid-week i rediscovered the hipstamatic camera app on my phone and then i really got hooked on snapping lots of pics of otherwise boring daily life because now my life looks artsy and well, infinitely cooler.

oh and i wasn't inspired until monday night so my apologies to sunday and monday, you were both good days but you won't be pictured here. well sunday maybe less so because i was teary-eyed at leaving my family and a wonderful week at the cabin in arizona behind but monday was much better because cupcakes and shopping were involved. you see my mom met me at the airport and flew back to seattle with e and me so we spent the first half of the week eating up seattle (no, literally. i think i gained five pounds). on to tuesday.

ice cream at molly moon's, the salted caramel with dark chocolate hot fudge = heaven. (see what i mean about the pounds? if not just note that a few short hours later we went to purple where i insisted we each have our OWN bread pudding. curse cara, for ever introducing me to such perfect blackberry, caramel perfection). oh and e is a salted caramel/hot fudge fan too.
on wednesday we took the ferry over to bainbridge island, e's favorite part was playing with the steering wheel of the video game on the boat, i can't resist the baby butt crack. and yes, ice cream was involved.
thursday was just e and me for the first time in two weeks. that was a hard transition. but we took it in stride by painting our bellies (well okay, i guess just one of us painted his belly) as part of our attempt at father's day cards.
on friday we went to the beach and played in the mud and seaweed left from the very low tide. it was awesome and so is my hipstamatic truck picture.

actually, friday gets two pictures because we were incredibly amused by jamie's interpretation of "see-food".

saturday was truly chaos. it went something like, early morning run, get ready for family pics that are then cancelled because of rain (duh right, was i really thinking i could take outdoor portrait shots in seattle??), run to airport to pick up friend, eat lunch and shop with friend, drop friend off, pick up j and e, run to swim birthday party, leave early and run home to change clothes for dinner party (by run of course I don't mean all of us on foot hauling through the city... although the mental image is quite amusing).

and today is father's day. my crowning achievement was a family bike ride. having the bike all set up and ready to go with the baby bike seat was supposed to be part of the deal. but that turned into a major fiasco that i wrangled jamie into after all and then forgot to take a picture! oh well, here is elliot covered in soup from dinner instead.

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