Beyond Our Bipolar Weather.

Sorry that the last couple of posts have been so brief. How silly is it that the weather has been the only thing worth updating the blog for this past week? Pretty darn. Actually, we've had fun stuff going on I just don't tend to have time to type more than a sentence or two. The 36 or so hours of clear weather we had were absolutely marvelous! It was warm outside with beautiful sunshine in the day and a sky full of stars at night. I think summer in Enumclaw is going to be pretty great (minus the fact that when it warms up even a few degrees the smell of cow seems to become so much more intense). On Friday evening the Ottos invited us over for a BBQ!!! Can't wait for more of those. They have a fabulous backyard with an incredible view of Mt. Rainier. I suppose maybe I should have taken a picture of that but Chevy was looking pretty cute on his lawn mower so you get this photo instead :)

Steven started a game of hide-and-seek with Colby and all of the sudden Colby was instructing everyone where to hide so that he could find them. I balked when he directed me under the slide and tried telling him there would be spiders under there but he didn't seem terribly concerned. Howie was happy to accompany me though she was mostly worried about getting a little head scratch. We had hot dogs and chips and salad and then roasted marshmallows at the fire pit. It was a lovely little taste of summer and I hope there's more to come in the very near future.

The weather was just as nice when we woke up the next morning so I chased Steven outside to help me reorganize our little storage room. I've been wanting to do this since last October! It felt SO GOOD to take everything out and see what was there and then put it all back in stacked nicely and in such a way that I could actually find and retrieve something if I needed it. It was a slightly sad experience though... I know that I have a lot of stuff but it was somewhat difficult seeing all of these lovely things, especially the kitchen things, that I just don't have room to keep in the house right now. We have a great little apartment that I really do adore but a bigger kitchen, well, obviously I would never pass that opportunity up. Steven kept rolling his eyes at all of the things that we were pulling out of there. I keep a lot of stuff "just in case" because you never know when you're going to need something and chances are -- we'll have it when we do need it.

Our reward to finishing the storage unit was a little picnic. Steven said he felt silly sitting on our front lawn eating our lunch but I told him people probably thought it was cute. Besides, it's not our fault that we don't have a nice, private, fenced-in back yard to hang out in and everyone should be outside on days like these. We were definitely having some trouble taking a photo of the two of us with our picnic but I thought maybe I'd just post this one and let you think I was trying to be artsy or something. We shared tuna and cheese paninis, pickles, wine and tea :) Yum!

It was hard to leave the sunshine but following our picnic we drove up to Woodinville for a little study session outside of Jamba Juice and then dragged ourselves into the freezing cold warehouse we call church for Easter-Eve service. It was such a treat going to church Saturday evening and not having to worry about getting up early or working in the nursery (though I did miss those cute little kids!). Easter weekend was not at all lacking in food... following church we went to dinner at my dad's (salmon and rice!!), Sunday morning Steven and I went out to breakfast, Sunday afternoon we had lunch at Steven's parents' house and Sunday evening we went up to Papa and Grammi's for Easter dinner. I feel full just thinking about it!

It was such a treat to go out to breakfast just the two of us. We went to The Kettle again (same place we went for Christmas Eve breakfast) and shared a waffle and an order of biscuits and gravy. I don't know why but going out for breakfast just feels so special.

Steven's dad spent the afternoon telling me all about his trip to Orlando and what he learned at the Disney Institution! He had all sorts of fun facts about how they run things down there and it was all really interesting. I want to go to the Disney Institution... he even had a little "graduation cap" with Mickey ears on it.

The evening with the Parducci's was wildly entertaining, as usual. I've recently decided that the whole family needs to go on a Disney cruise together. Can't say the uncles are too stoked about that idea but I've got at least 6 people on board -- that's half the family! It might take a bit more time to talk the others into it.

And yes, I was serious about the snow the other day. I couldn't believe it. It only lasted an hour or so, thank God.

My fun little project these days has been planning a bridal shower for Lena :) I love love LOVE planning parties! Especially for people who I love. I finally finished and mailed the invitations just yesterday. Steven kept trying to tell me I was spending way too much time on them ("they aren't wedding invitations for goodness sake!") but I was just having such a great time making them cute and Lena-esque. The shower isn't for a couple more weeks but it's coming together beautifully and I think it's going to be a really fun time. Great food, great friends and a beautiful bride-to-be!

In other exciting news, as of this morning I am officially employed by the Auburn school district. Woohoo! So that means I'm now in 6 different districts. I'm hoping May is going to bring in lots of work for me.

Well, Steven and I are off to Gorditos for dinner and to see a show at the Taproot Theatre.

TTFN. Ta-Ta for now!