north shore!

the north shore climber.. with a north shore wedgie :)

think this picture is particularly funny as i just got smashed by a wave on my bummm!!! can you tell i am having a good time? heheheh

I just got back from a market in Sao Paulo and THIS made me think of you. I didn-t see a price tag but can only imagine it cost more than youd dream of. Although its pink, it sure would look great in a kitchen :) I also love love love the jars on top. They were much more beautiful in person!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY KITTEN. I hope you and Jonathan had a wonderful wonderful time. And I hope it was sunny and beautiful. YEAH FOR YEAR PAPER!

ATTACK

....of the wild anaconda.....

North Shore Camping!!

well its almost time to pack up the car, and head out.. i have already started my packing list: toilet paper, hiking shoes, blankets, sleeping bags, trail mix, pillows, etc.. and i have started googling different places of interest:
for example:
French River Fish Hatchery.. hmm, see the spawning salmon.. check!
Tom's Logging Camp: a recreation of a northwest fur company, check
Bettys Pies: dont mind if I do . . .lemon meringue please..
Lutsen Mountain Alpine Slide/chairlift! check
Split Rock Lighthouse, check check

Get out the camera, the flannel, and the high adventure.. i am ready for a north shore trip of a lifetime!! its no Boston, but, it should be fun!! as we have never used our tent yet, hopefully we dont take it out and it is ripped :) haha, i guess we will leave it to fate! We arent as good at pitching the tent as you two over there in S America that pitch a tent in your bedroom every night.. (*pun intended )

so wish us luck on our first anniversary..

we are ready to take on the North Shore..

well , as long as it doesnt rain, wink.

HaPpY BirThDaY NoELLe!!!!!!!!!!! 26, whoo hooo!!!!!

well happy 26 Snooks!! you are a little bit older of a Crow now.. but still a feathery one! I hope that wherever you are, Kip takes the time to make your day special... maybe you can tromp around some foreign Flea Market and buy a little trinket to remember life passing from 25-26.. sigh.. the days of our youth just slipping away..

either way, i recorded a quick little video to say, HAPPY BIPPITY BOPPITY birthday for you.. its not the same as taking you out on your bithday , or sending something in the mail, but it will have to suffice for now..

so my dear..

have a good one..

i will try to sneak in an email some time today..

hope you have some french person bake YOU a cake!!! since you are always soo good at making other people's birthdays special...

i am still working on mysetery gift..

so .. ill have to let you know in a tinsy bit,..

if it doesnt work out, well then ,..

ill think of something else :)

love you like a kid loves pennies..

blow out your candles and make a wish.. !!

Josie

bachelorette party pics

well it was a fun time had by all, started out a little rocky with no one to do the planning, but holl and i pulled through..

got out the markers, thought up some games.. scheduled dinner with bellydancers and TA DA.. the bachelorette party turned out to be fun..

more on that later.. but thought you might enjoy some pics from the night !!

(*ps: i wore your bridesmaid dress, so I DID wear it again after all :) no pics of that though.. shoot)

H

1.The winner of the Scruffiest Dog Award! I think this dog gives Sadie hard competition for looking like a muppet.
2.Me! Swirling and Whirling trying to keep the pirahnas away from you know what!
3.So far, the scariest hotel bathroom we've had to use! I made Kip escort me to the bathroom at night because I thought it was the perfect scene for a scary bloody movie.
4.Is it just me, or does it look like I've got a brain tumor?

POLISH! POLISH!

Just what you wanted to start your day off right!

orca love

ok so besides the fact that i look totally fat and rumply-chinned.. you can see by my face that i am laughing hysterically.. every time we put her in this little polo shirt she goes NUTS,, i never thought i would be the "put outfits on cats" type of person.. but it is just too funny ..

she clearly has HAD ENOUGH for one day.. and is getting in a good swipe :)

games with our crazed cat

the garden

well here are some pictures from the Illinois garden, all ready for the fall harvest... the planted lots of pumpkins so we were out there with the kids 'harvesting'.. even though in some of these pictures J looks more like the kid.

ahh the sweet smells of fall

fall: my fun feathered friend

LOOOK at that cute hat

a cute hat from a friend.. for my bday! cant beat that! thanks for the hat nols!!!

tho must say, Jonnie called me "sherlock holmes" the WHOLE day i wore this hat..

and.. to vindicate me, a girl came up to me AT the state fair to say, WOW, love your hat..

so Watson, take that!!

insert pipe in mouth here :)

Hello From the Dentist office in La Paz! Kip got 5 fillings and a cleaning, which look forever, and then I was up and only has one tiny one! yippy! So as she was stuffing cotton in my mouth, I literallly yelled 'Kip, Camera!'. and he came in and I somehow got out 'Picture for Hannah, same time...'. And then he had to explain it all to the dentist! ha. So the question is HOW DID IT GO? and also, did your office have Pooh photos all over it?