Foam & Home

Thomas and I drove to Washington a couple weeks ago for my job.  The first part of the trip was work work work for me!  2,600 people signed up for the Seattle 5k Foam Fest!  I was very pleased with how the event went.  After the event, I joined Thomas and spent time with our families. 

Quilbert keeping Thomas and I company on the looong drive

Finally back to moisture, green trees, and clean air!

Setting up for the Seattle 5k Foam Fest.  Check out our cool cargo net!

Race day

People love dressing up for events like this:

Nicole came and ran at my event!

Thomas and I had the pleasure of riding Seattle's newest attraction: the 175 ft. tall Ferris Wheel!

The Sound is beautiful

Some views from the ride:

You never know what you'll find at Ye Old Curiosity Shop!

Romance at Red Robins on the Waterfront

Visiting with my darling niece! 

An early b-day dinner with my sisters.  They spoil me - I got tons of watermelon stuff for my kitchen!

Susie gave me these adorable salt and pepper shakers!

My mom still makes me b-day cakes.  This is by far the prettiest cake I have ever had!

It's so nice our families live just across the sound, which means we get to take the ferry quite often when we're home

This is where we spent our Fourth of July

Getting ready for the annual "boat parade"

Ain't he handsome ;)

Dad's Day

To my fun loving, silly, crazy, and devoted father.  I love you dad.

Millennium Evening: Episode 2

It is complete! 

The Biggest Little City

This past week I was in Reno for work putting on the 5k Foam Fest event.  I wasn't the main event coordinator for this event, but I was over all the volunteers/staffing and additional support.  The event went fantastically! But honestly, we are all a bit relieved it's over.  8+ months of planning into one day!  There were 1,800 people at the event with about 15 obstacles.  I will be going to Seattle in just a few weeks to do another one!

Walking the strip - which was literally two blocks.

I named this little rascal Knobby - he broke into someone's sandwich bag, along with being the culprit for all these peanut packages lying everywhere.  We thought people were littering big time, but no, it was Knobby.

Event day:

The kids foam pit

50 ft. slip n slide

Steph and I at the event!

 I got this team's pic for Thomas, as I know he'd approve:

When I returned home, Thomas made dinner: steak, corn, and garlic parmesan fries...mmm

My milk stache man...

 Quilly!

We got Quilbert a nice little wheel (hedgies run about 3 miles per night).  He is still getting the hang of it! He's so cute! He looks like he has little Sonic legs!

A Millennium Evening in the Park

Thomas loves Legos.  And I enjoy doing them with him.  We bought the coolest Lego set - the Star Wars Millennium Falcon - which is one we've been wanting for a while but couldn't get ourselves to buy because of the price.  BUT with our nice tax return this year, we figured we could be a little ridiculous and buy a $125 Lego set, so we did :)

We brought Quilbert along (who napped most of the time)

7,965 Lego pieces

We completed Book 1

 Remaining pieces for Book 2:

Thomas's spaceship

Playing in the mud.

Recently, Thomas and I ran the Dirty Dash.

 Before:

After:

Nothin better then dirt in your ears...

...and in your toes.

Meet Quilbert

Our very first pet!

Driving home after picking Quilly up

He's just too cute!!

Sleepy/grumpy