ummm, excuse me, where have you been????

yes, fans, i'm still alive! and to save poor becky from pulling all her pretty hair out, i thought i should AT LAST post. really, i've just been waaay beyond insanely busy, stressed out, and generally overwhelmed. seems to be a talent of mine.

so let's see, what's new since april? read on below to find out!

at last, moving to seattle!

after more than a year of planning, we're finally moving! the official move-in date is august 14th - issaquah, here we come!

at the risk of gushing, let me just say how extremely excited i am. as much as i love utah, we really feel like our family belongs in seattle. thank goodness for that holy ghost guy.

we took a trip a couple of weeks ago to find our new place, and here it is! (oops, i forgot to take photos while we were inside... i'm sure i'll post some anyway after we move in.)


some stats about the new place: it's on the plateau in issaquah, a beautiful area that's mostly private residential (not apartments). the city has nice developments, great city codes, and hoa's that make the area lovely. lots of walking trails, nothing ghetto (can you say west provo?? err, i mean, i like it). still accessible to the i-90 corridor, meaning the commute isn't bad. without traffic, we're only 20 minutes from the city!

our front door

the courtyard out our back door

that's our patio on the bottom there! see all the windows? and the grass? ooo....

there are 12, yes 12, windows - more than our current apt. and our last one combined! 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms (yes, a master suite :). if you took our current apartment, drop a bedroom, and add: a bathroom, 250+ square feet, 7 windows and a VIEW of something besides dirty bumpers and a parking lot!, a pantry, cabinets that actually work, a laundry closet, nice flooring, designer paint, a walk-in closet, a kitchen nook for our table, a formal dining area for our piano, a wood-burning fireplace, a patio, a lawn, all in a great floorplan, you'd have our new place. so, basically, it's waaaaay nicer.

a few other photos from the trip, for your enjoyment!

who me? of course that's not my mess...

you can never have too many naked baby bath pictures! gotta have blackmail material, right?


baby and i at snoqualmie falls

camping in utah, and timp cave

ah, our last days in utah...

sure, make ME carry the baby up that steep trail...

miscellaneous cuteness from the past few months

with cousins!

both of these are with cousin cj...this one is my fav :)

with my cousin, maddie's, er, second-once-removed... or something... ian

me, lauren, and maddie at the tulip festival!




random... cute baby etc. :)

what are you sucking on now??

just loungin'

(ok, some of these are REALLY old)

arrrr.... pirate party!

my little brother's pirate party... a few photos i couldn't pass up sharing:

ok, by far one of my favorite photos ever... check out the look on my mom's face! if that's not scary...

fred graudates!

most of these photos explain themselves, so i'll let them tell the story. fred's the one in the white lei, if you have trouble finding him in a couple of them. he received a b.s. accounting degree, music minor. we were so proud!

commencement and the processional:

fred and will :)

afterward:








convocation the next day:

fred gets his diploma holder!

and afterward:

later that day