Ah, finally

Tomorrow evening, at approximately 6:30pm...Andrew and I are free!! (Well, for the next 5 days at least!) 

SO excited. 

We have been wanting to plan a lil mini vaca to Seattle for quite sometime. 

Then we earned some time and have the privilege to hang out with some truly awesome people on Sunday...and they just so happen to live in Seattle. 

So we are taking advantage of it! 

 Our "tentative" agenda

 Mariners game -- happy late bday hubby!

A lil shopping (ah, makes my heart go pitter patter!)

 Pike's Place Market 

Thrifting 

Lots of coffee drinking (Seattle is the hometown of Starbucks after all, ya know...) 

Kerry Park, which we have heard has the best views of the city 

A fancy date night (so excited for this!)

A Ferry ride

and...

probably a little people watching thrown in there, too! ;)

25 years

And he's still got it! 

Yesterday was Andrew's 25th (wowzers!) birthday. 

Doesn't he look pretty darn good for being a quarter of a century old? ;)

Sadly, we both had to work, so I got up extra early and made the birthday boy blueberry pancakes w/ blueberry syrup and a hot vanilla chai in bed. He loved!

I didn't have to work until 1, so I dropped Drew off and headed for the gym. After my lil work out, I came back out to the car only to be greeted with Clover plus some...gah! That dog! There weren't any trash cans in sight, but luckily I had a spare diaper in the car from the boys I nanny for, so all was good. Ha!

We headed over to Drew's office after the gym and went on a quick walk during his break. 

There is a beautiful path behind his office and we love to take advantage of it on sunny days!

(Just a lil side note -- because I am just so proud of this guy... Yesterday he was called into a meeting that he really had no business of being in, they just wanted him there for a "young mans/Gen Y" perspective. During the meeting Andrew made several suggestions. The company has also been struggling with a name for their newsletter. They wanted something that incorporated their brand and name already but haven't been able to come up with anything that has stuck...and what does my amazing husband do? Oh, ya know, just blurts something out and they absolutely LOVE it. Later that day he was called into the office. His boss went over a few things with him and then also said that they would be giving him a $1.50 raise. That's $200 more per month! PTL, happy birthday! This good news couldn't have came at a better time. He.is.awesome.)

That evening we headed out to Le Bistro Montage and then to our absolute fav, Salt & Straw. I am not even kidding or biased or exaggerating, Salt & Straw is THE BEST ice-cream in the entire world. I know I haven't been to every single ice cream shop in the entire world, but I am certain S&S would top them.  I could eat it for dayssss. I got what I always get, almond brittle with salted ganache (I also tried the honey lavender, so yummy) and Andrew got a Crater Lake root beer float. Perfection I tell you! 

Lastly, Andrew really wanted to see the Avengers. I had no idea what the Avengers even were. Which apparently is a big deal... 

It was a lovely day celebrating an even lovelier person. 

Happy 25th birthday my sweet husband! 

You make me so happy to be your wife each and every day!

A lil catch up...in photos

Finally!

The sunshine was out and so came the sunglasses.

This guy... He is truly awesome. Yesterday was so beautiful! 

We planned an "us" day.  Full of trying some new restaurants, shopping around the cute shops downtown, lots of coffee, exploring Powell's, Salt & Straw, walking along the waterfront and just enjoying a full day without any agenda!
Just the two of us. 

Bug eyed! :) 

Gelato w/ 2 shots affagatto, oh.my.deliciousness. 

I haven't had one of these since college, mmm!

 Walking along the waterfront. 

Spring Leadership, with the sweet siblings. 

 <3

 Salt & Straw.

 Clover hyperventilating on our walk... for the fourth time in two days.

Nbd...

Sunday Funday

Another busy weekend in the Edwards house. Sunday morning, however, was just wonderful! We woke up, brewed some coffee and walked down the street to get one of our favorite oh so delicious scones. On the way we made a little pit stop at the park and decided Clover should totally slide down the slide. Who says you need to have children to enjoy the playground?! 

As you can tell, she just loved it ;) 

Sunday afternoon was spent wedding dress shopping for one of my sweet friends, Kendal! We first went to Salem (no luck), then headed up to Portland and, drum roll please...She found THE DRESS! Ah! She looked amazingly beautiful and I am thrilled for her special day coming in August! We finished the evening out at McCormick's. So great to see and catch up with friends. 

And just a lil photo of my favorite person!

I'm so thankful for this guy. He works sooo hard for our little family. 

Look at that new buzz cut! Cutie patootie! Hehe!

This week is going to be so grand! I only work one day the.entire.week! Love having a lil taste of freedom! On the agenda for the week -- Cleaning, baking, meetings,  lots of Clover walks, dentist appt (boo!), working out, meeting w/ family and a few overdue visits with friends. 

Ahhh, the life! :) 

girl scout cookies and puppy love

This weekend was a doozy :) Friday I watched the boys from 8am-5:30, came home and grabbed dinner really quick and then watched Ella from 7-11. Long day, but I knew what was in store for the weekend and it got me through it! Saturday morning Clover had an appt at 7:30am to get spayed! Ah! Poor little thing! She was just so excited to see that nurse and it broke my heart that she just had no idea as to what was coming! After she had been there for a few hours, the nurse called and said that they had just finished her check up and everything was perfect...except that she had a stubborn little puppy tooth that needed to be pulled. So our sweet pup went under the knife for surgery and had a tooth pulled all in one day. Such a little trooper. While she was under the knife, my lovely hubby took me out on a shopping spree! We went out to breakfast together, grabbed some coffee and then headed down to the Woodburn outlets. To our luck they were having some great sales! We shopped for a awhile and then headed back up the road to rescue Cloves. We made a little pit stop at Anthro and Old Navy...annnnnnnd, to my surprise good ol Old Navy would have the answer to my prayers...Girl Scout Cookies! Sold by the cutest little girls! We bought three boxes and I stared at them the entire trip home. I have been craving Girl Scout cookies for SO long. I have tried looking them up online to order and have driven by stores searching for those little brown and green vests covered in patches numerous times. No such luck. Thank you Old Navy for our delish cookies and my new super cute $11.49 shirt. Productivity at it's best! ;)

Mmmm, Samoas

After picking up Clover we had a few meetings scheduled. One literally 2 blocks from our house, and the other on the complete opposite side of town. We left Clover in her kennel for the meetings and I felt like such a horrible puppy parent! Ha! She was whimpering...and the dog has never let out a single peep concerning pain or sadness before so it was a little tough! But we she made it through..with lots of puppy ice cream treats ;) Little preview to parenthood I suppose...I can't even imagine!
We finished the weekend off with a mini cooking/baking sesh. Chicken Parmesan, oatmeal breakfast cookies and banana bread. All recipes from the lovely Pinterest :) Our little condo has never had so many wonderful aromas going on at once! 

We are excited for another busy and productive week ahead!

And Spring Break! Oh my, I only work one day the entire WEEK!

:) 

invisible children

Andrew and I woke up early last Monday morning and happened to stumble upon this. We had no idea what all of this "Kony" business going around was and we were very curious. So we watched this. And the entire 30 minutes broke our hearts. I know that it has been floating around the internet, but if you haven't already watched it, you really should.

kony2012.com 

So many reasons...

...To s-m-i-l-e. 

Here are a few for me at the moment!

For the record, I was at a stoplight :)

It's almost Friday! 

:)