two for tuesday

My friend Jen over at Mermaid City and I decided to do a weekly photo project (and you know how I love photo projects). We are calling it Two for Tuesday after being inspired by this project. Our subject is Bits and Pieces, and I hope that it really helps me take notice of the tiny day to day "stuff." It just so happens that Jen and I both decided to photograph food for our first two...funny yet not surprising!

Jen is the top, mine is the bottom

guemes island

Anders and I just got back from a long weekend in Guemes Island. This is our second year there, and it's always a super fun time. This year included: sunshine, relaxation, a hot tub, too much food, lots of laughter, tired dogs, smoked onion potato salad, water balloon toss, jump rope, yoga, bitty babies, more food and more relaxing. Here are a few pictures!

Isn't it funny how dogs always lay right in the way?

See last year's pictures here and here.

#tag

My new favorite hashtag on Instagram is #wethepeephole. So funny. If you are on instagram, check it out. And, of course, I had to play along.

furry 5k

Anders, Maggie and I ran in the Furry 5k yesterday to support the local animal shelters. It was nuts! So many dogs, but we all had a great time. Maggie beat me in the race, but she has four legs and I only have two, so I feel like she had an unfair advantage. Here are a few instagrams from the day. My favorite is Maggie yawning. She was so excited to be there. Er...

p-patch

Last night I met up with some of the other Pike Place Fish wives and their kids, and we had a lovely picnic in a p-patch. It was a warm and sunny night with good conversation and babies. I sure do love getting to hold (other peoples') babies.

I've never actually seen artichoke growing before. Pretty cool.

The p-patch!

This little guy doesn't belong to me, but I sure do love him.

He actually belongs to my friend, Dina.

And this sweet girl? 

She belongs to my friend, Meghan.

 And this handsome boy?

And this pretty girl?

They belong to my friend, Jennifer

My friends sure do have awesome kids!

It was a lot of fun ladies! Let's do it again soon!

bike ride to magnolia

Here are a few pictures from last Sunday's bike ride to Magnolia! We had so much fun except maybe for the last half hour when we had to trudge up the huge hill to our house. Yes, that was definitely not the most fun, but the rest was great.

We took the Burke Gilman trail to...

the Ballard Locks and then... 

crossed the train tracks into Magnolia where we...

 took a rest at Magnolia park and admired...

the beautiful views and we...

jumped off things and also...

stopped to swing and... 

swing some more before we...

stopped to see the fishing boats and... 

more fishing boats and then we...

took Ship Canal trail home and... 

 it was a good day indeed.

three things I currently love and one thing I hate

1. This shirt was accidentally sent to me by  mistake. When I contacted the company, I was told I could keep it (it's says "Coffee...a hug in a cup")! Love!

2. These flowers randomly decided to start growing at the base of our deck stairs. I have no idea where they came from (squirrels?), but I love them.

3. You can now buy Maddie on Things prints! As I've mentioned before, I love Maddie. I bought this picture for our kitchen, and it is SO cool. Everything about it is perfect. 

However...

I do NOT love the giant hobo spider that decided to crawl across the COUCH and attack me. For a frame of reference, please refer to this picture I took of one a few years ago in our bathroom. Not cool. Soooo...not cool. I refused to get on the couch the rest of the day.

Happy Monday! Hopefully there are no spiders and only free shirts in your day.