Warm drinks on a cold day

Trev's Photo Shoot

We celebrated Grammy Jane's birthday yesterday. We gave her a box full of goodies, one of which was a small photo album. The first picture we put in was a nice picture of Belle... to fool her of course. It makes sense to give her a bunch of pictures of her granddaughter to tote around. However, we don't always do what makes sense. The next 18 pictures in the album were all of Trev! Page after page of her favorite son! Here are a few of my favorites.

Oh boy.

Angry band member

Trapped

Male model

Feasting

Mug shot

Baking Cookies!!

Annabelle and I baked chocolate chip cookies this morning. I let Belle pour in some of the sugar and she tested the chocolate chips to make sure they were safe. :) She really liked watching the Kitchen Aid mixer spin. She kept saying, "Oooohhh," when it would spin around. AB also helped scoop the dough onto the cookie sheets. We did sneak a few bites of the cookie dough because it was oh so good! We can't wait to eat them after dinner tonight with daddy!

Spring & Sunsets

The tulips are beginning to bloom! A good sign that spring is really here... nevermind the fact that we have snow in the forecast for tomorrow. Hmmm.

Another sunset shot at Boulevard Park. I really like the colors in this picture.

Young Life Concert

Trev and I went to a local concert on Monday, put on by Young Life. A friend of ours watched Belle as we went off to an evening full of friends and good music. We had the joy of listening to Justin McRoberts and Christopher Williams, who are both very talented musicians. I really liked how they performed... they would take turns playing their own songs, with the other playing and singing back-up. And they were really funny between the singing too. You should check out their tunes. The bonus was that I was able to see my Young Life leader, Amy, from high school! She is married to Justin, which is why she was there. It was great seeing her and catching up on the last 9 years of life - well, as much as you can catch up when you haven't seen each other in nine years. :)

Sunset at Boulevard

Our friends Cam and Sarah were visiting Bellingham over the weekend. We had a delicious dinner at Boundary Bay and then walked around Boulevard Park while the sun was setting. Cam took all of these pictures for us. Thanks Cam!

Daddy tossing Belle in the air!

"Mommy! I have a dandelion for you!"

Silhouettes of Trev and AB

Mesmerized by the light

Sewing!

I couple weeks ago my mom gave me a sewing machine. I haven't really sewed since high school, when I took a year-long sewing class. I decided to start with very simple projects... pillows! I mean really, how can I mess those up? Diana was kind enough to give me the fabric for the big pillow in the back and I found a great deal on the brown fabric. I've been meaning to make some decor changes to Belle's room for a while, so the pillow projects gave me a chance to get started with it! Just adding cute pillows in her room makes it seem more dainty and put-together, rather than feeling like a bunch of random stuff all thrown together and hoping that it works. :)

I'm excited to learn more about sewing and to take on more complicated projects! Diana's mom has a sewing shop called The Top Stitch in Spokane that you should check out. She has a lot of great fabrics!!