Strawberries, flowers and BBQ

It feels like summer is finally here! Yesterday turned out to be gorgeous, so I decided to go about and snap a few pictures. Bryan made shish-kabobs-- so many we kidnapped Brittany and forced her to eat with us outside. (Again so pretty outside!)

The flowers I planted by the side of our house finally bloomed-- there are TONS! Turns out wildflowers love to spread-- we have dasies and poppies growing out of cracks and even our rain runoff spout! Our strawberries are ripe too, and far tastier than ones you get at the store. It feels great to have a house-- and a yard-- that we can play in!

YAY SUMMER!

Cookies, gardening and cake

It's always amazing that as a Washingtonian we complain about the days on end of rain... but as soon as the first sunny days reappear they're easy to forget. Today, because of the surprise sunshine; I was finally able to plant the peonies my mom gave me (thanks mom!!)... So they're hiding somewhere in the middle of our island-garden, next to our fig tree (holy crap, we have a fig tree?) I'm so excited for them to bloom! I'm also discovering how much I love perennials. Especially the 'surprise! It's spring!' variety.

Today also brought a strong hankerin' for cookie makin' (thanks to talking about them a bit too long at work today) and cleaning the pics off my camera. Including a pic of Lyla's first birthday cake!

More to come! Hopefully more sunshine will equal more pics... I'm working on it, I promise :)

-Sara

New Paint!

Alright, so at night it's nearly impossible to post about correct colors-- but it's really a large improvement on what it used to be, I promise! The bedroom is now a nice clay color, and the bathroom is actually a rice-paper color... I give up on trying to color-correct a dimly lit and buttery yellow room! (eek). Either way, here's a tiny update! Next is new furniture, hopefully sometime in the near future!

Happy Monday!

I am sitting with Molly and Bryan, watching the Stanley cup playoffs and drinking a glass of wine. I thought I would share this:

Amazing typefaces!

Amazing use of fonts! I find the beer cap font surprisingly beautiful. I am also happy about today; I have finally convinced Bryan to repaint our bedroom-- and have bought an amazing color to change it to! I am happy to say we will be painting soon, I will most definitely post pictures...

Goodbye Seahawks cave!

A busy weekend!

Phew! Continues to be an extraordinarily busy week, following a very busy weekend! Instead of rambling on, I will make a tiny list:

-getting into the crazy parts of training for my run-- 8 miles this Saturday!
-got a -very short in my opinion- haircut with Heather, which I'm still getting used to, but is a very nice change! I will post a photo when I figure out how to style it. (Sidenote: apparently it takes time to style your hair? Who knew!)
-Mariners game with Grete/winetasting
-Meghan's birthday dinner, and Noelle's apartment/adorable kitten Lily

I'm kicking myself for not taking any pictures! Busy weekend onto a busy week at work-- it's officially the second week without Heather, and was kicked off by a half day (super fun) food photoshoot, now the catching up begins! We will see how doing a months worth of work in a few days pans out... keep your fingers crossed for me! Until then, I will relax and drink my tea.

Cinnamon Pull-aparts

Upon request, and my general love for them, here is my favorite recipe for cinnamon pull-aparts! (Got the recipe from my mom, she is an awesome cook!)


Cinnamon Pull-Aparts
18 frozen dinner rolls
1 stick butter (melted)
2/3 C. brown sugar
1 small box butterscotch pudding (cook and serve, not instant!)
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 C. pecans (chopped)

Night before: In a bundt pan, place the frozen dinner rolls. Melt stick of butter, cool slightly and pour over rolls. Mix remaining ingredients together, sprinkle over rolls. Place damp towl over everything, let sit on top of oven (or someplace warm) overnight.

In the morning: Heat oven to 350 degrees. Cook 25-30 minutes, flip over plate immediately. YUMMY.

Our family makes these every Christmas and Easter morning, partly because they are so easy and WONDERFUL. Enjoy!

Catching up

It's been awhile since I've posted last, the past few weeks have been crazy! The last few pictures of when I ventured up to stay with Meghan in Bellevue for the weekend; and our glorious day of shopping and Frost donuts. (Note: Maple bacon bar is amazing. Enough said.) The top pictures are from Bryan's birthday this weekend, and all of its silliness! We ended up having over 30 people stop by for some good ol' potluck bbq'ing-- and even though it rained, my parents were lucky enough to lend us a tent so we could continue cooking outside. Everything worked out great and we all had a lot of fun! I think Bryan had an excellent birthday weekend overall (His actual birthday was Sunday)

So that's my tiny update! Hopefully I will make a quick post soon; to post my mom's cinnamon pull-apart recipe. (Great Easter Sunday or breakfast party dish-- I made it for Heather's going away potluck at work and it was a hit! I'm happy to finally share one of my favorite recipes. So easy too!)