A Pittbull's Best Day

Saturday was this Pittbull's best day. Him swim, fetch stick, paddle board with him daddy, and dry in the sunshine.

Now him dead

Precious Moments

Great Minds Think Alike...and so do theirs

It's a special thing when your best sister-friends can get along with your man and have a great conversation no problem,

It's even better when the sister-friend and the hubby can share a beer and laugh at how crazy they both are and make fun of the other sister-friend/wifey for being the polar opposite to their anxiety.

Good Things Do Happen in April

Picking up trash on the American Tobacco Trail with the Girls on the Run Team last week

Fish Fry Friday at school with REAL soul food

Stand Up Paddle Boarding with my man

New Beyonce

A Loyal Pittbull Turns 8

Girls on the Run...

...So much fun!

This past weekend was the Girls on the Run 5k. 2500 girls from around the Triangle participated in the 5k event. Some of them, like my team, ran their first 5K ever!

Gathering in the grass before the race

My lil' running buddy

Fayetteville Street Team

Awesome husband who came out to support by running with a girl

Awesome sister who came out to support by running with a girl

All the makings of a perfect weekend

Coffee, husband, Sabahs, tiny Morroccan table

Jugamos al Tenis

That means "We play Tennis", en Espanol!

Every now and then, Jason and I will take up a new hobby together. Last time you might remember it was ukulele, which AHHHHHH we need to play!!! and there have been other things too.

Some things stick, some do not. Sometimes this is because Jason decides to get WAY better at the thing than me. Or sometimes, like with tennis, Jason already is WAY better than me. But we have fun anyway...or at least I do.

Mostly, it's just really fun to get outside and play. And for me playing means, I don't have to care about being good at the thing or being competitive in any way. I can just PLAY.

Christmas Traditions

Christmas traditions new and old are what make Christmas Christmas. Though we tried to mobilize many of our traditions during our Christmases spent in Oregon, I must admit that this year feels more like Christmas than the past few. It feels amazing to be Christmasing in NC, specifically in Carrboro, this year.

Here's a new tradition...walking to get our tree.

A hand delivered tree courtesy of husband

A New and Old tradition- putting this scarf on as many animals and people as possible in myriad funny ways.

Old Tradition- Edie smooches

Old Tradition: decorate the tree with Cold Mountain Winter Ale from Highland Brewery and listen to Sufjan Stevens' Christmas CD. Usually, I decorate and Jason makes peanut gallery comments

Newish tradition: making ornaments out of pictures and random pieces of cardboard. Since our movers lost all of our Christmas ornaments in our move to Oregon 3 years ago, we've had to slowly collect/make new ones.

Kisses in front of the tree, an oldie but a goodie Christmas tradition

A Husband

You guys, Jason is back in NC!

Hooray!

Here we are having an awesome belated anniversary dinner at Lantern:

And here we are getting our couch on:

Life is good.

Communication

The only way I see my husband these days.

My jokes aren't as funny via Facetime.

I'd like to think this is what Jay-Z and Beyonce do when B is on tour.

So, yeah, it's pretty much like I'm Beyonce.

Yay!

Today there are 2 things about which to say "yay":

1) The sun is back! See, you can see it right over those trees there. Carrboro has the best view. After over a week of Juaquin torturing us with PNW like rain, I'm ready to see he sun and its here!

2) More importantly, Jason is an officially licensed LMFT in the state of NC! Yay! Now he just needs to get here. Like, now.

Just a Little Camping Trip

I'm beginning to feel a bit like Jack Kerouac as its been well over a week since I've been "home", which at this point "what really is home?" since I'm moving in 2 weeks.

Upon returning to Oregon, Jason, Nate, Chloe and I set out on a little weekend camping adventure at Timothy Lake, near Mt. Hood.

Timothy Lake

Our Tent and Jason: we've got camping down at this point. Our little tent, our blow-up camping pads, and our double flannel sleeping back make sleeping a tent muy enjoyable.

A selfie, a tent, a walking stick

Jason carving sticks for smores

Sunset on Timothy Lake

Pretty Colors

Nate and Jason play ukulele by lantern light

Burnt mallow

We did a nice little 6 mile hike in the Mt. Hood wilderness area on Elk Meadows Trail

Pretty hike scenery

The crew

Me on a bridge

Dangerous crossing!

Don't fall in, Chloe!

Little Crater Lake

Quesadilla game on fleek

Sleeping good in the tent

Breakfast Tacos!