Wednesday, November 4, 2009

and they lived happily ever after...

one year later... November 1st, 2009.
Happy anniversary to Nick and I.
So for the weekend Nick and I stayed at The Inn at Langley. It's on Whidbey Island which you can drive around or take a short ferry ride. We opted for the short ferry ride.
The ferry left from Mukilteo but before we caught the ferry we enjoyed some lunch from Ivars. They sell a cup of chowder for $0.75. Not bad!


When Nick and I were dating he took me to the Inn at Langley for a weekend and it was amazing! It had been a year and a half since we had been there and it was worth the wait. The whole weekend was perfect. Start to finish. Even though I forgot the cake top at home! We had a slice on Monday night.
We didn't really have much planned for the weekend. We did have reservations at the kitchen/resturant on Saturday night at 7 and I had packed a picnic for Sunday for Deception Pass.

Thanks to the timer on the camera.. here's a prom picture!


Here's the view from our room. It was chilly outside.. but beautiful.




Breakfast was buffet style from 8am to 10am. Thanks to daylight savings.. we got an extra hour to sleep in. Like the 6 course dinner we had the night before.. breakfast was amazing.




100% cheesey right here!



We got a laught out of this. We saw this outside a doctors office in Langley when we were walking around town.





When was the last time you saw someone using a pay phone?!?!






The weather couldn't have been any better for us on Sunday. It was clear and sunny when we went to Deception Pass. We arrived there around 2 and stayed for a couple hours enjoying the 4 types of cheese, meats, fruit, nuts .. etc. that I packed in the picnic basket. I was introduced to goat cheese this weekend and really do like it. I enjoyed it with walnuts and apple slices.






Our special spot. ;-)





An amazing and perfect weekend just like our life together.
I love you Nick Jones! Here's to growing old together.









Happy Halloween and some family time!

Here's a picture of Ethan, Esmee and Willa on the day before Halloween. Renee took them down to nbbj for the annual Halloween party. The photographer took some great shots of the kids and this is one of them!
My sister Alex had her wedding on Halloween and my other sisters Niki and Ashley flew in for it. I got to meet Jordyn for the first time and spend time with Josh, Carley, my sisters and parents on Friday. I spent the night over at my parents house on Friday night and had a great time! Any extra time that I can spend with family and the kids - I'll take. Kids really do grow up fast. Carley is turning 6 on Nov. 7th.. Wow... 6 years old already?

Carley was a good witch for Halloween. I got to paint her nails black!




Ooooh... Jordyn. I didn't want to put her down. She's SO cute. If you look closely.. you can see her hearing aids. She gets fitted for new inserts every 2 weeks since she's growing so fast! Her tone was different when she had them in. It was really cool to watch Ashley put them in and Jordyn wear them with no problems!



She's soooo cute. She lookes just like her dad Russell.







She loves to cuddle.






Carley the good witch and Josh was the clown from "IT".





I'm not sure what my mom was... Geisha maybe? They were all dressed up to go to Alex's wedding. Ashely didn't go since Owen (Alex's 6 year old son) was sick with the swine flu.. poor little guy.
Congrats to Alex and Matt.
Yay for family time!
Happy Halloween.