Knitting

Two hats for family friends, one for a soon to be newborn girl, one for a soon to be big brother (1.5).

Spent the day sleeping in, watching Harry Potter movies, and knitting (both of us).  We learned to use a 'Knit Quick' loom and make hat brims and pompoms.

Chris's first and second hat.  Matchy, matchy for us.

2nd Annual Last Weekend of Summer Celebration

We have started a tradition of getting away the last weekend of Summer to relax and unwind with our friends at the cabin at Bass Lake.  It is a great time to bond and spend time with some of the people we love best in our lives, and a wonderful way to say goodbye to the season.  Some highlights:

• Campfires and S'mores
• Home cooked family style meals, and I quote my friend D,"I haven't eaten like this since my Grandma"

D at the Lake

• Lots of time at the dock, both in the water, and out.

D at the Lake

• Learning to play Skip-Bo
• Naps

L napping with her dog on the dock

• Stories, jokes, and giggles
• Growing closer as friends

Well, I think it is safe to say a good time was had by all and it was time well spent.  I'm already plotting the 3rd annual 'Last Weekend of Summer at the Lake' for 2011.

Off for the Weekend

Off for the 2nd annual last weekend of summer celebration.  Photos and updates later.

Simple Pleasures

Watching Pedro grow. He goes home for the weekend and comes back bigger every darn time!

A surprise of 2 dozen home grown eggs delivered by Chris's mom.

A bag packed for a weekend away with friends at the Cabin at Bass Lake.

A wish list of swimming, floating, hiking, reading, grilling, sleeping, and S'mores soon to be fulfilled.

5th Anniversary

August 14th was our fifth wedding anniversary. We headed up to Chris's grandparent's wonderful 1940's log cabin in Bass Lake, CA where we honeymooned to celebrate for a long weekend. It was absolutely ideal. The weather was perfect, we were in the midst of the Perseids star shower, and the cabin awaited us in all of it's homey glory.

We had a wonderful time. We stayed up late and slept late every day. Chris always managed to sneak out while I was asleep to fetch a newspaper from the nearby village. We had quiet mornings reading the paper, making breakfast, and sipping hot coffee on the deck.

The afternoons were devoted to the lake, either lounging under the umbrella and reading on the dock, or in the water bobbing with our floaty 'noodles' until we were too chilly to stay in any longer.

Chris was a grill 'Maestro' and whipped up a supreme Tri-tip with grilled veggies and corn for our anniversary dinner. I set up a table with candles on the deck and we opened a bottle of wine from our wedding for dinner.

After dinner we went down to the lake and motored the boat to middle of the lake to watch for shooting stars. We were pleasantly surprised by a fireworks show from the shore at the 'Pines Lodge' that went on for quite sometime, reflecting off the waters of the lake, and were rewarded for our patience later with several brilliant shooting stars.

Before leaving on Sunday, Chris looked up our entry in the guest book from 5 years ago, read it aloud - bringing tears to my eyes, then added another entry for us to look up in the future. We are so very lucky, the two of us, to love each other more deeply and understand each other more fully as time goes on, to have shared such a wonderful past, enjoy the present, and look forward with such excitement to our future together. I love you Chris, you are a incredible and amazing person, and I am filled with joy everyday to share my life with you.