And so the "photo bombing" continues. . . .here's February!
Valentine's Date
This year, Valentine's Day was over a 3 day weekend! To celebrate, we invited our friends, The Pratts, up to Seattle for the weekend. On Valentine's Day, we spent the day in downtown Seattle. It was fun showing off and being a tourist in my native city!
spontaneous game of downtown ping pong
Pike's Place Market
gum wall (that is a camera inside my jacket. . . not a baby belly :))
Seattle Pier
Space Needle
troll under Fremont Bridge
so fun to run into my high school bestie, Britt!!
Snoqualmie Falls in the rain
the guys prepared a yummy Valentine salmon dinner
Random Happenings
afternoon hikes with Brod and the dog
while trying to make these high-quality valentines for my students. . . .
I had a nasty accident with the paper cutter!!! seriously thought I was going to lose my finger. clearly it wasn't THAT bad, but still . . .
my cute dad retired this month so we went to his office one last time to enjoy the scenic views of Seattle
We'll skip the part where I give excuses for why this family blog of ours has been neglected for the past 6 months. Instead, let's just get straight to the pics. Because that's all anyone cares about anyway, right? Here is a literal photo bomb from January.
Brodie's 27th birthday
the "fancy" dinner I cooked using a 30 second cooking video on fb. preeetty proud of myself.
and did I make homemade apple pie, too?? well, yes. yes, I did.
round 2 of birthday food with the Fish fam
Hood Canal
I planned a surprise weekend getaway for Brodie's birthday. And like all surprises, I was pretty sure that Brodie had figured it out. After all, it's hard to keep surprises secret when you're married. I took a personal day from work (since Brodie gets off early on Fridays) and knocked on the door while he was lounging at home. Based on his reaction, I think got him pretty good!
we stayed in this adorable one roomed cabin near the waterfront
Hood Canal
kayak ride at dusk
afternoon hike
he's the cutest :)
Random Happenings
last minute style for crazy hair day at school . . . pigtail buns and pipe cleaners!
DIY ant extermination which involved removing EVERYTHING from the kitchen cabinets. Turned out they were after the jar of sprinkles.
I'm 25 years old!!! AHHHH!!! One perk to being 25 is that it sounds so grown up. So grown up and soo much older than 24. Which is nice since my students ask me all the time how old I am. Now they will really believe that I'm a grown up adult.
Before taking off to Seattle, we celebrated my birthday a day early by eating out at Olive Garden (my favorite) with the Fish Fam. Thanks for indulging me! I seriously cannot get enough of those breadsticks!! The restaurant was freezing, which is why I have 3 jackets on in this picture.
And I got to do birthday all over again once we arrived in Seattle with my family! My mom and grandma were sweet enough to make an ice cream cake, which is also one of my favorites.
Overall my birthday was pretty chill with lots of family time. We played games, went out to dinner, and my grandma taught me how to sew (shocking, I know). I guess turning 25 helps you be more domestic or something.
Clearly my grandma is the sewing/quilting master because CHECK OUT THIS QUILT!!! My grandma has been working on it since we got married and now it is finished. Seriously so beautiful and perfect!!! We absolutely love it, grandma! It makes our room so cheerful :)
In other non-birthday news . . . my brother got engaged!!! Brodie and I were the assigned photographers paparazzi. We were crouched in the dark snapping photos of the magic moment. I have to say we did a pretty good job, I mean check out this shot!
And that's about it. . . .now we are back to our normal routine of school and work. Although I had a snow day on my first day back from break, so that made the transition much easier :)
And just a quick update on 2016. So far we've had 6 game nights, the missionaries have been over 3 times, I spoke in church, Brodie's wrestling team was inducted into the high school hall of fame, Luna recovered from an infected foot, and we have played many hours of kinect. We are defnitely busy!
Heritage High School Wrestling Hall of Fame induction ceremony
When Luna's foot got infected, of course I freaked out thinking she was going to die and wanted to take her to the vet. Thank goodness Brodie is more frugal and cool headed. After lots of internet research, we treated her at home and she is now officially better! But she has also now discovered that she much prefers sleeping inside than out. Brodie is allergic, which is why she always sleeps outside in her dog house. With the infection however, she had to sleep indoors. She loved it so much that now she begs to come inside at night when it gets really cold. And we just can't say no :)
Brodie loves wrapping her up like a burrito when it gets really cold haha.
We have had several dinner guests so far this year, including the missionaries and some friends. Our first cooking endeavor was making homemade pizza! It was so yummy, we ended up making 4 of them. This last one even had stuffed cheesy crust!
It rains too much to exercise outside. . . but does this count? Ever since we got a kinect for Christmas, this is literally how we spend our evenings.
We kicked off the break by picking up Tek and Kim at the airport. Their flight was scheduled to land at 11pm. However, the flight was delayed and didn't land until midnight. So we spent an hour literally sitting on the floor since everything in the airport was closed. It was definitely worth the wait though! We were there waiting with balloons to welcome Tek and Kim who flew all the way from Ohio :)
It was a blast having the whole Fish Fam under one roof!! Fish Family Christmas always starts with Christmas Family Home Evening. This year for our "talent" we did Jingle Bell Cups. You can watch the video HERE.
A new Fish Fam tradition is to go bowling on Christmas Eve in our Christmas sweaters. It's supposed to be an ugly sweater contest, however Brodie and I weren't prepared. We wore our matching Norwegian sweaters and tried to "uglify" them by pinning on bells, bags, and ornaments. It kinda worked. . . but not enough to win the contest.
And of course you can't forget the Christmas PJs.
This pose is known as "the snap". It's an infamous Durant pose.
Christmas morning we made breakfast (eggs a la goldenrod) and then of course opened presents!!
Even though it was cold (it snowed!!) we took an afternoon hike to see the falls.
And the cherry on top was being all together for family pictures. We had our pictures taken in a gorgeous park in Oregon. We don't have all the pictures yet, but here is one that the photographer posted on her website. Such a classic Fish boys picture. And of course Brodie is the one flying through the air :) I just love him!
