Happy Birthday Angela!!

Angela- you are amazing. Your birthday was amazing. Thank you for being born and then subsequently befriending us and choosing to celebrate your birthday with us. We had a blast.

Here are a few of my favorite photos from the night (more will eventually be posted on Facebook I'm sure):

and we're off!

bartender craig was in the back making drinks for everyone for the first part of the trip
a partial group shot :)

the birthday prince and princess! it was nelson's birthday as well. :)

we fit our entire party (about 15 people) into an elevator

check out that AMAZING view- one of our many stops of the evening

we stopped at Alki beach and Angela decided to swap the heels for craig's sneakers

Ty decided that throwing a massive log was the only way to fully appreciate the beach

...and my personal favorite from the evening! haha!

LONG overdue update!

My apologies for not posting in such a long time-- I've been busy training for two (yes, that's right- TWO) jobs and working and have had a million other engagements. But now I have a little time to update!

First off- one year wedding anniversary. It was awesome. It was also very random-- most of our plans for the day never materialized, but we did end up in Seattle, and we walked around, looked in the shops, and ate an awesome lunch at the Cheesecake Factory. Afterwards, we went the the REStore which has tons of awesome, weird stuff for the home that people donate and you can buy for (sometimes) pretty cheap. We didn't see anything super sweet that we needed for the apartment so we decided to head out to Alki beach. Somehow, we ended up missing our exit and ended up at Southcenter instead. We ate dinner at Joey's (which was MUI tasty--try the roast chicken if you are ever there!) and went and saw Dinner for Schmucks in Bonney Lake. We really did have an insanely jam-packed weekend. My favorite part, probably though, was eating our cake topper with my family the night before our anniversary-- it was fun to share the surprisingly delicious cake (afterall, it had been frozen for a year!!) and share our memories from the wedding a year ago.

our cake topper was seriously amazing- even after a YEAR of being frozen!

on our way to Seattle for our anniversary!

after Cheesecake Factory ty and I ended up at U-Village and ty ended up hanging out in a little shed.

super cheap, super delicious mojitos at Joey's happy hour

now THIS was interesting...

touche!

I especially loved the one up to the top right corner. haha

OTHER NEWS:

Tyler now has a motorcycle. He 'inherited it' from a work friend. Lord help us all.