family + adventures + the emerald city
today is sadie’s eighth birthday!
{all pictures taken via instagram}
if you haven’t had the privilege of meeting her, sadie is the best. dog. ever. not that i am biased or anything. i hope we get to spend many, many more birthdays celebrating what a wonderful pup she is!
happy birthday sadie!
M
we left last thursday for a long weekend in the midwest to spend time with aaron’s family.
{waiting for the bus to take us downtown to catch the lightrail to the airport. #myhusbandlovespublictransit}
{hers & his lattes.}
{look at all of that leg room! glad we upgraded our flight.}
{we got to meet beau, my in-laws’ new dog.}
{we stayed with aaron’s friend colt, his girlfriend erin, & gertie the bulldog. i spent friday night cuddling with gertie.}
{i finally got to meet kenley! she is the daughter of kendra – aaron’s cousin – & such a doll!}
{teddy – aaron’s nephew – is already a slugger. let’s go 6-7!}
{aaron’s grandfather neal with aaron’s nephews teddy & frankie.}
{we crashed a wedding reception on saturday night. a cousin of a cousin is family, right? congratulations logan & vanessa!}
{me, kenley & kendra hanging out. finally!}
{um, 43 degrees indiana? definitely not ready for the cold yet.}
{we spent sunday morning tailgating at the colts game with colt & his family.}
{#letsgocolts}
{it was a bit sunny with the roof open at lucas oil field, but aaron made do.}
{the tomatoes at colt & erin’s makes me want my own veggie garden. someday.}
{waiting for our plane to take us back to seattle.}
{the beautiful sunset somewhere between indy & seattle.}
we had so much fun catching up with family & friends – thanks for having us indiana! aaron has quite a large family, most of whom still live in indiana, so we get spoiled whenever we go because we get to see so many people. we also got spoiled this time & got a chance to see family that flew in from out of town – thanks for making the last minute trip kendra & kenley! thanks to everyone for such a fun weekend!
how was your weekend?
M
shortly after i wrote this blog post about how hard it is to make friends post-college, aaron & i joined a bocce ball league that ran for the month of august. the sponsoring organization is seattle underdog sports league & it runs lots of leagues, including the co-ed flag football league that aaron & i were a part of for one game a few years back. {it was only one game because the no contact rule was difficult for some of the guys to wrap their heads around, including the guy that clothes-lined me in the mouth. whoops.}
bocce ball is a nice, no contact sport that doesn’t require a whole lot of skill & allows you to enjoy a nice beverage & chat with your teammates. aaron & i had both played bocce ball before, but never on a pitch (the grass, or lawn bowling green). also, we had to learn that you can’t chuck the ball like we did in other bocce ball games because divots on the pitch are a no-no.
the team was a fun mix of people, including aaron’s brother ben & his wife sarah. the rest of the team was contacts of ben, but it ended up including a gal i attended the uw business school with, & a gal i knew from the law school staff. {yep, seattle is a very small world!}
we weren’t really that great {though we weren’t awful. bocce can be tricky that way.} & our season ended early since we didn’t make the play-offs. even so, we had fun playing our two matches a week on wednesday evenings & enjoying each other’s company.
another fun part of the league is that almost every week had a theme. two of the theme nights that we dressed up for were nerd night & big hat night. i didn’t exactly follow the big hat theme and wore a fascinator instead, but i think we nailed nerd night. aaron & ben had such great nerd costumes (yes, aaron’s shirt says talk nerdy to me. it may or may not be a real shirt that he wears.) and were so in costume that they won a pair of tickets to a seahawks preseason game.
when august came to an end, so did bocce ball league. sad. but, we found a fun trivia night on wednesdays that we may take part in with the team in lieu of bocce ball. {bonus: we played last week & won!} the only bad part about trivia night is sadie can’t come to the trivia night bar (she could come to bocce ball as long as we kept her off the pitch) and there are no theme nights (i guess we will have to save our dressing up for halloween).
all in all, i am so glad we played bocce ball league this summer! i will leave you with a short video of nerd aaron dancing – this portrays the enthusiasm he had for bocce ball league this summer.
do you have regular social events in your calendar?
M