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our trip to peru: part iii.

{the ruins continued – machu picchu, peru}

{the inkaterra hotet – machu picchu, peru}

{ollantaytambo – sacred valley, peru}

{sacred valley, peru}

more photos to come!

our trip to peru: part ii.

{sorry for anyone that got two emails about the first peru blog post last wednesday & friday. i was having trouble with the formatting & the post uploaded, but then was taken back down.}

{part i.}

{ollantaytambo, peru}

{inka rail – machu picchu, peru}

{the ruins – machu picchu, peru}

more photos to come!

i thought it would be fun to commemorate the one month mark from returning home from peru to post our trip pictures. {i apologize to those of you who have been waiting. good news, wait is over!} i have to warn you that there are a lot of pictures & i will be breaking up the trip into a couple of posts. enjoy!

{larco herrera museum – lima, peru}

{cusco, peru}

{chincheros – sacred valley, peru}

{aranwa hotel – sacred valley, peru}

more photos to come!

tweet, tweet.

i have had a twitter handle for a while now – mostly because i wanted to make sure i could get the one i wanted, even though misha was taken, boo! – but i hadn’t tweeted anything for months.

when i was in indiana a few weeks ago, my cousin kendra convinced me that i should be tweeting. even if it is just a link to a blog post.

so, i have tweeted a handful of times. two to be exact.

i don’t know if how much i will be tweeting in the future, but if you are interested in following me, my handle is: mishacslower {same as instagram}.

do you tweet? if you do, leave your handle in the comments, i would love to follow you!

my weekend in pictures.

{on my friday evening commute it was pouring rain. yes, my kate spade loafers were full of water. boo.}

{sadie patiently waiting for us to go on a saturday morning walk.}

{there were lots of hanging leaves on our walk.}

{it is definitely fall in the emerald city.}

{saturday brunch at café campagne at the market with ben, sarah, aaron’s aunt susan & her new husband duane}

{we visited the ballard locks.}

{the lake washington canal, since 1915.}

{me, aunt susan, & sarah watching the locks move the boats.}

{we took our out-of-town guests on the theo’s chocolate factory tour in fremont. highly recommended!}

{highlight of the chocolate tour: you get to wear hairnets. yes, i am donning two hair nets as one was not sufficient to cover my top knot.}

{a blurry but beautiful shot of the emerald city from the famous kerry park. no, the space needle is not in the middle of downtown, it just looks like it from this viewpoint.}

{dinner during a movie at iPic in redmond with my grandmother. we saw flight which was pretty darn good. sad but good.}

{my grandmother in her adorable stripey jacket & christmas lights at redmond town center!}

we had an action-packed weekend with lots of family & friends. fall is definitely in the air as the leaves are turning beautiful colors & falling all over. luckily it appears our leaf raking will be minimal this fall! we are enjoying the new season thus far (especially the extra hour of sleep this morning!) but would be happy to see the rain go away. how was your weekend?

happy halloween!

our front porch is decorated with pumpkins & our candy bins are overflowing in preparation for the neighborhood kids to trick-or-treat at the lower house tomorrow! there is also a neighborhood parade where the kids get to show off their costumes – so excited!

we hope you have a spooky (& safe) halloween!

my weekend in pictures.

{we have been cooking from pinterest a lot recently.}

{attempting to catch up on my back-log of vogues.}

{yep, it is officially hot water bottle season in seattle.}

{we saved the seeds from two pumpkins to roast this weekend!}

{sadie waiting patiently for aaron to get a latte.}

{ordering my sandwich at which wich in the u district.}

{really joann’s? christmas stuff? it isn’t even halloween yet!}

{spray painting with my go-to chalkboard paint.}

{we debuted our halloween costume at ben & sarah’s annual ghouls near greenlake party.}

{me & mary alice at the party – aviators were borrowed.}

{we met up with ben & sarah for sunday morning breakfast at wholefoods. apparently my husband erik ordered my latte this morning.}

{sadie was a cuddlebug on sunday morning.}

{thanks amanda for hosting crafternoon – it was so great to see you, george, & madeleine!}

we had a fun fall weekend, but as always, it went way too fast! how was your weekend?

OOF.

we are OOF* today so there won’t be any my weekend in pictures post today. sad, i know. but, i have scheduled some posts & i will be back next week for regularly scheduled programming.

for your viewing pleasure, i will leave you with a picture of where we are this week.

any guesses? {i will have non-googled pictures to share when we get back!}

how was your weekend?

*does anyone understand why the acronym for out of office is OOF & not OOO? or even OFF? OOF makes no sense. none at all.

thirty before i am thirty.

the weekend before last – when we were in indiana – i was able to check another item off my thirty before thirty list thanks to our friend colt!

number twenty-eight: attend an NLF game. i always assumed that the nfl game i would attend would be a seahawks game, given that they play roughly eight games per season in the city i call home. obviously i haven’t made it down to a game in the almost seven years i have lived here. i digress. when we got to colt’s house on friday night, he surprised us with tickets to the colts game that up-coming sunday. to say that we were surprised would be an understatement. aaron is an avid colts fan, being from indiana & all, but had never seen them play at lucas oil field, & obviously attending a game was high on my list. we got to tailgate outside the stadium before the game started, & once inside at our seats, we experienced what a fun stadium lucas oil is. the roof was open to let in the sun & the crowd was great. the colts ended up losing a close game at the last minute, but it was still fun to be there cheering them on in person!

go colts!

have you been to an nfl game this season?

a shower for baby garner-ballard.

one of the reasons we picked the weekend before last to take a trip to the midwest was so that i could attend meg’s baby shower. {sidenote: meg is a cousin of one of aaron’s cousins, but that is just semantics & i consider meg family!}

one of the really fun parts about the shower is that kendra & i kept our trip on the DL, & showed up as surprise guests for meg. so fun!

aaron’s aunt & cousins – sharon, abbi, & maggi – threw the shower & they did such a wonderful job. the décor was so adorable & i was loving the color scheme. meg knows that she is having a boy, but i love that the shower didn’t scream “BOY!”