sadie – Page 8 – emerald city diaries

my weekend in pictures.

{hello seattle, it is good to see you after a week!}

{our house was slightly cold upon our return. thank goodness for central heat!}

{my huskies played a good game against usc though it was still a hard loss.}

{look who we got to see on friday night! gosh, i missed her.}

{such a spoiled dog – aaron made her a pillow.}

{rockin’ my new blue suede shoes.}

{we watched a bit of the seahawks game over lunch with my mom.}

we flew in saturday afternoon from houston after flying all night from lima, so needless to say we had a low-key weekend. my mom & sister anya flew in sunday afternoon, so we will be spending a fun-filled & busy week with them. back to the grind tomorrow. how was your weekend?

my weekend in pictures.

{woke up friday morning to a double rainbow. so beautiful!}

{my first time making baked potatoes in the crock pot. success! wash potatoes, wrap in foil, set crock pot on low, & cook for 8 hours. aaron wanted the skin crispy so he put a little oil on the skins & put them in the toaster oven.}

{my calendar at work. yes, tgif!}

{3-person carpools: one of the many reasons we take the bus to work.}

{yay, pumpkins at the store. happy fall!}

{i need a bang trim.}

{aaron ran (& survived) tough mudder with his brother & some friends on saturday.}

{two ferraris valeted at the westin in bellevue. no big deal.}

{on sunday we took my grandmother to yogurtland for the first time. she was literally a kid in a candystore, you should have seen her bee-line for the candy toppings!}

{i got caught up on a few of my magazine subscriptions. yep, that is still the vogue september issue that i haven’t gone thru & i already have the october issue.}

{perusing my food pinterest board for recipes for dinner this week.}

{we celebrated sadie’s birthday on sunday & boy was she spoiled: a new squeaky toy, a big bone, & a birthday cookie!}

how was your weekend?

happy birthday!

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!

bocce ball league.

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.

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do you have regular social events in your calendar?

my weekend in pictures.

{casual friday is overrated.}

{enjoyed a salted caramel cupcake from trophy.}

{what, no nordstrom website? good thing they take orders via phone.}

{thanks husband for the beautiful flowers on saturday morning!}

{aaron spent saturday afternoon trimming the laurel hedges.}

{thanks for the beautiful bracelet from italy mary alice!}

{aaron & sadie took a little snooze on the couch on saturday afternoon.}

{mmm. you know it’s almost fall when aaron starts making pumpkin pancakes.}

{bubble gum lollipop. yep, that was my sugar quota for the week!}

{finally had a chance to catch up on mag reading including the vogue september issue!}

{sadie & the enormous pile of mulch we still have in our front yard. mulch anyone?}

{my grandmother insisted on sorbet after dinner on sunday night.}

i can’t believe how fast the weekend went. i either need time to stop for a bit so i can catch up, or i need more days in the week. how was your weekend?

thirty before i am thirty.

i haven’t been able to check off anything from my thirty before i am thirty list recently which has been a bit of a bummer. obviously i have a few more years before i am thirty to get the list completed, but it is such a great feeling to put a little check next to one of those items.

just last week, however, i was able to check off a big item & i wanted to share in case you hadn’t heard the great news!

number three: get a grown-up job. many of you know that in lieu of entering the workforce right out of college, i applied to law school & joined americorp for a service year. i graduated from law school last spring & sat for the bar that july, but have been looking for work since last fall. since i had essentially been in school my entire life (well, since age 5), i really hadn’t had a real job. that is until now! the week before last i was offered a job after two rounds of interviews, & obviously i accepted. i am an account manager of media licenses at a large software company (you could probably guess!) & will be managing non-standard media licenses for big clients from pre-license thru the life of the license. i know it may sound boring to some, but it is right up my alley with all of the contracts & compliance that is involved (yay for using my law degree!). while i have not even worked a week, i am enjoying the role & really like my team. it has been a bit of a change for me to be gone from the house all day, like we had to hire a dog walker to come walk sadie & let her out during the day, but it is wonderful that aaron & i both have great jobs! {does this make us yuppies?}

{my first day of work}

are you keeping a list of things to do in life?

my weekend in pictures.

{chobani greek yogurt: breakfast of olympians. and me.}

{sadie cooling off by eating ice cubes.}

{finally cleaned out the office closet!}

{aaron & my grandmother walking from dinner to the big picture movie theater.}

{we saw ruby sparks on the big screen. cute & funny.}

{planning artwork configurations in the office.}

{traffic jam. thanks I-5.}

{fun party lights.}

{a wig birthday party to celebrate PJ’s birthday!}

{loving the chandelier & wallpaper in the kate spade dressing room.}

{art up in the office & bed set up for our first house guest this week!}

{i saved some daisies in the backyard from the weed-whacker.}

we enjoyed the sunny, but cooler weekend with projects around the house & a few get-togethers with friends. we are gearing up for a very busy week at the lower house! how was your weekend?

my weekend in pictures.

{sadie hunting for bugs in the backyard.}

{the cranes for the 520 bridge construction at sunset.}

{olympics.}

{we attempted to dig out the roots to two box hedges that bit the dust after our plumbing work.}

{success! take that root ball.}

{it looks so strange with no hedges here.}

{removing my gel polish manicure.}

{playing hopscotch in the neighborhood.}

{bbq at rhett & lindsey’s new place. killer views of lake union & the city.}

{i like the team spirit at the u-district safeway. go huskies!}

{i found a lucky penny on my way to greenlake sunday morning.}

{we finally caulked in the kitchen. tip: use painter’s tape!}

{aaron ran around all weekend propping open all the storm windows in various parts of the house to help us stay cool in the 90 degree weather we had in seattle this weekend. i realize 90 is not that hot, especially with much of the country into triple digits, but this is HOT & we don’t have A/C.}

{more olympics. despite the heat, sadie was really into cuddling.}

how was your weekend?

my weekend in pictures.

{friday morning yoga.}

{it must be summertime because half of the time i drive thru eastlake the university bridge is up for boat traffic.}

{snacks packed for our road trip.}

{on the road! destination: stevenson, wa.}

{welcome to stevenson! so stevenson, wa is right on the columbia river acts as the state border between washington & oregon. in order to get to stevenson though, you have to drive into oregon & then cross back over into washington.}

{the bridge to hood river, oregon where we spent saturday morning.}

{downtown hood river.}

{family photo.}

{sadie was loving the shade & the cool concrete.}

{we stopped for a delicious juice on our way to the farmer’s market.}

{the columbia river gorge is absolutely gorge-ous! if you are ever near portland & have a vehicle, keep driving down i-84 to see the columbia river. you won’t be disappointed!}

{our little rustic cabin get-away.}

{here comes the bride!}

{the ceremony.}

{we clean up pretty well. at least for special occasions like weddings.}

{the cake cutting.}

{& the cake fighting.}

{the beautiful view from skamania lodge.}

{crossing back into oregon over the bridge of the gods.}

{bye-bye portland! we stopped in portland for a little shopping & leg-stretching before heading back to seattle.}

we had a fun weekend get-away to small-town, washington to attend the wedding of one of my law school friends, marcus. neither of us had spent any time at the columbia river gorge, but boy it was stunning! the weather was nice & sunny, & the wedding was so fun. how was your weekend?

my weekend in pictures.

{sadie decided sitting on the table was the best place to be at lunch.}

{frog dog.}

{we stopped for lunch at emigrant springs in the blue mountains & it was gorgeous.}

{i had to make it back into town on saturday to see my good friend from law school sarah.}

{my grandmother, my mom, & i shopped the nordy’s anni sale. it was crazy. why didn’t i pre-sale?}

{we ended the weekend with a fierce game of dominoes.}

i was in boise last week & drove home on saturday. my mom joined me on the drive back much to my delight & she will be here thru the middle of the week. i am still getting used to the almost forty degree temperature difference between boise & seattle – where is that beautiful summer weather we had just a few weeks ago? how was your weekend?