Because It Is Raining...

...I started thinking about Seattle.

 Which made me think of the amazing trip Erik and I took to Seattle a few years ago. That was so much fun. We spent the weekend walking around, eating, sight seeing, and checking out cool restaurants and bars. I love Seattle so much. I think it  has all the big city feel while also having a low key factor to it. I loved eating sushi, then walking through the outdoor market and hanging out on the monorail. Maybe Erik and I should take another trip up there, or perhaps just spend a day sightseeing in Portland trying not to worry about the day-to-day stresses of our lives. Hmmm. I'll have to talk to Erik.

November 29th Means...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDYO!

I love you so much!

MOVING DAY!

more blogging later...

Awesome Movie

So good...

Art Work

My classroom at work needs to change often so that the kids are excited about coming to school. At age 2, kids are very visual so I try to be as colorful and inviting with my craftiness. Until I started working in my own classroom I was very hesitant about making artwork or crafts because I feel I have very little artistic talent. But since I now work in such a creative enviroment, I am so much more willing to try and be artistic. So, I thought I would share a few pieces of art I recently did for my classroom! Pardon the pictures, they're from my phone camera and not very good.

Listening to: "Innocent" by Taylor Swift

Happy Thanksgiving!!

mmm wine

It's Party Tiiiiime...

 Jessyka's bridal shower is on Saturday so we needed to get some party favors! The theme of the shower is British High Tea! So everyone needed a tea cup. Here are a few we got, from Anthropologie of course!



Happy Birthday Katy-Bug!

Happy Birthday to my amazing little sister, Kathryn Elizabeth!

I love you so much and you are making me so proud everyday!

I love you!

Gray Bedrooms...

...inspiration.

Jenny's Wedding!

Here is some wedding inspiration for my lovely friend Jenny's Wedding to her totally amazing fiance Scott.

Here Goes! 

Just some ideas! 

Happy Friday!

Harry Potter 7. Sushi. Red Wine. 

All with my husband and mom!

So Excited!

Ode To Coffee

Coffee, you taste so good.

You instantly put in me in a better mood.

You take my headaches away,

and make me want to jump and play. 

I can't wait to drink you up,

and treat myself to another cup.

Bad week, but I am happy it is Thursday.

I loooooove my....

siblings...

I am so lucky to have these three people in my life. I think that God makes sure that certain people come into your life and I am so lucky that he gave me, not only my amazing parents and husband, but these three people who make my life complete. My siblings are my soul mates.

We really have become best friends and I would do anything for them. Since September, the three of them have been living in Eugene, Santa Clara, and Alaska while they left me here in Beaverton. I miss them so much everyday and I cannot believe how much I have been in withdrawl since they left.

Amazing People.

I love you three so much!

Thank you for always being here for me and making my life amazing.

Daydreaming about Furniture.

I went bedroom set shopping with my parents at Crate and Barrel this weekend and ALL I have been thinking about since is....
The Colette Bed.

I love it.

....Someday.

With These Sheets and Pillows from Anthropologie...

Things I've Done...

This was on one of my best friend's blog, **Insert Creative Title Here**, so I thought I would try it out as well. I love sunday mornings. Lately, I have been doing so much during the week and saturdays have been crazy. So its so amazing to be sitting in my living room and while my amazing husband, Erik, does homework I can read blogs, drink tea, and just relax. So Happy Sunday Everyone!

Things I Have Done: (Red:I've done)

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars

3. Played in a band

4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland

8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis

10. Sang a solo

11. Bungee jumped

12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea (only from my front porch)

14. Taught yourself an art from scratch

15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning

17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty

18. Grown your own vegetables

19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France

20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight

22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill

24. Built a snow fort

25. Held a lamb

26. Gone skinny dipping

27. Run a Marathon

28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice

29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset

31. Hit a home run

32. Been on a cruise

33. Seen Niagara Falls in person

34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors

35. Seen an Amish community

36. Taught yourself a new language

37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied

38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person

39. Gone rock climbing

40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke 

42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt

43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant

44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight

46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted 

48. Gone deep sea fishing

49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person

50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris

51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud

54. Gone to a drive-in theater

55. Been in a movie

56. Visited the Great Wall of China

57. Started a business

58. Taken a martial arts class

59. Visited Russia

60. Served at a soup kitchen

61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies

62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason 

64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma. 
65. Gone sky diving

66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp

67. Bounced a check

68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy

70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar

72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square

74. Toured the Everglades

75. Been fired from a job

76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London

77. Broken a bone

78. Been on a speeding motorcycle

79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person

80. Published a book

81. Visited the Vatican

82. Bought a brand new car

83. Walked in Jerusalem

84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Kissed a stranger at midnight on New Year's Eve 

86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox

89. Saved someone’s life

90. Sat on a jury

91. Met someone famous

92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one

94. Had a baby

95. Seen the Alamo in person

96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake

97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone

99. Been stung by a bee

Hmm. Made me want to do some things I never even thought about doing.

And P.S. I've been wanting to start a book club forever! I need members! 

I wanna live in a tree house..

...or at least have one to vacation in. 

We're Famous!

Erik and my wedding was featured on a website called Style Unveiled.
Check it out!
Link Below.

Our Wedding on Style Unveiled

Happy Friday!

Listening to "B.S.A" by Brian Jonestown Massacre



I want to live on this street...

... because its beautiful. 

Word of the Day Wednesday

Kangaroo-
–noun, plural -roos, ( especially collectively ) -roo.

any herbivorous marsupial of the family Macropodidae, of Australia and adjacent islands, having a small head, short forelimbs, powerful hind legs used for leaping, and a long, thick tail: several species are threatened or endangered.
 
My sister Jessyka, from Let's Talk About Beer,  is reading the book Blue Latitude by Tony Horwitz, writes about Captin Cook in his book, saying: '"It was of a light mouse color and the full size of the greyhound, and shaped in every respect like one. I would've taken it for a wild dog, but for its walking or running in which it jumped like a hare or a dear." Unsure of what to call this odd beast Cook refered to it as "the animal" later he inserted the native word which he rendered "kanguru"'
 
This is very interesting as are Kangaroos.

 
 

Listening to: My sister, Jessyka from Creative Fibers, reading her book to me.

Window Seats

With the weather being so rainy and cold today, it made me really wish I was curled up with a book and a blanket in a window seat watching the rain. I will have to add this to the list of necessities for Erik and my future dream house!

Can't wait to have one of those...

I love Lauren & Lo

Holidays

Beautiful Holiday Mantel. This will be Erik and my first Christmas as the Reeds and so I am very excited for it! I wish we would be living in our own place, but its not what is best for us right now. Sooo.. I might need to set up a holiday mantel and decorate my parents house to my heart's content. I love the holidays and Crate & Barrel of course!