ten

today we celebrate our tenth anniversary. wow. time does certainly fly!

here's a little peek back to that beautiful day up on mt. hood ten years ago.....

how lucky am i to be married to this man...and have this life of fun and spirit and love.....plenty to celebrate that is for sure.

the first ten years have been a blast....and i am happily looking forward to the next ten!

happy anniversary to us!

malibu wedding

so this post is about a week late but we traveled down to los angeles last weekend for my college roommate lisa's wedding. we left the kids with my dad and again has some great adult time (i told todd that i've seen him more in the past 6 weeks than i've seen him in the past 5 yrs). anyway we had a great great time. many of my college girlfriends came which made it a little reunion and all the more fun.

lisa looked amazing, brian (the groom) dashing, the setting was beautiful and the wedding was fabulous! (not that i had any doubts that lisa could throw a pretty kickin party...she even had it catered by a food truck...kogi korean bbq...yummmm!)

here are a few shots from the wedding......

.......the ceremony

my college girlfriends (me, lisa, hava, renee)......

so wonderful to see good friends!....

.....the newlyweds (they have that just got married glow)

.... hava and her husband adam clearly having a good time

......cutting the cake

.....another happy couple

....ahhhhhhh

.....lisa and i discovered blue raspberry blow pops in college and you know its a good party when the blow pops come out (god bless her for having them at the bar!)

.....the college roommates (19yrs after we first showed up at the dorm room freshman year)

such a fun wedding......great great weekend.

back to school

well we have officially started school. each kid got to choose what they wanted for breakfast on the morning of the first day of school. riley wanted scrambled eggs, grits and bacon. lucy wanted chocolate chip pancakes. luckily they started on different days or we would have been cooking all morning!! i don't know what their food choices say about them but both started their respective school days with full happy bellies.

riley started on tuesday. a big first grader. he just exudes confidence this year as opposed to the nervous anticipation of last year.

lucy started on wednesday. she is all casual ease and smiles.

and so school starts again....hope your back-to-school days were happy too!

summer grand finale

so we have just finished up the end of summer play extravaganza....and what a last week of summer it has been!!!

first we went to sunriver (a resort type place outside of bend in central oregon). the campbell family (my brother and his family, my mom and her partner, and us) rented a house for a week of r and r. we had a great time hanging out, reading books, hot tubbing, playing games.

....momo reading books to lucy and ella

...ella having a little sticker fun...

....the classic 'cousins in a bathtub' shot

...everybody all together...

then we were back home for just a few hours before todd's dad and stepmom came for a visit. they just left this morning. what a lovely visit. it's such a treat to share our lives with them.

and lots of fun to be had too.....a morning at the fish ladders

a great ride on the train with grandma lynn and grandpa dierker

it was a great end to our summer.....now we getting ready for school to start in a couple of days.