Watching the Leaves Change Colors

I love the fall. 

I love waking up to the morning fog and the crisp air

I love running with my gloves and earphones on

I love it when the sun is out- and the light reflects an orangey glow off the lake

I love the smell of pumpkin pie, fireplaces, and cornbread

And hay and wood chips from the pumpkin patch.

I love watching the leaves turn from golden yellow to bright orange to candy apple red

I love driving down the leaf covered roads

daydreaming about nothing

I love Halloween

I love passing out candy to the neighbor kids- almost as much as I like trick-or-treating myself

I love traditions

I love family gatherings- and sharing stories

I love looking forward to the holiday season

I love pumpkin carving, and frying up the seeds

I love that this will be Dyllan's first Halloween (she'll be a BEE)

and that Dan will get to experience his first trick-or-treat with Dyllan (and me)

I love candy

I also love that Dyllan cant eat her candy...

Happy Fall!











West Seattle- Lincoln Park

Night Game
Huskies vs. Oregon St.

Montlake Canal- Burke-Gilman Trail

Tai Chi Guy..



Crawling

Errr, scooching....

Skinny Jeans

We have sure been busy lately- from moving offices for work- to finding new tenants for our house- to clearing out our entire basement and moving it into our neighbors garage for a garage sale- to Dyllan becoming more and more playful and active by the day - look out shes on the move now! We have not stopped going- going - going!

Here are a few photos of what we have been up to lately- its so fun watching the Bugface grow- she cracks us up every day! Such a personality! And so easygoing!  We feel so lucky.

You know those commercials where the girl is on the floor trying to squeeeeze into her skinny jeans?
Dyllan is attempting to shimmy into her skinny jeans...

Alllllmmmoooosssst there......

Stopping for a breather... its hard work!
Nobody said looking good was gonna be easy...

Dyllan: "Phew!  Got em on!"
"Do these jeans make me look fat, Mylo?!?"

Mylo:  "No, Dyllan, I love you just the way you are..."

We moved offices- from Mercer Island (right down the street from our house) to West Seattle- ugh.. 40 min drive now...
Here is my office- before (well kind of durring) our move.



Mercer Island office:  view



West Seattle office- view
Not bad!  We get to watch the ferry's come in from Vashon Island- as we bask in the sun!  This place gets the best, warmest southern exposure (probably in all of Washington!)

Bianca and I helping the movers.

Haha!! This picture sums up our garage sale!  We woke up at the crack of dawn- made bright neon signs with balloons- brought a big pot of coffee and a platter of Costco muffins (so good- and probably ate most of them ourselves!) had the music blaring- and our sales suits on (Dan had a black afro and scuba glasses) ready for business. It was such a success!  We sold everything- suuuper quick- and on the first day!  We had such a buzz going on at our garage sale- that everyone went nuts- the asians called all their friends/family- and bought out half our sale- and these guys (in the photo) bought the other half.. ALL before it started poring rain (around noon) on Saturday.  Dan went home to collect a missing part to a game- and decided to bring Mylo back- and this is what we got... The Zuuuuuuummmmmies!  She does the "zoomies" when she is excited- or wild- or just cause- where her hind legs run faster than her front legs- and she goes flying around the neighborhood like a bottle rocket (i think its a bottle rocket... the fireworks that go zooming around on the ground before they take off into the air?!)  You can see the little puppy in the background is totally freaked out by Mylo..

This is the end of our garage sale- we had to cover the mattresses with tarp- and as you can see- there is tons of crap left.. haha at this point in the day- people would drive by- and keep on driving.. so we decided to call Sunday off- and close early.  We made a small fortune ($2,000) and called it a day.  Just as we were packing up- a nice Korean girl came to check it out- and told us her story about how she was here taking care of her sick brother and how they had nothing in the way of furniture, kitchenware, household items, etc.. so we packed the rest of our crap up- and put it in her car.  Sweet!

The three of us went out to celebrate at Tamarind Tree- this awesome Vietnamese Restaurant in the international district. 
Such a fun night! 



We always love it when Uncle Bill comes down from Blaine.  This time he brought 3 coolers full of various crab(*oops) dishes.  He caught a bunch of crab this season- and fortunately for us- he likes to cook and share!  Here, Bill is making his famous Crab cakes (2 different kinds- with 3 different sauces- all AMAZING!)  We tried talking him into opening his own Crab Shack.  "Bill's Got Crabs" Shack.



We snarfed them down so fast- I almost forgot to take a picture!

Speaking of "Snarfing".. the snarf monster herself shows us how its done.

So excited to finally fit into her big girl high chair!

Soo funny!  She gets such a kick out of blowing bubbles, "raspberries" as soon as we put her food in her mouth.  Its like a carrot/spit shower- all over the place.  Glad someone thinks its funny...

"Ok, I'm ready, Ill be serious now... gimme more!"

"Ahhh hahahha, gotcha.. I spit it everywhere, again! Im so funny!"

(I have to say though, she is a really good eater.  She will eat most of her meal- then when she is getting full- she likes to play the spitting game.. so its pretty easy to tell when shes done.)

Mariners Game

Sunday afternoon we headed down to Safeco Field to watch the Mariners play the Athletics.  It was a nice day out- perfect weather to watch a game.  It just so happened to be "kids appreciation day" too- so it worked out well that we brought Dyllan.  We all had a fun time- and Dyllan enjoyed herself so much that she passed out.

Pre Game Drinks

"This is how you hold your drink, Dyllan"

"Kid's Appreciation Day"

There were all these random mascots everywhere!!

A Mariner?!

A little too much excitement...zzzzz..

Three Years and Counting...

Yesterday was Dan and my three year anniversary- from the first wedding!  Three years ago yesterday Dan's parents, who had flown in from Australia, my parents, and Sean all congregated in the church to watch Dan and I exchange vows.  We celebrated our official nuptials (I hate that word!)  by going out to dinner at McCormick and Schmicks with our families afterwards.  Then a week or so later- we had a bigger celebration with about 20 of our closest friends and family downtown Seattle at Cutters Bayhouse- where we had a private banquet room overlooking the Puget Sound- and great food and drinks.   Dinner was followed by a fun night out at the Last Supper Club- where we saw one of our all time favorite DJ's- Kaskade.

Although we consider July 5 our wedding day- we still like to celebrate both (*wink*).  This year, we didn't have any definite plans- but we knew the weather would be nice (ya never know in Seattle..) so finished work a little early- packed a picnic and loaded up the car- Dyllan and Mylo- and headed to Alki Beach.  Although we left our bottle opener for our wine and Mylo's leash and collar at home- we managed to have a pretty great time.  We couldn't have asked for a better evening at the beach (sounds crazy to say that- when I am talking about Seattle)- the weather was perfect- and the sunset was spectacular.