kitchen updates

Before...
start of the project...

finished back splash

Our kitchen is now yellow and we finally have a tiled back splash finished :-)

some quick updates...

I have managed to grow some lemons on our lemon tree....we shall see if they end up ever turning yellow...
I had to post this just to prove I have not killed our garden yet...there are actual tomatoes growing!!

Our grumpy jerk of a mail man does not like dogs so we had to move our mailbox to the outside of our fence so that molly wouldn't growl at him......so I made it look pretty at least...

Sara's visit

Sara and Nature.... :-)

A pretty stream along our 8 miles of hiking straight up a mountain that day..
On our hike up to Wakeena falls

Somewhere up high that I made Sara hike to that day..haha
relaxing (and sweating) on a WAY too hot day on the Portland spirit
Buck Lake
hiking to Buck lake to sit in our inner tubes in the lake...
Horsetail falls

Seattle

We stayed overnight at a hotel in Seattle after the flight from Alaska

View of the space needle from our hotel

Pikes Place Market...

Dani & Gregor's wedding

My cousin Nick and I....there may have been a little (ok a bottle) of wine involved in this picture....
Gram seemed to enjoy the wine as well.... (sorry gram, I had to post this one...)
Me with my cousin Dani and her hubby Gregor who is swiss but they live in Australia at the moment. It was so nice to get to meet him finally!!
cake time...

My cousin Samantha and Gregors best friend from Australia Arvin (sp?)
The happy couple during their first dance
Mom, my bro Haidan, Cousin Nick, myself & Nate

This was the coolest table there by far!! YA table 8!
The happy couple, plus I caught the grandmas eating hahah...
Cheers!!
What a beautiful wedding and wishes for many happy years to the wonderful couple!!

The shoes called KYLA!

Nick & Beth are getting married in October so I was just looking around on the Internet for shoes to go with the bridesmaid dress that Beth chose for us to wear (see above) and saw some shoes on the NINA website that are called the KYLA! not sure if I would want them for the dress but now I feel like I have to have them simply because they are named after me :-)

http://www.ninashoes.com/-(263)-Silver%20Flash%20Fishnet-(7974-8J56JG).html

I {HEART} IKEA

Cute new leaf curtains from IKEA
cute new bedspread from IKEA
some great pictures I framed with frames from IKEA
I decided that I would tackle trying to decorate our guest room. Can I just say that I LOVE LOVE LOVE Ikea....they have so many cute things that are really affordable and pretty decent quality too. If you have one around you and need to decorate anything I highly recommend going there. The problem is that it is hard to walk out of that place without buying something.... (but hey, how can you pass up $4.99 sheets and $11.99 duvet covers?) I would love to work as a designer for IKEA who sets up the show room rooms...now THAT would be a great job for me!