Goodbye Poodles in Paris

 Adam worked his butt off on this project!  We are finally rid of the hideous "poodles in paris" wallpaper in the guestroom/my office and now we have a nice, warm yellow!  Now we are ready for some guests!

A beautiful Fall Weekend...

 We had a great weekend- I took some pictures at the Farmer's Market on Saturday after going out to brunch at Mercato (yummy). We celebrated Laurel's birthday by having a small gathering at our house on Friday- Sean and Ruby stayed with us.  We also were dog-sitting, Sham, Jonah's dog for the weekend- who is very old but very sweet.  We tried to keep Ezra from bugging him too much.  Adam worked on the wall paper project all weekend (more on that later).  I did some  yard work and braved our creepy shop attic to sort through the boxes up there (all empty- no "treasures") until I heard something moving around and got too freaked out to stay up there (likely a squirrel is living up there). 

Laurel's new birthday hair color and flowers from the market!

 

The newest dahlia in our garden

our guest dog for the weekend

Puppies and Flowers

 OMG! Jenny and John just got a 8 week old husky puppy and she is so cute (named Neko).  Jenny brought her over last night for a little play date with Ezra which was adorable.  Callie and Finn came over too- Finn was excited to see the chickens and the puppies! 
It was a rough weekend- Adam and I both caught colds and are in recovery.  We are coping with some major health problems for Adam right now and getting sick didn't help.  It was a good weekend to lay low.

We're pretty excited that our dahlias are finally blooming.  I bought bulbs from the farm that did my wedding flowers, so these should look familiar!   So much color!

Neko and Jenny's cat Nyla

First Anniversary Trip: Orcas Island

made a cake from our wedding

 Adam and I went camping last weekend on Orcas to celebrate our first anniversary. We had a great time and so did Ezra!  Orcas Island is beautiful and the weather couldn't have been better.  The ferries make it tricky but apparently they are adding reservations this January- so next summer will be better (we arrived on Friday at 2:15 to catch the 4:00 ferry- but were not early enough and had to wait until 7:20 at the ferry terminal).... Other than that- we did some nice hikes with amazing views, went swimming and relaxed at Moran State Park. 

view from our campsite- we had to set up in the dark, so we had no idea we were so close to the lake  until the next morning

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