time to play catch up

Wow. I knew August would be hectic, but I didn't realize how hectic. After my grandmother's visit, we entertained G's father, sister, and her fiance!! Big congratulations to Sylvia. We are so happy for her! And another G joins our family - that's right, we had three G's in the house for a week.

During that time we also took a trip out to Spokane for a couple days, to visit with G's aunt/senior G's sister, M. G's dad designed her house, it is absolutely beautiful. It was also ridiculously hot - climbing into the 100s. This is why I left California!! Sheesh! No wonder I don't live in Eastern Washington.

After the family left, I quickly packed my bags and left for a girls weekend in the Bay Area. I love San Francisco - always will! - and I love hanging out with my girlfriends there. These girls are the best. We headed down to Aptos (between Santa Cruz and Monterey) to spend a few days at a condo on the beach. Good food, good games, good company, amazing views. Fantastic weekend.

The only downside is that I came home to an empty house. My sweet G has gone back to East Coast for a couple (three and a half!) weeks to take care of his dad. His dad is not doing so well - G has gone to provide some physical and emotional support to the family out East.

So that is where we're at. Oh yeah, and one more thing....We are expecting our first child! Our little family of two will be a family of three in late February/early March of 2009. We are incredibly happy - it is such an amazing experience to go from "really? are you sure?" to amazing joy and huge, huge smiles. I am headed into month four of this incredible journey through pregnancy - and of course, I am the luckiest girl in the world, so far this has been a very simple pregnancy for me.

Will certainly try to keep up on the postings, and hopefully get some belly photos up here once I really start showing.

hurray for sweat equity!

G. has almost finished the master bedroom floor. He finished applying the wax the first night of my grandmother's visit, and the three of us picked out some trim and now that is painted and installed. The only piece left is, well, the new painted trim is whiter than the old trim that is still in place around the doorframes. Oops. So we're going to paint the doorframe trim so it all matches and then we can call Phase 1 of the flooring project complete. Check it out!


We had our Second Sunday brunch on the first Sunday this month... a good showing of folks, lots of new faces, and way too much food. So amazing - I love my Seattle family! And the visit from my grandma was great - she has so many stories to tell, I just soaked them all in. Thanks for the visit grandma!! I think you left too soon. (Oh, and I got her to make her potatoes for Brunch - if only I had known all the years the secret is bacon grease... a classic moment at brunch, as I asked her to make one pan with bacon product and another without... when I presented the two options to my friends, their response was, "I guess I'll have the veggie version, but man! the bacon version sure looks better!"... indeed, they were. I'm slowly coming out of my vegetarian shell.... )

Hope you're all having a lovely August. We're just starting to hit 90 degrees here... blue skies even! How I love the Seattle summers...