birthday extravaganza pt.2

Tuesday (otherwise known as the day of reckoning) Miss K was the first to give me birthday kisses and also sleep in until 8 which is incredibly rare, Yay for birthday sleep!!! and yay for birthday breakfast with my two favorite peeps..

a late breakfast was just a short walk away at Shakabrah where I went for a classic combo that hit the spot:)

Later that night we headed to Ravenous to meet with our friends Jamille and Steve for a little dinner. One neat thing about this place (besides the GroupOn from my brother and sister-in-law) is that the walls are lined with corks signed by customers.

The Mr. and I split a delicious pizza and Jamille and Steve got me an awesome bottle of wine and a book of zombie love songs respectively:) The zombie thing is another post for another time but suffice to say that I have a very irrational fear.

Also while down in that part of town I took this funky picture of Mr. Awesome that I love...

all in all my birthday was absolutely lovely and I'm looking forward to a crazy 30th year. Stay tuned for my 30@30 reveal.

Hope everyone's having a great week!

two year anniversa-brownies

Today is Mr. Awesome and my two year anniversary. It's actually the the two year anniversary of our wedding day but legally we were married on February 27th. We decided that we should always celebrate both. So with that in mind the Mr. took over the 27th. It was an awesome day!! After church my mom took Miss K while we went and enjoyed a cookie and some quiet time at the bookstore, afterwards he had gotten us tickets to the Glass Museum...

there was a great exhibit of kid designed pieces. The kids were able to draw all these creatures and write brief descriptions about what they do like "shoot laycer beems" and then they would actually create the creatures out of glass. It was a super fun trip and it was followed by a late lunch at Stanley and Seaforts with this view...

Our server was lovely and followed our meal with a complimentary creme brulee (which happened to be the best I've had...and not just because it was free.)

Today was up to me and it was definitely more low-key due to work and school. I made some special anniversa-brownies served with Tillamook strawberry ice cream and a meal of fancy meat-loaf and sauteed asparagus. Hopefully, after Miss K heads off to bed we will be able to relax with a glass of wine and talk about how much we've crammed into these two short years and how excited we are about all the plans we have in the works.

the return

So obviously I've been on a bit of a blogging hiatus and here's why:

1. The month of February found our whole house over/under/in the middle of the weather. First Mr. Awesome got sick and because we took a vow to share everything he decided to get me sick too. After nearly two weeks of yuckiness we were thanking our lucky stars that Miss K was not even remotely phased. Apparently our stars aren't that lucky after all. I don't think there's anything as sad as a sick baby. Thankfully she didn't get too bad at least that's what the doctor said after four phone calls (one during her families drive home from vacation...yeah she's awesome) and one visit to the clinic. She was just super congested. The upside of her being a little sicklet (don't judge me) was that she was super cuddly...this child is not a cuddler at all normally so it was kind of sweet to be able to comfort her. Which leads me to...

2. There used to be a time that Miss K took lovely long naps and was relatively limited in her movement. This resulted in her being easily entertained and confined to a relatively small area of the house. That is no longer the case. SHE IS MOBILE!!! and currently eating the case to my New Moon dvd, yesterday it was Maya's rubber bone, tomorrow I'm sure it will be the baseboards. Just yesterday she was standing up rifling through her book collection, only after she terrorized the dog from the pilot seat of her walker. Oh yeah and the battle that is changing her diaper has been lost. After one particularly aggressive confrontation I ceded and allowed her to escape onto the carpet bare-bottomed...she quickly marked her territory by relieving herself.

3. I don't know that I'll ever be a good housewife due to my increasingly short attention span. I try to keep up with the laundry, groceries, cleaning and misc. household-y things but we have a puppy and a heated carpet in the living room and an incredibly amusing daughter and a Netflix subscription and a new camera that all plot against my productivity. I really should work on this.

4. With winter continuing to rear it's obnoxiously cold head we are getting increasingly stir crazy...point and case I just grabbed a fussy Miss K and ran up and down the stairs a couple times singing Firework by Katy Perry (did I mention that there's a little more emphasis on the crazy!

a little project for the lovestruck

For Christmas I had printed up some subway art to go above our bookcase, unfortunately Christmas came and went and up until today that frame has been quite the problem child. I wanted something that was valentine-y due to the fact that I love revolving decor, a house that changes with the season's and holidays if you will, but I didn't want a swinging cupid from my bookcase. Enter my own personalized subway art. I've seen a lot of people creating their own versions online and knew that I could put my own twist on it.

It took a lot of tweaking and mulling over fonts and sizes in photoshop but I finally came to a look I liked. The names are all places from Mr. Awesome and my courtship...from the very first time we met at the Seattle Airport to the day he proposed at the skating rink, printed out 16x20 to fit perfectly above our bookcase.

It was pretty fun sitting with the Mr. remembering all the places we went and the memories we made during that season of our lives. It made me excited to think that this is the man I will continue to travel the world and make plans and memories with..

I think I'm definitely in the Valentine's Day spirit:)

Oh Jeez...Really...Seriously?

Call me naive but I was under the impression that I wouldn't be losing sleep until I actually produced a screaming bundle of joy. It looks to be, however, that that is clearly not the case. Just last night I woke up on four separate occasions to do one or all of the following: pee (again, honestly), guzzle orange juice directly out of the container, throw all the blankets onto Mr. Awesome, steal all the blankets back from Mr. Awesome (but not the blue one), munch on saltines, lay in bed imagining what I might prefer more than stale saltines, try to figure out whether I want to throw up or eat or, and this is the best one yet....try to convince myself that none of the aforementioned exists. Which, in turn, resets the whole shebang.

I'm tired.

Kimiko

Dear Mr. Awesome,

You are the best. Like last night for example, when I passed out at two 0'clock for a couple hours and then at 8 proclaimed I was exhausted and passed out again. What does Mr. Awesome do? Well you just tucked me in nice and tight and were off. You didn't even bat an eyelash when a couple hours later I swore that that very same blanket you tucked me in with was suffocating me and it was "Sooo friggin' hot" (incredibly dramatic, I know). "The down comforter is fine, it's the blue one that has to go!" What does Mr. Awesome do? Well you just grabbed me a glass of ice water and were on your way, blue blanket in tow.

You are the best in the land.

Kimiko