My summer in photos

I am horrible at updating this summer. It's been super busy though, so that's my excuse.

 

1.)Yesterday we signed the closing documents for our house! I picked up the keys after work and my mother in law and I got right to work sealing all the grout and granite in the joint! I have a hair appointment after work today so I am not able to go to the house, but Hubs will be painting two rooms. Wednesday is the Hub's day off so he's renting a Uhaul and moving furniture. My goal is to be sleeping in the house Wednesday night. I miss my bed!!

 

2.)The last weekend of August I spent down in Portland for our annual girls weekend. We usually go to an Oregon ocean town, but because everyone had lack of funds this year (Denise and I just purchased homes, our friend Mickey flew in from NYC, Leah is 8 months pregnant getting ready for baby, Tori is going on a holiday with her husband to England to visit relatives, etc) we stayed local in the Vancouver/Portland area because a lot of the girls are from there. Saturday we had a few hours to kill before the WSU v. Auburn football game, so we drove out to a local vineyard for tastings. We got there before the tasting room opened, so we walked the grounds and came across these grapes. I thougth it was artsy.

 

3.)Earlier in the summer (July-ish), some girlfriends and I drove an hour and a half northeast to Rattlesnake Ledge (across from Mt. Si in North Bend, WA). Once we hiked up to the top, we took a lunch break and had to take a shot of us. In the background is a wildfire on Mt. Si. It had closed the whole mountain from pedestrians due to the smoke and they were afraid it was going to spread.

 

4&5.) I was on my way to the last preseason Seahawks game and there was a crazy flash flood in Seattle. Even though I left a lot of room in between my car and the car in front of me, when I slammed on my brakes after the car in front of me stopped abruptly, because of the amount of water on the road and my brakes locking, I hit him. He was driving and Jeep Wrangler so all the damage was done to my car. I hit the stupid spare tire of his. Farrah the Xterra is in the shop with $4k worth of damage. <insert crying here>

6&7.) These were two anniversay/house warming presents from my sister-in-law. I'm a huge fan of fall, and since I'll be house poor I won't be able to afford Starbucks' pumpkin spice lattes for awhile. It was so sweet of her to spring for my pumpkin addiction. I love the candle, it smells so good! I had the lid attached to my nose the whole day. My new favorite scent from Yankee Candle.

8.) Because Mickey and I shared a bed the weekend of girls weekend, I was "gifted" the cold she had. Woke up on Sunday with a sore throat and that was it. Tried to Airborne, chicken noodle soup, tea it away. I was pretty miserable on Tuesday when I went back to work (Monday was Labor Day), so when I woke up on Wednesday and still felt horrible, I didn't hesitate to call in sick. I slept until noon when my mother-in-law woke me up (we're staying with them until we move into the house) to let me know she and my father-in-law were leaving to head out of town to Reno, NV for the balloon races which is a yearly tradition for them. After waking up, I couldn't go back to sleep so I decided to get some reading in. Currently I'm reading Dark Places by Gillian Flynn. I really enjoyed Gone Girl, so I figured I'd like this new book. So far, I do! :)