April is fast becoming the month wherein we play host and hostess with the most-est, as many times have glorious! friends visited (Hi! Jen; Hi! Roth; Hi! Bossy) and/or been scheduled to visit (Hi! Grant) in the past three weeks.
Before the dawn of April our first long-time bloggy friend (Oh hai! Jenn-ay) visited from Boston, [...]

1. My new mug from the unendingly awesome Jen with one n. Chris and I got to spend some quality time with her and her equally awesome husband (Hi! Roth) this past weekend when, after many a (gentle?) prodding, they came to Portland to peruse the city and to meet us, and she came [...]

I want to thank! everyone for the lovely link and comment loving yesterday and today, re: the new sitely digs and what you think of them.
I’m falling more in love with this design with each passing hour, and not just because most of you really like it, too! (Awesome!) and someone liked it enough yesterday [...]

I bring you: The photos I totally meant to post before we left for our Easter weekend getaway, but didn’t, because have I mentioned how long it takes me to pack? Multiple outfits, people. Multiple outfits.
The Before Hair:

I call it The Do Nothing And Let It Get Too Long stage. Feel free to “ick” and [...]

*Wherein “Tina Fey” is played by “The Oregon Coast” and “Jimmy Fallon” is played by “Jen-nay, from Boston.”
The Library Bar, With Ladder:

Of course I start the weekend in pictures recap with one of a pretty bar. Naturally.
Mid-Lunch Craze-ay:

Wherein we enjoyed probably the best soup on the planet. No, really.
Reflections Of Beverages:

Babycarrot sister is older! today [...]

This handsome fellow is a bit older today (just a smidgen, a tad, a year):

Happy! Birthday, baby. I love you endlessly, more even than I love buying you cards and taking pictures of you taking pictures.

Love, me

While about to take off from the Mobile airport two hours ago our captain came over the intercom and quickly muttered something about not going anywhere, as the front windshield of our miniature plane had cracked. Our lovely and Australian-accented flight attendant assured us the plane’s windshield wasn’t actually going crazy so much as it [...]

Some of my favorite pictures of me as a little girl are of one of my very first Christmases, wherein I seemingly snuggled with and ate the newspaper in which some of my gifts were wrapped. I didn’t care so much about the gifts the various paper were hiding, but I LOVED the paper, and [...]

Last weekend Chris and I donned our gay apparel and bought and decorated our first marital Christmas tree. It’s a wee Doug Fir (named Dominic), and we chose him because he was the biggest of the littlest of the bunch, and because five-feet tall sits conveniently on our corner-located console table, thereby preventing an even [...]