Today & This Weekend

These are my violets. I love this plant, it blooms practically all year round.

All I do is water it once a week. I can't ask for a better plant.

I had to go to the dentist today to replace my old fillings. This is the 3rd visit... I'm slowly replacing them all and just have one more to go. I've been putting it off for years. I really hate the shot they give you and having your face numb for the rest of the day. But this time, I decided that the horrible high pitched sound coming from my mouth was WAY worse than the shot. I finally have full feeling back in my face, 5 hours after my appointment.

I'm looking forward to this weekend - I'm hosting a Stampin' Up party. I was reading this blog and it made me even more excited for my party. But at the same time it reminded me that I need to get on the ball and start making my holiday cards, or at least come up with a few designs. I have so many holiday stamps, a few never even used, but I can't seem to stop buying them. Holiday stamps, flower stamps and "happy birthday" stamps - I think you can never have enough.

I'm also excited because I'm going to bake a few yummy treats for the party... which means I can eat them without guilt. No guilt or diets when there's a party. That's my rule.

p.s. The Seahawks won 37-13. It was a good game =)

Water Lilies

Water lilies in the Getty Villa in Malibu, CA.

I had a great visit with family in California. My sister and I went to A Taste of Santa Monica. There was so much good food, and we ate it all!! We also went to the Getty Villa. We had been to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles but this was our first trip to the Villa. For lunch we went to Cafe Montana and saw Camryn Manheim. Neither of us are celebrity watchers, we didn't talk to her or take her picture or ask for an autograph, but it was still kind of cool.

We're going to the Seahawks game tomorrow. Today is cold and rainy, so I'm hoping the weather will be nice to us. And I hope the Seahawks WIN!!

Leaves

I really like this picture.
This is what's left of the leaves that fell into water that came off the hot springs in Yellowstone. For some reason it reminds me of fall. And of the box of leaves that my aunt sent me when I was in grade school. She lives in Connecticut and sent me a box full of dried leaves, so colorful and in shapes I'd never seen before. I grew up in Hawaii, we didn't have seasons or leaves that changed color. It was very fascinating. I still have that box of leaves. I’ll have to dig them out and show them to you one day.

We are headed to southern California for the weekend to visit with family. I am very excited to see everyone, don't get me wrong, but it always seems like the weather is super great whenever we leave the state... I think the weather will be nicer here in Washington than it will be in California. *sigh*

Have a great weekend.

Discovery

Yesterday, while reading this, I discovered this and made these:

Today I ate this for breakfast =)

You must try these!

Butterflies

I took these on our trip to Yellowstone. There were so many butterflies, bees and bugs on this one plant. I need one of these in my garden!

Happy Monday.

p.s. Go here for a beautiful "picnic table cover/tablecloth/picnic blanket" giveaway.

Yellowstone trip

We went on a road trip to Yellowstone over the Labor Day weekend. Neither of had been there before. It was a lot of fun. We saw some moose, from far away...

We didn’t get to see as many animals as we expected, but we got our share of bison, up close and personal! Our first encounter was a bison walking up the hill in the middle of the road. He was taking his time, following in his lane. Luckily we were going in the opposite direction since he was causing a huge traffic jam.

Our other encounter was after having dinner at the Lake Lodge hotel. We were headed back to the car, but the heard of bison had other ideas for us. It was cool at first, but when they started heading our way grunting, it got a little scary. They eventually moved on and we made it back to our car.
We also got to see a bear… sort of. There was a huge traffic jam and we didn’t know what was going on. So of course we pulled over to check it out. There was a black bear (supposedly there were two, but we only saw one) WAY up on the top of a hill. We could hardly see it with the binoculars, so of course the pictures we took are like “Where’s Waldo”.
I’ll save the scenery pictures for a next time.