Hello from New Hampshire. Some snow finally fell here on Christmas night, and proceeded to turn to slush. We didn't even bother bringing our skis out, there're no tracks to be made.
Still, it's nice to see some of the white stuff on the ground, even if it's too soggy to play in and too thin to ski on. It's been a very Western Washingtonish winter in most of the East this year, while we got our little Thanksgiving blast.
I'm typing on a new computer. Can you tell? We've turned Apple, and I'm experiencing some frustration with the learning curve. I'll figure it out.
We hope everyone's holidays have been relaxing and engaging! Ours has!
How's that crossword coming? Too hard?
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Now this is getting out of hand...
When with this ridiculousness end?
No school again tomorrow, Friday, giving us an entire week off following Thanksgiving. All together, this leaves us with an epic 11-day weekend, longer than a normal Spring Break.
We're headed up toward Baker tomorrow, to get in some cross-country skiing on some newly groomed trails with our friend Jill. Then it's the real weekend, which we'll probably spend doing real weekend things, like cleaning, and playing soccer, and...stuff.
We ventured out for a movie today (Flushed Away). I was surprised to find the roads still in fairly poor condition. Lots of ice ruts, even on major roads like Sunset and Meridian. Still, we expected to go to school tomorrow.
By now we're really going to feel it in June (summer is now one week farther away) but, as before, I won't be complaining as I glide on fresh-set tracks at Salmon Ridge tomorrow. Ah...
No school again tomorrow, Friday, giving us an entire week off following Thanksgiving. All together, this leaves us with an epic 11-day weekend, longer than a normal Spring Break.
We're headed up toward Baker tomorrow, to get in some cross-country skiing on some newly groomed trails with our friend Jill. Then it's the real weekend, which we'll probably spend doing real weekend things, like cleaning, and playing soccer, and...stuff.
We ventured out for a movie today (Flushed Away). I was surprised to find the roads still in fairly poor condition. Lots of ice ruts, even on major roads like Sunset and Meridian. Still, we expected to go to school tomorrow.
By now we're really going to feel it in June (summer is now one week farther away) but, as before, I won't be complaining as I glide on fresh-set tracks at Salmon Ridge tomorrow. Ah...
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Going on 8 Days
Tomorrow will be our 8th day off. No school again. Today we just lounged around and worked on our Europe pictures, watched a movie, and ate. We ventured out for a short walk. Tomorrow is expected to be nasty, so we shall see what we do. Maybe a movie.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Strictly Prohibited
It's a good thing it snowed because "Adventures of Erin & Adam" were getting a little boring. Yes, I am sure that you all wanted to know about going to the dog park and Adam's find about the "Weeeee Goal" but nothing has really compared to our European Adventures and this still doesn't but at least its more exciting than a day at the dog park! Today was our 2nd day off of school and tomorrow will be our 3rd. Can you believe it, three days of no school. As Adam says, it's our 7th day of weekend. Brindzi and Gryffin are loving it, having us home for so long. We are loving it for many reasons, mostly playing in the snow and sleeping in. They, the weather people, are predicting another possible 6-8 inches of snow tomorrow night. It could go either way, either rain, sleet, or snow. Who knows, maybe we will have the whole week off. Then it will only be 2 1/2 weeks until Winter Break and Christmas! Yahoo!
Today we ventured out on the roads. We picked up Julie and spent what felt like an hour getting the chains on the Nissan. REI was our next stop, money spent, as usual. Then up the hill to Lake Padden for a little X-Country Ski. The trees didn't let much snow pass through, so we had to stay out in the open. But the water was too enticing for Brindzi, cold freezing water and snow don't mix. I of course was more worried about it than Adam. She survived. So we decided to head to the golf course.
Today we ventured out on the roads. We picked up Julie and spent what felt like an hour getting the chains on the Nissan. REI was our next stop, money spent, as usual. Then up the hill to Lake Padden for a little X-Country Ski. The trees didn't let much snow pass through, so we had to stay out in the open. But the water was too enticing for Brindzi, cold freezing water and snow don't mix. I of course was more worried about it than Adam. She survived. So we decided to head to the golf course.
It was gorgeous. Lake Padden at it's best.
We then headed in the back way to the golf course, hoping for some nice open fields. We had lots of downed tree crossings to go over first. Here, Adam catches some air, and some pine pitch from the tree.
Once we got onto the golf course, it was perfect. Someone had already laid a track for us to follow. We meandered through the golf course, came across a crew of people sledding down a great hill, almost got lost, and then decided to take the road out. We climbed the fence and ate some (freeze) dried apples, frozen water, and then turned around and noticed this sign.
What! No X-country Skiing. You have got to be kidding me. If anyone, x-country skiers, would do the least amount of damage. Oh well, we came in the back door, there was no sign.
The sun coming through the trees was amazing. This picture doesn't give it justice. Brindzi decided to get lost for few minutes here, and we slightly freaked. She finally came bolting down the road. And of course, she couldn't even wait to get home, before she fell asleep in the car. Warm soup, good wine, a few rounds of cards, good company, and the news of no school tomorrow rounded out our day. Who knows what tomorrow will bring. Stay tuned.
Monday, November 27, 2006
Aaahh... [and an update]
Yessss... No school Monday. Five-day weekend!
Erin gets to make it up in March. I get to make it up in June. But we both get to play all day tomorrow!
Hopefully Diamond Jim's will be open for breakfast (it's entirely possible that it won't be). We're planning a town ski, perhaps. I'm thinking out to Cornwall Park or something. It's supposed to be frigid, so we should have a nice, slush-free surface. There's snow everywhere! And tons of it!
Hurrah!
Update:
Diamond Jim's was open, so we walked to breakfast with our friends Julie and Jerry. Windy cold. The radio said the temperature would "struggle to reach freezing today." The roads are still sheets of ice. It seems unlikely that we'll have school tomorrow, either. We'll see.
We broke out the cross country skis and headed out for a day on the town. The snow was deep, so the going was slow. First we headed to the field at Bellingham High School.
From BHS, we headed up through the neighborhood to our friends Jen and Oliver and Bjorn's house, near Broadway Park. Someone had skied there before us, so there was a nice track set. It's fun to do in the neighborhood what we usually have to drive for at least an hour to do. Brindzi had fun and even listened well, despite this distracting white stuff. Tons of kids out sledding and playing. Every school in Whatcom County was closed, even Western. We stopped at the grocery store on the way home to get hot chocolate, ice cream, and chili stuff for the crock pot. Yes!
The aftermath.
Maybe we'll do it all again tomorrow! It'll hurt in June, but I won't complain in the morning.
Erin gets to make it up in March. I get to make it up in June. But we both get to play all day tomorrow!
Hopefully Diamond Jim's will be open for breakfast (it's entirely possible that it won't be). We're planning a town ski, perhaps. I'm thinking out to Cornwall Park or something. It's supposed to be frigid, so we should have a nice, slush-free surface. There's snow everywhere! And tons of it!
Hurrah!
Update:
Diamond Jim's was open, so we walked to breakfast with our friends Julie and Jerry. Windy cold. The radio said the temperature would "struggle to reach freezing today." The roads are still sheets of ice. It seems unlikely that we'll have school tomorrow, either. We'll see.
We broke out the cross country skis and headed out for a day on the town. The snow was deep, so the going was slow. First we headed to the field at Bellingham High School.
From BHS, we headed up through the neighborhood to our friends Jen and Oliver and Bjorn's house, near Broadway Park. Someone had skied there before us, so there was a nice track set. It's fun to do in the neighborhood what we usually have to drive for at least an hour to do. Brindzi had fun and even listened well, despite this distracting white stuff. Tons of kids out sledding and playing. Every school in Whatcom County was closed, even Western. We stopped at the grocery store on the way home to get hot chocolate, ice cream, and chili stuff for the crock pot. Yes!
The aftermath.Maybe we'll do it all again tomorrow! It'll hurt in June, but I won't complain in the morning.
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Fluffy White Stuff Falling From the Sky
We woke up to snow this morning! Yahoo! We LOVE the snow! It has been snowing since about 7 am this morning and its still snowing really hard now at 5 pm. Crazy snow. I have never seen it snow this much here in B'ham. At 11ish there was about 5 inches. Now there is 7-8 inches on our deck. We walked to a friends house and our tracks were covered an hour later on our way home. Adam just put the chains on the Nissan and is attempting to drive and play soccer. No wait.... here he comes....back in the house. He didn't even make it 100 yards before the chain fell off, a car tried to go around him and now the other car is stuck. It's gotta be bad for Adam not to play soccer! We probably won't have school tomorrow! A blessing and a pain. Snow days are always fun but making school up in June never is. Oh well... It's snowing!!!!
Here we are up in the snow at the Lower Mt. Baker Lodge, two weeks ago. Today has almost as much snow! Who knew we would have our own winter down here. I love it!
This is what our porch looked like this morning at about 9 am.
Brindzi was excited to play in the snow. She loves the snow. When we went out a couple hours later, her earlier tracks were all covered up.
On our way back from our friends house, Adam had Brindzi fetching snowballs and bounding in the snow.
She was quite tempted by the birds and chased a few down into the snowy ditch. She almost got lost in the snow drifts.
This is what our porch looked like at about 3 pm when we arrived back from our walk. Brindzi wanted to measure it herself.
Here is what it looks like now. We think it's a winter wonderland! I am sure the media is calling it "The Thanksgiving blizzard '06". I am so glad we drove back up yesterday and are not stuck in this mess on the Freeway. Western WA doesn't have enough snow removal equipment to deal with this much snow all at once.
We still LOVE Gryffin! Here he is all wrapped up in our Christmas ornament paper. We put up the Christmas tree today. It really did feel like Christmas. Cheesy Christmas music on the radio, snow falling outside, the smell of fir trees. Yep. Too bad it's still November.
Here we are up in the snow at the Lower Mt. Baker Lodge, two weeks ago. Today has almost as much snow! Who knew we would have our own winter down here. I love it!
This is what our porch looked like this morning at about 9 am.
Brindzi was excited to play in the snow. She loves the snow. When we went out a couple hours later, her earlier tracks were all covered up.
On our way back from our friends house, Adam had Brindzi fetching snowballs and bounding in the snow.
She was quite tempted by the birds and chased a few down into the snowy ditch. She almost got lost in the snow drifts.
This is what our porch looked like at about 3 pm when we arrived back from our walk. Brindzi wanted to measure it herself. 
Here is what it looks like now. We think it's a winter wonderland! I am sure the media is calling it "The Thanksgiving blizzard '06". I am so glad we drove back up yesterday and are not stuck in this mess on the Freeway. Western WA doesn't have enough snow removal equipment to deal with this much snow all at once. 
We still LOVE Gryffin! Here he is all wrapped up in our Christmas ornament paper. We put up the Christmas tree today. It really did feel like Christmas. Cheesy Christmas music on the radio, snow falling outside, the smell of fir trees. Yep. Too bad it's still November.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Who's next???
Who will be next to get married? Who will be the first to first to have kids? What will our next milestones be? I went home to NH the other weekend for Sabe and Tom's wedding. It was a solo weekend. So this is Adventures of Erin! Another close friend gets married. Another amazingly creative and beautiful wedding. I love how my friends and I seem to have been able to have some of the most beautiful, unique, traditional, non-traditional, and fun weddings that I have ever been to. I wonder what will be next.
It was my first time back in NH in the fall since I left in Sept. of '97. Nine years ago! The weekend was a perfect fall weekend. Bright blue skies, cold crisp air, warm days, brilliant colors, and good times. I felt more homesick for NH than I have for a very long time. And yet, I love where I live now. I felt the struggle with loving where you came from and loving where you have gone. I think I love the memories from home and I know that living in NH wouldn't bring back those memories. Memories of family and friends and fun times. My 10 year high school reunion is this spring. I think that Sabe and I will make the treks from the NW to NH to reminisce our high school glory days. Think of what we have done in the 10 years since. Adam and I just had our 9 year (dating) anniversary yesterday. Nine years I have lived out here. Crazy...anyways... I have some pictures from Sabe and Tom's wedding. Enjoy!
Don't they look dashing in their rehearsal dinner wear! And boy was it cold!
We spent a very cold night getting our beauty sleep in a cabin on some back road in Weare. Good question!
Sabe looked so gorgeous in her grandmother's 1950's ball gown! A blushing bride in RED!!!
The fall colors, red dress, green grass, and blue skies were such amazing combinations.
Don't my parents look cute! Dad I love the hat!
Our beautiful mothers! Wow!
Mother and daughter. An important day for both of them!
As I said in my toast, I feel responsible for Sabe and Tom getting back together for the final time. Sabe did move out to Bellingham to live with me and Tom just happened to live in Seattle :-)
What a view from the dance floor!
My dad and placed 3rd in a crazy game of croquet. Adam would have been proud!
High school buddies!
Check out those boots!
And last but not least the grade A tree in Andover. Pretty Amazing!
It was my first time back in NH in the fall since I left in Sept. of '97. Nine years ago! The weekend was a perfect fall weekend. Bright blue skies, cold crisp air, warm days, brilliant colors, and good times. I felt more homesick for NH than I have for a very long time. And yet, I love where I live now. I felt the struggle with loving where you came from and loving where you have gone. I think I love the memories from home and I know that living in NH wouldn't bring back those memories. Memories of family and friends and fun times. My 10 year high school reunion is this spring. I think that Sabe and I will make the treks from the NW to NH to reminisce our high school glory days. Think of what we have done in the 10 years since. Adam and I just had our 9 year (dating) anniversary yesterday. Nine years I have lived out here. Crazy...anyways... I have some pictures from Sabe and Tom's wedding. Enjoy!
Don't they look dashing in their rehearsal dinner wear! And boy was it cold!
We spent a very cold night getting our beauty sleep in a cabin on some back road in Weare. Good question!
Sabe looked so gorgeous in her grandmother's 1950's ball gown! A blushing bride in RED!!!
The fall colors, red dress, green grass, and blue skies were such amazing combinations.
Don't my parents look cute! Dad I love the hat!
Our beautiful mothers! Wow!
Mother and daughter. An important day for both of them!
As I said in my toast, I feel responsible for Sabe and Tom getting back together for the final time. Sabe did move out to Bellingham to live with me and Tom just happened to live in Seattle :-)
What a view from the dance floor!
My dad and placed 3rd in a crazy game of croquet. Adam would have been proud!
High school buddies!
Check out those boots!
And last but not least the grade A tree in Andover. Pretty Amazing!Monday, October 02, 2006
How can you resist that face?
Ahhh Brindzi...How can you resist that face? Yep. Life with Brindzi is good. She is adapting to our world quite well. We have taken her all kinds of places around Bham. And have been trying to introduce her to as many people and situations as we can. Little children seem quite drawn to her. They hang on her, pull her ears, give her hugs, and she happily obliges. Our friend recently asked if we thought people came up to her and asked to pet her more than other dogs. As a proud new parent, of course I wanted to say "yes!" because she is so beautiful and wonderful but I really didn't know. I have never owned a dog so I am not sure how many people come up and pet people with Dogs... I know they like puppies but she is almost out of her puppy phase. I like to think that Adam and I are just really good dog parents and picked the perfect , cutest , most well behaved dog out there...But who really knows.
Here are some pics of our new family member. I still think we took more of Gryffin when we got him but we didn't have a website back then to share with all...We just tortured friends and family with our Gryffin album. Adam says, I just tortured them :-)
Adam is almost ready to admit that he loves her...I think the just doesn't want to admit it. What do you think?
Lounging on the grass at Neal's soccer game.
Brindzi love to play fetch...She just doesn't like to bring it back all the time or gets bored and we are left hanging.
Brindzi on top of the world near Mt. Baker. She is ready to take on the world!
Yum! Brindzi kisses...Even Adam isn't as adverse them now!
Lean and Tall. She has some really interesting coloring around her shoulders and rear area. Who knows where it came from... But people say its quite striking.
Here are some pics of our new family member. I still think we took more of Gryffin when we got him but we didn't have a website back then to share with all...We just tortured friends and family with our Gryffin album. Adam says, I just tortured them :-)Adam is almost ready to admit that he loves her...I think the just doesn't want to admit it. What do you think?
Lounging on the grass at Neal's soccer game.
Brindzi love to play fetch...She just doesn't like to bring it back all the time or gets bored and we are left hanging.
Brindzi on top of the world near Mt. Baker. She is ready to take on the world!
Yum! Brindzi kisses...Even Adam isn't as adverse them now!
Lean and Tall. She has some really interesting coloring around her shoulders and rear area. Who knows where it came from... But people say its quite striking.
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