Events

We have been working on the cabin and I have found little time for updating this blog, but I thought I should at least write about Phil since we just celebrated his 35th birthday and Father's Day on Sunday. He really is the world's best husband and father and we couldn't ask for more. He was the speaker at JFY on Saturday night and did a fantastic job. He was a substitute teacher for seminary so a few of the students knew him and told him to keep his talk nice and short so they would have more time to dance. He just laughed and said he felt the same about those things when he was their age.
So enough about Phil, I was talking to Stephanie the other day and she had gone to her doctor. They were talking about weight and our society and he mentioned that it is not genetics with Asians and that it is their diet that keeps them thin and healthy. He told her about his "chubby Asian test" which is, if you stand in front of the mirror naked and you think "I look like a chubby Asian" you should lose weight. I have laughed a lot about this since talking to her and then became a little obsessed with this idea. Then I talked to Ashlee and she laughed because she is married to Michael, who loves meat and white rice and up until a year ago almost NEVER worked out and still didn't fit the "chubby Asian" test. Phil worked for a Japanese company when we first got married and I have seen very few "chubby Asians". Standing in front of the mirror I think now...I would have to chop off half my body to not be a "chubby Asian". They don't come in broad sizes. I guess I just have to imagine a sumo wrestler as a "chubby Asian" and then it seems most of us don't have to worry about our weight.


Bring it on swim suit season!

Concert

I decided that I should finally write about going to the Greg Laswell concert in Ballard for Mother's Day. I was driving in the car and heard on the radio that Greg would be at the Tractor Tavern so I quickly drove home and purchased tickets for Phil and I for my Mother's Day surprise. I called the babysitter and started getting so excited to be going up to Seattle for a date night and seriously (that is for Ashlee) I have listened to his CD a MILLION times and have been LOVING him lately.
We got up there early so we could walk around Ballard. We miss the coolness of Seattle and just walking around shops and streets and watching people. We got some ice cream from the specialty homemade ice cream truck and then headed to the tavern. Two people were opening for Greg and yes they were horrible, oh and they both played for 50 min. By the time Greg started playing it was almost midnight. No one else seemed to care that it was that late, but I am pretty sure we were the only ones there with kids and needing to get a babysitter back before the pass wasn't good for getting back on Post. Yes, I didn't even come close to getting her back in time. It was almost 2:00 by the time I got her home, but once Greg started playing it was so hard to leave. He was AWESOME. His voice is one of those that is just as good, if not better live.
We hung out with some couples we meet and they were the same age, but it was funny that we have 3 children at home and they were all just dating. Now we are just watching and waiting for him to come back to Seattle and play at a different venue so we can hear more of him.

The Stairs are In

Our floor upstairs.

We have been working hard on the cabin and Phil finished the stairs and has started working on the floor for the bedroom upstairs. The stairs turned out fantastic and it is great to have one of the harder projects done. Not that I did anything on them. Seriously I was good at math in high school and college, but actually applying geometry to building stairs drove me crazy. Phil did it all and did such an amazing job he didn't ever have to scrap things and start over to get the right angle to fit all the stairs in our tiny little space.

I have started priming the room and we will try to frame out the walls for upstairs this weekend. Never a dull moment, but things are coming together and we really hope to have it done before the weather gets nice and we don't want to be working inside.

WHY

So I thought I had found the PERFECT Father's Day/birthday present for Phil. Vampire Weekend is coming to Seattle in August. HOORAY!!! We love Vampire Weekend. Plus the concert is at Mary Moore Park, and we LOVE concerts at Mary Moore Park. Nothing better than hanging out on a beautiful summer evening listening to great music. Then I called Ashlee because she would be living in Seattle in August and I have taught her to love Vampire Weekend too. What could be better than my sister living in Seattle and all four of us hanging out with Vampire Weekend. I should have bought the tickets before calling Ashlee, because she made me look at the calendar and that is when I realized they were coming to Seattle to play at Mary Moore Park on a SUNDAY!! BOO. Why? Why?
This is when I went through all the, well you don't actually spend money on that day because we will already have purchased the tickets. Can I pretend I didn't look to see the day of the week until after I bought the tickets? Okay, this is when it is helpful to have a really great sister so I know she at least will not be going to the concert without me!!!
Now what in the world do I do about the Father's Day/birthday present? Any ideas?

Family Pictures

So, Jamie Pace my totally talented friend took our family pictures and I LOVE them and I haven't LOVED any of our family pictures in a long time. We all look fantastic and she did such a great job with the coloring and lighting. Plus I do have some really cute kids.