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  • This weekend Bj and I celebrated our five year anniversary! I really can’t believe it’s been that long since that fabulous day!

    And us now (an iPhone shot of course!):

    It’s not always the easiest thing, but certainly worth all the hard work we put into it, this marriage thing. We were able to celebrate by going to Portland for the night. Bj got us tickets to Wicked (it was great), we had a nice long dinner at Marrakesh (a favorite!), full nights sleep in a hotel (even though I forgot my pillow), and the next day we got to do a little shopping (fabric!). I love being able to talk with Bj when we’re alone in the car (or dinner, or anywhere) together. It seems like we could just talk for hours, and I love that. So lucky to have my wonderful husband! I really can’t believe we’ll be a family of four soon(ish)!

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  • Joining in on Amanda’s this moment project. A moment from the last week. A slice of life.

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  • It’s been a while. I washed the canvas drop cloth that I had made after a paper mâché incident and it shrunk horribly. Because I didn’t worry about grain when sewing it up it shrunk horribly in multiple directions which resulted in a big bubble in the middle that won’t sit flat. This doesn’t bother Tuesday of course, but I’ve got problems. So I was going to do a new drop cloth before painting again. Tuesday told me I was being ridiculous (well she looked at me and really wanted to paint and I realized I was being ridiculous). Yes, kid! We will paint!

    The only picture of her I could get before she said she just couldn’t stand the shirt (but the way too small pants didn’t phase her. Time to make new painting pants!).

    She took over my paintings too. That’s ok, since I do the same to her. We’re collaborative that way.



    And then we got really messy. And I put the camera far away.

    Clean up. With her “guys”.
    More info about our painting area here. And tips for painting with little kids here.

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