Cooper, Bad Dog! (part II)

Here's to hoping this won't become a series!

Cooper was bound and determined to get a bee that was buzzing in the window upstairs. John found her balancing on top of Sloane's little table. Maybe this dog has a future in the circus.


Then again, maybe not. She's not that graceful on the way down.


Oh how we love you!

Life Is Good

Kitchen Update

Yes, we are still under construction. But, progress has been made! After re-doing all the plumbing in the house (never as simple as one would hope when you are dealing with a house from the 50's) and moving around the electrical in the kitchen, we are now in the process of beginning to (slowly) move stuff into the kitchen. These photos are from a couple of days ago. I came home today to find some cabinets installed - woo-hoo!!

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I am so looking forward to this project being done and trying to figure out what delicious meal I should make John first for all his amazing work. Until then, we are getting by okay with our makeshift kitchen.

Duck, Duck, Goose

I didn't dress up as a goose, but John and Sloane had the ducks covered.







Sloane thoroughly enjoyed her first Halloween. She charmed everyone at Matt & Joia's pre-funk, then was tucked snuggly in her stroller for a nice snooze as we accompanied the trick-or-treaters. Huge kudos to my hilarious husband for being so excited to don his duck costume so he could match his daughter. This guy LOVES being a dad.

Mimi stopped by to check out the ducky


Lucy and Bailey were beautiful princesses


Owen's turtle costume was awesome



The trick-or-treaters ready to head out into the neighborhood




Photos at the end of the night are never a good idea. Owen wasn't having it and Sloane refused to turn in the direction of the camera.

Lazy Sunday

My two best pals, lounging on the couch, catching up on the Sunday football scores.


Beautiful Cooper with her fancy new UW collar.


Sloane loved her bouncing station at first...


...but quickly got bored and wanted to know what was going on in the game.

In sickness and in death

This is John and I on Saturday evening.


Why were we dressed like this? You’d think for a Halloween party, right? Nope, for a wedding. We were dressed like this because when you get invited to a zombie wedding, you go. Even if the invite came via text two weeks before the event. And when you have the opportunity to participate in a mass zombie wedding vow renewal, you do that too.

Long story short, one of John’s co-workers and his fiancé were musing about what type of wedding would be ideal for them and they both agreed that a full on zombie wedding would be the cat’s meow. A quick phone call to the fine folks that put on Zombiecon and they were on their way to pulling together their dream wedding in just a couple of weeks. The wedding was officiated by none other than Bruce Campbell. Yeah, I didn’t know who he was either. He made his name in a few bad zombie movies in the 90’s. Now he’s on the tv show Burn Notice. Luckily/unfortunately, Army of Darkness just happens to be part of John’s dvd collection so I spent Thursday night getting acquainted with “the chin”. Oh, and for those of you who know Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, and Army of Darkness…yes, the necronomicon was there.

We showed up at EMP’s skychurch along with about 100 of their closest zombie family and friends. Shortly before the ceremony started they opened the doors to public so those who were attending zombiecon could get in on the action. Of course our camera died before the ceremony began so the only shots I have are from my phone. If you want to see more photos, check out this story that Komo4 did.

It was a really fun night…people got totally into it. The whole wedding party did the zombie shuffle/moan down the aisle, the father of the bride had a stake through his chest, even the flower girl was in character and instead of tossing rose petals she threw fingers and toes into the crowd. In fact, I almost forgot it was a wedding until the bride and groom broke their zombie character to say their vows.

After the wedding, those in attendance were invited to participate in a mass vow renewal with “Reverend” Campbell. Of course, we were right up in front. Just like our actual vows, I giggled the whole way through. The first time it was to keep from crying, this time because the whole thing was so utterly hilarious. After the vow renewal we headed over to the Funhouse for the wedding reception. Yep, that’s the bar with the super creepy giant clown face above the door.

John had a lot of fun with the fake blood


Notice the lovely bullet hole in my chest


Bruce Campbell


Fellow guests


The bride and groom


Poor Jonah was at Sandy and Leo's house when we went to pick Sloane up. He was laughing, but I'm pretty sure he was also terrified of John.


Sloane and her crazy parents. I really didn't want to freak her out, but when she did finally get a glimpse of us she didn't seem to care.

Reunited

Remember Suzanne from my delivery post?


She was our amazing labor and delivery nurse at Swedish. Every time I think back to Sloane's birth I realize just how lucky we were to have her there. Not only was she a calming presence and wonderful coach in the delivery room, she was also pretty dang cool. We've exchanged emails over the past few months and finally got together this weekend so she could see in person just how much Sloane has grown.

One of my only regrets from the delivery (besides spending so much time on an ipod playlist and ending up with a stereo in our room that didn’t have input connections) was that we didn’t get a picture of Suzanne and Sloane at the hospital. Understandably, it was an overwhelming time. Then, of course, I forgot my camera for our get together this weekend so these phone shots will have to suffice.





Looking forward to a doggy play date with Suzanne and her pup soon.