Tiffany’s Corner

I know you’ve missed me, so here I am!
I have to apologize, sometimes I just get to busy with life, or too lazy to get on here and post a blog. I’d like to share a few pics with you from a hike we went on a few weekends ago. It was a little wet out, but that’s the best when you go hiking in Washington, right?!

We visited a trail just a few miles from my parent’s house in Darrington/Arlington. The trail was 1.25 miles each way, pretty easy with a few hills. The trail takes you past Boulder Falls, you don’t get to see that waterfall, it’s somewhere below the trail (you can here it!), but you do get to see this beautiful one. We sat on a little bench and ate our sandwiches admiring this lovely scene.

 And finally, here’s a pic of James and I at the base of the falls returning to our car. This was a pretty short hike, we had plans to meet up with the rest of my family to celebrate my sister’s husband’s Bday. Happy Bday Ben!

After visiting with the family at Britt’s cabin, we ventured outside to play with the dogs and throw the frisbee.

After wearing out the dogs, Brittany discovered a little baby duckling all alone in the grass. We just had to pick it up and pet it real quick before returning it to it’s very angry momma!

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Okay, I’d like to try something new here. I know, from watching the traffic on my website, that business has been slowly increasing over the past few months. Yay! I’d really like the chance to get to know some of the people reading my little rants and looking at my pictures. Please, take a moment and leave me a comment. If there’s something you wish I would talk about, please tell me. But most importantly, before you leave please answer these two questions:

1. What is the worst smell in the world to wake up to?

2. What is the funniest commercial on TV right now?

As some of you may know from reading my preceding blog, I went to a Steven Curtis Chapman concert this past weekend. At the concert SCC talked about how much he loved his family, especially his 6 kids, 3 biological, 3 adopted from China.

Well just this morning the entire Christian community was informed of a terrible tragedy. Maria Chapman, the youngest (just 5 years old) of the Chapman clan was killed in a horrible accident at the family’s home. One of SCC’s sons, only 17, accidently backed over the young girl in the driveway. To make matters even more horrific, the family was gathered together at this same time to celebrate the eldest daughter’s engagement and the 17 year old’s graduation from High School.

I can’t even begin to imagine what their family is going through. For such a strong Christian family, I see this as a very powerful test of their faith and commitment. My heart aches for all of them.

If you’d like to visit the website that, at this point has been dedicated to the memory of Maria, just click on the link below.

http://www.stevencurtischapman.com/

Take care and God Bless.

First I would like to apologize to everyone who has been waiting for me to post a new blog. I’ve been majorly slacking…Hopefully this blog will give you something to comment about. Cause guess what?! Anyone can leave me a comment now! Yippee!!

These past few days have been really busy, I know tomorrow is already Thursday and I’m thinking, where did the time go?! Geeez.

I guess the reason it feels like the time has just flown by is because I’ve been waiting for this week and next to get here and up until now I feel like time has been DRAGGING!

Tonight was fun, we had guests over for dinner! Some friends of James’s Matt and Christie (and their toddler daughter Lisa) came over for dinner and American Idol. It was a really fun night, but a little crazy. I work until 6pm and James usually gets home just before me, and M & C were scheduled to arrive at 7. See why it was a little hectic?! Needless to say I did plan ahead and had a really yummy beef stroganof/pot roast in the crock pot all day. So when I got home from work all I had to do was cook the noodles and warm up the bread. Voila! Dinner is served! We had a great time chatting and watching Lisa, always a delightful entertainer. I am sure we will see her name in lights someday. We concluded the evening by watching the EVER-predictable American Idol. Of course, it’s down to the two Davids. Who didn’t see that coming?! Geez

So I know I mentioned that I’m looking forward to this weekend, but I don’t think that I told you why. James and I are going to Redmond to see Steven Curtis Chapman! Yay! He’s a really great Christian singer that we both really admire. He’s performing in Redmond at Overlake Christian Church with two other groups, Bebo Norman and Temple. SCC music is very dear to us especially since his song “I’ll be here” was what I walked down the aisle to in our wedding. (Ah….how romantic!)

So…the concert is Saturday night at 7pm and Redmond is a few hours away. So I booked us a hotel so that we can kind of make a short weekend of it. I’m really hoping that we can spend some time at Alki Beach in Seattle on Sunday. James just got a new camera and I know he’d get some good pics there. And really, I don’t think I’ve ever been to Alki. It should be fun! (Plus it’s supposed to be near 80 degrees!)

Ooooh, here’s the grand finale. Memorial Day weekend James and I will be staying a cute little B & B in Pacific Beach, just outside of Ocean Shores. I’m really excited. I’m busy trying to find local places for us to visit and things to do. Mainly I’m just looking forward to the mini-roadtrip and the vacation on the beach. We’ll be staying at the Beach Avenue Bed and Breakfast, I’ll be sure to post a review after we get back!

Well, I’m COMPLETELY exhausted after such a long day…and there’s still so much to do before this weekend. (James doesn’t know it, but I want to go clothes shopping before we go to the concert. )

Thanks for reading my blog and PLEEEEZ leave me a comment so I know that I have friends! Love you all, God Bless!

So, It’s Sunday night and the weekend is pretty much over. Boy, it sure was a busy one! Saturday was a really nice day here in the PNW. It was forecasted that it was supposed to get near 70 degrees, so almost everyone was out trying to enjoy it.

Me? I enjoyed sleeping in and had just finished getting dressed when I got a call from my husband (who regretably has to work on Saturdays) telling me that his father was in the hospital.   So most of my Saturday was spent in the waiting room of the ICU with my in-laws. I don’t really have much of an update on my father-n-law’s condition, except to say that he is resting and that we plan to go and see him again tomorrow.

Saturday night James and I had house-guests. Two of my bestest girl friends, Katie and Ang came up from Des Moines and crashed at our place. They say they were here to see our Pastor friend be offically installed as head of First Baptist Church downtown, but I know they were really up here just for ME!

Here is a pic of Ang, Me, Becca, and Katie (clockwise):

Anyway, Saturday night we went out to Billy McHales for dinner and a few drinks. I had a very bitter yet strong Lemondrop with my BBQ pork sandwich. And yes, after a long stressful day it went straight to my head! Boy, did it feel good!

The evening was capped off by returning to my humble abode where the girls and I endulged in some A++ cinema in the form of JTT’s performance in Man of the House. Long live the days of Teen Bop magazine and posters of boys on your bedroom walls!

Sunday morning we went to FBC to see Pastor Jeff preach, great as always. I was suprised to see that the flowers (mostly pansies and daffodils) we had planted last September for my wedding were out in full bloom. It was beautiful, too bad I didn’t have my camera!

Lastly, we went to On Rice with a few of Katie and Ang’s guy friends and had a great time. Nothing better than deep fried veggies and plum sauce to bring an end to a very busy weekend!

Wow! How time flys by when your out havin fun! We had a very busy last few days.

Friday night started right after work ended at 6pm. James and I went to a  pizza resturaunt in town. Kind of a hippy place, but it was fun. I’ve only been there once before, so it was a treat. We dined on a very interesting pizza concoction of roasted potatoes, chicken, and balsamic vinegar syrup. Yep, I said syrup. Then we went to a local improv/comedy club and watched a somewhat funny show. I mean, I’d say it was 80% very entertaining. There were only one or two sketches where I was like, um, that’s not funny.

Saturday James had to work. I sat at home and watched the snow fall for about 4 hours. It was ridiculous! Who let’s it snow in March! Nonetheless, the end of March!! It’s spring for crying out loud! Anyway. So it snowed. I was sad because I had planned on going out garage-saling that day. Yes, I like to go to garage sales. I’m an old lady in disguise. Someday I will find a treasure in someone’s pile of junk! I just know it!

After the BLIZZARD OF TWOTHOUSANDEIGHT subsided I gathered myself up and headed to the mall for a hair cut and some birthday present shopping. James and I spent the evening with some friends (one of which was celebrating his bday). The majority of the night was consumed by the hosting couples’ adorable toddler daughter who proceeded to walk around the room stuffing little bits of paper and confetti between everybody’s crisscrossed legs. When she realized we didn’t find it as amusing as she did, she moved onto the stuffed animals. It was cute, you had to be there.

Sunday I was greeted by a voicemail message from my Dad giving me permission to meander my way out to my parents’ house in the woods to spend time with my little doggie brothers and sisters. You see, with 4 inches of snow on the ground, getting out to their neck of the woods can be a little tricky. But all was safe and clear, so as soon as church let out, I hit the road!

OH BOY! What a day! 7 little puppies, not to mention Sam (daddy dog), Dallie (mommy dog), and Jake (big bro) were all happy to have someone there to crawl over and drool on and most importantly give lots of wet sticky kisses to. What a wonderous 6 hours of puppy love. I wish that they would stay little and adorable and innocent forever. But alas, they are going to grow into their big dog feet in no time. So I am glad that most of them have future homes and families to go to soon!

Well I guess I will leave you with a few pics of my adorable babies. Yes, they are mine. I know they are going away soon. But until that I will claim them as my own!

Take care and may God bless you in your journey today.