Labor Day weekend

Stacey G, AndeeLynn and I headed north on I-5 this past Friday for our annual trip to Seattle! As always, there was much entertainment b/w the 3 of us... and endless "clowns". I believe these get-togethers have truly helped define my "clowning" skills!! ANYWAY... Stacey requested that we hit the hwy at 7pm. And of course, we left promptly at 7:35pm... due to no fault of mine, for the record. After 3 sightings and attempts, we finally made a quick pit stop at Dairy Queen, where I proceeded to order a Peanut Buster Parfait and stress my friends out (I'm allergic to peanuts)! We finally hit Andee's folks' house, chatted for a bit, then crashed... all 3 of us on the living room floor. Should have gotten a pic of that!!

Word to the wise... never get up to go to the bathroom...
your spot will be overtaken in a heartbeat!

Saturday morning, we headed to Redmond so Stacey could de-stress and get a massage. Andee and I filled our faces with Pizza Schmizza... covered ourselves with Bath & Body Works... and then waited around for Ms. Givens to be done with her massage. We headed back to the crib so Andee and I could nap (after our vigorous 2 hrs. of doing nothing) and Stacey headed off to Starbucks to work. Nothing like getting a massage to relieve the stress from work... just to continue working. Later that night we went to a place called Joey's on Lake Union. We sat outdoors on the patio and the view was beautiful... the sky was gorgeous as the sun set and then as the stars sparkled above us, boats were on the water, the Space Needle to our left... I was lovin' it! And apparently the scenery INSIDE the restaurant was pretty good, too... but I couldn't get past the cutie in green sitting at the bar, so I don't know what was happening inside! Oh, and my salmon dinner was fabulous!! I love living on the coast!! Jen joined us later in the evening after her WSU game was over and we all sat and chatted for another hour or so. It was a great night!!
Sunday we headed to Bumbershoot! It's a creative arts/music/festival with ALL kinds of fun stuff to see!! We went early in the day to get our tickets, b/c we wanted to make sure and get the Kayne West passes before they ran out. We caught about 2o minutes of a dance performance by the Rubberband Dance Group before meeting up with Andee's folks for lunch, we did a little shopping by the university and then headed back to get our seats at the Kayne concert!!

Don't ask.

DANG IT, ANDEELYNN!

No cooperation

Finally! Geez!

So my night vision on my camera doesn't work that well...
but after 6 yrs. of being in the NW, I FINALLY made it to the Space Needle!

Monday morning, we slept in a little later than we planned so we packed up the car and headed to South Center for some more shopping before heading back to P-town. The trip went quickly and we were back in town by 5:30. I dropped my stuff off and headed out to Violet's for one last time!! I got some good quality time with the girls, designed my own Barbie Fashion Show with the famous Mia Quinn, and then even got some good quality time on the couch, watching crap TV, while playing on our laptops with Violet!! It was a great weekend!!

Mia Quinn through the mass of boxes!!

So Mia Quinn gets an allowance for doing certain chores, including feeding the dogs. Well, Cannon took it upon herself to feed Griffin on Monday, then proceeded to eat her own snack on top of him while he ate. She then headed into the laundry room to feed Buster, but was quickly stopped before sitting on him. He's not as "tolerant" as Griffin! Too stinkin' cute!! :-)