fairy garden

At the beginning of the summer, my mom, Bug and I were at a gardening store, when we noticed they were selling miniature fairy gardens. Little Bug fell in love with the idea. So all summer long, my mom has been collecting fairy garden furniture and plants to make one for Bug! On her latest trip here, the two of them put it together...mostly my mom, but Bug was by her side the whole time. It is adorable. 

 There are lots of fun details; a fairy house, bridge, river, fence, bird bath, wheel barrel, beehive, bike, bench, porcelain animals and even some gnomes for Tank to play with too. But my favorite detail is the chandelier hanging from the tree.

We love it!

dust devils

We have a minor league baseball team here, the Dust Devils! Such a fitting name for our area. I think they feed into the Colorado Rockies? We finally got ourselves over to one of their games. I must admit, it just made me miss the excitement of the Oakland A's, but Andrew was in heaven. He never really enjoyed the mass crowds and yelling at the major league parks. He was all smiles and commented that we needed to go back to more games. We just snapped some phone pics while we were there of us. It was pretty fun and to top it off, we were right above the dugout and the players threw the kids a ball. 

leavenworth

Last year for my birthday, Andrew surprised me with arrangements for a fun get away for our upcoming anniversary to Leavenworth. It is a fun little German/Scandinavian themed town not too far from us. Unfortunately, we had to cancel those plans, but we were able to go this summer for Andrew's birthday. It was well worth the wait and so nice to spend some time alone with each other. 

And a phone pic of the two of us in front of a yummy bakery.

locks of love

I've always had long hair, the one exception was 7th grade when I chopped it all off and woke up the next morning crying, vowing never to do it again. I was 13 and slightly dramatic apparently. A little over a month ago, I chopped it off and donated it. I'd like to think that even if my father had not passed of cancer, I still would have donated it, but the fact is, I did it for my dad. I gave away 14 inches and it brings a smile to my face knowing that someone out there has a wig in my father's name...and only a few tears were shed this time, mostly for dad.

It actually isn't looking too short here! It really was a big cut, it is an a line cut and if my posture were better you wold be able to see it is above my shoulders. My hair dresser calls my hair a weed, so I guess it has already started growing growing!