Pentagon, Hexagon, Oregon

I know that I don't post as often as I would like, but before you throw me to the wolves... here is a post!

Our lives have been super busy lately! Just full up to the brim with work and play! Hyrum has been working out of town a lot lately and so when he comes home the dogs wont let him out of their site! Lily is especially taken with him.

That is some true love right there!




Rueger is getting as big as a house. Some days I am THIS close to calling the FBI because I am certain he is a terrorist. But other days he is just the sweetest! He just turned 7 months old and already weighs 64 lbs. Holy crap.

Here he is on our bed. Which for perceptions sake is a queen.



Holy Crap is correct. But isn't he just the cutest?




Work has been entirely crazy between the Easter craziness to the Mother's Day craziness. So much cake.





This cupcake is called an Irish Car Bomb. Yes seriously. It has 3 different types of booze in it. Yes 3.



Tiered cake in the dumpster. Putting it in there was almost painful. Almost.



Me working!



Mother's Day got a little out of hand in the cake department! It was so much fun, but I am very glad it is over!





Mother's Day cupcakes



These are yellow cupcakes with marionberry buttercream.



At one point this week, my job became to stay in one spot and just frost cakes.





We had a couple of really beautiful days last week. It was only 7 months in the making. Hyrum mowed the lawn and got the yard looking really great. Many bravos for my fantastic husband!



Because the weather was so great, we decided to take the kids down to the river for the first time of the season! It was a bit of a juggling match getting them down to the river in one piece, but they loooved it.









Life has been pretty great, although very fast paced, and I am loving spending whatever time I can with my amazing husband.

Today is Mother's Day. So a quick shout out to my mom! We love you!

Have a great week!

Spring in Seattle

*Let me just warn you, this blog post is going to be out of this world long! Thanks for sticking in there!

Hyrum and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary this last week! Unfortunately he had to work and was out of town on the actual day! I ended up taking the day off, and spent it getting pampered. It was a little depressing at first, but then my day turned around quickly! He had flowers delivered to the house... and they were gorgeous!




Lovely yes?

He came home this weekend and had a surprise trip planned for us! Even as we got in the car, I had no idea where we were going. It wasn't until we were about an hour out of Portland that he stopped playing pranks on me and taking alternate routes, and I found out we were headed to Seattle for the weekend!

My "we aren't really driving to yellow stone, are we?!" face



The drive was great, and for part of it we had a police escort!








We had mostly decent weather when we got there and we spent the first little while deciding where to stay. We finally picked a place right on the water front. It was really cute and had a great view!







Us being dorks and riding the elevators.



Just a peek of our view from our deck.



After settling in, we went off to explore. We have been to Seattle a few times, but almost always to see NFL games. But this was an entirely different type of trip!











We headed over to the market to waste a bunch of money and kill some time.



We had amazing crepes downstairs at Crepe de France. They were AWESOME!






Followed by more amazing food







We listened to great music




We just had a great time roaming around.











We went to dinner at a great place called Bistro 2100, where we had the entire restaurant to ourselves. It was amazing food and a perfect atmosphere!








H had this huge steak with blue Oregonzola cheese




And I had a great fresh crab citrus salad with avocado




This morning we headed over to the Space Needle, why not considering it was so close to our hotel!







The view was totally amazing and worth the elevator ride up.







Our complimentary photo of awesomeness












We saw and did so much more than what I posted, but at this point... I'm bushed! Too many photos, too little time. I've been living too much life to spend all of my time blogging, and now that I have just spent the last 2 hours doing it, I understand why!

Here is to the hopes that I blog a little more! * Don't get your hopes up!

Have a great week!