Double Po

Weekend of friends

Our friends James and Stacy came to visit from Phoenix. It was perfect timing to make Jalapeno grilled goodness from my LA friend Rachel's friend's blog. It's jalapeno with cream cheese and garlic and a sausage all rolled up with bacon. Read how to make them here.

One note on the Jalapenos- don't wipe your face while you prep them! I felt like I had a major sunburn for about an hour last night.

I forgot to take a picture of us eating them- but here is one of us eating french toast the next morning!

She's sewing!

I made welcome garland for my class! I also made curtains to cover shelves. I haven't had access to my class much because it's not clean yet (a teacher's nightmare), but I have gotten acquainted to my new sewing machine.

Wallpaper bathroom

I'm still inspired to do a wallpaper hallway! In the meantime here's Nick's grandma's half bath. It's my favorite bathroom in the world. The flowers just suck you in!

Look at these beautiful carrots!

Nick watched our friends' cat last week while they were in New York getting engaged. In exchange they gave us their farmers box including these beautiful purple carrots!

Congrats Steven and Jessica!

Picket fence and path

The day we got the keys to our house we had some friends over and got take out from Thai Toms. It's one of those tiny hole in the wall places where spicy #3 out of 5 will make you sweat. Well that day, Po snuck out the front door and ran into the road (it's a busy street-there's a couple bus lines) . Also that day, we decided that putting up a picket fence in the yard was a priority.

Fast forward one month and here's the fence that Nick made with his who flew in from Big Bear, CA. Nick made the plans on a leftover piece of wood and went from there.

My mom came over from across the Sound and helped us paint it white.

When I went out of town for a week, Nick surprised me and put up an adorable stone path. He got the stones from a wholesale place in Woodenville.

Thanks to Nick's Grandparents who helped fund the fence. It adds so much character (& safety) to our home!

A visitor

Our friend James is in town so we took the ferry to Bainbridge Island, rented kayaks, went to lunch and on our way home we stopped by Poke Place to get ingredients for a caprese salad.