i was that mom
we paid our first visit to the emergency room last nite. tagg had been getting more and more sick since nursery (dont even get me started on that petri dish) on sunday and last nite he screamed for 5 hours straight. i thought maybe he had a raging ear or eye infection. but um, he checked out just fine. i am sure the er people wanted to kill me. or as tucker said: so you basically took a perfectly healthy kid to the emergency room last nite. yup, i did.

cle elum

tagg is actually looking at the camera. yes m'am! we just returned from a sleepover at sky ranch.

there may or may not have been clean, running water at the house.... but we still had a grand old time.

tagg's momo.

tagg loved mingling with the townies at the local pizza joint.

he especially enjoyed their artillery.

a perfect cle elum evening.....

followed by a PERFECT cle elum nite playing old school ms. pacman. yes sireeeeeee.

in the morning, craig took the gee kids around on the atvs. sam looks like he kills people. (he should be counting his lucky stars that WE didnt kill HIM for his shenanigans at 2.30 in the morning)

the view from our bedroom deck. we love this place! and cannot wait to play there in the winter.....

you know what really grinds my gears?

1. when i am trying out new lighting techniques with my camera on tucker and he promptly (and secretly!) takes MY camera and deletes the images he didnt deem worthy. ugh. this wasnt my favorite, but oh well.

2. when my 29-year-old-unwashed-hair-glazed-over-look-in-his-eyes husband is going on his fifth straight hour of b-comp.

men.

this weekend:

anna turned seventeen.

we celebrated at outback.

anna, kailey, tanner & tucker. tanner likes to wear rib sauce as lipstick.

i catered a wedding with some cupcakes.......

and a FREAKING wedding cake. this was my first wedding cake and i was one nervous nelly.

i used buttercream (which isnt as neat looking as fondant, but also doesnt taste like crap like fondant) to decorate the vanilla cake. ok.... now that i am studying this picture i hope they used the left side as the backside. moving on.......

my family attended the skyline game. skyline lost (but it was a close/good game) to the california team. kinda depressing. however.....

they DID get to see will smith. this picture was taken after megan had yelled for the fiftieth time, "WILL!"

megan waited around outside will smith's limo after the game to meet him! thats her arm and hand grabbing him on the right side of the picture.

i enjoyed a shift at the cupcake store. this was our blueberry pie cupcake i made. there is even pie crust at the bottom of the liner. deeee-ricious.

i made my new favorite cupcakes to decorate: snowballs. and i even got to hand dye the coconut. so fun.

crappy pictures, quality job.

this is me, with my reeeealllly excited face, on my first day at the new cupcake shop. i got a part time gig as a CUPCAKE DECORATOR!

this is a cupcake i decorated last nite. the neapolitan. honestly, i have no desire to taste this particular flavor of cupcake but i think it makes for one fine showpiece. thanks to my family (especially cheri!) for helping with tagg while i am away. i am in heaven!

BALL! BALL! BALL!
tagg sure does love his sports. the second we got into the stadium he ran to fence and started yelling, "ball! ball!"

this picture is ironic because exactly ten seconds before i took it i had claimed, "hey. there's a mascot. did you guys know it is against the mascot code to take the 'head' off in public?"

we all made the trek down to seattle's memorial stadium to watch the number two high school football team in the nation: the skyline spartans. (this friday, skyline plays a team from california who has joe montana's son as the qb and will smith's son as the wide receiver. the stars will be in sammamish!)

the stadium sits right beneath the space needle. i love seattle. and my dad.

it's not first. but i'll take it.

about a month ago, my dad brought home the issaquah newspaper to show me that they were having an amateur photo contest. i decided it might be fun to enter. and what do you know..... i placed third!

a trip back to my homeland

(san diego, NOT the zoo! haha.) craig, taggart and i just returned from our trip to san diego. the first stop when we got into town was the san diego zoo......

...per brady's request. brady & jocelyn flew down to meet us in san diego. that made the trip a billion times more funner.

tagg reaaaallly liked the animal statues around the zoo.

the smiths.

the smiths.

look at that chubby little finger. tagg really wanted to show us....

OTIS, the hippo. tagg could have watched otis float around the pool for hours.

instead, he just "took a nap" on otis' head.

my favorite part of the day was the gondola ride above the zoo. the cool breeze felt SO nice.

jocelyn's cute pregnant belly.

i just HAD to get a souvenir for tagg from the zoo. he loved his polar bear.

please do not ask why this gorgeous butterfly is on the ground. lets just say that brady has good (or in this case, bad) aim.

the only person who loves tagg more than i do is TAGG. he was so happy with himself in these cut-out thingys.

um yeah. he be crazy.

riding up the sky walk.

my little orangutan.

the next day, we hit up del mar. it was a whopping 105+ degrees.

jocelyn and brady.

jocelyn (cute & beach-y) and me (wet and sunglass-y)

the boys digging in the sand. tagg was loving life.

me & jocelyn at dinner later that nite. guess where.

the gorgeous and selfless hostess. brooke & scott were so incredibly generous to offer their home/cars to us. we LOVE them.

please excuse the fact that i look like satan in this picture. this was me & jocelyn making those special 24 hour cookies.

the boy and his gun.

brooke's backyard. its a freaking resort.

craigy weggy.

hot tubbing. we figured out the perfect combination: body in the pool + arms in the hot tub.

we had a fabu time on our trip. but louis sure did miss us. it was nice getting back home and nuzzling up to this fluff.

whenever i visit san diego i remember what a special place it is. we had a great time with the smiths and my family. what an amazing week.