the sun came out for a little bit......
and we had a complete blast! i can already feel my sunburn (pretty impressive since we only had sun for about three hours.......) and tagg is wiped out. but the waterpark was amazing. 

all packed and ready for God's country
yesterday, we packed our car to the brim and headed out on the 13 hour drive to utah. i gave tagg a B- for his attitude during the trip. he didnt really appreciate being in such a confined space for the whole day.......but thats ok, because once we got here we were going to play play play at my dads new waterpark in draper. except that it is POURING RAIN. heres hoping the sun will follow us from seattle.......

self indulgent? yes. necessary? of course.

cute little baby shower, right? really wish i could have been there.....

oh wait, i was. i totally spoiled myself and flew down to san francisco at the last minute to be at jocelyn's baby shower. i just couldnt imagine having to settle for pictures of the event. and it didnt dissapoint.

jocelyn was the cutest guest of honor. not to mention one sexy pregnant lady. jocelyn got so many adorable gifts from her amazing san francisco girlfriends. baby smith is going to be one pampered little girl. this was jocelyn's face as she opened my gift to her......

a baby girl quilt. i started to make this quilt a little over a week ago (with the help from my mom) and was binding it right up until i had to leave for the airport. it was fun to make but even more fun to see jocelyn's reaction when she opened it. 


pictures of the quilt.

the girls at the baby shower. they were all so sweet and did a fantastic job on the decorations and the food. it kinda made me wish that we would have gone to UoP so that they all could by my friends too.

the second we got home from the shower, i made jocelyn show brady the quilt. especially the label on the back that read: "look tagg smith up in about twenty years"

the next day, jocelyn had to go into work early. so i slept in and caught a bus into the city all by my lonesome. i was a nervous nelly about the bus situation not going smoothly so i laid out my bus money like an hour early.

by noon, jocelyn was off work and we walked/shopped around union square. i felt badly about making a pregnant lady tour the city with me all day (after a late nite out at the shower and an early morning at work) but not badly enough to let her go home!

we did rest our feet for a little while in the center of union square. until we had had enough of the mannerless bum.

jocelyn took to me one of the best restaurants i have ever been to. it was incredible. we pretty much ordered up the entire menu. but it was worth the hefty bill, i am still thinking about the chicken mac&cheese dish.

even though we were stuffed up to our eyeballs with food from dinner, i had to make caramel crack for brady and jocelyn. i even brought some of the ingredients from home because i wanted it to turn out just perfectly.....

yeah, but it didnt! the entire batch burned. i was so depressed. there is NOTHING like a failed recipe. especially when you are trying to impress.

the next morning, we enjoyed breakfast at one of my favorite places in san francisco, la boulange. it is so yummy. i wish they had it here in seattle.

look at the shirt i found! i didnt buy it because it was missing a "g". still cute though. whats up with my crazy eyes?

i LOVE street fairs. the crafts, the food......

and the people. the little lady in the background was modeling the "clothing" sold at her shop. san francisco has some of the craziest people i have ever seen.

this is on the balcony of jocelyn's place. quite the view. we were so lucky that the weather cooperated the entire weekend.

i was so excited to eat at taylors. my favorite part was the egg bun and the girl who almost lost her life because she made the pigeons fly towards jocelyn.

the smiths are some of my favorite people in the world. they are such a riot and i can totally be myself when i am around them. i really wish we lived closer together.....

THE picture. i will miss our traditional pictures behind the ferry building. 

"no, dont turn around, this is a candid!" kinda takes the "candid" out of it.

 
i was so glad to spend a couple days with jocelyn before they leave san francisco. and to be able to see her cute little pregnant belly. she is such an amazing friend and i love her so much.

crazy times at the park

tagg just goes for it head first. he is my little manly dare devil.

but tagg is like an onion: he has many layers. he also has a softer, more sensitive side. and isnt afraid to show appreciation for the beautiful things in life.

what a gorgeous blanket

yeah right. if you value your life at all, you will not refer to this masterpiece as a 'blanket'. it is a quilt! and a mighty fine one too. a couple weeks ago, my mom made a quilt to go up for bidding at a friend's auction. i was SO obsessed with it that i was very sad to see it go.......

so what does my mom do? surprises me with my very own quilt. this is pretty much a duplicate of the auction quilt, which is prefect because i loved that one so much. my mom is so amazing. she is so generous with her time and talents! danka, momo.

"kah, kah"

that's tagg, saying "bike". he is obsessed. 

he really does love riding a bike around, but it is hard for him to smile for the camera. he could be laughing his head off but the second he sees a camera he either a) gets serious or b) looks away altogether. such a contrary little boy.

i was playing around with different effects from the sun. and tucker is always eager to be my subject.

why so serious?

craig took this one. sometimes, when i find a cool location or want to try a new trick i have craig get behind the camera. he has a hard time taking posing seriously (usually making scary-wide open eyes) and therefore ruins the shot. so i just tell him where to shoot and i get to be the model. 

baby pinecones. 

the weather has been amazing lately. so its been fun playing outside and getting some much needed vitamin d. this is tagg's little chubby hand after a hard afternoon of playing in the front yard.

taylor swifty, youre so nifty

thats what i wanted grace to put on her poster for the taylor swift concert.... but i guess "you rock" was cooler. guess i really am an out-of-touch un-hip mom. boo.

last thursday, for grace's eighth birthday wish, megan, my mom, anna, grace and i packed ourselves into the car and drove over to good old spokane for the taylor swift concert. i was surprised by how many of her songs i liked/was familiar with. she was one great entertainer too.

and the highlight of the nite (for grace) was when taylor swift walked thru the crowd and randomly picked grace to give one of her bracelets to. grace was so thrilled she was speechless and said she almost fainted. it was too cute.

and the highlight of the nite (for me) was when the opening act came back out onto the stage at the end of the concert. we had missed them earlier because a) who cares about seeing the piddly opening acts, right? and b) we had to hit up the spokane outback before the show. little did i know: we should NOT have missed them. lets just say, the band boasts one of the most attractive male specimens i have ever laid eyes on. period.