Happy Halloween!

I hope everyone has a safe and happy Halloween! Don't forget to eat lots of candy!

Lindsey's visit!

I am so glad Lindsey was able to come visit, we had such an amazing weekend spending time together! The weather was absolutely gorgeous the whole time she was here.

On Friday, we had appointments to look at Bridesmaids dresses at The Bridal Garden in Kirkland and La Belle Elaines in downtown Seattle right under the Space Needle.. they were both very successful and a blast! In between appointments, I took Linds to a couple of her favorite Seattle stores for some shopping. Then we went home and walked to a cute little Mexican restaurant in our neighborhood for dinner and margarita's!


On Saturday we got the finishing touches for our Halloween costumes, shopped at H&M for a couple hours, then we headed to Woodinville to see Melissa and help her with the move. I know Lindsey was glad she got to see Melis! We came home and got dressed up for the Halloween party (new post below).


On Sunday Garrett, Lindsey and I met Shane and Steph for a delicious brunch at The Rusty Pelican. After that Lindsey wanted to take a ferry ride since it is the only thing that she has yet to do in Seattle, so we walked onto the Seattle to Bainbridge Island Ferry and took in the beautiful Seattle skyline!

On the Ferry with the Space Needle behind us!

Amazing view from the Ferry - Just look at that BLUE sky!


Linds on the Ferry!

On Sunday evening we met up with some friends from Auburn, April and Jeff - they moved out here a couple of years ago too - at The Crab Pot for dinner. It was such a fun place to eat, they bring out your food in a big bowl and dump it on the table and give you bibs and a mallet. We all ordered the same thing - Dungeness crab, snow crab, shrimp, clams and mussels, corn on the cobb and red potatoes! It was SO yummy and we were all beyond stuffed!

Lindsey in her bib!

What an experience!

Yummy crab, shrimp, clams etc...

My mallet & dirty bib! HA!

Halloween Party

For the past couple of years, our friends Mike and Erin have hosted a Halloween/Birthday Party at Kells Irish Pub in Seattle and this year, since Lindsey was in town, we decided to go all out for the party! Lindsey and I dressed up as flappers. My sweet, creative Mom designed our costumes and, I must say, they turned out pretty fabulous! Garrett dressed up as Jackie Moon from the movie Semi-Pro with Will Ferrell and was hilarious the whole night! It was so much fun dressing up and wearing wigs... all of our costumes were a huge hit at the party! Lindsey and I met the owner of Kells who fell in love with Lindsey's GREEN costume.. and said that she has GOT to come back and wear it for St. Patricks day! Most of our friends - the one's that I hang out with alot - were able to tell me and Lindsey apart!

Fabulous Flappers and the famous Public Market sign in Seattle!



Ron Burgundy, Dog the Bounty Hunter and Jackie Moon

Flappers, take 2

Cruella, Dog, Jackie, and the Flapper ladies!

Best.Costume.Ever
Forrest Gump and Captain Dan


Garrett and I :)

It's Twin-Union Time!

My beautiful, amazing sister is coming to visit this weekend! Ever since we moved, she has said that she has got to come out here to see our new lives! She is flying in tomorrow evening until early Monday morning. I can't WAIT! Watch out Seattle, it's Twin-Union Time!

Lauren & Lindsey circa 1988 - Just hangin around!

Pumpkin Carving Fun

This past weekend Garrett and I put our basement to good use and invited a bunch of friends over to carve pumpkins and check out our new place. We had so much fun and I think everyone was super surprised by how awesome the pumpkins turned out.

Using a drill as a pumpkin carving tool!

(Yes, that is a ping pong table in our basement.. we got it for free from a friend of G's brother!)


A ghost, a witch, scary face, and a skeleton...

A pirate ship, jack-o-lantern...


Guess whose this one is?! 'K' is for Kelly

Emily and I made this Spider Web Cheesecake from scratch! How fun!

October Obsessions:

This month I am completely enthralled with these items!

Decorating with my fave Candy Corn and White Pumpkins

Cutie comfy boots and white tee (I'm going to buy one of these in every color) paired with my fave jeans and this lovely PURPLE coat!

OMG - Reversible tights, one side is black the other brown.. genius! (Thank you Courtney for sharing this fabulous find)

And finally - Spray Paint - I spray painted a few picture frames last weekend and they turned out oh so pretty!

Our new place!

Here she is, built in the 1920s Craftsman style home, 2bed, 1bath, full basement in the Maple Leaf neighborhood of Seattle! Without further ado...

Home Sweet Home :)

Yay for built-ins and hardwoods!

I love it's charm!

French doors open to the...


Guest bedroom

Bathroom - not finished here yet but how cute is that tile?!

Lots of storage in these cabinets!

I love the woodwork!


Breakfast Nook
(the green vase was on the tables at our wedding reception!)

So happy to have a backyard - and a shed!!! Needs lots of work though!!

Did I mention there's a basement too!? It's awesome.. Garrett is fixing it and making it his 'Man space' it's all really coming together and we are loving having lots of SPACE to work on little projects here and there!

Please Vote for Trevor!!

Garrett's brother, Trevor, has been nominated for High School Player of the Week by KIRO 7 news! He is leading so far but needs your VOTES!! To vote go to the website: http://www.kirotv.com/hsfootball/index.html and then on the right hand side click in Trevor Kelly-WHS. While you are there watch their Game of the Week, at the end they interviewed Trevor.

Go #8!!

Happy Fall Y'all!

It's a beautiful, sunny, crisp, clear fall day here in Seattle! Hope everyone has a great weekend! We're off to watch Trev's football game! Go WHS!

Happy Fall Y'all! ;)

I had to share...

The other day after work I caught the end of an Oprah episode. I'm not sure which one but I believe she was interviewing Maya Angelo about her new book and Oprah said something that really stuck out to me. It went something like this:

Life isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you handle what happens to you.

Nothing profound, but it totally made sense and clicked when I heard it.

Then, this morning my Dad forwarded me this great email entitled The "Scary Times" Success Manual. One of the strategies was basically the same as the Oprah quote:

8. Forget about events, focus on your responses.

When things are going well, many people think they are actually in control of events. That’s why they feel so defeated and depressed when things turn bad. They think they’ve lost some fundamental ability. The most consistently successful people in the world know they can’t control events — but continually work toward greater control over their creative responses to events. Any period when things are uncertain is an excellent time to focus all of your attention and energies on being creatively responsive to all of the unpredictable events that lie ahead.

I had to share this because it keeps appearing in my life and I feel that anyone can relate to this quote, especially in this scary, unpredictable economy.

Ladies night at the theatre

Last night, 11 amazing ladies got together to see Phantom of the Opera at The Paramount Theatre (for my out of state readers - if you plan on visiting Seattle I recommend seeing a Broadway show there because it is an amazing theatre!). We had a such fabulous time. We met for happy hour and apps at Union Square Grill then walked to the Paramount from there.


Phantom was great. I really enjoyed the talent of the performers.. how do those people bust out such high notes and make it sound beautiful at the same time??!! I went home and tried to get Garrett to sing a duet with me.. but he wasn't having it! Ha! I'm glad I saw it in October because the special effects were kind of spooky. Rent and Mama Mia are still my all time favorite musicals though!

Thanks Em for organizing! I'm thinking we should make this a monthly/bimonthly get together.. Spring Awakening is coming up next!

All the ladies before the show

Pictures to come soon... promise

I have promised a lot of you a post with pics of our new place.. I haven't forgotten, they are coming very soon! Promise promise! :)