Happy Halloweeeeeen!

Tonight I decorated our kitchen table with streamers and candles and crunchy leaves from outside. I put candles in the pumpkins we carved last weekend and turned on the radio as I made dinner.

My husband came home to homemade tomato-bread soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. Even though we're not out trick-or-treating, it's still nice to have warm food on a cold night.

Of course, our sandwiches had gummy worms coming out of them. oooh, thspooky!

Pumpkins are fun!

Honeymoon, Honeymoon!

For all you Groovy Rednecks fans out there, I hope you sing their "Honeymoon" song as you pour over these photos from our own honeymoon in Victoria.

It took me a while to post them as life is quite busy these days, but it was fun to relive it all.

Happy Friday, everyone!

What a difference a year makes

I love both of these photos of li'l Gabriel. I wish the infant one were a little sharper, but having it at all is wonderful. The recent photo is Gabriel's new squinty-eye response to the flash on my camera. Makes me laugh every time!

Happiness is...

... marrying the man you love.


(photo by Sandi Heinrich)

Do you like Afghan food?

Kabul in Seattle is awesome. I highly recommend it for its simple yet delicious flavors - click here for their website.

I first discovered Afghan food while working at ILM in San Rafael. Once we discovered it, my friends and I ate lunch there at least once a month.

After the 9-11 disaster some people stopped frequenting it and a group of people at ILM set out to make sure the restaurant didn't go under. We ate there as often as we could, and I hope it's still open.

That restaurant (looking it up online, I think it was called Bamyan Afghan Restaurant) was one of the places I made sure to eat during my last days in California, so when I moved to Seattle it was pretty high on my priority list to find a local Afghan place.

Kabul does not disappoint. Just ask my friend Jenn (who is currently living in Norway, btw!) - I took her there when I learned she likes simple food. She loved it. :)

I brought Kabul home tonight, chicken kabob dinners. yum!

Happy wedding day, Carolyn and Brian

Love you both very much, can't wait to see photos from your wedding! XOXO

And Now We Are One

Happy Birthday, li'l Gabriel! Birthday parties for 1-yr-olds are really more for adults. We get to eat yummy cake and "ooh" and "ahh" over tiny little clothes.

Thank you, Liz and Ian, for hosting a wonderful party!



Click here for more birthday photos.

The Orange of a Pumpkin

Today I ventured out with my camera to snap photos at a local pumpkin patch in Snohomish. My sister Katie had taken me there a couple of years in a row, but with her living in Tennessee (temporarily) I was on my own to locate the farm.

With vague directions in my head from years past, and a "take highway 9" from my husband, I found the pumpkins with little trouble. Pumpkins are so cute and friendly and it makes this girl very happy to wind her way through a field of orange and green and mud.



and, oh yeah, apparently the Headless Horseman was there as well:


Click here for more pumpkin photos.

First 5, Oct. 10

Today's first 5 songs to appear on my iPod shuffle are:

1. "Lament" -- Miles Davis
(ah, Miles...)

2. "Let's Hear it For The Boy" -- Denise Wiliams
(ewww! worst song from the Footloose Soundtrack.)

3. "Gideon" -- My Morning Jacket
(nice. got this CD from a friend at work, not sure I've ever heard this song)

4. "Flamenco" -- Eva Yerbabuena
(from Stomp Soundtrack. We loved the Stomp show so much we bought the soundtrack. Great show!)

5. "Death On Two Legs" -- Queen
(love, love, love Queen. I didn't know this until I asked a friend of mine to make me a mixed CD of Queen's greatest stuff. You know who you are, so thanks! Although listening to this one, all I can picture is Guitar Hero.)

Green Day rocks!

Listening to my iPod on Shuffle is one of my favorite things in the world. When I got my first iPod a couple of Christmas's ago, I listened to it on shuffle almost constantly. In fact, so did my co-worker and friend Phil, who subsequently got the nickname 'iPod Phil' -- hey, Phil, did you know I call you that? -- we used to give each other daily reports on the first 5 shuffle songs. Fun!

When a song comes on during shuffle I tend to listen to it more closely, it's out of context and more of a surprise, like listening to a really great, eclectic radio station. My reaction is usually, "oh, I didn't know I had *that* song. cool."

Today's favorite shuffle song has got to be "Are We the Waiting / St. Jimmy" by Green Day. It's got that anthem-y-ness that I adore, like an old Slade, Meatloaf or Chris De Burgh song. What is it about anthem songs that I love so much, anyway?

iPods rule. They just do.

Name that movie quote

"I've come to the end of me, Rita."

I've always loved this line, delivered with such quiet flare. Anyone know who said it and in what movie? :)