case of the Monday's

I'm sorry that it's been a week since I blogged, but I've been feeling really blah lately. I hate blaming the weather, but dude it's the weather. We've been here two years and three months and I'm still not used to it. I don't like it. At all. And saying that I pretty much hate this state makes me feel ungrateful and a bit like a traitor. Because, she's been good to us. Nice home, nice friends, nice job, nice scenery, nice city. There are a lot of good things about this state, but for the most part we don't really take advantage of all the good stuff, because we are too busy raising kids. And kids like to be outside, except that it's miserable outside, so we rarely go outside, especially now that we have a baby. Just in the last two weeks it has gotten to the point where I honestly don't want to talk to people. I don't like to come across unfriendly, but lately, I am just feeling so...blah...

The sucky thing is the rest of the country starts to warm up in March/April, but we pretty much stay at this constant temp (40-50)for about 9-10 months.  I think it sucks. There I said it. I really think it sucks.

With that said. We went to Portland/Vancouver last week to see my sis and brother-in-law in their new house. I was bored during the drive and took like 9 million cell phone shots (normally I'd get online, but we got rid of internet on my phone, in an effort to save money, because we are trying to Dave Ramsey our life, aka. no debt other than the house... we are pretty darn close).

So here are some cell pics (we weren't driving in the people shots).










This was Scarlett's first time in a restaurant and her first trip to Ikea!

and Scarlett's first time in a hotel (though if you notice, this is two different hotel rooms, funny story there... or not so funny, depends on who is telling it (cough cough Mike forgot to book a room, so the hotel put us in a conference room, with a pullout couch, no bed... needless to say, we left, sigh))

Before we left Addie scraped her face pretty badly at preschool. She took the distorted self portrait (the cell phone camera kept her entertained for half an hour) and exclaimed after seeing the pic "I yuv my boo boo!" lol

Here are a few pics taken w/ my real camera:



We came back late Thursday night and I found my new fisheye lens sitting on our porch (couldn't resist taking a few shots of the girls in the playroom):

She is obsessed with this swing. I got it on Craigslist before Addie was born. Love that it has lasted through two kids!

My sweet smiley girl. I had just gotten home from a newborn session and she was happy to see me :)

Staring up at big sis. I have a feeling she is going to idolize her.