a gift from my garden

look what I found in our garden yesterday? I am not sure what these flowers are called, but they are spectacular! anyone know their name?

awww

found this photo of Coop that we took on one of our first camping trips with him to kilarney in canada in 2005, this was the same weekend he jumped out of the canoe and instantly learnt how to swim...

here he is 2 years later when we went back to Kilarney for another canoe/camping trip. it's hard to believe he is going to be 5 this year!

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Here's the pitcher of beer me and Cody shared at Cuetopia the other night.

powdery skiing last week

here's some photos from last week's trip to the snow, this time to Kirkwood (near Tahoe). the drive up there was beautifulthe sun was shiningand it was time to get back on my new skiswe couldn't have asked for better weatherLexie and Bryce at the top of the mountain (Hannah took this pic on her phone, since I was too chicken to go up at this point... and you can see why I might be chicken...

I preferred to ski with little people like this cute little dudeHere's Bryce (laying down), Lexie (with her hands in the air), Hannah (kneeling) and Ken (my very cool boss in the foreground)
the snow started falling sunday afternoon

which meant gorgeous conditions for Monday!

and there was nobody on the slopes

sunshine and lots of snow

here's a video I took of me enjoying the powdery snow

me as cyclops
and by Tuesday I made it to the very top of the mountain
where the views were spectacular!

happy birthday Barb!

we both hope you have a wonderful day today!

love Kate

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My pho~ fixings from our trip to Khanh's in San Jose.

hope you're wearing green today!

even the sydney opera house is! Happy St Patrick's Day!photo here

corners of my home

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Here's one of the many, many ribs I devoured prior to destroying several buckets of butter drenched crab legs at the annual crab feed. I'm already counting down the days til next year's feast.

Sleeping together

Here's what I discovered last night when I was searching the house for Cody so he could help hang our new window. Awwww. I crept off, grabbed the camera, snapped this, and then shouted "Get up and hlep me!!!"

monday monday

must admit I am feeling a little deflated today... after a big weekend and with daylight savings kicking in and having to get up a whole hour earlier, the coffee is just not cutting it today.

we had a jam packed weekend of yard work, a park date, housework, saw Shutter Island, went for a bike ride, and a crab feed for a local school, where I won $625!!! woohoo! :D

whatever shall I spend it on???

photo above taken the day after melita's party, this is the view from my bed - when I woke up this balloon was just hovering in the hallway, kind of eerie but very cool...

happy friday!

Spring is so very close now and all the plants are starting to awaken from their slumber, including all the weeds in our garden... so this weekend we are going to do some gardening, go for a bike ride, catch a movie, go to a crab feed (even though I don't like seafood...) and generally hang around the house. very excited that daylight savings starts this weekend too!

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Kate

photo here

sleep in a tree?

I took one look at this place in sunset magazine and knew that I wanted to sleep here - isn't this so romantic?

wedding inspiration/ garland obsession

what a wonderful way to combine garlands and lights!! I think this would be perfect at our wedding or any party occasion... :P

the instructions on how to make these lovely garlands are here at once wed

my mantra

corners of my home

kate's bucket list

I have just returned home after 4 days in the snow, 3 of which were for work (I have a great job btw) and the other night at dinner the discussion with my team of 6 turned to travel, places we wanted to see before we died and things we wanted to do. it was great to hear some of the cool things my diverse team has already done, and still want to do - but it got me thinking that I need a list. I mean I have a bunch of things I want to do before I die, and as a fanatical list maker I can't believe I have never put them down in one place!

do you have a bucket list?

happy birthday Gene!

here's wishing you had a wonderful day today even though you were traveling :)

love from us!

They're here!!

The cabinets were all delivered today and they're beautiful! I wasn't too sure about getting dark wood, but I am happy I did! Now we just need to finish sealing off the kitchen wall, install the door and windows (arriving Saturday) and these puppies will be installed within the next week or so!!

organisational bliss

being tax season, I have been getting my files all organised and when I saw this gorgeous address file on rifle blog today I had the following conversation with myself...

oh it's so pretty! wouldn't it make the office look so lovely?!!

but all our addresses and phone numbers are on our computers or phones...

well, it's nice to have them in a solid place in case of a technical breakdown (god forbid my hard drive fails) or I lost my phone...

yes, I definitely need one of these!

what do you think?

buy yours here

saturday park date

McKenzie has decided that although she doesn't perhaps like to run and catch the frizbee out of mid air as Cooper does...

she does like to chase after him just to help him carry it back to us, because she's just that thoughtful...

she also likes to lay out like a cat and pounce as he gets close

Cooper makes friends but tries to play it so cool - so McKenzie, being the thoughtful one humours this little guy by chasing him around and around and around
and then she gets le tired...
and Cooper is the happy chappy :)

a lovely outdoor room

am loving the use of greys, yellows and wood in this gorgeous outdoor space.

photo from here