yes, i'm way behind on pictures

still to come are:

• Dad & Co. visit
• Cassie's visit
• Work team building
• Amy & Greer's wedding and our weekend in Nashville
• Crash-o-Rama

better get caught up before the 4th eh? in the meantime...

breakfast with the characters

tomorrow, nate and i are headed to ohana to have breakfast with lilo, stitch, mickey & pluto! stay tuned for pictures :)

tostadas!

so our meal of choice lately has been tostadas. they're extremely tasty and don't require much cooking (which is key during the summer in florida!)



first, it's important to have lots of fixins' as show here (tomatoes, onion, jalapeno, cilantro, avocado) also helpful but not pictured: shredded cheese, sour cream, cholula. although lately i've been leaving off the sour cream and cheese and haven't even missed it! the cilantro is a must though!





then just spread some refried beans on a tostada shell (i warm mine first in the oven), add spiced ground beef if you want, and then voila! tasty easy summer meal :)

not to brag...

but is he the cutest, or what? :) (i know cassie... "gag!") but seriously :)

redecorating, and slacking on the blog!

happy weekend! we're doing some groundwork for redecorating our 'office' this weekend. it's one of the only rooms in the house that's never been painted and could certainly use a little sprucing up. we might go with plain ol' tan, but now i'm thinking maybe a color? i'm always drawn to blues and greens, but i probably shouldn't have the entire house in those 2 colors ;)

last weekend was good times. we went to the crash-o-rama (pictures to come!), had a nice lazy saturday at the farmers' market and even took naps! saturday night we saw a couple of cool bands at an orlando bar called backbooth - it had all kinds of neat alcoves and places to see the stage. i liked it :) we saw a band called 'look mexico' that we both really liked and also 'the sugar oaks' (who were headlining). we had a few more activities with molly for her last weekend in town (brunch at dexter's and a few $2 mimosas) and then we FINALLY cleaned the house!

we have some upcoming trips to PA and AZ so we're pretty excited- our vacation use this year has been pretty slim up to now so we're happy to be flying the friendly skies again ;)

Ponce de Leon

by George Lober

Now that I am fifty
I look at you differently,

I let the scent of your skin
wash over me at night,

I bathe my face in the red
spray of your hair,

and cling to your back
in the dark like a man

both afraid of the jungle
and certain as Ponce de Leon

that my last and only hope
of remaining young

is to discover you
again and again and again.

breeze through the car window

tonight reminded of me of when it's nice and cool outside and we leave the windows open and curl up under the covers! of course, i love the long days of summer and wearing a tank top and shorts to a late night outing and not worrying about being cold. here in florida, some mornings when i leave our air conditioned house in the morning, my glasses fog up! just rambling about the seasons and what i associate with them i guess. random i know.
in other news, i downloaded a bunch of new music including: the weepies, crooked still, catie curtis... and did you know that lisa loeb wrote a song about groundhogs??? so of course, i had to download that as lisa loeb is a long time favorite of mine (the first CD i ever purchased in fact).
nate and i have leisurely plans for the weekend, our good friend molly is moving (!) to cali so we have been participating in a string of farewell activities. this weekend we're headed to see school buses race on a figure eight track- crazy, eh? nate's pretty excited so i'll be sure to share some pictures :)
other plans? check out the winter garden farmers' market, the new whole foods (yipee!), go see some live music downtown, enjoy the weekend!

picture sneak peek

a few pics from our visit with dad, anita, ryan, austin, and cassie (and ari!) -- i think the picture of the 2 dogs is hilarious - it's obvious that cleo wants nothing to do with ari even though i made them sit next to each other.

drinking coke at club cool!

gorilla sized dad!

the boys as bugs. this was cassie's favorite ride!

dad and anita at city walk

posted some april pics!

greetings from our future!

cassie, nate & i headed to epcot tonight (cassie's favorite!) we had a great time and nate even got cassie to ride spaceship earth (the ride that goes through the epcot ball). here's the postcards we got from the ride:



dad, anita, ryan & austin headed home wednesday -- we had a great time with them and hope they enjoyed florida!

tomorrow, we're beach bound- hopefully the weather will cooperate!

like i could resist...

taking photos of miss ari ;)

hurricane season

well with june 1st came hurricane season and true to this time of year, we've had thunderstorms rolling in each evening since. i love that :)

happy birthday mom!