I got my first real six string

That blog title gave me flashbacks.  My dad used to blast that Bryan Adams song (Summer of '69) on the weekends to wake my brother and I up...either that, or Bob Marley.  I wouldn't even be mad.

Anyway, just wanted to post about my Wednesday.  My old manager/friend Chantal was selling he guitar awhile ago, and I bought it for pretty cheap.  She just wanted to get rid of it, and lowered the price when she found out I wanted it.  Andy got me lessons for my birthday, and my first one was on Wednesday at Ted Bown Music (the new Puyallup location is not as awesome as the big bronze shiny one in Tacoma, but I can't complain).

I told Andy to get me an old wise man teacher.  He said he thinks they're all that way.  I got there and found a young guy in a slouchy beanie.  I mention the slouchy beanie because Andy hates them so much for some reason that he makes an audible "yechh" sound whenever he sees someone in one, and I found it hilarious that my teacher was not only not an old guy, but wears one.

He was nice.  I expected very very basic overviews of things the first lesson, which was kind of what I got.  Luckily my prior music experience let me skip over what scales are and how an f-sharp is the same as a g-flat yada yada quarter note yada yada repeat sign etc.  He went over how to tune, what notes the strings were, and taught me a couple scales.  I figured I'd be learning individual notes and stuff for awhile but he taught me 4 chords already and my "homework" was to bring in 5-10 songs I want to learn.  It was really fun and I am really excited I got to jump right in :)

Since I don't have a picture, here is one I took of Sawyer today at dinner.  I got him cute little skinny jeans since I have a "Children's Place" problem.  He is so thin they are still baggy and I got him a couple pairs of chino shorts- they actually came in "slim" "regular" and "husky" for his age.  I got him "slim" and they were still baggy on him.  I guess they'll fit next year at least.

Goobers

The kids are such goofballs.  A few examples:

Sawyer not only put oven mitts on his feet, but proceeded to wear them for about an hour.

He grabbed a bucket and a pirate sword, and marched around the house with his "drum"

Playing in the back seat (we were parked)

I thought this was funny

Kellan emerged from the toy room with a giant sword.  He came over and started dancing (the song is one of the ones sounder fans sing at the matches)


Kel also likes to push balls around the house like a cat.  Here he was doing it with a car:


Last night I got out of the shower to Sawyer watching sprout on our bed.  He says, "Can you please go back in the shower?" I said, "No, why?"  He says "you need to go take another shower in your bathroom" (I shower in the boys bathroom) "Why?" He says, "because your hair is flat".  What?  Andy came up and said he told him he was allowed to watch sprout until I got out of the shower.

The other day we tried to get him to try spaghetti (it had sauce and he didn't want sauce) and he says, "but it's going to make me almost die!"

Sawyer got too tired in soccer and just quit mid-game and came over and said "I'm running out of energies!"

The past few days if Sawyer gets hurt he says, "But don't worry, I'M TOUGH!"

The SECOND Sawyer gets home he starts to peel off clothes.  I barely have my shoes off and he's already in underwear.  He often asks, "Can I be naked when it's dark outside?"

I can't think of any more funny things off the top of my head, but they crack me up.

Skating

We are a bit of a sports family, so we watched as much of the Sochi Olympics the past 2 weeks as we could.  Sawyer saw the speed skaters and liked it.  I casually mentioned I should take him roller skating, and he had been asking every day since "Is today roller skating?"

I looked online and there was only weekend sessions (which wasn't ideal since Andy has work in the mornings) except the last Wednesday of the month is "homeschool skate" which is public.  Luckily, that is the perfect day and the last Wednesday was coming up.  He was so excited when we told him this morning that we were going today.

I haven't been skating since Andy and I started dating.  I don't even think we were officially dating at that point.  Our team at Pierce rented out Tiffany's as a family event.  We all dressed like 70's as best we knew.

And also resulted in a hilarious fall when I tried to skate through Andy's legs

They did a little renovating since then (6 years ago) note the TV's in the center and the new shop and arcade.

We laced up and took turns staying with Kellan and the other taking Sawyer around.  He loved it and kept telling me "I'm learning how to roller skate!" with the biggest smile.  They make the kid skates really tight so he only fell a couple times.

Watching the races

It was really fun!

Afterwards we went across the street for my favorite burgers from Five Guys

And on the way home we stopped at Ted Brown for my birthday present- Andy signed me up for guitar lessons :D  I am so excited to get back into music- it's been over 10 years since I've played an instrument (I played flute and oboe in elementary/junior high).  They gave me a coupon for my lesson book and flashbacks to my early years when I used to get so excited when we were going to the music store made me happy.

Ski bums

Yesterday my friend Federico got us tickets to the Alaska Airlines ski night at Snoqualmie.  They buy out West and you can get tickets from an employee for like $13 a piece.  (They are like $40 normally, plus no lines).

 It was pelting tiny ice spheres that somehow managed to melt enough to just get stuck to your goggles then freeze again, where you can't see unless you scrape it off with your gloves. The snow between lifts was this crappy powder that was impossible for a skier to go through, but we got our money's worth x50 once we stuck to going down the lifts and not crossing over.  When we did have to cross over, I had to snow plow in a weird way that wore out my quads so fast I had to stop every 20 feet to break.

I skied with my dad, and we met up with Andy in the middle at the lodge for some food.  He brought his music and had planned to go off on his own since I had been skiing since I was 5 and he has a bad time when trying to keep up with us.  He said he had the most fun he's ever had just going at his own pace and going off a little jump he found.  I didn't crash, Andy was a self-described white ball of powder, and my dad "crashed" once in a funny puff of powder when he thought he'd goof off doing a weird back and forth move but ended up in that crappy powder I mentioned before and it took one of his skis off course, hehe.

It was fun, cold, and worth it once we discovered a lift with the best snow.

Andy wore a soccer jersey over his north face lol

Andy on the chair lift (I don't like his snowboard touching my skis)

Me and dad on the lift

Andy

Is that Bode Miller? Nope, just me ;)

Dad on the hill

The roads at the pass required our 4wd

Destiny's Baby Shower

Saturday was Destiny's baby shower!  It was nice to see family and baby P got so many new things.  I had been buying her clothes for awhile now, but I wanted to bring something, so I made some headbands from fabric and ribbons.  The boys behaved, which was good since both of them were giving me attitude at home.1

This other baby wore overalls too

That is not a baby, it is made of diapers :)

He was so excited to get to take home some chips and tomatoes

Twenty-seven

On Sunday I turned 27! It doesn't seem like a big birthday, but I always thought of that age as starting to get old so I guess I am old now.

Andy worked that day, but when he got home we went right out for dinner.  I love all the email coupons you get on your birthday.  I had a free entree at C.I. Shenanigans so we went for fancy dinner.

I wore a dress 3 days this week!

The boys fell asleep but they love Kel's new seat because they can see each other

Hard to see, but it was stormy out over the water, it was so pretty

Grilled cheese as usual

My delicious lobster stuffed ravioli

Andy got a bacon wrapped filet mignon meatloaf

 On the way home we stopped at coldstone to get a cake.  We shared with Erik and Destiny before they had to get my parents from the airport (they went to Denver all week)

Banana for scale

Andy got me a new shirt, a coral cardigan, and some adorable boat shoes (I love when he buys me things to wear), plus I GET TO SIGN UP FOR GUITAR LESSONS! :D  My friend Jenna left that cupcake on my porch.

Not a big birthday, but not too shabby either :)