Copper Acorn

Our outing today was nice and warm-surprisingly. My mom, Emma and I went to get pizza, go on a ferry ride and then get ice cream. Right now Emma is crazy tired ans is zonked out in bed. Lucky. What I wouldn’t give to take a warm nap with cozy blankets around me…*sigh
But, I am blogging and since I love that I’m satisfied.
I have to first say that we went to the best ice cream place EVER. Not only were the employees sweet but the sorbet was to die for. I had raspberry and my mom had Lemon Sorbet. AMAZING. Look them up here. They ship too and have gift cards! 🙂

Mora

Emma and I on the ferry

Our beautiful trendy and amazingly perfect daughter.

We have been having a great time here. Shopping, eating and watching movies with the family. Overall it’s great. However, sprinkled in between those times are weird images and thoughts. OK, so last night as I was in bed, I closed my eyes and saw horrible/evil faces pop up. Freaky. I opened my eyes up and asked Travis if that ever happened to him. “No” was his response. Great.
But, after some praying they went away. Now, I don’t mean for this to sound ‘preachy’ at all. I want to be understood that I respect you and your experiences. All I have to go off of are my experiences. So my beliefs are based off some of those. Well, those and the bible. Anyhoo, I was amazed that those scary (and they were freaky) faces was not some mask I saw early in the day or from a scary movie. They were faces I have never seen before but they were in my mind. How frustrating!
I know there is an enemy and that he will do everything in his power to hurt, confuse or scare me into thinking that I am nothing but a little skinny 5’4 girly girl who is afraid of Star Trek. (the Star Trek part is true- some of the older episodes. Hehe)
But what I DO know is that I am more than that. The best way I can compare it to is me with a different shadow. There’s me that you see and laugh with. But there is also my shadow-a part of me not easily seen. I know that I have a calling on my life to be a warrior for God and that it will touch and greatly encourage others around me.
And when I see those faces, I know it is an example of how scared I make the enemy.
A also have to admit that I have a love affair with being someone from Lord of the Rings. A fighter and one that brings devastation to my enemies. But no. I realized that I have a different calling than one I ‘romantically’ like. I feel I am called more to be a Sam. I cry every time I see his love and devotion to Frodo.

~Today was overcast and cloudy. Lovely in my opinion. We went to the Seattle zoo today and it was cool. Not too busy and I wasn’t forced to push little kids out of my…or I mean Emma’s way. 🙂 Here are some pictures. Enjoy.

Some of my favorite flowers. I think they’re just soft and girly. They make me smile and I think we should all have things around us that make us smile. For me it’s flowers and sparkly things.

More pretty white flowers.

Daddy and Emma- obviously related. I’m praying that she has my personality or in the future she will look more like me…we’ll see. Well, she at least has my pale or I mean fair complexion.

This was an area for little kids to play in. Nice. Chickens, goats and bunnies.

Our little group today. Besides me behind the camera.

Yes, I am alive and we are having fun. It is super late and I’m half asleep typing this. Glad the hot weather is done and enjoying our family around us. A longer post will follow, and tons of pictures are being taken. 🙂

The Burnside Bridge. Looks odd to me like this, so I took a picture.

This was our lunch, a BLT on sourdough…

which I’ve decided I don’t like sourdough bread…

it tastes sour.

The entrance of the train station.

The beautiful ceiling. It’s hard to see the colors, but it’s amazing.

A cool chandelier. They had tons of them hanging everywhere

A cool neon light, to bring people to a place where they won’t take your bags*

It’s Thursday and that means that the contest is over! Sorry for those of you who are coming here today, I’ll give away something bigger next time. But today my sister is going to go through ALL the entries and pick one- a hard job. Tomorrow the winner will be announced! So make sure to come by and see if your name will be in BOLD!

Monday, I was at Safeway buying the only thing that would save me on a hot 107` F Portland day- ice cream. While in the check out lane, there was a chatty man who talked to the whole line about his plans of making yummy chocolate ice cream out of the heavy cream he was buying. My mouth started to water at that point. He also had homemade Ratatouille in the oven AND they had spent all day pressing and filling ravioli’s. OK, people this was ALL FROM SCRATCH! I was impressed to say the least and was almost tempted to think of what I could make from scratch that night. Almost. Stepping out into the heat wall that greeted me was a reminder that all things cold and fast was on our menu for this week.

If I couldn’t be creative in the kitchen at least I could be somewhat creative with my camera. So below are some photos of random things around my house. First because I think you will like them, and secondly because it is a crime to post a blog entry without pictures.

Spaghetti noodle and baby feet. And even cuter, painted baby toe nails

Our last name made cutsie-not too girly with blue and green…I hope

I have a friend who gave me tons of Asian plums from her front yard!

Totally new to me, they are ripe when they turn yellow and are slightly squishy.

Yummy.

A necklace made from all the little extras I had around

my ‘creative studio’ (messiest room in the whole house)

I can’t believe that I’ve had this blog for about 4 years now! Even though I have never always been steady in my posts, I enjoy the blogging world and love exploring others.

As stated in the title, I am posting my first ever give away! Yes for free!

All you have to do is:

~ comment on my blog

~ Mention my blog on your blog/facebook

(if you want more points, be a follower of me)

*Remember to leave an interesting comment to stand out from the rest! A third party, my sister, will be choosing the winner.

Contest ends Wednesday night.

GOOD LUCK!

5 blank Green Organic Dove Cards

Made of Caramel Stones, Gold chain and Champagne Czech beads. One inch in length .