Happy Birthday Mom!

Today is mom's Birthday and I want to make sure I publish it for the whole world to see. :)

Seriously, she is not going to get a card or gift from me yet because I suck and I can't knit and work at the same time (unfortunately). Anyway, happy bithday mom! I love you and I wish I was there to celebrate with you and get a fish fry, since it's Friday.

Here are two of my favorite pictures. The 3 Raspor Girls always doing something funny.

New Grass!

Rob spent some time a few weekends ago jackhammering the concrete in the back patio to create more room for grass. After looking at the yard, we realized that the tub takes up a lot of room and having more grass would be great. Additionally, we painted all the trip around the windows with just primer (for now) until we decide on other colors. Below you can see the work that we did:

The fence from the side walkway

The new grass. We gained about 100 sq ft of grass

White trim around the window
White trim on the front porch

Happy Halloween

This year we had even less trick or treaters than last year. One of them was our 3 year old neighbor who stopped by only because he 'had" to. I don't know why we had less people... I guess next year we'll put up lights all over the house to make it as inviting as possible.

The best thing that happened on Halloween was that we took Stewie to the vet and she is doing a lot better. Now she is allowed to take her cone off! She is licking her stomach a little, but nowhere near as bad as it was before and she was so happy to have it off. Stewie and Brian dressed up for Halloween too!

On other notes, I was able to go to a Seahawks game a few weeks back. I had amazing seats right on the 20 yard line about 5 rows back. This was my first Seahawks game and it didn't disappoint. It was so loud at Qwest Field, my ears were ringing. I have more pictures here too.

Where have we been?

I don't really have a good excuse for why we haven't posted to the blog. I guess that we have just been too busy to think about it or to make time to do it. We're trying to complete all of our outside projects before the rain starts for the winter. Right now the weather is hit and miss, one minute it will be raining and the next minute the sun will be in full display. I guess we have to take advantage of it any chance we get.

We finally got the hot tub in the back yard and the next step will be for Rob to get electricity out there and build a small deck around it. Today, I spent some time finishing the edging around the fence and then planted some nice winter annuals.

Tomorrow I am going to my first Seahawk's game. Since Rob isn't going, our good friend Adam & Liz have invited him down to their place to watch the game instead. Below are some fun pictures from the yard and 1 of Brian.

Unhappy Cat

Our poor Stewie has allergy issues. She is itchy and is constantly creating hotspots on her stomach. After trying many treatments, we've decided to try the natural homeopothic route and see if we can fix her problems. In the meantime, she has found creative ways to make a battleground of scabs on her stomach and the she keeps picking at them. That only means one thing... we have to stop her.... we have to use THE CONE!Her scabs are almost clear and soon we can take the cone off see how she does.

Last night we went to see Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers at the Triple Door. This is weird venue for them as they usually play at the crocodile. I love the Triple Door. It's swanky and fun and the food is from Wild Ginger, which is one the of the best restaurants in Seattle. This was by the far the best show of theirs we have ever seen. It was also their first sold out show on the West Coast. We met up with friends who have just moved here from Connecticut, and we actually met with them at the first Stephen Kellogg show back in Hartford in 2000. It's hard to believe it's been that long.

We're leaving soon to go watch the Seahawks game at Liz and Adam's. But first, Rob woke up at 7am this morning to start laying the concrete for the hot tub before we leave.

That's it for this weekend...