Coffee Photographer

I opened my email today and found a request from another user to use one of my photos on flickr. An intern at NowPublic.com is doing an article on the health implications of coffee. While something like that has never happened to me and I was flattered at her admiration of the photo I took in the grass yesterday at the William's BBQ, I turned down her request to use my photo with the Starbucks logo and offered another photo without a logo instead. I was a little worried that I could be held responsible for contributing to an article that might have negative implications on a large corporation such as Starbucks. In the mean time, my head has swelled just a bit. I'm thinkin...perhaps I should try a different career path...Photography perhaps?

Taste of Seattle-A family adventure

Today, Jonathan's mom and dad came out to meet us in Seattle to spend a day together. We spent most of the day at the Seattle Center for the "Taste of Seattle". We had a great day walking around in the sunshine, eating some great food, and just being together.

Favorites:

Corn. Need I say more?

Chocolate covered strawberries on a stick. Yum!

Rollercoaster! Just because I'll never stop being a kid.

Happy Anniversary Lennie and Jill!

Yesterday was my brother and sister-in-law's 1 year anniversary. Wow! How the year has flown. I can't beleive you two have been married for a year already. Congratulations, and I wish you many many happy moments and years to come.

Love you both!

~Crystal

Slip N Slide Sunday

Now while Jonathan and I always have a randomly fun time with the Ibsen's, yesterday was especially fun. After church we all had lunch at the Green Lake Bar and Grill and then headed to her sister and brother in law's house in Stanwood to build an over 20 foot slip and slide to play on. After all the water fun, we washed the grass off and dipped in the warmish hot tub For dinner, we all had pizza at her mom's beautiful farmhouse and toasted marshmellows back down at her sister's before heading home. We had a great time meeting Luke and Janell's family as well. We love the Ibsens!

Celebrating the 4th

Jonathan and I spent the 4th together watching the Bothell parade and re-enactment at Bothell landing. Then we headed over to Bremmerton to spend some quality time with his family. We ate, played, watched fire works and talked until well after the sun went down. It was a great time had by all.

Weekend Getaway

I had the opportunity to go away to a friend-of-a-friends super duper fancy cabin this weekend in the Cle Elem/Roslyn area to re connect with some ladies I hadn't spent some time with in a while from my former church.

The cabin was absolutely beautiful (hardly roughing it) and the river was right in our back yard. We had such a great time re connecting, lounging, hot-tubbing, hiking, and serving eachother meals. It was a restful and fruitful retreat. I am thankful for the weekend, and so thankful that I was able to spend some time with some awesome ladies that have all made an imprint on my life. Hopfully our next time together will not be so far away.

I'm so Proud!