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  • Monti’s birthday party

    Monti’s birthday party

    I took the easy route and bought a cake from Cold Stone Creamery for Monti’s party.

    Monti’s party was on Joe’s actual birthday. Joe kept threatening to take over her party and have everyone sing him “Happy Birthday”. In the morning I dared to wish Joe a Happy Birthday and she quickly reminded him “Your birthday will be celebrated tomorrow, today is my birthday party day!

  • Cardio theater

    Cardio theater

    At our gym they have a room set up as a cardio theater. There have
    approximately 35 different machines in a dark room with surround
    sound. They have a different movie on repeat play each day. It is a
    nice idea but who does a 2 hour cardio workout. We watched a half-hour
    of Failure to Launch the other day. I will never know if Matthew
    McConaughey moves out of his parents house.

  • Amazon Fresh – groceries to the house

    Amazon Fresh – groceries to the house

    I tried out Amazon Fresh to order groceries. They recently expanded
    their Seattle delivery service to cover Issaquah. You can make a
    grocery order up until midnight and have it delivered to your door by
    6 am. If you order $25 or more the delivery is free. I ordered a
    variety of things to see how they did. The frozen items were packed in
    a cooler with dry ice. The refrigerator items are kept in an insulated
    foil bag. The produce I ordered looked good. The avocados were my big
    test and I haven't used them yet to see what they are like inside. All
    packaging items are sent back with my next order to be reused or
    recycled. They have a nice organic selection of food and their prices
    are reasonable. I will especially enjoy using the service when I want
    something fast like milk or bread for lunches. It also has a good
    selection of organic cake mixes which guarantees they will have no
    partially hydrogenated oils in them.

  • Local rooster at Staples

    Local rooster at Staples

    This little guy has been hanging out for years in the parking lot at
    the Issaquah Staples. Today we made a special stop to see him. The
    kids have named him Doodle.

  • New birthday outfits

    New birthday outfits

    Aunt Maggie whipped Monti up a birthday dress out of some material from her Universal Studio catering days. Monti was thrilled with the finished product. She wears it well.

    She models an outfit she received from her Grandma Tick Tock. She is pure rocker.

  • Happy Birthday Monti!

    Happy Birthday Monti!

    For Monti's birthday she wanted to do chinese food with some ice cream
    after it. Our waiter surprised her with a birthday fortune cookie. The
    waiter told us he was a brand new dad of a little girl. He was just
    beaming. I remember that proud new parent feeling well. How fast our
    babies grow.

  • Trip to India

    Trip to India

    The girls asked me to take their picture on the elephant so I could
    add it to my blog saying we went to India.