long lost

it seems like ages since i have written something here. i somehow feel like i have let down those of you who follow our adventures through this little blog. in the last couple of weeks people i love have given birth to sons, bought houses, married their lovers, and said goodbye to this world. anchorage had an enormous windstorm (read: cat 1 hurricane) and is now preparing for another tonight.


yet another us picture. i promise, my dress is honestly really cute.


meanwhile, we were in seattle and california soaking up the sun. here's my highlight list, which appropriate photos:

1. we saw a speedo streaker at the mariners game...he leapt onto the field during a boring losing inning, made two stellar laps of the outfield with hefty security guards sprinting after him in his red speedo and orange crocs before the cops threatened to taze him when he reached left field.  He surrendered, placing hands behind his back and accepting the silver bracelets while the announcer blared the jail time and fine amounts to the wild cheers of thousands. 
2. Shane and Lisa danced their way out of their own reception to the sound of music. adieu, adieu, with the stalwart partiers following and waving from the bottom of the stairs.
3. Devin, Neda, and Ara went to watch the bucking bulls with us at the Ellensburg rodeo--my first. Yee Haw y'all. too bad the ellensburg rodeo is a better fair than the Alaska State one. 
4. The last of the stuff in seattle--including count clockula--shipped for anchorage. My rough guess estimate of the weight turned out to be only 11lbs off. damn. i.am.that.good. and yes, not moving ourselves and coughing up cash---excellent for our marriage.
5. celebrating Adam's Aunt Sandee's birthday for the last time. we lost her the second saturday of our trip after a long and stalwart battle with cancer. her best friend regaled us at her party with stories of their forty years of adventures around the globe. 
6. gondolas are a tansik family vacation must! so, we ride a gondola to the Sterling vineyard in napa valley...a vineyard where you tour its mission style facility and hang out on patios with epic views. (see adam pic for gondola proof).
7. celebrating Emma and Aric's wedding in the sun at the Beltane Ranch in Sonoma. it was so warm--both of soul and temperature. the boys were bowtied out and she play Warren G at the reception. LOVE my girl.  We stayed at this place called the Kenwood Oaks Guest House--amazing. Highly recommend it, it was peaceful, inviting, soothing and had a super comfy bed.
   

Thank you, to all the friends, family, and randoms who made our trip so beautiful, relaxing and full of love.

things, they are a changing

this is the view from the hotel.

i whine. alot. mostly about (adam would insert "everything") travelling more often. On Thursday, we are off to Hood River for a wedding and then up to Port Orchard in WA for Adam's grandpa's 90th birthday. this kicks off a frequent flyer month. at the end of the month we are in seattle and then sonoma for two more weddings and the shipping of contents of a storage unit. there may be a garage sale in there too, depending on how i feel about the contents of the storage unit (not the family stuff, mom, don't freak) here's to bringin.on.the.sun!!

My film camera has film, i have outfits, and neah has a babysitter (love you, matt). most importantly there are plans for a spray tan in place for Thursday so that i am not the goddess of pasty. i know you people all think i am a little dramatic, but even adam--whose favorite refrain has to do with me getting skin cancer from loving the sun--suggested that i think about a tanning bed. no need for a flashlight people...the moon can reflect off me and light ANYTHING. maybe the hotel has lounge chairs--i can sit in the sun and read statutes.

speaking of statutes: the other big news is that i am leaving state service tomorrow (yeah, i worked for the state in case you missed that) to go into private practice doing worker's compensation defense (same thing adam does).  I'm not going to name where i am going here, mostly to protect both me and them from my ramblings. suffice to say, i am not going to have time to blog at work anymore--so, i will have to be better about after hours ramblings. the new gig should be very fast paced, allow me to exercise some actual lawyer muscles, and comes with a view of Mt. Susitna.

Professional Wedding Photos

We got the start of our professional wedding photos today...I'll post them when the DVDs come, but until then here's the link to our photographer, Daniel Sheehan's Blog...http://abeautifuldayphotography.com/blog. I want to tell you all how much I loved working with him. He caught every moment perfectly.

DYI (aka DIY) is only for the truly creative genius or the wealthy

So, (for some reason i seem to start any discussion of the wedding with Adam with "so", kinda like a warning--details needed!) because Adam is moving along with half our worldly possession to Anchorage in mid-May, I got a little neurotic about wedding planning as I really don't want to do most of this myself.  As it turns out, Adam is more opinionated about wedding stuff than he liked to pretend at the start. Anyways, by the time we told most of the universe about the engagement just about everything was already done. I'm going to string it out for a few months here talking about general details :)

I also made a critical error early on. it was back during the Fast--we went to a paper store here in Seattle to look and get ideas. Unfortunately, the paper store is located across the street from Krispy Kreme. While i was busily mulling over strategic ways to get but not eat doughnuts (thus defeating the purpose of fasting), Adam started mixing and matching the envelopments---very pretty things with smooth surfaces. By the time he put together the dream invitation--it was about $7/invite. I felt pretty bummed i couldn't afford to do something that awesome and grumpily steerred us off to find the save the date paper rueing having come in there in the first place. When we got home, we promptly ordered simple but nice invites online---i bid farewell to my letterpress illusions--and that was that.

I had a dream of being a do-it-yourself kinda bride. And i'm making a mostly good stab at it (in large part by forcing others to do pieces of it for me)...but being as how craftiness costs lots of money, i've had to be "practical crafty." We decided to make save the dates because for most of my friends, this involves a plane trip--and i wanted them to have time to plan. Adam decided he wanted the save the dates to be oval. sounds fun enough....but he decided he wanted to draw them himself. 2 hours and more football shaped drawings than we knew what to do with later, we decided using the computer was probably okay. After a couple of days of tweaking the design around, there were ovals galore--in squares--that needed to be cut out. Adam cut out a wobbly oval and that was the end of that. Who knew you could practically get blisters from cutting things out!! I realize this probably has something to do with the smallness of my hands compared to normal people, but still.