this was our last weekend in kent

and luckily michael is done working

so we have had our first work-free weekend in a long time

we garage saled and found a few things

 michael got his long anticipated acceptance letter to UW today

which doesn't change anything

but it is ironic that it came one week before we're moving

and it was our first choice

anyway, then

 tonight we ate dinner at claimjumper

and we're about to watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

all snuggled up on our vintage couch

i hope you all have a lovely weekend, too!

happy birthday, gine!

it's my sister's birthday today

her name isn't actually gine

but that's what i call her

we talk for hours a day on the phone

so i guess you could say we're kinda close

this is her loooking very happy because it was a picture at the airport last time i picked her up there for a visit

this is her and i in boston 

i hate this picture of myself but she loves it because she looks cute

 so i'll share it

this is when i did her hair for her wedding

some yummy green facial masks we did a couple years ago

she'll love that i called them yummy

i love you, gine! 

happy birthday

why today rocks

these plus this

equals a fun day

dr's appt.

today hazel had her 12 month check-up

she is very healthy

she weights 18 lbs. 8 oz. and is 29 inches long

this puts her in the 15% for weight and the 65% for height

her head is in the 10th %

she is pretty petite

which is why everyone thinks she's younger than she is

well that or the fact that she just started crawling a month ago

and doesn't have teeth

either way

she's such a good girl

hazel got two shots today and stopped crying before we even left the room we were in

and was smiling at people on the way out

i love her easy-goingness

tomorrow's my sister's birthday

so of course i wanted to make her a gift

specifically i wanted to make her some silhouettes of her family

but that didn't work because i didn't have good profile pics of them

so instead i did something else....

i'll have to wait for her to get it in a couple days before i show you what it is.

it was inspired by a tutorial or two from this blog

lampshades and nightstands

lampshades and nightstands

recently i decided i wanted matching lamps

on matching nightstands

so we found matching lamps at st. vincent de paul for $2 each

and bought them

but they didn't have shades

so luckily at ikea they had these orange ones in the as-is section for $2 each

i do like orange but not for our bedroom

so we took the orange fabric off

and spray adhesived some of the left over fabric from thisproject on

and we recently re-did this nightstand

and here's the other nightstand we re-did

it isn't identical (and i think we forgot to take a before picture)

but they go well together

i'll have better pictures after we move and we're all settled there

but here's an idea of how my nightstand/lamp situation turned out

ok, we're moving next week

yesterday was a big day

we finally started packing

noah even got in on the helping

and has only broken one thing

sadly it is michael's monogrammed anthropologie cup

we'll have to buy a new one before we leave

oh darn, another trip to seattle :)

noah almost wrapped up his bear

but decided against it once he realized we're putting this stuff away

  for a week

............

so packing, packing, packing

understandable enough

but what happened to our apartment!?!

seriously, it looks like a bomb went off

everywhere

we've got a lot of work to do

i take it back

after a little thought

we're leavin' it public

woot woot

but...i think i'll put my projects on retro rachael just for fun

big news (well, big blog news)

i had a weird dream last night

and then i stayed up worrying

and i decided i'm going to take this family blog private

just for friends and family to see

but i am starting a new blog to keep public where i'll share my projects

so if you'd like to look at that it is www.retrorachael.blogspot.com

if you'd like to be able to keep looking at my family blog

e-mail me at slurfeefrenchie@gmail.com

or comment me

birthday cake

before

during

after

a dress for hazel

today i changed this old gap shirt of mine

into a dress for hazel

retro chair

i recently re-re-upholstered this chair

i just felt like the aqua was too plain so i used a cool fabric that my mum gave me and gave it better foam

i really like it now

a trip down hazel lane

 hazel was born

 hazel came home from the hostpital

three days old

holding daddy's thumb

little nakie girl

first trip to the pike place market

first trip to church

first kelly family reunion

i just love this picture

first trip to snoqualmie falls

first tutu

cute babylegs

ready for church

happy birthday, hazel

happy memorial day

i feel like it was a year ago today that i had hazel

and it was

kind of

i had her last memorial day

so that means a year ago today i was in labor

and i left church knowing i would have her that day

but instead i had an emergency c-section at 12:30 am on the 26th

which means tomorrow is her birthday

and it marks the first year we've had with our sweet hazel

i'm a washington girl

i've lived here my whole life

 today i purchased this necklace at a garage sale today for 50 cents

i don't normally wear much jewelry

but...i'm going to start making an exception for this necklace

i love it

my little cupcake

today michael's parents came over to wish hazel an early birthday

she got her first cupcake

and i think it's safe to say she liked it

hazel and halea

hazel

 and her cousin

halea

got matching outfits from their aunt tawny

so naturally we needed to take some pictures

our little photographer

maybe we shouldn't hire a photographer

noah pretty much rocks at it

we should probably just have him take our photos from now on

here's a glimpse of michael studying

from noah's view

cheese

look how cool michael can hold his pencil

very impressive

i like this abstract view of michael looking at the computer monitor

THROUGH part of his physics project, wow

is he posing?!

this one's my favorite because michael always

blows air out of his mouth while sighing

when he's doing something he doesn't want to be doing

but i don't think he notices

oooh i also enjoy that michael's sillouette is in this shot of him

fabulous

another cool hand shot

gotta love our messy desk

ooh and love that noah caught me cleaning up after our messy nightstand projects

on hands and knees before i vacuumed

thanks noah

you're the best