All around me are familiar faces.....

The past 6 months seems like a whirlwind of new faces and new experiences. It's been great meeting a lot of new people and making new friends, but the past week I've really been longing for some familiar faces. I want to sit in a room with people who know my story; where silence is ok and there's no pressure to make conversation. I've realized lately that less and less people know my story and I don't know many of my newer friends stories either. It makes me sad, but it's hard for me to learn about someones past when it's not facilitated for me in a hyper compressed get to know you session. I want to become better at asking questions and allowing people to tell me their story. I want to become a better listener and actually care when people tell me about their life. Sometimes I get overwhelmed with trying to maintain healthy relationships and that's when I crave those familiar faces the most. I miss the Rupps a lot. As well as the Cunninghams. I miss Tina, David and Clayre. I miss my Mom. Those people are my family and I feel honored that they let me be part of their lives. I think sometimes I take those relationships for granted but right now they are precious to me. There's nothing better than having people really know me and them still loving me.

PUMPKIN FEST '07!!!

This weekend was the 3rd annual Pumpkin Fest. My friend Dave Hart is the mastermind behind the event and started it to honor and celebrate the harvest season. Day two of pumpkin fest consisted of cooking a cornucopia of pumpkin treats and decorating with harvest like things....followed by a huge party full of blue grass, dancing, food, fire, whiskey, and fun. I say pumpkin fest '07 was the best pumpkin fest yet. You can't really go wrong with pumpkin, music and friends though...



Pumpkin fest....this is what dreams are made of...



















Pumpkin goodies....

























Our entertainment for the evening...the whiskey swillers....



















YAY!! Pumpkin fest!!!



















Who doesn't want a wheelbarrow full of beer?




















Peparing for the festivities....




















The pumpkin fest dream team....

drive to the country day......

pumpkin fest is this weekend and the first day consists of drive the to the country day....followed by the big fest. dave, rachel, stef and i drove about 45 minutes east and found fall city. we stopped in town and talked with some locals and ate at a burger shack. we met one young man by the name of brian who has hopes of starting his own restaurant and gave us some great advice on where to buy a car in seattle. here's some pictures.....

an oldie but a goodie.....

last night i was perusing through my itunes library and couldn't decide on what to listen to....so what do i do when i can't make my mind up? yup. press the shuffle button. a lot of times it's quite the let down, but not last night. after skipping a few songs that i'd actually never want to listen to it landed on coldplay. i listened for a minute and suddenly a flood of memeories rushed back to me. with out warning the years 1999-2003 flashed before my eyes. coldplay's great and i haven't listen to them in years. i unclicked shuffle and listened to coldplay for about an hour. it was great. i missed them. so now i think it's time for coldplay round two.........
i still can't listen to the song yellow though.....

grey house inhabitants...

I totally stole this idea from mandy, but it was such a great idea...how couldn't i? So here's my grey family....i love them all dearly and am happy i get to live with them....

Josiah...new kid on the block....and my roommate...



















Angela my most favorite mexican and my other roommate....




Josiah...has a giant computer....



























Mandy...once my roommate, now she's downstairs...i miss her...


















that's me....i'm excited...




elyse....she's almost as excited as me....


























travis....he farts a lot and is married to danielle...
























baby brian....the little brother i always wanted to find at my doorstep as a child...


danielle....she's a great communiator and is married to travis...


























justin...my favorite sweet tea drinkin' mountain man....









that's everyone. for those of you who had no idea who i was living with....i hope this shed some light.

autumnal. seattle.

It's hard finding the fall in the city. But I tried....