Mother's Day in Texas

This post is a little delayed. We've had some technical difficulties over the past week....

For Mother's Day weekend, my mother & I met up in Texas to relive the glorious days of my Baylor education! We started the weekend off with a rendezvous in Dallas and then drove the hour and a half down to good ole' Waco to visit the Alma Mater!

Sic 'em Bears!!!

We mostly spent the weekend soaking up the Texas sun, eating lots of yummy food and drinking ourselves silly with frozen milkways (a delicious frozen coffee drink smothered in choclate sprinkles, caramel and whipped cream- what more could you ask for?). Saturday night we met up with some old Texas friends.

Here we are getting ready to enjoy some Tex Mex- my fave!!

On Sunday, my mom and made a stop in Dallas to visit her cousin Marsha. It was so fun to see her again and also meet her adorable boston terriers Quinlin and Mia.

All in all, it was a wonderful weekend to celebrate my mother. I love you mom!

-Stacie

The Big Guy has a B'day!

Deacon & Merecedes celebrated Deacon's 3rd B'day with their own little party! Aren't they cute? I really think the picture says it all....


Here they are recovering after the party...



Happy B'day to the Big Guy!

Bloomsday!

This past weekend Kyle & I ran Spokane's infamous Bloomsday road race. We suffered through 7.4 miles (in the 60 degree sun- sounds chilly but we were both sweating- 60 is quite the scorcher for the Northwest this time of year!) and what they call "doomsday hill" (as seen in the drawing) complete with a mascot dressed in a vulture costume at the top to pick off the dying runners. Due to injuries (my knee) and lack of training (we've both been slightly lazy this spring) we didn't finish in our normal speedy time- but we both made it through feeling good, so it was a successful run! It was sad to think that we won't be running Bloomsday next year. For me, this is my 4th time running, but for Kyle he has been running it since he was a kid! It was a bittersweet weekend for sure!

-Stacie

For Sale!

It's official! Our house is back on the market! We have exactly 60 days until we leave Seattle, I can't believe how fast it's approaching! We appreciate all those who are praying for our house to sell, we're excited to see what God will do!

-Stacie

Ms. Stacie's Studio

This past weekend Stacie put together a piano recital for her 13 young students. It was encouraging to see all the parents supporting their kids but I was the proudest guy in the crowd! For me, it was great to see all of Stacie's hard work bear fruit thru the little fingers pecking away at the keyboard. One student, who's eight, played a challenging Bach piece and she's only been playing for a year and a half. Way to go babe!

Here's a shot of Ms. Stacie carefully watching a young pupil

Here's Stacie welcoming the audience. She hates public speaking but she did great!

-Kyle

Tulip Festival

We had the opportunity to head north out of Seattle this weekend and enjoy God's spectacular handywork at the Skagit County Tulip Festival. Take a look at these snapshots we captured...

Heather (my sister) and Brandon (bro-in-law) made the drive from Spokane to spend the weekend with us. Mom's working the camera.

Pretty spectacular scenery! I guess fields like these are one silver lining in the ever cloudy Seattle sky. I'm working on linking all our pictures to an accessable online photo album, but my rookie blogging skills are bitting me in the arse. Hopefully I can figure it out sooner than later.

-Kyle

A little work, a lot of sunshine!

As promised, we're posting some pics of our moving prep weekend! We both got up early on Saturday to get to work. Kyle spent his time waxing our Jetta "Stuie" to get ready to sell him and I packed up more boxes to give our house the illusion of more space.

Here's some pics of how Deacon & Mercedes assisted all our hard work...

He's such a hard worker! It must have rubbed off on his sister....

They're just not used to the sunshine I think. It sucked up all their energy, fine by us!

Here's some of our packing in progress, it's starting to look so empty...

After our cleaning and packing we spent some time enjoying the very rare sunshine. Our friends Dan & Jodi just bought a boat and took us for a ride on Lake Washington. We spent most of the afternoon gawking at houses and yachts. Here's a picture of Paul Allen's houses ( for those non-Seattlelites, Paul Allen was the co-founder of Microsoft) and ferry with accompanying helipad, what house would be complete with out one?

It was so beautiful you could even see the ever elusive Mt. Rainier! Why do I hate Seattle? Because it rains for months and months and months and then you get a day of this....

Another great weekend for the Sale family, thanks for checking in!