Washington Trip

I had so much fun with my family in Washington. I don’t get to see them often enough so twice in little over a year was fantastic. My nephew was in school so he didn’t get to go on the adventure to Seattle.

I saw an episode of Good Eats on the Food Network about two years ago. The whole thing was on great doughnut shops around the country. One of which was in Seattle. So when asked what I wanted to do while I was there I had only one request. Top Pot.

It did not disappoint. We had a dozen and shared a bunch. Apparently Starbucks uses their donuts in all their stores in the Washington area, maybe beyond. In other words, they’re really good doughnuts.

Try not to drool on your computer.

How cute is Penelope? I just want to pinch those cheeks!

Sweet Stella

Sassafras Olivia

Doll-face Ava

Murder at Chez Stay

Sir Luke and I hosted a murder mystery Halloween housewarming party. We had it the night before Halloween so everyone could go trick-or-treating with their kiddos and get a break.

We had a photo-booth for mug shots, loads of food, homemade personal pizza and of course murder! Our murder mystery kit was by “How To Host A Murder” The Chicago Caper. Only slightly confusing to start because we’d never done one before but in the end everyone got into it and had a ton of fun.

Rocky AKA “Ernie” & Courtney AKA “Torchy” (Can you believe Rocky isn’t into this kind of thing? I was blown away when I opened the door)

Dan AKA “Ascot” & Heidi AKA “Silky”

Brandon AKA “Billy” & Janae AKA “Scoop”

Nikki AKA “Gogo” & Cody AKA “Socks” (Everyone kept thinking Brandon was “Socks” due to his chosen uniform, ha!)

Chelsea AKA “Molly” & Oliver AKA “S. Harrow” (Do you want to mess with Harrow? I don’t!)

Sir Luke AKA “Baby Face” & Me AKA “Greeta”

The kit only came with eight characters so I made up four more for Sir Luke (Baby Face Smelson), Nikki (Gogo Chanel), Dan (Ascot Fitzgerald) and me (Greeta Gobo). We made sure to have bottled IBC root beer and a little Lemon Perrier. Tasty. We inherited some neon letter from a temp job I did back in May. Sir Luke’s been trying to rig them to light up but it turns out there is a lot of crazy stuff involved so we had to opt for another method. We called our speakeasy The Crooked Easel.

Hardcore ladies!

The boys, the boys!

Yes, Sir Luke parted his hair.

Cute preggers Nikki!

This is probably my favorite shot of the night. All those cloche hats made me swoon.

Oliver is a lawyer in the real world so I thought casting him as the DA was fitting. He pulled it off effortlessly. I’m pretty sure the whole thing went over well due to his awesomeness.