Tulip Festival 2011

I thought I would share photos of lots & lots of flowers here in the Pacific Northwest!

If you ever have a chance to go....You should do so!

♥

Cupcakes!

Yay for Cupcakes!!

These are banana with a honey vanilla frosting:

 These are a strawberry with strawberry frosting:

These are devil's food with a dark chocolate frosting:

So if you're wondering why in the world I wait so long between blog posts, it's probably because I'm making cupcakes.

I am Marissa and I am a Bakeaholic.

Anyway, last weekend was fun-filled and crazy.

Friday we went up to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival,

(see last year's photos here)

Visited Jesse's mom and brought her lunch.

Then we went out with friends...

Saturday we slept in, went and saw the movie

Something Borrowed

(I love you Emily Giffin but the book is better!)

Saw Jay Leno do a concert for the troops,

and baked the lovely chocolate cupcakes that you see above

(they were good too).

Sunday we met up with my family, had breakfast in Seattle,

then enjoyed some cupcakes.

More time with family.

Worked. Worked. FRG Meeting.  Work some more.

And here we are!

I hope you all have a lovely week this week,

happy hump day,

tomorrow is thursday!

Goodnight.

♥

Tulip Festival - Part Two

Here's some of the tulips and there official names.

You can visit the Tulip Festival's website if you would like to learn more!

Orange Juice

Freeman

(these looked almost like Peonies)

Keizerskroom

These ones were a "trial variety" and didn't have a name yet...

Graffiti

Ninjas!

I just realized...I'm going to need a part three or this blog entry is going to go on for days!  I might throw something different into the mix next...Before I finish up the flowers!

I wanted to also mention that I spoke with my husband and he's been feeling much better, and he was in great spirits.  I could definitely tell he has gotten his rest in!

And...I am absolutely ecstatic...it's MAY!!!!!!! We are getting so close.

Enjoy your weekend...I'm working the craziness today...Mother's Day is coming and people gotta get their jewelry!

The Tulip Festival - Part One

Here is the first of a few things we did on leave...Starting with the Tulip Festival.

Here is:

Jesse eating an elephant ear at the street festival...

Rows and rows of tulips, these ones were purple and white.

Red ones....

Me

Jesse - Who was pretty ticked in this photo, I'm not going to lie.

That and I believe his words were "I'm not taking a flower picture."

But....I'm spoiled, so....

and.... Pink ones.

I realized that I have too many pictures, so I'll have to do a part two.

So again today I am avoiding my house.  I can't manage to look around my house at everything still, so much so that I feel that it's suffocating me.  I have loads of laundry, vacuuming, dishes, and dusting to do.  I'm sure I will get sick of everything eventually and clean.  I start working again tomorrow, Stryker will be going to doggie daycare, and I will be attending an FRG meeting tomorrow evening.

Hopefully all of the distractions will be good for me...Even though I am not looking forward to anything at the moment.

I will try to post more soon....Have a great weekend!