quinn's place

peter and i headed out to eastern washington last weekend for our first volkswagen show, volksfest! it was a cute and fun time. there were lots of characters there to chat with, games, activities, and prizes. mostly people just walking around and swapping stories about their volkswagen tales.

there were so many cute cars. i took lots of photos:

eastern washington is like a whole different world on the other side of the mountains! that day in seattle was grey and chilly. once we crossed the mountain pass, it was full on summer again.

bus gang.

i liked this teal-mobile the most.

i got shit to do!

the hawaiian car club was the cutest.

all the cheddar busses unite to cruise the ave in yakima.

if we go next time, we need to be in this circle o' campers. we just camped wherever was space. maybe they'll let us in the cool camper club circle another time.

a glorious morning.

apparently its all about the vintage circus tents? so many people had them.

caa-uuuuute.

perfect setting for this, too!

they played lots of old groovy tunes and played 'herbie the love bug' on the big screen at night. actually i think they were watching x-men or something... but it was supposed to be herbie.

it was all pretty dang cutesy.

we made brekky in the morning, hung out for a few of the events, bought a few trinkets at the vw swap meet, then hit the road home.

thanks for the fun time, volksfest!

hellluuuuuuuuuu!

here are various photos from summer birthday celebrations, weddings, and other thangs!

mostly photos from my iphone.

baby finn!

baby maverick!

seattle-to-portland finishers

stp #3 for pete and whitney! good job, folks!

i hopped off the stp train after year #2. but proud of these two for keeping at it!

204 miles.

the craziest/best/coolest sunset i've ever seen! right on a hill by our house. also shown in the first photo above.

piper's portland pizza party!

i made my pizza loving friend this banner for her birthday getaway in portlandia. we stayed in a cute airbnb and i happened to know the folks who owned the joint. small world!

an unfortunate thing happened having to do with my iphone and erasing all my iphone 6 photos and re-downloading all my old photos from my iphone 4 onto this new phone......suuper irritating. thank goodness for shared cloud albums and the fact that photos you send to your friends stay around for a while in case you need them to send them back to you.

anyhoo, i lost a lot of photos from the last month that i was bummed about. some were resurfaced from various sources.

back up those photos people! upgrade your icloud storage! don't lose all of your friends' wedding photos like i did!

da corndog at interurban in pdx. yuuurrrrM.

and that concludes piper's birthday weekend photos. wahhhh :( damn you, iphone update that stole my precious memories.

pete's hops have been growing so well this year! he just started harvesting them today.

lauren & levi's wedding day!!!!!!

[these are photos i lost in my whole iphone ordeal, but seriously SO thankful for the shared cloud album i did with my friends. i was able to re-save a lot of the photos i had shared with them.]

lauren and her pops, virgil. love that guy.

married!

some of my beautiful friends.

the gorgeous bride gettin' down on the dance floor.

so much fun! i love weddings where you know everybody.

photos from pete and my photo booth set up that we made.

shout out to my 52krew.

spice up your life.

ooooh and my friend

lexie

that i haven't seen in years! so much fun.

lovely birthday dinner for peter's mom in their amazing backyard. her garden is insane!

ashleigh's birthday bash at birch bay! again, lost a lot of photos. recovered some of us with this cute dog, though. haha.

aww yeeeeeaaa.

gimme that dog.

carly & cameron's wedding day!!!

i spend a whooooole lot of time with this genuine human. my coworker, ian.

so gorgeous in there! it absolutely POURED down rain during the reception. thankfully we were able to be inside. the traffic in seattle on this day was absolutely nuts because of the weather and wind and power outages. it took us 2.5 hours to get there when it should have taken an hour :( pete and i missed the ceremony because of it and i was super bummed. but at least we got to have dinner and party with these fun people!