We love our church here in Portland, Mosaic (we don't yet have a website or I would link you), but this weekend decided to visit a church in Seattle named Mars Hill. We absolutely loved it. It's so refreshing to see churches doing church differently all over the world.

Beans 

Romaine Lettuce 

Lettuce 

Our Garden 

The Emerald City (from Alki Beach) 

My favorite place to eat in Seattle 

At the Ballard Locks 

Our Seattlite friends Sarah and Paul 

On the sailboat before watching the fireworks from Elliot Bay 

Here are some of the pictures from Seattle. You can tell we new digital camera owners because we take sooooo many pictures. I will post more tomorrow.

Happy Independence Day!!! We were in Seattle for the weekend and had TONS of good times with my best friend Sarah and her fiance Paul. I have pictures but the software I use to put them on the blog is not working so you'll have to wait until tomorrow to see them.

These are the apples I told you about a long time ago. Yes, I saved them. Now that I have taken a picture I am going to finally throw them away. 

A man attempted to rob a bank, but wasn't able to get past the front door. Due to a previous holdup, the bank had installed a system to buzz in customers. Suspicious employees refused to unlock the door since the man was wearing a stocking over his face...

This is the reason I am up at 3:23 am. I ordered decaf and I just hate it when this happens. I'm finding that I can be surprisingly efficient early in the morning.  

We sold our car. It wasn't as painful as I thought it was going to be, especially when we started to decide which kind of digital camera we were going to buy with the money. We chose one and so far we love it. Paul figured out how to work it in two minutes.
Below are some pictures of out first day with our camera. We had fun playing around with it. I am really excited to be able to share more of our life through our blog. I know my family especially enjoys reading it and many of our friends as well.

The fun begins 

Paul speed reading the manual for our camera. Isn't he amazing? 

Paul is overjoyed that we have a new camera. 

My favorite Portland fountain