Portland Wedding Fun

A few weekends ago Dustin and I went to our last wedding of the season (shed a tear, wedding season is over). The wedding was in Portland so we drove down on Saturday morning, giving me just enough time to walk over to Nordstrom, drool over some Proenza Shouler bags, buy a big shirt (aka dress – the one you see below, to be more specific) and wander happily for a few minutes before we had to start getting ready. Ahh staying downtown, so good…

The view from our hotel room 

The wedding was perfect. It was held in a sort of understated and rustic venue right across a bridge from downtown. There was awesome food, awesome people and lots of drinks (what better form of social lubrication, am I right?).

 Signature Cocktail, don’t mind if I do…

Dustin even gave a speech. And his speech was so good. What a guy!

I’ll miss you, wedding season! Until next time…

What I wore | big shirt & necklace from Nordstrom and bright pink NARS lipstick

Exciting News

I have some big news (although if you follow me on twitter or IG (rebekaann) you might already know) I got a new job! Wait for it… At Microsoft in the legal department! I could not be more excited! Whoot! It looks like I’m starting not next week but the week after.

I got the job through a random connection, so my advice to you, fellow law-job-seekers (or really anyone): if you’re looking, don’t be afraid to tell everyone that you’re looking. Someone may hear of something and recommend you and you will get called in the next day and only do a 1/2 interview because that person said such great things about you and the person you’re interviewing with will love you. Or maybe I just got really lucky?

Either way, here is a crappy iPhone self-photo of what I wore (Microsoft is super casual, normally I would have wore a suit):

pants J Crew | shirt H&M | shoes a last minute H&M purchase as well

Friday

 I took this photo earlier this week on the way home from a 13 hour work day
(picture of the Great Wheel and the Puget Sound)

I always really love Fridays.

The rest of the weekend is good too. But on Friday you really feel like you deserve the night off, you know? It’s immediate gratification after a week of work.

I’m especially excited today about the fact that it’s Friday. I’m pretty sure it has been the longest 4 day week ever, it’s beautiful outside and I have plans to grab a drink with some friends and co-workers after work. Hooray for Friday.

What are your Friday plans? Do you love Friday as much as me?

the fire

Last night, as I was leaving work after an awesome event we hosted, I picked up my phone to find that I had been bombarded by phone calls and text messages from my friends and family. A forest fire was headed right toward my parents’ house.

picture text from my mom last night, taken from the front yard of their house

My parents live outside of White Salmon (which is a small town on the Washington side of the Columbia River) on some acreage which is key to their livelihood (especially my dad’s). Losing the houses (both the house they live in now and the house my dad and my brother and I grew up in), the barns, and all the forest land would be completely devastating in so many ways.

I have obviously been a wreck since I heard and I’m sure I look less than professional today at work.

The latest news though (via text from my mom), is that the wind died down and then recently picked back up, but is now blowing away from our house instead of straight toward it. It’s good for us, not so good for others. I’m really hoping they get it put out soon. So many of our wonderful friends are fighting it right now. So many of our other friends’ homes are also in danger.

Whenever something like this happens it really makes everyone appreciate the things we might normally take for granted: our homes, family, friends (who have been so amazing, especially Beth and Marissa who offered to help in any way they could, like by taking care of my Fluffy Face Cat so he wouldn’t burn up).

It also makes you feel lots of anger and resentment toward the idiots of the world. Yes, I’m looking at you, person who started these devastating forest fires (all 5 of them) with your sparking car breaks.

So I guess the moral of the story is go hug all of the people you love and send all of your good energy toward White Salmon.

some recipes and some random too

I have been experiencing a bit of writers block recently. But the best way to get over something is to get under it, or something. Maybe that’s a dirty joke? See what I mean, this is getting out of control! Anyway…

Saturday Dustin and I drove down to Hood River for his Grandpa’s surprise 80th birthday party. We were only in Hood River for the day, but we got into town a few hours before the party started so obviously that meant we had time to stop by Double Mountain for a few beers:

 
That place is just the best.

Dustin’s parents both did a really great job of taking pictures at the party. I however, did not. I did, though, do a really great job of sleeping the whole 4 hour drive home. Thanks for driving me, Dustin! I really needed that 13 hours of sleep… 

Today we are going to a BBQ at Dustin’s friend’s house. I made crack dip to take. If you haven’t made it yet, make it. It’s super easy and it is definitely a crowd pleaser.

I also made some quiche for breakfast while Dustin slept in. If you want to make quiche too (your boyfriend will be stoked if you do):

Cook some bacon then chop it up and sprinkle it in the bottom of a pie crust (use a frozen one if you’re having a lazy morning).
Sprinkle some shredded cheese (I used 2% cheddar) on top of your bacon.
Then, in a bowl, whisk together 6 eggs with 1 cup milk (I used non-fat), and season with some some salt and pepper.
Slowly pour your egg mixture over the cheese and bacon in the pie crust.
Pop that in the oven and bake your quiche at 400degrees for a while; like 30 minutes, but you’ll want to check on it, because clearly my directions aren’t the most precise.
That being said, the quiche was good, and easy, and so I win.
#besteverchef

This week I will be busy working at both of my jobs and trying to get back in shape because regular exercise while I was studying for the bar just didn’t happen. Also I’m still having bar nightmares, so that’s awesome.

Happy Labor Day everyone! What are your plans today? Do you have any easy, awesome recipes to share with me? I always love adding new recipes to my repertoire. Cheers!

I love weddings (true story)

Weddings are one of my very favorite things. What’s not to love? They’re filled with joy and love, friends, wine, great food and dancing! Oh the dancing!

This past Friday I took off work early and headed to Yakima for my sorority sister, Stephanie’s wedding. It was beautiful. She was beautiful. The whole thing was a blast!

In case you don’t believe me, I’ll tell AND show you why it was the very best:

I had a hot date who left his vacation early to come meet me in Yakima for the fun:

My sorority sisters were there (PC05):

I got to catch up with Danielle and Steffen, who I hadn’t seen since their wedding:

 and maybe even make super top secret plans with Steffen!

And (maybe my favorite part?), I got to drink wine and dance with some of my favorites. They even played CALL ME MAYBE! At which point Danielle RAN to me, I knew we were friends for a reason!:
        

Don’t worry, this is just me singing “and this is CRA-ZY” as Dustin plays photographer:

And then we went to the afterparty. Where I took a Patron shot or two (definitely two, which I didn’t need). But I wouldn’t have traded this night for the world.

Congratulations Stephanie and Michael!! 

Hood River Wedding Weekend Fun

Oh hi! It’s been a minute, right? I’ve been doing so many things while I’ve been away from the interwebz.

This weekend Dustin and I went to Hood River. We camped, he was in a wedding, we went to the river, we played with our friends. It was good.

And of course, I documented it all with my iPhone (because even though I freaked out about remembering my camera, I didn’t use it at all… wah wah).

Friday I played in Hood River with my friends while Dustin spent some time with his friend Brandon + some of the groomsmen from the wedding over in Underwood.

Like I said, Dustin and I camped out this weekend (his vacation, his rules). Friday after our friend time Dustin was nice enough to pick me up and take me to the camp site.  Below is a picture I snapped of Dustin in his tent, which I’m pretty sure is the size of my 1L apartment. We stayed at the Tucker Park Campground outside of Hood River, right along the edge of the Hood River!

On Saturday Dustin was in his friend Brandon’s wedding:

Before the wedding I forced Dustin to take me to my parents’ house to get ready. Because camping and getting ready for a wedding don’t mix in my book… But really, I was so dirty camping, I just couldn’t put on a cute dress and heels while I was all dirty. So to my parents’ house we went. Before we headed for the wedding, we took this picture of me and my dad:

The wedding though, was so cute. It was a backyard/farm wedding with some punk-rock mixed in, in the form of the bridal party’s outfits. Dustin was the cutest groomsman. He even made a speech after dinner about how Brandon was the closest thing to a brother he’s ever had and how he had a tear in his eye during the ceremony (he like, never cries). So sweet!

The farm animals (I petted a chick and a pony) and the white decorations/tables/everything on green grass, the dancing and hanging with my Dustin love were my favorite parts. I love weddings! It’s a good thing that we have two more this week (one on Friday and another Saturday). Bring it on, wedding season!

After the wedding we met Marissa for a drink. We ran into some other friends too and proceeded  to let one drink turn into two and an order of tots. It was a fun night. Hood River is the best.

Sunday Dustin and I laid on the beach and got in the water down at the Hood River with Josh and Sarah. I love going to the river. I was so happy. After the river I convinced the three of them to join me at Double Mountain for pizza and a beer before I had to head back to Seattle.

I waited until the last minute to head home to Seattle. It was late when I finally got back last night, and I am a little embarrassed to admit that I was unreasonably sad leaving. Dustin stayed. I have to work at my temp job this week while he’s on vacation. BattleCat and I will be spending a lot of quality time together this week, then we’re meeting at Yakima on Friday for Steph’s wedding #PC05wedding!