David and Nelita

Monday, September 5, 2011

Traipsing Hawthorne

Such a friendly town!

Such a gentleman!

Such tourists!

Portland is full of fun little places. We stopped on Hawthorne (St., Ave?) kinda late and unfortunately everything was closed--but we still had fun!

Welp. Apparently we took a one month sabbatical--on accident. But, we're back with several new posts from August that have been on the back burner. We start off with our early August visit to Portland, OR with Nilu, Taylor and Amma & Appa. We were very excited to take them to one of our favorite restaurants in Portland--Bete Lukas. Some of the best Ethiopian food in the NW, trust us, we've tried several Ethiopian restaurants, can't beat Bete Lukas.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Iron-versary

This post is a little late. But, that's how we roll...

Anyways, July 31, 2011, David and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary. The traditional gift for this anniversary is "iron." We followed that quite loosely this year! I always said that after 5 we wouldn't call ourselves newlyweds anymore. Eek, that makes me feel old.

We've seen lots of ups and downs, but we've seen them through together. Here's some quick snapshots over the years...

Wedding reception in California--August 2005

2005-2006: Hiking in Pohnpei our first year of marriage. (Somebody FEED us!!)

2006-2007: Our second year of marriage was a fun year of life in Seattle, WA.

2007-2008: David starts officially wearing a tie our third year of marriage, also his first year as Director of Drama in Walla Walla, WA.

Also 2007-2008: Sammy officially joins the family!

2008-2009: 4th year of marriage finds Nel graduating with her Masters in Teaching and David starting a Masters in Fine Arts at UCR...CRAZY, busy year!

2009-2010: 5th year of marriage we celebrate David's 30th birthday. He also graduates with an MFA in Poetry and Screenwriting.

Also 2009-2010: We experience our greatest joy finding out we're pregnant with our baby girl Nisha, and also experience our greatest heartbreak when she is stillborn. Despite our sadness we find ourselves blessed with amazing family and friends that surround us with love and support. This picture was taken 4 months after we lost Nisha. We had a relaxing time in Alaska adventuring around with the mom and dad Crawford.

2010-2011: We've done a lot of growing up over the past 6 years--though there are still few signs of maturity to be seen...hehehe. This picture was taken at the WWU graduation. David is in his graduation gear as a faculty member. Year six finds us expecting another little one. So far his name is BBC (Baby Boy Crawford). Although we are very open to any suggestions you may have... Here's to 6 years together and many more to come!

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Portland Ponraj's

We had a great time this weekend with the Portland Ponraj's. We started with an early morning excursion to Bennington Lake on Sabbath to enjoy the great outdoors and some nature! The great outdoors was however in the 90's by 8:30 am'ish--so we left faster than planned.

Fishing lessons with mom...

Sammy was not happy to be left behind with the girls.

Lots of fishing poles...no fish :(

We continued our adventures on Sunday with some blueberry picking EARLY in the morning. (Our alarms were set for 5:30 am). We picked a total of 50 pounds of blueberries and I think the boys had a few more pounds of blueberries in their bellies!

Gorging ourselves on blueberries!

We had to watch David, he very easily could have eaten that entire container by himself...

Monday, August 1, 2011

David's Photoshoot

For those of you that don't know--my husband is quite the creative force. He's always coming up with fun projects to do. Here is some snippets of his latest. We bought the vintage theatre seats at a garage sale for $5.