holiday food post

some foods we documented during our Seattle vacation- oysters from Pike Place market, a snapshot from our 2nd annual Portland visit to the Deschutes Brewery tasting of some of the newest beers, yummy tacos from Portland taqueria porque no?, the gum alley of Seattle, drinks in the bar at Anthony's waiting for Mom, Jim and Vanessa to arrive for a family meal, a fresh duck that Stephen was getting ready to prepare for Christmas dinner (we left before it was finished...Tina couldn't do it...)

time with family

We didn't have a chance to visit with everyone we wanted too, but we were able to spend time with both of our families before heading back home this week. It was great to catch up with who we could and hopefully we can visit again sometime soon- Tina and her sister Vanessa had time to bond over shopping in the U District at some of Tina's favorite shops (like moksha and goodwill on the ave), Charissa and Malachi in a rare quiet moment, Joe's favorite picture of Christmas morning at the Lloyds, a glimpse of the larger extended Lloyd Family Christmas, Tina's Grandma Linville 

seattle holidayz

we were fortunate to have the opportunity to go home to seattle for the holidays (BIG thanks to Dan & Joanne and Lorrie & Jim for making it happen) and here's some snapshots we thought we'd share from our 2012 christmas adventures- seattle all dressed up for christmas, wandering and feeling nostalgic for the gray cloudy skies, coat weather and pine trees, one of Joanne's nativity scenes, the weather, a place for claremont this christmas, still life of the aftermath of christmas morning

catch up

its been a while and as we are getting ready to head to Seattle for christmas we thought we would do a quick visual recap of some highlights of the past month- as seen on Facebook, we prepared a casual version of a traditional thanksgiving dinner this year making turkey burgers, sweet potato fries and some green beans with goat cheese, joe started a new job in November as a design consultant for a custom closet company (new work shoes pictured), Tina gave her first art lecture at Biola University followed by studio visits with graduating seniors earlier in December, finals are finally over for the Fall 2012 semester and here is an image to remember the semester by, a quick snapshot of a color theory presentation on the color pink

joshua tree anniversary weekend

we knew we would be too busy on our actually anniversary day (November 8th = 4 years of marriage) to do anything special so we decided to go camping at Joshua Tree the weekend before to celebrate: driving through Joshua Tree National Park, looking out from the campsite, shadows and landscape, a portrait of the desert sun as seen blazing past tina's neck, joe the explorer, timer pictures on rocks

fish pumpkin

a 2012 joe + tina halloween- inspiration images for our pumpkin, an action shot of Joe getting into it with the wood carving tools, pumpkin seeds, meet fish pumpkin

next year: shark pumpkin.

orange county fair

some friends introduced us to the orange county fair last weekend: the crowds and the ferris wheel, joe's fried frog legs which tasted like a mixture between chicken and fish, a food booth color scheme and matching garbage can, and finally, pig races (photo lifted from the internet).