weekend snapshots: bill nye + bastille day

Apologies for the late weekend snapshots posts. My Mondays and Tuesdays have become increasingly busy during these summer months! This weekend was just as busy actually, but in a good way! Friday night was perfect for a baseball game. Miles and I met some friends at Safeco Field to watch the M's take on the Angels. I, like any other true Giants fan out there, HATE the Angels. So it's a good thing we beat them 8-3 ;) That wasn't the only highlight of the night, THEE Bill Nye threw out the opening pitch! The Science Guy! Um, celeb sighting much? Now, let's just skip right over my full day of babysitting Saturday and move right into Sunday--Bastille Day! I vowed to take it easy on Bastille Day this year since I'm still hungover from celebrating the holiday last year. But I did make it to the Second Annual C'est Magnifique Bastille Day Bike Ride put on by my good friends over at Hub and Bespoke. This year's ride was just as amazing and fun as the last but was made even better when Miles decided to join! Not to mention, we had perfect weather! Check out my photos from the game + bike ride below and check out more photos from the ride here.

xoxo, whit

view overlooking SODO

 BILL BILL BILL BILL!!

bastille day bike ride!

group shot in front of madison market, our first stop! (photo via hub and bespoke)

(photo via hub and bespoke)

(photo via hub and bespoke)

 au revoir! (photo via hub and bespoke)

cheeky (photo via hub and bespoke)

aldan! (photo via hub and bespoke)

wah wah wah (photo via hub and bespoke)

weekend snapshots: summer birthdays

Hi all! Hope everyone had a happy and safe 4th! I was lucky enough to have the highly coveted, very precious four day weekend. It was a much needed mini vacation from my, lately, very hectic work life. Over the long weekend, I celebrated many important births: the birth of our great nation, the birth of one of my style/life icons Frida Kahlo and well, me. Natch.I celebrated hard y'all! I was super lucky one of my  besties, Britt, made her annual Independence Day weekend pilgrimage back to Seattle. I love getting to see her on my birthday! We watched the fireworks at our friend's condo on Capitol Hill with a great view! On the 5th, (my actual birthday) Miles and I went to the wedding of two of our beautiful friends, Emily and Kim. It was RAD. We got to dance, yell Mozel Tov!, and the ridiculously talented Seattle Rock Orchestra put on a private mini concert. Amazing. So happy for those two. Other highlights of the weekend included bike rides, lots of reading in Volunteer Park, a (free!) trip to the Seattle Asian Art Museum, bahn mi sandwiches, dinner at Serious Pie and a birthday party in the park with all of my friends and family! It was so much fun to have a bunch of my friends in the same place at the same time. We had a BBQ, drank beers, played catch and basically just had the best time. Am a lucky girl, or what? Hope you all had a wonderful weekend, and here's to many more great summer weekends! xoxo, whit.

rompin. photo by miles

i know the cityscape photo is cheesy. but sometimes i just can't get over how beautiful this place is.

britt and whit

birthday bahn mi

wedding dates

mazel tov emily and kim!

best date ever.

 inside the gorgeous SAAM (Seattle Asian Art Museum). art deco ♥

on our way to read in Volunteer Park (again) we made new friend

 birthday party decorations! celebrating frida's birthday too 

me and alex ♥

decorations from some of my besties. sign from sarah and a photoshopped loc from, loc!

pink flamingos were a impulse buy. that i do not regret.

my beautiful friends, ellen and merrick. photo courtesy of my good friend forrest! 

 even my hometown friend, miguel was there!

some really really great friends.

weekend snapshots: a hike at wildhorse wind farm

Apologies for the late Weekend Snapshots post, it has been a busy week for me! Come to think of it, the weekend was even busier! The weather has been so mild and perfect for hiking. Miles found a wonderful hike just east of Seattle at Wild Horse Wind Farm, an absolutely gorgeous wind and solar farm that lets visitors hike around pretty much wherever they like. It was so nice to hike around with our super rad couch surfer friends and Miles' super rad sister, Alina.The entire property was so pretty but my favorite part was the wildflowers in full bloom everywhere. I was so stoked when we spotted cacti on some the rockier parts of the hike! Succulents and cacti are my absolute favorites! We also spent our weekend going to several (four!) SIFF movies, something Miles and I look forward to every year. Somehow I also managed to fit in a hair cut and some serious cat time with Frida and Franco. All in all, a great weekend! Ready for the next, is it Friday yet?! xoxo, whit.

our apartment in spring

miles testing out his new camera

wild horse wind farm. absolutely gorgeous 

so excited we spotted some cacti!

it really was windy

my baggu day pack was perfect for the hike

franco being his usual franco self

 details outside the egyptian theatre on capitol hill

freshy cut complete with grey hairs

poppies!

weekend snapshots: sunshine + flowers + photos

What a wonderful Seattle sunny weekend! It got off to great start Friday night when Miles surprised me with flowers. Ranunculus are one of my favorites! I tend to get stressed out and overwhelmed easily ("No, Whitney, not you. You are so calm, cool and collected." -said all of you, my friends) so it was especially sweet of Miles to cheer me up when I was feeling a bit stressed that night. I'm sure you all heard, since it was basically worldwide headlining news...but it was hot and sunny in Seattle this weekend! By hot I mean mid to high 70's which is not really 'hot' by this Central Californian's standards, but gorgeous weather none the less. If it's the sunny in Seattle, yo' ass is outside. This particular idea was lost on my two little brothers, Ryne and Riley (R&R for short). They much prefer playing Wii than running around outside, so a little bit of force was necessary to get them outside when I babysat them on Saturday. The rest of my Saturday was spent hanging out with Miles in the U-District, downtown alleys and a parking lot on capitol hill while he took photos with his Holgaroid pinhole camera. He is quite talented, I must brag say. While we were in Pioneer square, I snapped a few photos myself of Smith Tower, an old fire escape and the photographer himself in action. Sunday was of course Cinco De Mayo which I don't normally celebrate but got to spend with two of my wonderful friends, Anna and Ronald, drinking mimosas and taking super rad photos! They are helping me with an upcoming project--more on that to come! All in all, a wonderful spring weekend in Seattle. Here's hoping this weather lasts! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend, too! xoxo, whit

my intrepid photographer ♥

fire escape in pioneer square alley

 right in the middle of singing "eye of the tiger." he knows every word

double cherry blossoms in cowen park

 vegan pizza in the u-district. 

date night ready in my new button up!

happy cinco de mayo from ronald!

 my friends are wonderful!

and one last flower power shot. ♥poppies♥