Thank You Notes: Surprise Mail, Harry Potter and My Love

I love Fridays, I love thank you notes, and I love Jimmy Fallon’s Thank You Notes, so, naturally, Friday here on my blog means:

Thank You Notes and Jimmy Fallon!

Jimmy’s Thank You Notes:

Thank You Notes

Thank you, Lowanda!!! Lowanda has to be one of the sweetest bloggers in the whole wide blogging world. 🙂 I was fortunate to meet Lowanda at Bloggy Boot Camp almost two years ago. The BBC was held in Atlanta, but the funny thing is…. we both lived in South Carolina at the time and probably about 30 minutes away from each other. Lowanda has been making me smile with her infectious smile and kind heart since then. And last Friday Lowanda sent a HUGE box of smiles from South Carolina to Washington with this sweet box:

My kids love Ms. Lowanda!! We may have made a song about how awesome Ms. Lowanda is. 🙂 Some people have happy dances (we do too) and some people have make-your-own-happy-song and happy dance, I’m not ashamed. I’ve been making crazy random songs for the kids for YEARS. 😀  Anyone else want to admit to this?

Thank you, She Speaks, for asking me to be in the spotlight! It was such a pleasure. 🙂

Thank you, Snohomish Hard Cider Fest, for selling out. :::Heaviest of heavy eye rolls::: I mean c’mon we finally decide to have a day date to celebrate (early) 15 years of marriage and you SELL OUT ON US! DOH! That’s okay, we ate our sorrows away (because that’s what two people trying to get fit need to do). We shared a MEGA cinnamon roll from the pie place I told you about a few weeks ago. 🙂 We then went home made some burgers on the grill and had our own cider sampling. 😉

I’m not sure what I was doing with my face in this picture…. Actually we both look like we have snarky smirks. Probably who-the-heck-sells-out-of-a-festival snarky smirks 🙂

Thank you, kids, for humoring me and taking this picture but also the pictures at the beach (those are coming). 🙂 I love y’all!

?When your parents ask you to take a picture and you don’t want to, but your papa reminds you he just spent $26 on your book. ⚡️? _____________________________________________ I got permission to post this, but I may have met my quota. ? #lovemybabes #latergram #9and3quaters

A photo posted by Mrs.AOK (@mrs_aok) on Aug 1, 2016 at 3:43pm PDT

Did your local bookstore have a party for Harry? Ours did, it was okay, I’m sure it was nothing as special as the party they had in Naperville.

I was right. Also they (Naperville) had a Qquidditch match!!

Thank you, babe, for loving me! You.Are.The.Best.Thing. YOU’RE THE BEST THANG, BABY!!! Happy 15 Years, m’love! ( See also Our Soundtrack 2014)

And I didn’t even correct him, because how could you after a sweet text like this 🙂

silently if, out of not knowable night’s utmost nothing, wanders a little guess (only which is this world) more of my life does not leap than with the mystery your smile sings or if (spiraling as luminous they climb oblivion)voices who are dreams, less into heaven certainly earth swims than each my deeper death becomes your kiss losing through you what seemed myself;i find selves unimaginably mine;beyond sorrow’s own joys and hoping’s very fears yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: yours is the darkness of my soul’s return –you are my sun,my moon,and all my stars (- e.e Cummings) _______________________________________________ Just a heads up I may fill my IG with pictures of yesterday for a few days. ???? #sorrynotsorry ? 15 Years!!! ?

A photo posted by Mrs.AOK (@mrs_aok) on Aug 4, 2016 at 3:41pm PDT

Picture Time!!

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So, this picture. I love it, but do you see that on my back? Some may say it’s light reflecting, others may say a spirit… What say you? If spirit, I’d like to think he or she was enjoying the evening just as much as we were. 🙂

Because I’m such a fancy gal I opted for a lavish dinner on the beach, I even decided to have the whole family present to help us celebrate.

Happy Friday!!!