Parade with Problem Child

Aaron got a new experience with his music - he got to fill in with the band Problem Child and be in a parade. They were in the Greenwood Seafair Parade, and it was a lot of fun to do something different. The band was a huge hit.

 

Warrior Dash

Our second annual experience with the Warrior Dash this year was such a blast! Heads and tails better than last year in so many ways. We had great weather, the course was much better and the best part - Chrome Molly played both Saturday and Sunday afternoon. It was so fun that I hope they get to play the event next year!!

 

Taco Thursday

Every since Aaron has joined Chrome Molly, we keep hearing about the wonderful "Taco Thursday" out at the City Hall Saloon. All last year every single on of the were canceled due to poor weather and thus far this year they have been cancelled. I was beginning to think that it was a myth and everyone was lying to me about it: but we finally got our Taco Thursday, and it was super fun. Lots of Chrome was in the parking lot!

Seaside Oregon

Seaside Oregon is one of our favorite destinations: I think we are down there at least every other year. This year the Hamblin Family came down and joined us for a fun-filled week, including the 4th of July. We have never watched fireworks on the beach before, so this was a first for us.

Technically you are not allowed to have fireworks on the beach, so we didn't bring any of ours (even though most people had theirs). We got sky lanterns instead, and had a ton of fun letting these things off!! Plus, we had so many fireworks around us, and the big ones down the way, that it was good enough for us. It was SO much fun!

We did set off fireworks back at the house when all the fun was done at the beach. To the left you will see the last few moments of this orange buckets life before Scott melted the poor thing to the nubbins.

(hop on FB to see all of the pics I took ;o)

EMP With The Chomesters

The EMP has an AC/DC exhibit right now, and what better band to visit that than an AC/DC cover band!? It was a perfect field trip for Chrome Molly. We ended up having half the band be able to go, and we had a lot of fun hanging out for the day.

This is a coat owned by one of Chrome Molly's fans - Josh. He has been working on this coat for YEARS. It is a trench coat covered in nothing but AC/DC buttons. He is kind of famous for it, and has had the opportunity to meet the AC/DC band members on several occasions. He is famous enough for it that his coat is on loan with the EMP for the AC/DC exhibit. We talked to Josh at Tastin' N Racin' about it and he is so jazzed he goes and visits his coat almost every day. Kind of fun to be semi-famous for something, even if it is for your coat ;o) I'd take it!

They had a white board set up with all of the bands that have originated out of Seattle. You could add your band to the line up, so Chrome Molly needed to be on there!

We didn't realize it at the time of making these plans, but this was also the day of the Gay Pride Parade. After we got out of the EMP we spent the rest of the afternoon people watching. Things were PACKED at Seattle Center, as this is where the parade ended, and there were some very interesting people to watch indeed!!! I had a blast, it was such a crack up. It was like a drag queen costume party.

Girls Night!

Chrome Molly had another private party tonight, and Michelle and I didn't feel like going: we always feel like party crashers at those things. Michelle had to make a cake for Dave's daughters birthday party for the following day and wanted some help creating a "Hunger Games" cake for her. We decided to have a girls night with the two of us and Jess- dinner, movie and cake baking party. It was really fun to just hang out, and I think the cake turned out great. Michelle made the cake and frosted it, I did the Mocking Jay art on top. We are amazing ;o).

Week With Mom

One last day of good weather for us happened on the day mom arrived into town, and Aaron had the day off so it was perfect. We made a picnic and took off to spend some time down at Lake Washington.

The week following was interesting and fun. Interesting was heading out to Monroe for John's graduation, it's always an experience for sure. Mom and I spent the rest of the week wandering around, playing games and shopping. On her second to last night here we took her to watch Aaron play. I was so proud of her, as she stayed the whole night and stuck in there until 1:00 in the morning! It was a lot of fun!!

We got so used to having mom around all of the time, and doing things with her often, that she has been very missed since she moved. It was really fun having her around for a week!