Second Giveaway!!!

I hope you all had a great weekend!

I sure did, busy busy and full of lots of visiting with my peeps:-)

More on that soon!

So without further ado . . . As promised . . .

GIVEAWAY TIME!!!

Win:

Your choice of a 8x10 fine art photograph

~OR~

A set of 5 Greeting Cards (your choice)

From:

Tandy Photography

~To win~

1) Tell me your dream vacation: Location, with whom, and what would you do???

2) Go to the website and tell me which photo you love the bestest:-) (1 entry)

3) Follow me!!! If you already are a follower it still counts, just mention it in your comment.  Also if you are a newby tell me (1 entry)

4)  Blog about this giveaway and share the link in a comment (1 entry)

Winner will be announced on Monday the 8th

 

***Reason 1***

We LOVE to travel and share our travels and experiences with others :-)

***Reason 2***

We're going on VACATION in 2 months!!! I'm counting down the days, seriously we have a countdown on our desktop:-)
Among other things, I get to finally meet my niece and nephew in Luxembourg!

Also going:

Barcelona!!!

Photo by MorBCN "The Last Sunray"

Nice, France

Photo by Cormac Phelan "Nice Promenade"

Pisa

Photo by Joanot "Pisa (La Toscana) Itàlia"

Amalfi Coast

Photo by inetnasshadow "Vintage Amalfi Coast, Atrani"

Brussels

Photo by: gbatistini "From the most exclusive and secret place. Carpet flower, Great Market, Brussels, Belgium"

Eze in La Cote D'Azure France

Photo by: Hélène G "Ça c'est la Côte d'Azur !"

Rome, Italy

Photo by : Tandy Photography

Sorrento, Italy

Photo by: Tandy Photography

Florence, Italy

Photo by CGoulao "Florence"

Soooooo excited, and I feel blessed to be able to go on such a trip with my hubby, the best travelign partner ever! 

*Ok if ya'll don't have a mileage cc, get one!!!

We have been racking up our miles on our CC and

saving saving saving!!!*

Anywho (be still my heart!) . . .

***Reason 3***

"Operation Snail Mail"

 . . .

AND

 . . .

More info tomorrow! Ha ha I'm so bad huh? :-)

Have a great night ladies and gents!!!

 Can't wait to see the results of the Bachelor. 

TOTALLY addicted and psyched to see what happens:-)

Hmmmmm . . .

Vienna . . .

Or . . . Tenley

Nighty night!!!

~Tamara Nicole~

~Weekend Fun Extravaganza~

WOW!!!

That's all I gotta say.

What a fun, eventful, SUNNY weekend!

This post will be full of photos galore!!!

***More substinence later this week lol***

~Friday~

*Went to this new restaurant in Bellevue called

Earls

with the hubby for our date night!

We arrived with the door opened to us (aww), and a complimentary glass of champagne (yum yum!) while we waited for a table for about 10 mins

(not bad)

I order spicy chicken tacos and a margarita

Andy ordered a club sandwhich and a beer

Food: decent but over-priced like many places here in Bellevue.

Service: Great, they kept checking in on us every couple minutes. Bonus points for complimenting me on my hair:-)

BUT 

I felt kinda like we were in a club?! The waitresses all had on short skirts and boob white tops. 

Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those "hater" girls

If you got it flaunt it right? ;-)

Just don't flirt with my hubby the whole time and not even look at me, k?  Just saying:-) ha ha

Overall we had a great date night. Love it.

~Saturday~

*Gym- ran another 3 miles holler!

*Went with the fam (hubby, 2 dogs) to one of our favorite places: Discovery Park

The weather was like 60 and sunny all weekend so we had to enjoy it right?! LOVELY views up above Puget Sound, and the hike was nice exercise for us all:-)

We took MANY pics . . . here are a few:-)

Then off to the In-laws for pastries from Bakery Neavou (AMAZING! In West Seattle . . . seriously they are to die for)

Then home to our hammock in the sun for some reading/cuddling time.

Finally to finish our day . . . off to our FAVE place, George and the Dragon.  This super fun English Pub in Seattle.  We're HUGE English Soccer (futbol) fans and have been going here since we first met;-) Awwww. Ha ha.

Mmmm Strongbow (cider, our fave.  If you haven't tried it, DO!)

~SUNDAY~

*Gym again (on a roll!)

*A few hours of gardening/yard work

(I hate when I start this b/c then all I think about is everything I need to do! Yikes . . . having a decent yard is hard work lemme tell ya.  Fun but time-consuming.

*Doubles Tennis match with our friend Chris and his girl.  All I can sayis we had a blast, a great workout and lots'a laughs.  We haven't played on a team yet and my hubby is a ball hog lol.  We came SOoooo close but lost ;-(

~MONDAY~

Vancouver!!!

Ummmm yeah how cool is it that the 2010 Winter Olympics are like 3 hours away?!  I know what you're thinking, and no we didn't make it to any games:-( BUT we hung out, ate, went to Stanley Park, shopped on Robson Street, and saw the whole town decked out in red and white!

So glad Andy took the day off, thanks sweets!!!

Here's a crazy amount of photos, sorry!

left at 7 am

The Canadians are so proud, GO CANADA!!!

The torch is above his head hee hee

I think Curling is purdy cool:-)

Mmmmm Crepes!!!

Shopping at Zara:-) (Pssst . . . that's my car no worries my booty's not scratching anyone's car)

AND that concludes our "us only" weekend

Now off to watch the Bachelor . . . Girls' Tell All I can't miss it:-)I wanna hear about this

I will catch up on blog reads tomorrow after work, I promise!

HAPPY MONDAY to you all!

I want to hear about your weekend too

~Tamara Nicole~

We have a WINNER!!! And my weekend in review:-)

AND . . .

(drum roll . . .)

***Meg***

AND . . .

***Jennifer***

So to collect on this:

email me your addy @ memorybeandesigns@yahoo.com

CONGRATS!!!

Ok I HAD to pick 2 winners!!!

I wish I could pick all of you!!!

(I'm a major softy . . . during the Superbowl I wanted both teams to win, I don't want any losers . . . ever!)

So I randomly drew one (the old pull-a-name-out-of-a-bowl dealy).

Yeah Meg!!!

Yes they all are amazing answers and I am so happy and honored for you all to share with me your "purpose".

 I had to pick an answer that is similar to part of my purpose and passion in life:

Jennifer's comment:

 "My life purpose I believe is to spread joy and uplift people through the things that move my spirit- writing, photography and sharing the SIMPLE things to hopefully inspire others to relish in the same! If I can change the life of one person to bring happiness then thats enough!"

Love it! So both of these ladies have GREAT blogs, very cute and inspiring, chk them out!

As for the next give-away I'm going to do them once a month for now until things get going more . . .

***So stay tuned . . . coming March 1st is another fun give-away***

Ok ok so on with my busy busy weekend:

~Friday~

Delivered some Valentine's gifts to my girls:

(I made 16 of them! Here's just a few)

We celebrated Valentine's early with a "date night" to a show at the High Dive here in Fremont!!!

We had a BLAST! (and some yummy drinks)

It was soooo funny b/c in the beginning there was a TON of older people

 (no offense at all! But we were like the youngest people there for a min!)

Then we realized . . . Durrrrrrr!!! One of the opening acts was . . .

Jason Castro

. . . American Idol a few years ago!!! 

All the ladies were there to hear him sing Hallelujah. 

Funny funny.  So after he was done than all the older crowd left,

and on came one of our newly discovered faves:

Caitlin Crosby
She's super cute, and I love her voice!

(She also has this amazing website:
http://www.loveyourflawz.com/)

AND THEN comes
 Matt Hires
who my hubby and I can't stop listening to. 
He's actually super good, why are these people not big yet?! (besides Castro- he's ok)

~Saturday~
We bummed around for most of the day. 
Then we went out to this
SUPER CUTE
Italian restaurant downtown seattle
Mama Malena's
with Andy's parents, aunt and uncle.  We had a great time!  The ambiance in there was amazing, dimly lit with candles everywhere, with a piano playing in the background, lots of people and YUMMY food.

~SUNDAY~

Valentine's Day!!!

Andy bought me my favorite flowers Gerber Daisies!!!

We had a nice cozy Valentine's with a romantic picnic dinner of hor'devours, some vino and a great movie.

Awwwww! Ha ha

~MONDAY~

Whew and this brings us to today.  Sorry so long guys!!! You know me I just always have lots to say:-)

Today we also took it pretty chill, ran some errands, did some cleanign around the house.  We also decided to take the doggies on a hike to celebrate

CAPRI'S THIRD BIRTHDAY

Awww my lil Princess Westie is 3!!!

I'm thinking she gets ice cream tonight too :-)

Soooo that's our weekend, pretty chill but fun fun.

Off to watch 

*The Bachelor*

(A guilty pleasure of ours!)

Where did this past Valentine's weekend find you?!

Hope you all have a great week!!!

~Tamara Nicole~