Blueberries!

Yesterday I went blueberry picking with my friends. It was actually a ton of fun. Jeff and Lauren took us to their secret spot. I cannot believe how many berries we got in only an hour. I also think I ate my weight in berries. They were so juicy and sweet. I can't wait to make smoothies and muffins with my fresh berries. 

Not exactly a path...

The kids had fun! Lily wanted to stay and pick more. 

NOT so HUMANE.

At the park today I met Hannah:

Needless to say, I fell in love. As all of you know my animals are my babies and I was ready to be her mommy. But apparently she is not available for adoption because she is being used as a cute face at a money making event where she will be up for adoption exclusively by an attendee. So basically, the Humane Society is Hanna's pimp. Poor girl. I am so livid about this that I even wrote the National Humane Society. I am sure nothing will come from it, but I am still not surrendering. Here is the letter:

Hi my name is Sharon Orcutt. I live in Renton, Washington with my husband. We are huge animal lovers and currently have two dogs and a cat. I have had our dogs since they were eight weeks old ( they are both four now) and we recently added our beautiful cat to our family three months ago. We adopted this cat from the Seattle Humane Society. I was at the park with my two dogs enjoying the warm weather and met a woman there with a Puggle. We spoke for a long time while the dogs all played and I found out the Puggle, Hannah, was currently being fostered by this woman. We spoke for over an hour and I just fell in love with Hannah and know she is a perfect fit for us. She played so well with my dogs and currently lives with three cats and loves them. She is a perfect size for us and we are excited to add to our little family. We have a beagle and we just love him to pieces and Hannah has so many beagle qualities we just love. I called the Seattle Humane society about adopting Hannah and was on my way there to fill out the necessary paperwork when the girl told me Hannah was NOT available. I checked on their site and she was not posted for adoption so I called them back. I was transferred several times and ended speaking to the women in charge of cat adoptions. I remember the foster mom telling me Hannah was being used for an event the Seattle Humane Society puts on annually, but I thought surely this would not prevent little Hannah from being adopted into our loving home today! But I was wrong. After an hour of being told I could not in fact adopt her because she was needed pretty much as a "cute face" for their event and I could try and adopt her at the event in a few weeks. This seems completely opposite of the Humane Society I know to have the animals BEST interests in mind, and not to capitalize on the cuteness of a puppy. We want to give Hannah a permanent, loving home she deserves. I am willing to do what it takes so we can have Hannah be apart of our family. I hope you are someone who can help me, or can point me in the direction of someone who can.

Thank you for your help.

Sharon Orcutt.

  

Freegan awesome.

A while ago Summer and I were talking about dumpster diving. My first time ever was in elementary school with my friend Jennifer Clark. We paroozed the dumpsters after school was out for summer break and found a lot of cool stuff. I haven't done it for a long time, but it always enters my mind. Luckily I found Summer who seriously is my soul sister. Who else would suggest dumpster diving? We did a little bit of research and were off. We tried Trader Joe's first but had zero luck. We drove around a mall and everything was locked up. Then Summer suggest QFC (Quality Food Center comparable to Harmons for you Utah folk) It is in a strip mall so we parked my car off to the side and surveyed the dumpsters. We came across one that said , " STOP!!! Food waste only" Ding ding ding. It looked like a big, fresh, colorful salad. There were even large ice chunks intermingled in the "salad", so we knew it was fresh. Summer jumped in and we filled up our bags in about three minutes. I'd say for rookies we did very well. 

Pre-Diving

The Salad.

My hero. 

The goods. 

Organic!

Go here to learn more about Freegans. 

What happens when...

We go to the Humane Society. We talked about getting a cat, but kind of went back and forth if we should or not. We went to the shelter a few times, but didn't connect with any cats. On a whim I suggested we go today, even just to play with the cats. She was in the last room we looked at and was sleeping in the corner. Kory approached her first and she just took to him really well. She was purring and rubbing her head all over him. His heart belonged to her :) I am so glad Kory isn't one of those iamtoomachoandmanlytoeveradmitilikeacat guy. We both love, love, love animals and have a lot of love to give. I am so glad we found her.

Meet LECHE DE HUBBELL. Our new, baby girl. She is six months old. We don't know too much about her past, but we know she came from an animal hoarder of some sort. She has one green eye and one blue eye. She is very affectionate and we love her to pieces already. So do the dogs. Kor recorded the first meeting. They have since decided they can be friends.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvx4kXLUCws&feature=player_embedded

 Leche means milk in Spanish. Milk is white. Do you get it? You don't? You're so dumb...

Never too old.

We had such a fun night with the Welch's! First we went to an Ethiopian restaurant that was SCRUMPTIOUS. Then we decided we needed some Krispy Kreme donuts. Also scrumptious. I am not exactly sure how or who came up with the next idea, but I love that four 24+ adults eagerly agreed to play Sardines inside Target! Basically one person found somewhere to hide and sent a picture message to the rest of us. Last one there was the next to hide. We had a ton of fun. 


 Here are the photos from tonight.  

No, this was NOT in the shoe section.

Bringing back the 80's.

So a while ago I thought to myself,   "Sharon, how could you possibly become more lazy when it comes to your appearance than you already are..." My answer to my lazy self..... A PERM! Now I don't even have to brush my hair. BONUS!




Rachel Zoe I guess you could say was my inspiration. Except I eat food; a lot of it. So just a hair-inspirer. 

Took about 15 seconds for this bodacious look. 

Tried a little hair style. But mostly Lila is just the cutest.

No Boys Allowed.

Summer, Jun and Myself had a ladies night last night. We made a Valentines craft/decoration and gave each other facials. Summer prepared the facials with avocado,honey,olive oil and coffee. Who knew!! It was a lot of fun. I sure love these ladies.

I love how they turned out! Jun is craft-queen! Summer..well..she is more of a watcher :)

Easily Amused.

Kor got a new, fancy phone, which I think I like better than my ifail, and it has some pretty fun camera effects. This is what happens when Summer and Sharon discover said effects. 

Chris and Kory are such lucky husbands :)
LOVE YOU SUMMER <3


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