10 – Get married at Seattle City Hall on our 9th anniversary
14 – Wedding Day at McMenamins Edgefield!
16 – Start teaching ballet at UW Rec Center
29 – Wizard of Oz at Nathan Hale High School rehearsals start
30 – Get drinks with Kayleigh, a coworker of Daryl’s from Sacramento
February
8 – Swan Lake at Pacific Northwest Ballet
10 – Hike Little Si
12 – Sell Sue Ann, my 1991 Subaru Legacy with 312,619 miles. I bought her in 2008 for $2000 (with insurance money from when Rosie was totaled) and sold her in 2018 for $900. Not bad!
28 – Bought new skis with money from selling Sue Ann!
March
3 – Jessie and Darren’s wedding! It was so wonderful for us to get to spend time with Arina, Emily, Jesus, and Frank – unlike when we saw them in January at our wedding.
4 – Snoqualmie Pass was closed and we got turned back to Ellensburg. In all the years I’ve been traveling over the pass, I have never been turned around before!
7 – Hamilton! I still can’t believe we got to see it!
13 – Tech Rehearsals for Crowns at Taproot Theatre start
18 – Clare has a 12 hour layover in Seattle!
23 – Crowns opens
26 – Finish buying my new ski set up: ski boots, bindings, and ski crampons
29 – Cascade Grotto Pub Night at Floating Bridge Brewing
30 – Drive to Astoria. Drinks with Tammy!
31 – Mama and I drive to Roseburg for my Aunt Karen’s Celebration of Life.
April
10 – Danielle and Greg took us out to Stateside as a wedding present. So good!
22 – Daryl, Johnny, Danielle, and I catch the last day at Steven’s Pass for their Pond Skim. The first day on my new skis!
May
3 – Wizard of Oz opens
5 – Vertical practice for the Grotto at Ravenna Bridge
6 – Daryl and I catch closing weekend of Mt. Hood Meadows with Chandler
22 – Sub as LBO for Lady Windermere’s Fan at Taproot Theatre
26-28 – Eugene with the Greaser-McDaniel Clan
June
1 – We moved into our new place! Riley gets a yard!
4 – Daryl’s birthday!
8-11 – Papoose Cave with 19 people from 6 grottos!
12-15 – I got to be the Tech Advisor for the Center School’s student written play festival with Seattle Public Theater
24 – June Birth Month Ski Trip: Chinook Pass
27 – My 31st Birthday! We saw West Side Story on the big screen!
30 – We got to spend the day with Mike, Saville, and the kids at the Pacific Science Center. I love our family.
July
7-8 – Astoria Weekend with Sydoney! We got coffee at 3 Cups, lunch at T. Pauls, coffee at Astoria Coffee House, climbed to the top of the Column, snagged tickets to a “Sneek” Peek of Shanghaied in Astoria, then we camped at the Saddle Mountain trail head and summited the next day. Talk about a perfect weekend!
9-12 – I spent the week as Technical Director and Lighting Designer for SPT’s summer camp production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
14-15 – McIver Float with the Beechaus!
20-Aug 5 – Montana
21-22 – Camp with Tom and his kids at Benchmark
23-24 – Benchmark. Float the creek between the campground and the airport
25-27 – Scapegoat
30-Aug 3 – NSS Convention
August
4 – Mike’s birthday float. We floated the confluence of the Blackfoot and the Clark Fork rivers!
7-10 – Lighting Designer for Charlotte’s Web at Taproot’s Summer Acting Studio
11 – Jack White concert with the Beechaus
16 – Skype date with Emily and Arina!
17 – HanaSara was in town for the shortest amount of time, but I managed to steal her for breakfast
19 – Becky and I had planned on going hiking, but smokey skies are gross. Brunch instead!
25-26 – Clear Lake with the Beechaus. The lake was practically gone and it was chilly, but we all had so much fun. Daryl and I got to be in charge of breakfast!
26 – On the way home from Clear Lake we stopped by Spencer’s brewery, 54’40’
27 – LBO for Sandbox Radio Live at SPT
September
14-16 – 56 hours in New York City!
15 – I got brunch with Mark, an online friend from the days of sondheim.com message boards in high school. Then I got drinks with my high school friends Temple and Jess. And to top the day off, I had dinner with so many UM friends: Emily, Ellie, Clare, and Christopher!
16 – Daryl and I got to spend the day wandering around the city!
27 – We saw Program B of the Jerome Robbins Festival at PNB (including The Concert, a ballet I’ve wanted to see for years). It was so good!
29 – Program B was so good that we got tickets to see Program A too!
October
1 – Riley’s 2nd birthday!
11 – We saw the MountainFilm World Tour at the Mountaineers tonight. Lots go great films and a lot of stoke to get outside.
15 – Rehearsals for Taproot Theatre Christmas Touring shows start.
20-21 – Dynamited Cave trip with Cascade Grotto!
27-28 – I made a trip home to see my parents and Grandma. We went through family photos and I learned more about our history here in Seattle.
November
3 – Date night at the Showbox to see Lil’ Smokies!
10-11 – I5 Super Awesome Friends weekend in Hood River! We visited the Western Antique Automobile and Airplane Museum – it is AWESOME!
19 – Rehearsals start for A Charlie Brown Christmas at Taproot
30 – A Charlie Brown Christmas opens
December
6 – Banff Mountain Film Festival at Benaroya Hall
8 – Cascade Grotto Holidays Party!
10-12 – LD The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe for Taproot Acting Studio
14 – Betsey got new boots (Cooper CS5s)
16 – After months of trying to have a work get together, we finally have a Greenwood Diva holiday party
20 – The Nutcracker at PNB
24-25 – We spend Christmas in Astoria. Christmas Eve at my parents with my Grandma and cousin, then Christmas Day at our favorite beach.
31-Jan 1 – Ski-N The New Year with Mike at Blewett Pass