Birthday party at the beach house in Kirkland

I went to my beautiful friend Cassieโ€™s birthday party in Kirkland, and it was such a perfect day. The party was at her sisterโ€™s gorgeous beach-front house, and the weather was sunny and warm โ€” just right for enjoying the view and soaking up the sun.

์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ๋ง, ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ์นœ๊ตฌ ์บ์‹œ(Cassie)์˜ ์ƒ์ผํŒŒํ‹ฐ์— ๋‹ค๋…€์™”์–ด์š”. ํŒŒํ‹ฐ๋Š” ์ปคํด๋žœ๋“œ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์บ์‹œ ์–ธ๋‹ˆ์˜ ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ๋ฐ”๋‹ท๊ฐ€๋ทฐ ์ง‘์—์„œ ์—ด๋ ธ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋งˆ์นจ ๋‚ ์”จ๋„ ํ™”์ฐฝํ•˜๊ณ  ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•ด์„œ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค์™€ ํ–‡์‚ด์„ ๋งˆ์Œ๊ป ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ํ–‰๋ณตํ–ˆ์ฃ .

Her sister hosted the most charming floral-themed tea party. We all wore floral print dresses, sipped rosรฉ, and enjoyed the prettiest desserts. Cassie has been such a special friend to me ever since I moved to Seattle โ€” and fun fact, we share the same birthday! (Both Virgos ๐Ÿ’ซ) How amazing is that?

์บ์‹œ์˜ ์–ธ๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ ์ค€๋น„ํ•œ ํ…Œ๋งˆ๋Š” โ€˜ํ”Œ๋กœ๋Ÿด ํ‹ฐ ํŒŒํ‹ฐโ€™์˜€์–ด์š”. ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฝƒ๋ฌด๋Šฌ ์›ํ”ผ์Šค๋ฅผ ์ž…๊ณ , ํ–ฅ๊ธ‹ํ•œ ๋กœ์ฆˆ ํ‹ฐ์™€ ๋‹ฌ์ฝคํ•œ ๋””์ €ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ฒผ๋‹ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ์ฝ”๋„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ด์˜๊ณ  ๋””์ €ํŠธ๋„ ๋‹ค ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ข‹๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ์–ธ๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ์Œ ์•ˆ์— ์ƒํ™”๋ฅผ ์–ผ๋ ค์„œ ๋ฐ์ฝ”ํ•œ ๊ฑธ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๋‹ค์Œ ํŒŒํ‹ฐ์—๋Š” ๋‚˜๋„ ํ•ด๋ด์•ผ๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์˜ˆ์˜๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”.

Sheโ€™s one of the sweetest people I know โ€” with a big heart, an amazing mom to her two sons, and a wonderful wife. We first met through our husbands, but we quickly connected because weโ€™re so similar in so many ways. Iโ€™m so happy I got to celebrate her birthday, meet her sister and friends, and spend such a lovely day together. I honestly feel so lucky to have found friends like Cassie here in Seattle โ€” my life would be so different without them.

์บ์‹œ๋Š” ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์• ํ‹€๋กœ ์ด์‚ฌ ์˜จ ์ดํ›„๋กœ ์ œ๊ฒŒ ํฐ ํž˜์ด ๋˜์–ด์ค€ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ์นœ๊ตฌ์˜ˆ์š”. ๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋‘˜ ์ƒ์ผ์ด ๋˜‘๊ฐ™๋‹ค๋Š”๊ฑฐ! (๋‘˜ ๋‹ค ์ฒ˜๋…€์ž๋ฆฌโ™) ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์‹ ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์ธ์—ฐ์ธ์ง€์š”. ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋‘ ์•„๋“ค์˜ ์ข‹์€ ์—„๋งˆ์ด์ž, ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ์•„๋‚ด์ด๊ณ , ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋„“๊ณ  ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด์—์š”. ๋‚จํŽธ๋“ค์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋งŒ๋‚ฌ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์—์„œ ๋‹ฎ์•„์„œ ๊ธˆ์„ธ ์นœํ•ด์กŒ์–ด์š”. ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ƒ์ผ์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์–ธ๋‹ˆ์™€ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๋„ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ์ •๋ง ๊ธฐ๋ปค์–ด์š”.

After tea, we did a sip & paint while watching the beautiful water view. It was so much more fun than I expected! I realized how much I love painting โ€” I havenโ€™t painted like that since I graduated college, and it brought back so many memories. I even painted the scenery right in front of me to remember the moment.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋‚  โ€˜Sip & Paintโ€™๋„ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ๋ฐ”๋‹ท๊ฐ€ ํ’๊ฒฝ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์™€์ธ์„ ๋งˆ์‹œ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ๊ทธ๋ ธ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ๋Œ€ํ•™ ์กธ์—… ์ดํ›„ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ๊ทธ๋ ค๋ณธ ๊ฑด ์ฒ˜์Œ์ด๋ผ ์˜› ์ถ”์–ต์ด ์ƒˆ๋ก์ƒˆ๋ก ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ž๊ณ , ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ์ž์ฃผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ์ €๋Š” ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ„์งํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์„œ, ๋ˆˆ์•ž์˜ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค ํ’๊ฒฝ์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ด์•„๋ดค๋‹ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The older I get, the more I realize how precious every moment is. I want to soak it all in and never forget how lucky I am โ€” to be surrounded by such amazing people in such a beautiful place I once dreamed of. So hereโ€™s to life! And if youโ€™re reading this, I hope your life is filled with joy and beauty, too. ๐Ÿ’›

๋‚˜์ด๊ฐ€ ๋“ค์ˆ˜๋ก ๋งค ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ์ง€ ๊นจ๋‹ซ๊ฒŒ ๋ผ์š”. ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์›ƒ๊ณ , ๊ธฐ๋ปํ•˜๊ณ , ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ๊ณณ์—์„œ ์ข‹์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด๋Š” ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด ์ฐธ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ด์š”. ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ์˜ ์‚ถ์ด ๋Š˜ ๊ฟˆ๊ฟ”์™”๋˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๋งŒํผ ํ–‰๋ณตํ•ด์š”.

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‚ถ์— ๊ฑด๋ฐฐ๋ฅผ.
์ด ๊ธ€์„ ์ฝ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๋„ ์ž์‹ ๋งŒ์˜ ํ–‰๋ณตํ•œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ€๋“ ๋ˆ„๋ฆฌ์‹œ๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ผ์š”. ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿ’›

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