Our Quirky Life Together
- sarahwilk24
- Mar 1
- 7 min read
Updated: Sep 1
Smells Like Burning Waffles
1,669 pieces | Cabagii: JC002
Assembled by Nich Blysma, July 2025
Interaction Rating: 4 / 5 (interaction with the set is encouraged, but use extra care)
July 10, 2022
From the beginning of their relationship, Hunter took it upon himself to help Sarah reimagine how to make new foods within her minimal repertoire of ingredients (due to chronic health issues). Of all the things he introduced to Sarah, his flourless, sugar-free banana cinnamon waffles are the sweetest and most cherished. Hunter looks forward to many more Sunday mornings making waffles for Sarah, kept warm in the toaster until the eggs are finished frying. Here's to hoping that he burns them (and the eggs, for that matter) less as he gains more experience.
Eggflation
386 pieces | LEGO: 40816
Assembled by Bonnie Draga, March 2025
Interaction Rating: 4 / 5 (interaction with the set is encouraged, but use extra care)
June 16, 2022
For most of their relationship, egg prices have been high. As a family that eats a lot of eggs, this has an impact. Before they lived together, Hunter was over one weekend, making breakfast. He accidentally dropped an egg and it broke on the floor. Since this egg belonged to Sarah and egg prices were steep, Hunter felt quite guilty. So guilty that he transferred Sarah a $1 "eggflation" fee through Venmo in recognition of the cost of his impropriety. Any time either of them drops any food on the floor, they are transported back to this moment. They even still occasionally Venmo each other a $1 fee as a joke when it happens. They chose the ornate "Decorative Easter Egg" to represent this quirk because chicken eggs and LEGO eggs have something in common: they're EXPENSIVE.
Dreaming of Life on a Commune
785 pieces | LEGO: 41735 (retired)
Assembled by Sarah Wilkinson, October 2024
Interaction Rating: 4 / 5 (interaction with the set is encouraged, but use extra care)
Both Sarah and Hunter are dreamers, and every once in a while (more often now, with the state of the world), they get a wild hair to run away to live in a tiny house on a commune somewhere off the grid, settling into lives of foraging, gardening, and animal husbandry. The dream always falls apart when they think about what they'd do with three cats in a tiny house, or how they'd manage to keep Sarah fed with all her dietary restrictions. Not to mention how they'd afford any of it if they quit their jobs. So they've stopped trying to think through the real logistics. When they get the urge to disappear together, they instead imagine what it would be like to be able to live slower lives closer to nature, and to have fewer "things" weighing them down (downright hilarious considering all the Legos surrounding them now). Most of all, they imagine having more time to spend together.
Our Treehouse
321 pieces | LEGO: 42666
Assembled by Hunter Williams, September 2025
Interaction Rating: 5 / 5 (interaction with the set is encouraged)
When Sarah and her mom, Bonnie, bought their house together, they came to think of their screen porch (which overlooks a swath of mature trees and a small gully always covered in leaves at every season) as their treehouse. It is a secret and special place, not visible from the front of their house. When Hunter moved in, he became part of "our treehouse" (along with his cats, Delilah and Cali, who adore the screen porch after living in an apartment with no outside-facing windows for years). Sarah and Hunter love to eat breakfast in "our treehouse" on a warm spring morning, and to see the soft pink of the sunsets in the winter (when the canopy is thin and they can see the reservoir). It was where Sarah first shared her secrets with Hunter, and where Hunter first told her that he loved her. A special place, indeed.
This is Fine
299 pieces | MOOXI: MOC1100
Assembled by Mike Alfare, February 2025
Interaction Rating: 2 / 5 (interaction with the set is discouraged unless an experienced builder is helping)
Many will recognize the famous dog from the meme where he sits in a chair with his coffee on the table and his bowler hat on his head while flames roar and smoke rises all around him. "This is fine," he thinks. Throughout their relationship, the world has been chaotic. COVID, so many wars, unnatural "natural" disasters, and politics both disillusioning and destabilizing. They've endured chaos in their personal lives, too, from an expensive mold problem in their home that made Sarah ill to stressful jobs with unhealthy work cultures. All the while, they look at each other from time to time and channel the spirit of the meme. "This is fine!" they say, when everything is absolutely not fine. But they keep going anyway.
The Scream
999 pieces | Cabagii: MY971
Assembled by Mike Alfare, January 2025
Interaction Rating: 4 / 5 (interaction with the set is encouraged, but use extra care)
March 28, 2023
Hunter is of the opinion that going to the barber's is a waste of time when it can be done at home (no car keys required). When he met Sarah, he was rocking self-cut hair, something his hair texture forgave pretty easily. But as Sarah spent more time with him, she noticed the imperfections in his self-cut hair. Sarah began to insist on being the one to cut his hair, but she is not a trained barber (something she has always regularly reminded him of). On a fateful day when Sarah was cutting Hunter's hair, she didn't realize that the guard was off and accidentally buzzed a chunk of hair off the back of his head. They were both shocked. Sarah apologized profusely. Hunter thought it was hilarious, and squeezed it for every once it was worth, giving her a hard time for weeks (until well after the hair had grown back)...and every single time she has cut and will cut his hair, forevermore. See the photo for proof.
There's No Second Trip
253 pieces | Brick Loot: BL-246
Assembled by Mike Alfare, January 2025
Interaction Rating: 5 / 5 (interaction with the set is encouraged)
Ever since the couple moved in together (and even before that, let's be honest), they have spent a lot of time at the grocery store. It's one of the things they've learned about adulthood: no matter what, you're somehow always doing dishes, laundry, or shopping for groceries. Hunter holds the strong belief that there is no such thing as going back to the car for a second load of groceries, so even after the big trips (you know, the ones where you buy five bottles of shampoo because they're on sale), you'll still find him loading bags down the entirety of his arms, no skin left in sight, in an attempt to avoid a second trip to the car. The same principle applies to carrying laundry upstairs, as evidenced in the photo below. Good grief!
I'm One Big Catch
243 pieces | LEGO: 60362 (retired)
Assembled by Nena Beckham, November 2024
Interaction Rating: 5 / 5 (interaction with the set is encouraged)
Like anyone else, Sarah and Hunter have their fair share of chores to attend to, including washing their cars (something they don't do nearly often enough). While at the car wash one day after they'd started planning the Lego exhibit for their wedding, Sarah joked to Hunter that they should get the LEGO car wash set to commemorate that perfectly mundane moment as the friction side washers hit the windows outside the car. Hunter wasn't convinced that they needed to commemorate that particular moment, but joke's on him. Sarah likes to commemorate every moment. The title of this set is a nod to Christina Aguilera's version of the song "Car Wash," which they rocked out to when Sarah forced Hunter to watch the 2004 movie Shark Tale.
Kids with Adult Money
2,319 pieces | GULY: 60526
Assembled by Vanessa Reyes, Mike Alfare; June 2025
Interaction Rating: 3 / 5 (interaction with the set is okay, but only with help from an adult)
February 13, 2025
As Sarah and Hunter acquired more and more Legos and put them together with the help of friends and family, the shelves in their house filled up. More shelves were acquired, and then those filled up too. And then the tops of all cabinets in the house were filled with brick bouquets. And then the top of the guest bed and literally every available surface in the house. Hunter remarked one day, looking around at the sheer number of toy bricks in the house, "We're just kids with adult money." Legos aren't the preferred toy of Sarah's mom, Bonnie, who also lives with Sarah and Hunter. She was tolerant of the Legos slowly taking over the house, and then used this takeover as leverage to get a toy of her own: a full-size pinball machine of the same kind she had in her house as a child in the 70s. Sarah and Hunter couldn't even pretend to protest, but then again, why would they? She's just a kid with adult money, too.
You Butter Be My Valentine
7 pieces | Abbie Dabbles
Interaction Rating: 3 / 5 (interaction with the set is okay, but only with help from an adult)
February 14, 2025
For their third anniversary, Sarah surprised Hunter with a LEGO Fabio holding a brick of butter in a case that read, "You Butter Be My Valentine!" Well, more accurately, Sarah had planned to surprise Hunter on their anniversary, which is Valentine's Day. But, she accidentally left it out on her desk after opening the package it arrived in, and Hunter found it a couple of weeks early. Regardless of when he received it, his reaction was priceless: "Uh, why do we have a LEGO Fabio?" He didn't notice the butter at first, but once he did, it was not hard to understand why they owned a LEGO Fabio holding a brick of butter. Who else in the whole world is this product more targeted to? Answer: no one. To Sarah's great joy, Hunter agreed to be her Valentine. For the record, she finds Hunter far more attractive than Fabio.
Hunter hamming it up the next time Sarah cut his hair after the time she accidentally buzzed a spot in the middle of his head down to his scalp.
Hunter said, "Obliterate my hair, baby," and so Sarah did (on accident, again, many months after the first incident).
The same rule that applies at the grocery store also applies with laundry: there's no second trip.