Christmas Stuff

There have been lots of Christmas activities in the last week, and more to come! We'll start with this weekend:

Putting up Xmas lights sucks,
but its worth it!

White icicle lights with big blue lights, pretty.

I knitted a mitten for Henry, more to come!

A good find at Value Village, Patron anyone?

Now going back to last weekend, we partook in the most important Christmas event...procuring the tree! Erik, Roy and I (and Pup and Cap of course) went to Mt. Hood to search for the perfect tree. Our search was fruitful and fun.

Ta da!

We also had our work Christmas party (sorry no pictures), which was fun of course. However, in the future I will eat BEFORE I drink, so I don't forget to eat all the delicious food. Lesson learned.

Next weekend: Kristin will be here to help make lots of cookies, drink lots of rum, and have a jolly good time listening to Christmas music until Erik's head explodes.

House

Recently, our landlord painted our house. Its not quite done, needs the rest of the trim painted, but it looks great! My mom wanted to see the colors, so here it is!

The house is a dark shade of orange, the window trim is a dark plum, and the trim is a dark greenish/brown. Kinda wild, but pretty cute.

And my two Halloween decorations!

Recently, our landlord painted our house. Its not quite down, needs the rest of the trim painted, but it looks great! My mom wanted to see the colors, so here it is!

The house is a dark shade of orange, the window trim is a dark plum, and the trim is a dark greenish/brown. Kinda wild, but pretty cute.

Westport, WA

Last month we went to Westport, WA with Kim, Todd, Kristin, Ryan, and Kim's friend Chris. We stayed at Kristin's grandparents cabin and had an awesome weekend! Westport is a cute little town with some shops and lots and lots of ocean! My favorite part was definitely the bonfire on the beach.

Yale Lake

As usual, I'll be updating a little at a time. My camera battery is dead right now, but I will upload the pictures I already have on the computer. Summer just flew by and fall, it seems, it suddenly here! I love Fall in Portland. The weather is so mild, lots of crisp sunny days, trees are beautiful, the grass turns green again, its great!

The biggest news lately is that Erik's parents have finally moved down here! They are living in Battleground, WA and are very happy to be out of AK. In September we took their boat out to Yale Lake and had a great time. That was the last weekend of summer, it seems like, and it was a good one!

we beached the boat in a neat little cove

the dogs were very good and had a great time

Erik drove most of the time

Haircut

My mom wanted to see some pictures of my haircut, so here it goes! I didn't do anything to it, just let it dry after taking a shower.

This is kind of a scary no-makeup-sweaty type of picture

Side view. obviously

And the back!

Summer

Lots of updating to do, so I'll try to sum everything up concisely! We are really enjoying our summer and are trying to pack lots of activities into it. The weather has been great and we've spent a lot of time outside.

We've been trying to go on lots of hikes, but instead of putting up hike pictures now, I'm going to wait until later in the summer and do a hike mega-post! I've got some good pictures already.

Erik's mom was down here in June to look at more houses with her realtor. We enjoyed having her here and even made a weekend trip out to the coast!






I made it out to Idaho in June for the annual Girl's Club Camp Out! It was so nice seeing all the wonderful women (and Gabby, Nick, Kate and Henry) of my family, nothing like hanging out in the woods drinking box wine. :)

Mom and Jenny

Kate in her pool

Gabby

Henry didn't work on his bikini body this year

The ladies

Henry!

Mom and Aunt Annie

For the 4th of July Kristin came up and we went downtown to see the firework show. It was pretty amazing and we had the perfect spot until a fire broke out and we moved further from the crowd.

we're not very good at taking pictures

We've also been riding our bikes a lot this summer, and now that we actually have bike locks we will be riding them even more! We rode down to the Sellwood park here.

Manly man

In July we headed up to Alaska for the Charbonneau wedding, congratulations Brian and Morgan! The rehearsal dinner, ceremony, and reception were all great and will be very memorable. It is so great to see everyone at least a couple times of year. We are lucky to have so many great friends.

We also got to spend time with my sister, brother-in-law, and nephews. Its amazing how fast kids grow!

Eric and Erik, the birthday boys!

Eric and Chris; Chris is digging in

right before the ceremony, couldn't actually take pictures after this

I think Kim looks adorable in this pictures

Reception

the happy couple

another happy couple, soon to be married!

the table from my view

what were they up to?

stupid small flash...

first dance

Mother and son

Sunday before we left some of the boys went up to hike at Hidden Lake. I stayed at Erik's parent's house to hang out with Maria, Chris, and Eric.

Brrrrr!

The boys loved Erik's old legos

That's all for now! Stay tuned for more belated, massive updates.