Today, I am sick. I went to bed with a scratchy throat and woke up with a head as heavy as a brick, a nose incapable of breathing through, and a sore throat. Needless to say, this will be brief. I am currently lying on the couch with a head propped up with pillows and I don't plan on moving all day. My wonderful husband is off to the grocery store to get me some 7-up and soup. When he returns we'll watch a movie. Not exactly what I had in mind for my monday but it appears I have no choice in the matter. Anyway, wishing you all a happy monday. Also just wanted to give a little shout out to my mother-in-law: Happy Birthday to You! I know you did lots of celebrating this weekend and so I hope that today is a nice relaxing day for you to just bask in the glory of your special day.
We love you all, more again soon...
Monday, August 30, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Neglected again.
Once again the blog has been neglected. However, this time around for 14 days! Yikes....
Atleast this time it was neglected for the sake of summer fun rather than school tests or house chores or something boring. We have had schedules jam-packed full of fun. In the past two weeks we have met up with new friends twice, met up with Caleb and Nina for dinner, gone bowling, cooked up crazy crazy meals, gone to the Kennedy school and much much more... We have been cleaning and organizing our new living room as time permits but its been a slow moving process. We will take pictures today and get those posted soon. As for now, i thought I'd post a little picture that made my heart happy yesterday. Yesterday, I stepped outside our front door to go on a walk and what did I see looking back at me? Hop-scotch. I know, that doesn't sound exciting, but does hopscotch with 135 squares that wraps around and around the apartment complex sound exciting? Heck yes it does! Little Flora (the 8 year old who lives across from us) had gone to town with the chalk that morning. There was not an inch of cement untouched that day which makes me so very very happy. Kids just breath life into everything don't they? I think so.... So, for now I will leave you with this (the other pictures I took of it didn't turn out) and will get back to you with living room pictures soon.
this picture is ^ just to show that they took down the tree in front of our complex because it was dead. Very very sad.
Atleast this time it was neglected for the sake of summer fun rather than school tests or house chores or something boring. We have had schedules jam-packed full of fun. In the past two weeks we have met up with new friends twice, met up with Caleb and Nina for dinner, gone bowling, cooked up crazy crazy meals, gone to the Kennedy school and much much more... We have been cleaning and organizing our new living room as time permits but its been a slow moving process. We will take pictures today and get those posted soon. As for now, i thought I'd post a little picture that made my heart happy yesterday. Yesterday, I stepped outside our front door to go on a walk and what did I see looking back at me? Hop-scotch. I know, that doesn't sound exciting, but does hopscotch with 135 squares that wraps around and around the apartment complex sound exciting? Heck yes it does! Little Flora (the 8 year old who lives across from us) had gone to town with the chalk that morning. There was not an inch of cement untouched that day which makes me so very very happy. Kids just breath life into everything don't they? I think so.... So, for now I will leave you with this (the other pictures I took of it didn't turn out) and will get back to you with living room pictures soon.
this picture is ^ just to show that they took down the tree in front of our complex because it was dead. Very very sad.
We are looking forward to our trip down south the end of september. Can't wait to see family!
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Portland Food Carts
Most people's first reaction when they hear the term "Food cart" is not a pleasant one. It is easy to associate the term with the sweaty, temporary, junk-food stands seen only at the State Fair. But hold your horses my dear friends, this is not the type of Food Cart I am talking about. Portland Food Carts are dispersed through out the many different neighborhoods and they are a far far cry from the deep-fried Twinkie stand [cringe] of the state fair. Food carts are mini-restaurants; restaurants with small menus; small menus full of amazing, original recipes.
All of this is to say that last night Wes and I went to a food cart with some new friends. There is a pod (yes a group of food carts is called a pod) of about 6 of them down the street from us, oriented in a circle with seating available. We finally go to check them out and what an awesome place it is. We could choose from the following food carts: Crepes, Potato Champion, Pyro Pizza, Mexican food, Bernie's, and Whiffie Pies. We chose to get some pizza and housemade Cola (delicious). Here is a video by Men's Health which interviews some of the most popular food carts in town. The list is endless, so if you're really curious, check out the website that lists every food cart in Portland.
Or, just watch this video (the pizza place seen at the very end is the place we went to lastnight!):
So come on up and eat at some food carts with us! :) Happy Sunday everyone!
All of this is to say that last night Wes and I went to a food cart with some new friends. There is a pod (yes a group of food carts is called a pod) of about 6 of them down the street from us, oriented in a circle with seating available. We finally go to check them out and what an awesome place it is. We could choose from the following food carts: Crepes, Potato Champion, Pyro Pizza, Mexican food, Bernie's, and Whiffie Pies. We chose to get some pizza and housemade Cola (delicious). Here is a video by Men's Health which interviews some of the most popular food carts in town. The list is endless, so if you're really curious, check out the website that lists every food cart in Portland.
Or, just watch this video (the pizza place seen at the very end is the place we went to lastnight!):
So come on up and eat at some food carts with us! :) Happy Sunday everyone!
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Friends Blogs, Sandwhiches, and Glow in the Dark Stars..
10 days since the last post????... wooops!
Well, in the past ten days I feel like a lot has happened... in a nutshell:
1. ALL THREE of my Best friends officially have blogs. I'm so proud. ;) Read them at:
Ashley- http://ashleynicolewhipple.blogspot.com/
Marisa- http://www.littlelemonsqueeze.blogspot.com/
Cory- http://coryinparis.blogspot.com/
2. We met up with Danny Moen at The Horse Brass Pub. (Danny Moen was the jr. high youth pastor at Sun Grove church in Elk Grove and is a good friend)
3. We met up with someone named Max at The Backstage Theatre (Mcmenamins). Max is Kristen Font's boyfriend. Kristen Font is my friend from elementary school who is moving up here with Max. We have a double date with them on Saturday planned and I'm excited to meet the "grown-up" version of my elementary school friend. :)
4. We have been enjoying our new living room! It's not finished yet which is why I don't want to post pictures yet. Currently, we have two new bookshelves up, with two old ones still hanging around. When we purchased the new bookshelves we could only fit two in our car, so we still have to go out and buy one more. Once we get the last one up, we will post pictures. All I can say is, I wish we had done this earlier. We love the new set up, it's so so cozy!
5. I have been obsessed with looking at wedding websites and dreaming/planning what I want my business to look like someday. *sigh*.... someday. :)
Well, in the past ten days I feel like a lot has happened... in a nutshell:
1. ALL THREE of my Best friends officially have blogs. I'm so proud. ;) Read them at:
Ashley- http://ashleynicolewhipple.blogspot.com/
Marisa- http://www.littlelemonsqueeze.blogspot.com/
Cory- http://coryinparis.blogspot.com/
2. We met up with Danny Moen at The Horse Brass Pub. (Danny Moen was the jr. high youth pastor at Sun Grove church in Elk Grove and is a good friend)
3. We met up with someone named Max at The Backstage Theatre (Mcmenamins). Max is Kristen Font's boyfriend. Kristen Font is my friend from elementary school who is moving up here with Max. We have a double date with them on Saturday planned and I'm excited to meet the "grown-up" version of my elementary school friend. :)
4. We have been enjoying our new living room! It's not finished yet which is why I don't want to post pictures yet. Currently, we have two new bookshelves up, with two old ones still hanging around. When we purchased the new bookshelves we could only fit two in our car, so we still have to go out and buy one more. Once we get the last one up, we will post pictures. All I can say is, I wish we had done this earlier. We love the new set up, it's so so cozy!
5. I have been obsessed with looking at wedding websites and dreaming/planning what I want my business to look like someday. *sigh*.... someday. :)
----->Those of you interested in one of the most awesome wedding websites ever click here<------
6. I made the best spread to go on the best home-made sandwich this girl has ever made:
A pear and goat-brie cheese sandwich with walnut spread.
carrots
Goat- Brie Cheese... this stuff is amazing...
Layer it all up on a crusty baguette...
7. We went to Reed College for an afternoon picnic
8. We went to Jamesom Square Park for an evening picnic
9. Katie Scoville has been drinking beer. Yes, ladies and gentlemen I have completed my first ever purchase of a 6 pack of beer. (not in one day, I assure you)
10. We made ravioli's at some point...
11. We got rid of Wes' desk. Wes has had this desk basically his whole life, and before it was his, it was Scott's. As we cleaned out the drawers to make room for our new living room table I discovered a couple "little-kid-Wes" touches that have never been removed:
The second hidden secret: Two little glow in the dark stars on the side of the drawer. Wes said he would pull the drawers out at night to watch them glow in the dark while he went to sleep. :)
Okay.. so we didn't do ALL of these things in the past ten days but... we did a lot of them. Summer has been so good to us. Thank goodness us PSU students still have another month left of it! Happy almost friday to you all....
A pear and goat-brie cheese sandwich with walnut spread.
A walnut spread, blended with Avocado, carrots, onions, olive oil, and the secret ingredient: a couple of figs...
walnuts
carrots
Avocado
Goat- Brie Cheese... this stuff is amazing...
Layer it all up on a crusty baguette...
7. We went to Reed College for an afternoon picnic
8. We went to Jamesom Square Park for an evening picnic
9. Katie Scoville has been drinking beer. Yes, ladies and gentlemen I have completed my first ever purchase of a 6 pack of beer. (not in one day, I assure you)
10. We made ravioli's at some point...
11. We got rid of Wes' desk. Wes has had this desk basically his whole life, and before it was his, it was Scott's. As we cleaned out the drawers to make room for our new living room table I discovered a couple "little-kid-Wes" touches that have never been removed:
The first was a Star Wars sticker on the inside of a drawer
The second hidden secret: Two little glow in the dark stars on the side of the drawer. Wes said he would pull the drawers out at night to watch them glow in the dark while he went to sleep. :)
Okay.. so we didn't do ALL of these things in the past ten days but... we did a lot of them. Summer has been so good to us. Thank goodness us PSU students still have another month left of it! Happy almost friday to you all....
Monday, August 2, 2010
Looking Back, and Our Living Room Project.
Happy Monday! Sitting here in Palios... for once not to do homework but rather to sit and read and do things that we want to be doing.
Wes and I have had quite the enjoyable weekend. Which is what inspired me to look back at what we were doing last summer. One of the most interesting parts about having a blog is that you have the ability to look back on life and see what you were doing each month. For example, I just looked back to last August and saw pictures from our camping trip to Panther Creek, the record breaking hot day that reached 107 degrees, and trips to the rose garden and Jameson square. Summer has been equally exciting for us this year. And if any weekend were to feel like a summer weekend, it would have to be this one. Wes and I both ended up having days off work this weekend. The family I work for went out of town on friday and Wes' house residents went camping with out him. (not an ideal situation of course but it was out of his control) So we took advantage and enjoyed the time together. Basically, we slept in until 10 each morning, stayed up until 2 each night watching movies, and spent the hours in between opening up new furniture for our living room. Which brings me to that next topic... our living room project!
Believe it or not, for the past 6 months Wes and I were mulling over the idea of moving to a new apartment (yes, in portland, lets nip that rumor in the bud). The main reason for this idea was so that we could finally fulfill our dream of owning an english bulldog, and well, because we can't have pets in our current apartment we would have to move. Plus the idea of maybe finding a place that had a garbage disposal, dishwasher, or laundry machines would be pretty amazing. We went back and forth on this for a while and after being pretty close to sold on the idea, we changed our minds. Instead of moving we are settling in a bit more, or well I guess you could say just de-cluttering, again. Its amazing how many times you can manage to get rid of more things that you don't use. This is probably due to the marriage of all things we have accumulated through out our individual life times but still... its amazing. And so, instead of moving to a new location we decided that it was time to upgrade some of the things that have needed upgrading and to toss some of the things that have been waiting to be tossed.
We are holding a funeral for the desk that Wes has had since he was little, the cheap bookshelves we bought to fit the low-ceiling-ed basement we first moved into, and eventually a funeral for the TV. This past month we planned and plotted out new arrangements for the living room. We wanted to create two spaces: one space for the sitting/movie watching, and one space for the studying. The desk never provided us with a great work space and so we are swapping the desk for a nice big table we can both sit at. We are swapping the bookshelves for better looking taller ones, and eventually a new tv for the old one which now hums when we turn it on. We are equally interested in finally getting art up in our kitchen, however, finding canvas cheap enough to fill the 4x4 foot wall space we would like to fill is no cheap endeavor.
Anyway, with all this said our apartment has been turned inside out and we have enjoyed rearranging and putting together our new furniture. We took "before" pictures to share with you once we have the "after" pictures to pair them with. Stay tuned! We love you all and hope you are enjoying your summer too!
Wish you could join us!
Wes and I have had quite the enjoyable weekend. Which is what inspired me to look back at what we were doing last summer. One of the most interesting parts about having a blog is that you have the ability to look back on life and see what you were doing each month. For example, I just looked back to last August and saw pictures from our camping trip to Panther Creek, the record breaking hot day that reached 107 degrees, and trips to the rose garden and Jameson square. Summer has been equally exciting for us this year. And if any weekend were to feel like a summer weekend, it would have to be this one. Wes and I both ended up having days off work this weekend. The family I work for went out of town on friday and Wes' house residents went camping with out him. (not an ideal situation of course but it was out of his control) So we took advantage and enjoyed the time together. Basically, we slept in until 10 each morning, stayed up until 2 each night watching movies, and spent the hours in between opening up new furniture for our living room. Which brings me to that next topic... our living room project!
Believe it or not, for the past 6 months Wes and I were mulling over the idea of moving to a new apartment (yes, in portland, lets nip that rumor in the bud). The main reason for this idea was so that we could finally fulfill our dream of owning an english bulldog, and well, because we can't have pets in our current apartment we would have to move. Plus the idea of maybe finding a place that had a garbage disposal, dishwasher, or laundry machines would be pretty amazing. We went back and forth on this for a while and after being pretty close to sold on the idea, we changed our minds. Instead of moving we are settling in a bit more, or well I guess you could say just de-cluttering, again. Its amazing how many times you can manage to get rid of more things that you don't use. This is probably due to the marriage of all things we have accumulated through out our individual life times but still... its amazing. And so, instead of moving to a new location we decided that it was time to upgrade some of the things that have needed upgrading and to toss some of the things that have been waiting to be tossed.
We are holding a funeral for the desk that Wes has had since he was little, the cheap bookshelves we bought to fit the low-ceiling-ed basement we first moved into, and eventually a funeral for the TV. This past month we planned and plotted out new arrangements for the living room. We wanted to create two spaces: one space for the sitting/movie watching, and one space for the studying. The desk never provided us with a great work space and so we are swapping the desk for a nice big table we can both sit at. We are swapping the bookshelves for better looking taller ones, and eventually a new tv for the old one which now hums when we turn it on. We are equally interested in finally getting art up in our kitchen, however, finding canvas cheap enough to fill the 4x4 foot wall space we would like to fill is no cheap endeavor.
Anyway, with all this said our apartment has been turned inside out and we have enjoyed rearranging and putting together our new furniture. We took "before" pictures to share with you once we have the "after" pictures to pair them with. Stay tuned! We love you all and hope you are enjoying your summer too!
Wish you could join us!
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