Portland Rose Festival

This past weekend Tom left me for a boys weekend in Kansas City. :) Being on my own, I got to eat loads of healthy food, such as, ice cream and cookies for lunch and dinner. I also got to put off folding laundry and watched some girly movies. It was a good time. hehe.

A few weekends ago, Oregonians started getting ready for the Portland Rose Festival with pre-events like the Starlight Parade and Starlight run (costume 5K). Unfortunately, Tom has all those pictures on his camera, which I'm sure he'll be putting up in a few days. This past weekend Oregonians gathered by the river front for the Portland Rose Festival. I only got to see a little bit of the parade on TV, but it looked like a huge turn out. Around the waterfront, they had carnival games, rides and food tents set up. They left out some of the floats for people to look at. All the floats used fresh flowers, and all visible parts of the floats had to be decorated with natural materials. (its very Oregon, I know). :)

If you can look closely, they used rice, seeds, and nuts to make this part of the float. Many of the floats were covered/decorated like this...even the Beast in the picture above. His whole outfit was colored seeds and rice. Crazy!

In addition to the Rose Festival, it was Fleet week here in Portland. Many of our bridges were raised to make way for some of the big boats to dock here. The one below is a WWII boat. .

-xoxo

Movie Premiere "The First Day"

Last Saturday, we started the day walking around the east side of Portland in the Hawthorne area. We did some vintage shopping and admired all the crazy cars that come out on nice days. :)

Later, we went to David Garcia's movie premiere of "The First Day". It was Tom's acting debut, and he did pretty well for the 15 seconds he was in the movie. Tom played a bodyguard guy, who dies pretty quickly in the beginning. It was a fun night...I can't wait for the next installment.

Our Trip to Woodburn, OR

Hey Folks! Yesterday, Tom and I took a little day trip to Woodburn, OR to go to the Woodburn Tulip Festival and do a little shopping. We arrived in the afternoon and luckily had fabulous weather to take gorgeous pictures of the beautiful fields. A few hours after we got there it started to pour (grrr!). We took shelter by running from tent to tent seeing all the different crafts and things people made to sell. We finished our day in Woodburn doing a little shopping at the outlets. Despite the rainy weather, we had a great time and really enjoyed the festival and shopping. Below are pics from my camera...if you want to see more photos check out Tom's blog. His blog link is under my Blog List located on the side panel :) Enjoy!

We were stuck in traffic when we saw this lovely bumper sticker.

These are Tom's new unnecessary shoes. As you can see they glow in the dark.

XOXO

Sunny Sunday

Last Sunday, we headed to the eastside of Portland. We went to Hawthorne, which is a trendier area with local shops and local food joints. (Oregonians absolutely love local anything.) It's a great spot and probably an area we'll visit often. We had lunch at Nick's Famous Coney Island and then headed over to Maria and Shane's place with David and Linda for a lil' cornhole and to play in the park. Enjoy the pics!

These cute little toy horses are all around the neighborhood...I'm not really sure why, but it's charming. :)

At Maria and Shanes Place.

Thanks for the cornhole set Big Bob...it's fabulous! Also, Loi Babe, everyone commented on the nice carrying case for it. :)

At the park. Below are pics from playing frisbee.... We're really good.

xoxo

Easter 2009

This past weekend the Yannuccis came to visit. I think we gave them a great taste of what Portland has to offer and even got to go to the Columbia River Gorge to see some waterfalls. It was a little rainy, but we had a fabulous time. Below are some pictures from our weekend...Enjoy!

(Emily and Yanni- change the song to #3. hehe)

In preparation for Yanni's visit, I called ahead and found out he wanted oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. I really liked the recipe and will be posting it at the end of this month. :)

When you come and visit, seeing this statue and taking a picture with it is a must.

Stopping for a quick picture infront of the famous Portland sign.


After church we all stopped for a brunch at one of our favorite breakfast spots, Beaterville Cafe. As you can kinda see from the picture, the inside has a lot of character and color.

Of course, after fabulous breakfast, we had to see where Tom works because it's much cooler than 90% of the jobs out there. As you can see, they like to pose like the Portland statue from downtown.



After visiting work, we took a nice, kinda rainy drive to the waterfalls.

The gang in front of Bridal Veil falls.


Yes, that weee tiny lil' figure down there is Yanni. Tom took this pic and standing from this distance, we were all getting kinda wet from the waterfall. Needless to say after this pic, Yanni was soaked on one side. :)


After the cold and wet weather, we warmed up at home with some dry clothes and Easter candy. [Side Story: A few weeks ago Tom went on and on about how much he missed his mother's Easter baskets and how she still made them when he was in college...oh brother...he was heavily hinting that he wanted someone to make him a basket. Sooo who would that someone be?? Yep, that's right....I made my 25 yo husband an Easter basket and his eyes lit up like a lil' kid. Since we were having company, I made one for everyone to enjoy...For my first time making Easter baskets, it was a lot of fun.]

Oh, the famous Cadbury egg. The one thing I would buy myself every Easter. It's takes me about an hour to eat it. I have to set it down for awhile b/c it's a lil' too sweet for me.


We had so much fun this past weekend. When you don't have family close by, it's just as nice to spend these little holiday weekends with great friends.

Emily and Yanni, please come back anytime. We absolutely loved having you over. If you come back next Easter, I promise homemade brunch, some filipino food and plastic eggs with a lil' candy and money. :)

xoxo