Big People Furniture

We finally decided to buy real, non-ikea, fully assembled furniture. We needed a sideboard for extra glassware storage and we found this awesome sideboard at Crate and Barrel. It felt a little bit like Christmas opening this up. It looks fantastic and matching the rest of the furniture really well! :)

Football Party!

A few weekends ago Tom and I had people over to watch college football all day long! Our college football party was complete with games of beer pong, cornhole, flip cup, foot races and made up frisbee drinking games. The night ended with poker, and Lady and Doogie cuddling on the couch. :)

Henry meets Lady

We had the pleasure of dogsitting Henry over a weekend. After a few days him and Lady became good friends....

Lady Graduates!

Lady graduated puppy school!

Renovations!

Picture Above: Old faucet

New Faucet

Old Bathroom

New Bathroom


New Bathroom

Thank you Bob and Lois for making our house feel brand new!

The Peggy, Alicia, and Adrienne Adventure!

Hey Everyone!

Peggy, Alicia, and I did an awesome movie/book road trip up the West Coast. We visited Seaside, Oregon; Astoria, Oregon; and finally Forks, Washington! Below are some pics from our trip.

Astoria, Oregon: "The Goonies"
This is where they filmed the amazing movie, "The Goonies". On our adventure, we decided to make quick stops at some of the famous sites.

Above is the jail the Fratelli brothers escape from.

Above is the museum that Mikey's dad worked at.

Above is the Goonies headquarters and below is Data's house.

" I want my bike!"

Forks, Washington: "Twilight"

At the Forks visitor center, they had a huge world map where people have put pins from where they are from. Above is just a small portion of the map...see if you can find Sidney, OH.... :)

Yay! First Sidney person to visit Forks, Washington. By the way, people from as far as the Netherlands and Australia have visited Forks.

The sign below is actually by their emergency room entrance. Just a little side note...They have the smallest hospital I've ever seen.

Below are pictures of the Cullen's house and Bella's house. From what we found out at the visitor's center, the city of Forks picked out these houses to be the closest representation from the book.

Above is the Cullen's house. Below is a note from Esme that was posted on the front of the house. This is actually a B&B located in Forks.

Above is Bella's house...actually a private residence. Below is where we stayed while in Forks. It's called the Manitou Lodge B&B.

Below is a picture of our cabin.

Meeting the locals at the Twilight Lounge!

It was karaoke night and my first time singing in front of people! It was the ideal first karaoke singing situation...10pm in Forks, Washington and only 8 other people in the room. By midnight there were like 30 people....it was hot place to be that night!

The electric slide....haha

Alicia and I made friends pretty easily. Everyone in Forks is so nice!

This is the best road trip I've ever taken. It's also the dorkiest one. Alicia and I are always up for anything, and I'm really glad we got to do this together. I can't thank Momma Peg enough for putting up with our craziness and being okay with adding a road trip to their vacation.

Back in Portland...

We did the downtown walking tour and took the traditional Portland picture.

We did a little wine tasting in Dundee and Dayton, Oregon.

Lastly, we visited a few smaller waterfalls and ended with Multnomah Waterfall.

I am so happy Alicia and Peggy took time out of their busy schedules to come visit. They probably did the most sightseeing anyone has ever done in 5 days, and I hope they had a good time...I definitely did. :)

Summer Catch Up!

Sorry I haven't posted in awhile. Tom and I have been super busy with work, the new puppy, and having many visitors. Over the next few days, I'll be posting pictures from Alicia and Peggy's visit and the Hartings visit. Enjoy! :)

-XOXO