Snow Shoe time at Mt. Hood

hiking Skiway Trail at Government camp
Nate and the view... Testing out the new snow shoes!
Resting after getting killed going uphill for a mile! I am just pretending I can breath normal!!

Christmas tree

Stockings for Nate, Bella, Rio and I!

Our little christmas tree!!

Basement floor...

We are now moving to the downstairs and building a sub floor and going to put up some drywall walls and ceiling to make a guest room, laundry room and storage room down there.

Pumpkin time!

Nate, Grandma Georgie and I got in the Halloween spirit tonight and carved our pumpkins!

Birthday X2

My Nanna and Nate share the same B-day on October 6th so I took them for a lunch cruise on the Spirit of Portland down the Willamette river as a surprise

Nanna and I went to the art museum...
Nate's Birthday present...... Snowshoes and poles so we can go this winter. They already have enough snow up around Mt. Hood so we are just looking for a free weekend and we will be off snowshoeing!

more outside pics

Before...
During...
After...

Saturday hike in Forest Park

View of the Saint Johns Bridge from the ridge line trail

New Decorations...

The stairs are a nice brown now instead of turquoise

Some local art........cool wood burnt/carved art pieces

decorating with pillows... you have to have a little zebra in your house!

The new address plate for the front of our house
The new light above the front porch

New table & Rug

Rio checking out our new rug...

We now have a dining room table. It is Pub height so taller than normal tables but it fits in our living room better than a big table.


Nate went to the beach today so..... I went shopping!! This is our new Pub height table for our dining room and our new living room rug.

It looks like a whole new house!

November 2006 when we first purchased it..
March 2007.... vinyl siding ripped off
June 2007......Nate's dad helping us fix some of the wood lap siding and the painting has begun...
September 2007...almost there.... we still need to build the front porch rail but now the color is on and it looks a million times better!!
The best part is no more blue trim!!

Thanks Em!

I just want to give my good friend and old teammate Emily a HUGE thank you for all the work she helped put in to fixing up our house!! We are still a pretty good team!

Here we are awhile ago pulling siding off the top of our house's dormer so that we could paint the wood siding.

Grouting tile...

This is Anna, she is our neighbour Cam & Amanda's dog who we are babysitting this week while they are down in Shasta on the house boat. We love Anna, I think we are going to kidnap her and never give her back!!

Also notice the U of Oregon leash.... Cam is kind of obsessed with the Ducks....just kind of.... you should see the bell he has for tailgating!! But I guess we love the ducks right now too because they humiliated U of M at the big house last weekend!!!! ha ha! Great day to be a SPARTAN!!!!!

Wiping up excess grout..... oh the joy....
The gloves and the knee pads really make the outfit though.....

Bella was supervising......
transition tile between bathroom and kitchen