Final Four baby!!

Go STATE!!! Can't wait to watch the final four next weekend!

Moving day.... for the shed

I forgot to take a picture of the start but here we are trying to flip it around 180 degrees so that the doors face into the yard. We attached a tow rope around it and pulled by the corners with my jeep. There was a garage there a long time ago so it was gravel underneath and helped it just slide as we moved it.

Trying to move it to the back corner of our propertyYou can see our other little shed in the background as well as the claw foot tubs we have. One of those tubs is going to be refinished and put downstairs in the new bathroom.

Almost there....
The shed used to be along where that one section of fence is, so you can see how much more yard we have now! I think we are going to put in a raised planter box for a veggie garden and then build the rock fire pit and a picnic table back there.

Look at all the junk from our shed! We had to unload it all to make it lighter....man we have a lot of junk!

This is the view of our backyard from the road side. Cam and amanda's driveway is behind there and we have to put a little section of fence in to finish the job and keep molly in. I have wanted to move this shed since we moved in. It was in the middle of the backyard and I like to have as much yard as possible!

Art Portfolio

I took a drawing class this winter and really enjoyed most of it. I am far from being as talented as the rest of my family when it comes to art but luckily some of those artistic genes snuck their way into me!! Here is a little sample of my portfolio...Ink and Charcoal orchids Driftwood propped up on a box in Black and White Conte crayon

Ink wash sunset

Charcoal Value of a model we had in class

Charcoal and eraser again..... we did a lot of charcoal and while I love its forgiving nature, it is SO messy I didn't really enjoy it as much as I thought I would.

Black and White conte crayon on brown paper

Still life black and white conte crayon on brown paper
This was a negative shape project with ink and black sharpie marker. We had to draw the shapes around the objects first rather than just drawing the objects and then highlight the negative space somehow.

Value only Charcoal and eraser. We had to make the contour lines only by erasing rather than drawing them in darker

Charcoal Model pose

The empty lot is not empty anymore!

Remember the pictures of the empty lot that we sold? Well the house is going up in record time!This is what is there now...I think they only started building about 3 weeks ago!

You can see where the garage is going to be on the bottom left and it has a fireplace etc. It seems like they are going to make it pretty nice.

It's official...

Congrats to Cam and Amanda on their engagement!!! We are so happy for them and love having them as our neighbours. Nate now officially calls them CAMANDA :-)

Rae Rae's Bachelorette Party

Raechel's Bachelorette Party Pictures, sorry they took so long! Congrats to the happy couple, you both deserve all the happiness in the world :-)These name tags were hilarious!....and yes there is a penis straw in the cup (sorry gram!) Emily drinking her NASTY pepper martini....talk about spicy!!
At Vault, enjoying many Martinis :-) Rae Rae had her own Pimp cup designed specially by little miss crafty Emily of course :-)

I probably enjoyed one too many martinis that night....

It may not look like much just yet....

We are framing in the bathroom downstairs. The window above faces out to our backyard. The claw foot tub will run along the wall underneath the window and then the toilet to the left and the sink to the right (when you look at this picture). We are going to put in a pocket door to have a little more room since our basement isn't super big.
The water heater/Furnace area is framed out, ready for drywall

The wall as you come down the stairs is framed out and ready for drywall as well..

There will be a small laundry room kitty corner to the bathroom when we are done. Where the washer and dryer are right now will be closed off to hold the plumbing and machine to pump the water up to the level of the sewer line etc..

The wall below is going along the old concrete steps and will have a frosted glass window in it to let in more light but also be private enough for a bathroom.

When we are all done, we will have a bedroom, bathroom, laundry room, storage shelves along the back wall and the Water heater/Furnace area will be walled off. I think we are also going to set up some kind of closet or organization area along the steps as you come downstairs.

I know it doesn't look like much just yet, but you know how we are, and it will look very different soon!!

WICKED

For my birthday Nate bought tickets to go and see the musical play WICKED! I had read the book and thought it was great and they came to Portland just in time for my birthday! It is the "real" story about what happened in OZ and how they became the wicked witch and Blinda the good. It is very entertaining.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0m6sclZkH0

You can check out the trailer at the link above on YouTube.

It was amazing, from the costumes to the lighting to the singing and crazy story I LOVED it! The only down side was the lack of leg room in the seats :-) I felt a little like I was sitting in an airplane! ha!

We also had dinner before the show at the Portland City Grill way up on the 30th floor of the US bank tower downtown. It was so cool to see a sunset with a 360 degree view of Portland! Not to mention the food was DELISH!

http://portlandcitygrill.com/