Oregon Trip - part 4 of 4

Portland had the best food! Especially if you are talking breakfast. We had Voodoo donuts the first morning. Seriously the best donuts ever! I'm not even a donut lover, but had to admit those were pretty darn good. There were also street venders on practically every street!
We had waffles morning #2, Kyle got the best one with ham, cheese and maple! I had the "lemon pie" one with lemon curd and whip cream, also good, but not as good as the one with the ham, I'm still dreaming of that one. The 3rd morning we had biscuits at pine state biscuits, we both went with the egg, cheese and bacon. Oh ya, very good!

Sun rise from our hotel.



We had a full day in the portland area before we needed to think about packing up to head home. We ended up heading out to the Dundee Region outside of Portland. Turns out Oregon has a very large wine region. We hit perfect weather and it was during harvest so there was lots of activity happening. We stumbled into the Winderlea Winery which didn't necessarily have the best wine, but without question had the best view and tasting area. We hung out on the back porch for at least an hr just enjoying ourselves. Even made a couple canine friends with with the wineries labradoodles. The Argyle Winery had our favorite wines of the day and a pretty cool place too. We got a couple of glasses and just hung out in their garden for awhile. We wrapped up the day eating at Farm to Fork, amazing food!!

Oregon Trip - part 3

After the wedding we spent a little more time with family and then headed back to portland. One of the best things, ok the only good thing, about the drive between Grants Pass and Portland is the Winston Wildlife Safari. This was our second trip and it's one of my favorite zoos we've been to. Here are a few of my favorite

Oregon Trip - part 2

The big event. Saturday Oct. 16th, 2010 Kyle's brother got married (again). It turned out to be an absolutely beautiful day! The wedding was outside at a wonderful location along the river. Without question the best part of the day was spending time with family, particularly my wonderful nieces!

Oregon Trip - part 1

Kyle's brother got married a few weeks ago and since we had to make the trip anyway we decided to make a mini "vacation" out of it. Granted I would have rather been in Maui, but all things considered we wanted to make the best of it. We flew up a Thursday night, got up early Friday and headed to the Roloff Farms. We've been fans through the years watching the show so it was a great opportunity to check out the farm in person. We did one of the tractor tours and Jeremy actually drove the tractor for our tour. Kinda cool, right?! We picked up pumpkins for our nieces and nephew and headed towards Grants Pass.

Happy Halloween

In keeping with tradition over the last couple of years heres a flash to the past. Here I am at age 3. HAPPY HALLOWEEN all.

Crabby

It's been a while since I've blogged here. I've become lazy about sharing pictures. Yesterday was an absolutely perfect day on the coast, probably the last blast of summer before full blown fall sets it. It was fabulous. Each time we head out to half moon bay and take a walk along the ocean and there is always some sort of fun wildlife, dead bat ray, dead sea lion, tons of birds, little crabs, but yesterday we saw a couple BIG guys, how cool is that!?

Kitty Snapshots

It's been months since I've posted here. I'm trying to enhance my photo taking skills before our next big trip in January. So I'm picking up the DSR a bit more and have been practicing with one of my favorite subjects. Here are a couple recent pics of my baby.

Beautiful Sunrise

A little while ago I snapped this one morning. I love the colors the sky turned. It only last a few minutes but it was a beauty.

365 Photos - This is it!

A year ago after receiving a digital SLR (NIKON D60) I decided to challenge myself to a year of photos. I slipped a bit here and there and changed the "rules" as the year went on but made it through. All the photos were taken with either my D60 or the point and shoot I got a bit later in the year, the Canon PowerShot SD880 IS. I've learned a lot about my cameras and also learned I still have a long way to go. It's had to believe it's already 2010 and I've made no decisions on how I plan on challenging myself this year other than this WILL be the year I loose the weight and get back into shape.

Happy New Year everyone. Here's the final picture for the year and for this challenge. I hope to keep taking photos but only post when something "exciting" happens in our life or I capture a picture I want to share. This has been a great experience and I'm looking forward to what the future has to offer.

365 Photos - Week 52

Final week:



Sunset at my parents


After Christmas Dinner


Lucy thinking about life


c'mon mom.. no more pictures


*spoiler alert* This may be the ornament design I decide to go with next year. We are planning a big trip to australia and after racing against the clock the end of this year I'm thinking of ways to simplify next christmas while still maintaining tradition. I've also already designed our cards for next year and am thinking about ordering and addressing them now so I just have to pop them in the mail next Dec. We are copping out next year and doing the the picture type of card. Again simplifying.


The cat's Santa hat on the first ceramic cat Kyle got for me.


Demolition of the kitchen.... I keep telling myself how great it will be once we get the new counters, sink and faucet installed. Can't wait!!!

365 Photos - Week 51

Peace on Earth sign at the Pruneyard.


Door Decor.


Santana Row dressed for the Holiday


This was 1 of 2 motorcycling Santa's we saw this day.


Sweetie surprised me with roses... Awwwww...


This year's ornament that I made. (trying to get back into doing an ornament each year., last year I failed)


Kitty in the sink... even better with he car seats padding it.

365 Photos - Week 50

Closing in on the last photos for the year.


Holiday decorations around the house.


The fireplace.


Felt snowflake taken into work.


Lights


Our tree


Lights


Holiday spirit at work.