Birthday dinner

Heather and Matt are in Houston on their way home as I type! Thank you guys SO MUCH for everything, we had tons of fun. Heather has more and better photos on her phone than I do, so I'm going to post just some photos from our birthday dinner last night, and let you post other trip photos if/when you have time : )

We ordered a family style tasting menu for the whole table and it was a pretty epic amount of food. I hope all the food photos aren't too annoying. These don't even include all the courses - we're all pretty food hungover today:

Matt's girlie drink : )

Round 1 -  some of the starters

Pasta course

Part of the main course

Dessert - I think this was my favorite...

And this is what happens when you wait too long for your check... Ashley and Matt made little men out of toothpicks and wine corks.

We have leftovers in our fridge, but I still can't even imagine digging into them - still so full! Thank you Heather and Matt for being such good sports. We're off to take Carmen on a looong dog walk to burn some of that off.

More photos to come of our "hike" near Mt. Hood, Timberline, etc....

Becky's visit

Becky arrived late Wednesday night and I had four straight days of such good girl time.

Lots of eating - both out and at cafes, drank chai lattes in the sun in the park, went to Powell's, met my girlfriends for lunch, had dinner at our neighbors, went to fabric and antique stores, wandered around the Japanese garden, went for lots of long dog walks. Here's a few photos from the long and epic girls weekend (the last Becky will have for a while! She is due early January).
 

Becky (and her belly!) eating lunch at a cafe on Hawthorne : )

We went to so many fabric stores - so much pretty fabric.



Becky and Carmen on the bed (with the fabric Becky bought for the quilt she's making for the baby - its a boy!)



Ashley took this one - we played with lots of fabric planning quilts

Becky's cousin Jackie lives in Eugene - she came up mid day Sunday and went to the Japanese garden and wadered NW Portland with us. We made a big dinner, she spent the night and took Becky to the airport in the morning.

 Its hard to go back to normal life with her gone! Thankfully we have lots of other visitors coming up to look forward to....

Fall Fun

Grandpa visited a couple weekends ago and we took them to the pumpkin farm down Silverspring - unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of them WITH Grandpa:(

Morgan must have taken a hundred pictures of all of the beautiful gourds, indian corn and pumpkins.

Last weekend we went up to the cabin, and yep, we hit a snowstorm already on the way up.  Morgan brought her friend Amelia, we spent time checking out the land which is in the process of being select-cut/logged, and Grandpa and Jean came over for dinner:)

One of the many piles of logs across the area.

We watched them load for awhile.  It was like watching a toy truck; he was so good a maneuvering the crane.

The girls had lots of fun bopping around on the four-wheeler.

Then I took Wednesday off to go on a field trip with Macy's class.  I went when Morgan and Brooke when they were 4 and didn't want to miss it for her.  I'm so glad I went.  Not only was she happy to see me, but half the class was crying wondering where their mom's were and the teacher had to tell them they couldn't come because they had to work - ugh.  So glad I could be there.

This was my threesome to keep track of - Julianna, McKenna, and Macy.

Class Photo

On our way home.  Macy was pretty...

...Tired!  Here she is sleeping on the bus on the way home.  Lots of fresh air and fun:)