Spring lately

Nothing too exciting lately to post here... Ashley's new work is going well, I did a bit of traveling to SoCal for work, had a visit from Dad, preparing for Santa Barbara trip, busy with house projects and seeing friends.

Last weekend we had a group of PECI coworkers over who are University of Colorado Alum (like Ashley) and next weekend we have the monthly neighborhood soup dinner at our house. Which meant I wasn't too excited about having people over for Easter this weekend, so we didn't make any big plans. It was still a good weekend:

Friday we went to happy hour with someone I went to high school with and randomly bumped into here in Portland. Turns out he lives just a few blocks from us.

Saturday Ashley worked on the stone back walkway:



I'm sure the church across the street was excited about this noise on Easter Sunday. : )

Saturday night we went to a bbq at my friend Colette's house and hung out around a fire.

Sunday, while Ashley worked on the walkway, I shoveled dirt with the neighbors. When we were done, we drank a beer in the sun and I lost all motivation to cook an Easter dinner. We ended up riding our bikes to dinner and eating outside in the sun - a random but nice Easter.

A few other random things:

New garage fixture we installed with Dad. We still need to fix the top part where the old fixture was.

Bryce's girlfriend turned 30 and had an 80's themed party at a bar where they were DJing 80s music. Ashley was Richard Simmons - he has on a small mesh tank and short pink shorts (unfortunately I have no good photos of this. I wonder why...)

Went to a wine tasting this Monday at a ballroom near our house. 30 wineries from the Columbia Gorge had tables to taste at - it was much easier than driving around the Gorge from winery to winery : ) Jami, Becky, Valerie and I biked over together after work, drank some wine and stopped by the food carts near our houses on the way home. This is Jami and Becky in front of the crepe cart, my favorite. It was a fun random Monday night.

I finally sewed new curtains for the upstairs bedroom window. There isn't much light here, but the roses are a grey and blue green color. Ignore the torch stained glass - we're hoping to replace that window in the next month or so before we paint the outside of the house. It will be nice to have a window that opens there!

I took a glass blowing class a while back (bought a Groupon for it with a girlfriend). We didn't get any pictures of us, but these are the furnaces and glass. I made a couple glass pumpkins (thought they would be cute fall decorations : )