Cannon Beach and Thanksgiving!

Well I got to spend a great weekend in Cannon Beach with a couple of the best ladies in the WORLD!!! Traci's sister-in-law manages a hotel in Cannon Beach, and had a connection with a house that the owner (who lives in florida) has up on the mountain there. So we were supposed to be renting the guest quarters of the house... but when we got there, the key wouldn't work, so we ended up getting to say in the main house... It was GORGEOUS! My pictures don't quite capture just how cute it was.

This was the main entry room. I LOVED that showcase. It was HUGE!


This was one of the bedrooms, I like this one the best, the bed is like tucked back in this little nook. There was a sweet balcony out the sliding glass doors. Each room had its own bathroom.


Another bedroom. This is the one we all crammed into, haha.


The bathroom sink was my favorite part. In fact I like the whole little cabinet thing haha.


The fireplace and table. The fireplace was very cool. You can't see it very good from far away but it was encrusted in all these seashells.


The little kitchen nook. And right outside there was a big hot tub that we spent a couple of hours in the first night we got there. It was heaven! I want one now haha!


Me and Traci girl!


Traci taking a nap!


Trace and Emily!


This picture just makes me laugh... Good effort Em, we almost had all of us!


Pictures in Big Jake!


Seeing New Moon! My head looks huge in this picture...


Great movie :D I was a little excited...

THANKSGIVING!!!


MMMmmmm....


More goods!



My dad and Grandpa. Every year my dad has us go around and say what we are most thankful for this year. This was Grandpa taking a minute to do so. It was very sweet, and very touching.


This is me and Hallie playing with the camera. Its almost exactly the same picture that was taken a couple of years ago, look how big she's gotten compared to the next picture!!!



All in all its been an awesome weekend, full of friends, family and good times! I'm SO thankful for my awesome family! I don't know where I would be without them!

Whats been going on!

Well I will say it again, I am SO overdue for a posting! I know I said I'd try to update every week, but the I remembered how when I was younger I tried to write in my journal each night and then going back realized just how boring it got to talk about the same things everyday! Haha, random, BUT moral of the story is that I think its better to just blog when I actually have something to talk about :P Which is the excuse I'll give myself when I take forever and a day to post... Okay... anyways...

So life has been pretty good to me lately. I'm still working for the new office in Oregon City, and truly at this point think that having to find a new job was a blessing in disguise. I'm very happy at this new office, and see that I'm growing leaps and bounds in with this new position, and seeing all that I am capable of. I have an awesome team that I work with, and they make the job seem much less like work! Besides, I think its important to actually enjoy where you work and the people you work with because you spend the majority of your day with them!

Also, we celebrated birthdays for Jayce, Avery and Ryder at the end of August. They had a BLAST! They each got their very own birthday cake to destroy! Avery was kind of unsure... and DID NOT like getting her hands dirty in that cake! Ryder took a little while to warm up, but jumped right into it soon enough, and Jayce went hog wild! He was getting in Avery and Ryders cakes too! Little piglet! I can't believe how big they are! It is so much fun to see them, and their little personalities. It makes me excited for the time when I will have a family of my own. Haha... I'll tell ya, they are teaching me patience, and they're not even MY KIDS!






Ryder J. I LOVE his faces! He's so vocal now, always talking jibberish!



Miss Avy. She wasn't quite sure what to make of all this...




And Jayce. If it slightly resembles food AT ALL... it goes right in the mouth!

Also, HAPPY HALLOWEEN! This officially makes it a year since I've started blogging. You'd think I'd have more posts to show for it! Oh well!! I went to a barn party on Friday night with my friend Emily and a few other people. It was pretty fun... but I bought some black boots from Jessica Simpsons line... and they are ADORABLE... but FREAK! That girl must not wear her own shoes, or have no feeling in her feet anymore. My feet were DEAD by the end of the night! We stayed for a few hours then we met up with Tony and just hung out at my house for a while. Saturday night I spent helping Casey and Wendy get the kiddos ready for Halloween. They looked SO CUTE! Then I went over to Aerin and Blaynes house to hang out. It was fun being at a house where there are actually Trick or Treaters! We have NEVER had any, because we live in the heckboons (sorta!) Shannon did an awesome job of passing out candy to all the ghouls, gobblins and princesses! It was a pretty fun night, with great company!



Jayce the Giraffe!



Avy the Chicky! She looked HILARIOUS and was diggin' wearing this costume!!!



Hallie was The Little Mermaid. She about had a freak out when we put the spray color in her hair, but finally we convinced her to let us finish, little stinker!!

And I don't have pictures of Ryder yet, but I'm counting on Lacie to upload some to facebook SOON!

For myself, I did the normal, unoriginal SheDevil. It was EASY and CHEAP. Emily was Flo, the chick from the Progressive Insurance commercials, it was HILARIOUS! I love the costume! She looked awesome!!








Welp, thats it for now folks! Bed time for me!!