Funny Video

Joe and I have been laughing about this video for a few hours! I could totally see CB dreaming and doing the exact same thing (he actually runs into walls while he is awake!)

L.G.'s B Day Party

So as many of you know I started boxing around a year ago. Yes, gloves, mitts and hitting. I've grown to love it! I think it makes up for all those years that I swam and there was no physical contact! One of my friends (who we just moved about 10 blocks from and owns the gym) had her birthday party a few weeks ago. LG and Aurora decided to make Sumo Wrestling outfits for the party. What a blast!!!! I would totally recommend playing around with these if you ever get a chance!!!! There were also a few rounds of twister as well as dancing. Good Times.

4th of July Weekend

July 4th was here before we even realized it! We didn't really plan much for the holiday weekend. We ended up playing disc golf with a couple of friends. Then grilled out at the house followed by fireworks watching. Supposedly you can see fireworks from the Fort of Vancouver (however Vancouver city didn't have the money this year). So we settled on watching the fireworks of ALL our neighbors. I have never seen anything like it! Almost all the houses were setting off fireworks in the streets! (Under powerlines, trees etc.) We ended up stopping by "crazy Nathaniel's" house and watched him set off fireworks with his mom. They were quite impressive

On Sunday we ended up going to OMSI to see there CSI exhibit! We have yet to pay full price for this museum which is pretty cool. (We have gone free the last two times, and on Sunday it was the first Sunday of the month and it is only 2 bucks!!!) On our way home from OMSI we stopped at Next Adventure and picked up two disc's to play disc golf with! We then headed out to the Sandy River and Dabney State Park to play 18 holes and then float down the river. It was a perfect day. (I was worried it would be too crowded, but it wasn't bad at all!)

I'm going to try to attach some pictures, hopefully it will work! Stay tuned to see pic's from my friends BDAY party and SUMO wrestling outfits!!!

Slowly but Surely.....

I'll fill y'all in on what has been going on these last few months.

Yesterday my friend and I competed in The Great Urban Race (Portland). Have you ever seen The Amazing Race? Our race was loosely based on that show. It was a huge scavenger hunt that took us over most of downtown. You and your teammate had to dress alike. We went with simple iron on tshirts supporting our boxing gym Sweet Science! Other teams went all out, Mickey and Minnie, Two Peas in a Pod, TMNT, etc....




Our first photo-op :) Before our two hour trek through downtown.















They started by herding us all into a circle and going over the rules (No bikes, cabs, planes, cars, etc.) Then they handed us each team an envelope and instructed us to wait. Then the countdown began. We opened the clue packets and began. There were 12 clues (we are allowed to skip 1) Most of the clues we were able to figure out on our own. A few we used our "Call a Friend" (thanks so y'all!!!)






Clue: Go to the Smith Memorial Union building and recreate the sentence "Portland is a magnificent city to host the Great Urban Race" with letters and words cut out from magazines.









The Finished Project!















Clue: Take a picture in front of a larger than life Chinook salmon sculpture while making a fish face
















Clue: Take a picture posing with a real person wearing Chuck Taylors

One would think that being in Portland it would be easy to find a converse wearing fool (not so!!!)














Clue: Take a picture with the answers to two riddles:
(a)I opened in 1913 and was modeled after The Blackstone in Chicago and (b) I was designed by AE Doyle and the first of 20 of me is located at SW 5th Ave and Washington St. [Thanks to our lifelines for this one!]

(Notice the mask wearing woman in the background!)



Clue: Visit the restaurant that makes pizza "the way it ought to be" and take a picture of one teammate feeding the slice to the other teammate.












Clue: Take a picture standing in front of this statue. [The clue gave us a black and white photo of it]











Clue: Buy office supplies at Office Max and donate them to Schoolhouse Supplies

We had fun with this photo op!!










Clue: Take a picture of ten people flexing their muscles in front of the Skidmore Fountain.

Not a bad idea for this group. They had ten people waiting to flex and take a pic for a donation to Race for the Cure







Clue: Take a picture wearing either a saw, plunger, or golf club headpiece at Spoonman Creations at the Saturday Market.

I think we were getting pretty tired by this point and didn't take full advantage of where we were and our props!








Yeah we finished!!!! And no time penalties (You get a penalty if you take a picture of the wrong thing etc.)









All in all an awesome experience and I would totally love to do it again!

It has been way to long...

Not much time to write today (or ever) Not sure if it's cause I'm too busy are just lazy at time.

One big thing in our lives right now :)

We are in the process of buying a house. We've got a broker. We've got a lender. We just need to find a house. We are planning on staying in North Portland, an area we love.

So I will try and get better at posting and eventually put pics up!

Cara

We got Egged!!!!

Seriously.....I've only been egged once before in my life and it was in high school.

So a few things run through my mind.
1) random act of teenagers (but why do it at 7:00?)
2) someone just didn't like our house
OR
3) one of my kids figured out where I live


I'm mean, what??? Craziness.....

Finally finished another one...

What is the What by Dave Eggers

Excellent book :) Took me over three weeks to finish it! Guess that's what happens when school starts back up.

Not sure what book I'd like to move onto next. Possibly I am Legend or Boylen Inheritance. Any suggestions.

I also need to start working on books I'd like to read next year.