Look Mommy! A city!!!

A statement I never made growing up. Our son on the other hand has lived in Oregon longer than he lived in la. And that fact threw me for a loop the other day. I'm happy that he has had the chance to spend his childhood surrounded by such beautiful country. Lush greenery every where you look. Rivers and lakes to play in. But it's just so weird to think about since I grew up in much more of a metropolitan area.

When we drive up to Portland his hands and forehead are glued to the window looking at all the buildings and lights. He says "Look Mommy!! A city!!!" and it makes me laugh.

My little Oregon boy...

That funny funny innerwebs

A while back I tried logging on to my blog only to discover it had been deleted by Blogger because they detected suspicious activity on it. I tried to find any kind of support I could but in the end decided that I didn't write much on it and I would just let it fade into the nothingness.
Cut to this morning, when I'm messin around on the computer, and up it pops! All fine and dandy like nothing was ever wrong. So strange.
I decide to take this as a hint to write more. I love showing pictures of my family and our time here in Duck Country. The internet is a scary thing. So vast and endless. So not private. I mean, we're here just sending out our opinions and stories and photos of loved ones. Hoping just to share a glimpse into our lives with others not really knowing whose looking. It's a scary thought. But I'm not going to let it intimidate me! Besides, this has got to be safer than facebook, right?

 I love taking photos of that dang cat!! She is so purdy! And super photogenic. But then again if you find any cat relatively close to a window with some natural light coming through, you're bound to have a great photo.


Nola has taken a liking to falling asleep during "tummy time". Bella finds her to be the best sleeping partner. I think Bella is just happy that someone gets down in the floor with her. Someone her size. Soon she'll learn to run from the terror that is a running-trampoling-skin pinching-hair pulling toddler.  ahhhh... but for now, the naps are nice Bella says.

Morning Person

I am like two different people when it comes to my moods during the course of a day. From the time I wake up till about 3pm I am such a happy, cheerful, up-for-anything kinda gurl. My kids definitely benefit. Then sometime around 3pm I start to walk a little slower, smile a little less, and give up on any projects I have started for that day. It's really sad. Last night I even left a sink FULL of dishes. I know, I know....GASP! But seriously, we've got ants here and I know better. So of course when I woke up this morning to fix my coffee, I was greeted by a nice family of about 80 ants diggin' on my dishes. SO GROSS! I hate ants!!!
Anyway, I rocked this day out cleaning and taking photographs and playing with my kids and then BOOM! 3pm hits. Cut to me, in my pj's, staring at a computer screen dreading the fact that I need to go to the gym tonight.
I should start drinking tea at noon or something.

Here's to tomorrow morning, the start of a new day, new projects, cleaning my house all over again, and hopefully no rain.

Twinsies

Our cocker spaniel Bella has become very taken with our newest little one. When ever Nola is on the floor, she most definitely needs to be right next to her.


I need to send these to Ellentv. hahahaha

Rejuvination

Erin, Madison, Parker, Juno, Nola (whew) and I wend to Dorris Ranch on Tuesday. With our newborns strapped to our chests we frolic'd in the sun that decided to show it's face. It was a brisk 50something degrees but the sun felt oh so good on our faces.
Juno fell in a mud puddle within 5 minutes of getting out of the car and was very concerned about how dirty his pants and shoes were. I gotta get that kid out more...







We were lucky enough to spot a coyote (either that or a fox) and I got to snap a shot of him thanks to the zoom lens I just got!


This photo is a little too saturated but it was blown out anyway so I decided to mess with it.


And here is my little smiley nugget.



Rejuvenation!! Thank you sun for showing up and staying out!

My son, My life.

I am doing the 365 project on flickr and this is a photo I took the other day.

I'm dreaming about the sun since I haven't seen it in a long while and thought it would get my point across. So after shooting I was playing around on the computer and doing stuff around the house when I walked by the chalk board and saw this. It melted my heart.


My 4 year old was trying to draw what mommy drew. I love it. I love it more than mine. What an awesome little dude.

Here we go again

Ok here I am. Starting anew. I am slowly but surely getting my motivation back with photography. I am currently trying to find time in my day for me to dedicate to uploading and editing photos so for now, non of these are going to be messed with. Photography is such a fun hobby for me. With the addition of a new family member, it has become harder for me to find the time to do anything for myself. Once these two kiddos are asleep at the end of the night, I pass out. But here I am, starting again and promising to get back to my hobby.

This week has been tough with Juno being sick and Nola just having received 4 vaccines! Nobody was in a good mood. Including yours truly but there was no way I was going to take a picture of this mug on days like that.






Even Siouxsie was in a bad mood. hahaa

Juno's First Bicycle!

A brand new bike from Lolo and Lola keep us pretty busy these days. We ride to visit the horses up the street and the little bug is getting very good at looking both ways before crossing the street.


He loves to go fast!

Thank you Lolo & Lola!!!

From my garden

I totally grew these!



And these!


And they were yummy.

Chris & Mizu visit

Back in May our good friends Chris and Mizu came up to Oregon to stay with us for the weekend. It was sooooooo nice to have them here and hang. We miss our friends so much so when they take the time to come up here, we have the best time ever!
Here are some photos of their trip!


We took them to the Saturday Market downtown.



And then to Cornucopia. Best Burgers & Beer in town!!!



These are some of the flowers in our backyard.



Bubbles!


This is at the top Skinners Butte. Eugene Skinner founded the town of Eugene and this is where he claimed it back in 1846. You can see the whole town from up here. And it's not very high, which says a lot about the size of our tiny town. haha.

Me and Mizu at Shelby's house for Shelby's birthday.


It was so nice to have our friends come out and stay with us even if it was for a short weekend trip.

Thanks Chris & Mizu!!! We love you!

Bees

One fine day the bug and I were leaving the house and noticed a couple bees fly past the car. I was stopped in front of my house and wanted to see where they were headed. Oh, no where special, except for the GIANT BALL OF BEES that had formed on one of our trees out front!!!!!



I didn't know what to do! How do you get rid of thousands of bees?! I couldn't get close enough to spray them, they surely attack. And besides that I didn't really want to murder a bunch of bees that weren't harming anyone. I went inside, called around and came across a bee catcher. He was so excited to hear of a bee swarm! Apparently, there is a bee shortage out there. I gave him our address and he was on his way!



The bee catcher said they were Italian bees and can bee a little hot headed if agitated so I should stand back. You don't gotta tell me twice! This was the last photo I took outside. hahahaa

This I took all the way zoomed in from our front door. It was so cool to see him wrangle all the bees inside his little box. He was like a Bee Whisperer.


Once he got the bees inside the box, he loaded them inside his truck and gave me his card. He said that some of the bees that didn't make it would look for another swarm maybe one or two houses down and to warn the neighbors.

Haven't seen or heard of any since but I still follow their path if I see a couple flying together. What a weird day.

Siouxsie Sioux

We have had Siouxsie for about a year now. She and our cocker spaniel Bella are the best of buds. For reals, like if I recorded them together, I should probably send it into AFV or something. haha. They even groom each other. So cute! Anyway, Here are a few photos of Siouxsie. Enjoy!

Age of Aquarium

I procrastinated a lot on this entry mainly because there are so many pictures and the thought of having to sit down and write about each and every one became a very daunting task in my mind. So here I am, finally sitting down nearly two weeks after these picture were taken, finally blogging about them. The captions will be short and sweet. This is our trip to the Newport Aquarium and our random little stops back home. Spoiler Alert: I see a lighthouse in your future!


The bug was pretty stoked at the idea of getting to touch stuff, but once he saw the texture of what he was touching, he was done. hahaha. This did not surprise me, after all, Juno didn't touch grass or sand on his bare feet till he was like two years old!

Yea, I touched them.

We taught Juno to say "I Luuuuvs me some shrimpsss!" What great, grammatical parents he has!


I heart this picture so much.. It gives me goosebumps to see father/son loveliness like this!

Contemplating the freakishness of the spider crabs.

Yea... I could have done without ever seeing them too, Junebug.

Shark Tank!




We made some stops along the way back down the coast.




Ate some damn good crab.

And saw a lighthouse!!!!



We love lighthouses ::hug::






A great day was had by all.