Beach Part1

These are from a few weeks ago when my parents where here. We spent the day out at Cannon beach and Astoria It was, of course, raining in mid-july but in some ways I was glad my parents got to see our Coast like that, all misty and Northwesty.










These were taken with my mom's camera, the one I covet. Seriously, seriously covet.

My former home

I have been devouring news out of the Twin Cities this week. After making sure that family and Aggie were accounted for I really should have been able to just read the occasional story, but for some reason I keep combing the stories for more coverage, more news, more details. It's like I can't quite wrap my head around the fact that I didn't know someone who was affected and I keep looking for that detail as to who it is. I also can't seem to stop thinking about what it must have been like to be on/under/around the bridge at the time of it's collapse, and so many of my thoughts have been going out to the people who were so tragically touched by this horrible event.
The people I love are ok, I feel so lucky for this.

More pictures!

Yay new pictures here. I've been putting up lots of pictures lately - these are some miscellaneous shots from May and June. It was fun, going through these and getting them put up I realized that we have gotten a chance to spend a lot of time with Dan's family the last couple of months. Which is good - my niece and nephew are pretty kick ass kids.

I will probably be posting another group of pictures soon, My parents were just here and I borrowed my Mom's new camera and went a little crazy. I have camera envy. Lots of it.

This next month is kind of crazy busy for our household, I think we have something planned for the next 5 weekends straight. Every summer I start out saying that I am not going to over schedule and come mid-July every summer I start trying to figure out how I managed to plan so much in a short amount of time. Dude, I even had to make a freakin' "family calendar" to keep track of everything. A family calendar! Keeping track of things like that (outside of work) has never really been my thing and now I talk to people, out loud, about how awesome having a 'family calendar' can be for your sanity. Seriously.

Anyway, check out the pictures, more to come soon.

Feelin' hot hot hot

It's been hot here for the last week and a half. For some reason the heat makes it so I stop acting like a functioning member of my household and society. Pick up my dishes? WAY too hot. Fold clothes? Ugh, it's hot, I don't wanna. Hang out? I don't know, it's kind of hot. Sleep? Ehhh, it's toooo hot. Apparently it also makes me very whiney. So, other than whining about my lame Oregon heat (which I understand has nothing on say Phoenix heat - but they all have air conditioning!) I have nothing.

Except some pictures from the 4th, which I didn't even take. But they are great pictures and we had a really fantastic time. Will made a new friend in a little boy named Brandon and wasn't at all freaked out by the few fireworks that he saw. It was hot, but as always, such wonderful company. Check 'em out - Kari's 4th Pictures

Math Test

Yes yes, I know I am not the math teacher. But I found this interesting. If you haven't done it yet, check it out. And tell me how you did...