Winter at the Coast

 Free weekend! Always a happy thing when JD passes his exam and we can go play.  I wanted to celebrate getting to be home with our cute little guy more and so this weekend we decided to head to Indian Beach, one of our favorite gems on the Oregon Coast.  It has a light house, great tide pools, sandy beaches, and is a little more secluded.  It was a little bit chilly but not too horrible.  We were able to check out the pools and listen to the waves.  I love living so close to the ocean and being able to go as often as we do. Also notice that Porter is sitting up on his own unassisted? That is his fun trick that I worked on like crazy so that we could do his 6 month photos with Auntie Allie sitting up.  He loves being able to look around, but still flops over when he gets excited.

When it is raining and the husband is studying....

In case you weren't aware, it tends to rain in Portland, and while we didn't experience this until this month, we are quickly realizing that this is a true fact.  I happen to like rain, a lot, especially when I can be home when it is raining and not have anything I have to get done or do.  Today consisted of cleaning, and once everything was nice and clean?  I started on projects creating lots of messes.  One of them was this banner/garland that I am in love with.  While enjoying Karate Kid III, I cut, pieced together, and sewed something fun and cute, for now it will be a cheery decoration for my cubicle at work.  Now I get to clean all over again.  Yippee!

Lights Out

Saturday was a fun day. Nothing super exciting happened except that I didn't have to work. I got to the clinic and all of the lights were out. I found this to be rather strange but proceded to enter. I tried flipping on the light and a thrill coursed through me....nothing was happening! Come to find out the entire grid in the area was out and would not be fixed any earlier than 2:00.....we close at 1:00. After making a cute sign to inform angry patients about our 'misfortune' we all skipped out of the building to enjoy a beautiful sunny day. I don't remember the last time I had a Saturday off just for the heck of it and not for an impending event or vacation or in last year's case a month of illness. I always work Saturdays and have done so since I was 14. Some of the events that preoccupied my entire day off included: deep cleaned the house, ran some errands, went to a reception, decorated some summer blocks that I have been meaning to get to forever, lunch and shopping with my sister, spending time with JD. My deep clean probably should have included the lightbulb in the picture, but the dust did give a fun textured effect to the photo don't you think? I have to admit I kind of like having Saturdays off.