Christmas Joy

WE'RE ENGAGED~!

it was a fabulous christmas day. more to come soon :)

Happy Thanksgiving.

I'm thankful for....
  -family
  -friends
  -love
  -Cutter
  -steady jobs
  -warm apt
  -health

(and so so much more).

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.  

~John Fitzgerald Kennedy~

i prepared some pumpkin spice muffins... 

checking out the black friday ad's thursday morning... 

and this is just the appetizers! 

Pictures from Previous Blog Post

See previous blog post for story.... 

Rest stop! 

Mmm. 

My boys.

This seagull like never left that spot - even when it was pouring!

The special basket of goodies for Cutter

Happy Birthday Jeremy!

Jeremy turned 28 a few weeks ago - to celebrate we had a little get together at Buffalo Wild Wings. It was kind of last minute, so we were both really pleased with how many people showed up. It was great to see some of Jeremys good friends from Forest Grove come out our way to celebrate!  And hot wings and beer are always great too :)

The weekend before the dinner we headed out to the coast (surprise surprise right?). I had been wanting to spend a few nights in Cannon Beach since it had been quite a while since we had been there.  We ended up only staying one night, but it was awesome.  I found a really nice beach front hotel, did some research & got a really sweet deal - ok so it helped that it's winter and a Sunday night, but still, I was happy. Cutter was happy too because he got to come along, and the hotel even had a special basket of goodies waiting for him when we arrived!  

Seaside was our first stop, we browsed a few shops and walked around for a while - Cutter at one point deciding he really had to poop, and proceeded to do so RIGHT ON THE SIDEWALK.  After that we figured it was time to move on to our final destination!

The hotel in Cannon Beach was up on a hill, and right as we drove up I knew it was a good decision. Like I mentioned before they had a gift basket of dog stuff for us right when we got there, which of course I thought was very cool.  When we walked into our room the first thing you noticed was Haystack Rock righhhhhht there. The room had a big window and sliding glass door to a balcony and seriously directly in front of us was the giant Haystack Rock.  Our timing was great, sunset was just starting. If you know me you know I'm a little obsessed with sunsets - I immediately dropped my stuff and went to deck to enjoy it. We opened a beer to share and just relaxed while the sun set next to Haystack.  I did take a few pictures, but I wanted to just enjoy the beauty too so tried not to focus on that. We later went out to dinner and then came back to play some board games and shared some yummy champagne. Oh, I forgot to mention the adorable and warm fireplace in our room - so we got to enjoy the sunset next to the fire. Perfection, no?  

The next morning Jeremy ventured out in the pouring rain to get us some coffee and muffins. The rain slowly stopped and we went down to the beach (Cutter was dying to get out there!) and let the kid play... he mostly just ran after birds and dug holes, but it's always fun to watch how happy he gets.

*I keep getting server errors from Blogger when I try to upload pictures so look for a pictures only post later...

Happy Halloween!

We spent the weekend down in Corvallis at the Oregon State football game!   The beavs easily won the game, and the rain stayed away for the most part..  Later that night Jeremy and I had a little too much fun - apparently we thought we were still college kids ;)  Ah well, we had great costumes and a great time.

Beach Overnighter!

Jeremy and I both had a Sunday and Monday off so we decided to head out to the coast... we originally planned to go to Cannon Beach because it's been forever since we've stayed there but due to a big accident on Hwy 101 we ended up going south and staying in Lincoln City.  I am a big idiot and packed along my nice Canon camera buuuuuut forgot a memory card.  Please don't ask how many times I've done this. It's just not even funny anymore.  I keep saying I will buy like 20 and just place one in each purse and bag that I own. But I haven't, yet :)  

Alas, more iPhone pics: 

Walking down the million stairs leading to the beach.

Riding in the truck, love it. 

Cutter LOVES the beach. He decided to dig a hole for a while, kept him occupied for a good 30 mins. 

Inside our little cabin we rented. Dogs were allowed, so it wasn't the most prestine place but it was perfect for us and Cutter - he had a blast sniffing every inch of that place haha. 

Out for dinner and drinks at McMenamins, Lighthouse restaurant. 

Inside. 

Waiting for dinner. 

Waiting for dinner, enjoying my Rubinator. 

Another one. Testing out my iPhone app -it's pretty fun. 

Inside the bathroom, crazy painting! 

Bathroom shot 2. 

Back inside the cabin, Jeremy building us a nice fire. 

Fireplace. 

Next morning, my beach art <3

Have I mentioned that Cutter looooooves the water?!

Can you see my beach art?  Hard to read, says M + J = <3

Sandy, wet, happy Cutter! 

outdoors some more.

at the property.

beauty from hwy 101

Driving south on Highway 101 last weekend we came across a "viewpoint" which was perfect timing - the sun was setting and the sky was looking amazing. I didn't have a memory card in my DSLR (Canon) camera so I did the best I could with my iPhone. So beautiful.  

P.S.  More beach pics to come :) 

apartment life.

just a few random pics from my phone....

Date Night.

Jeremy and I finally got a chance to go out for Happy Hour a week or so ago!   He has transitioned into a full time position with set hours, but it is evening shift so makes it hard for us to ever find time to go out to dinner... especially since I don't really have set hours or shifts.  But, I love trying new food and drink downtown - there are SO many cute little places. I even have a "Happy Hour" book and I keep bugging Jeremy about trying all the places from it. The place we went last week is in the book, but had also come highly recommended by co-workers: Portland City Grill. I only took a few pictures as seen below, but this place is on the 30th floor of one of the tallest buildings downtown so has amazing views. It also has great food and drinks. I was very impressed and will hopefully be returning sooner then later :) 

The next couple of pics are just from the street downtown, we were waiting for the max to pick us up. It was a great evening, so warm during the day and stayed warm thru the evening.