Ptown and Blue October with Jess

Finally our Blue October day arrived. Actually, it came up pretty quickly, it seems like I just asked Jessica "do you want to go to Blue October with me?" We had soooo much freakin fun! We first went to Clackamas Town Center and hung out there for a while. We made our Build A Bears, which was soooo fun. I was going to make a Snoopy, but I didn't like it, because it was heavy (it was musical), and it's ears moved. So, I ended up getting a cute Koala Bear, which I named Kola. Then I bought her a witch outfit for Halloween. We also bought some classic books from Barnes and Noble. They had buy 2 get 1 free on their classic books. I bought: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland along with Through the Looking Glass, The Odyssey, and Wizard of Oz. I read Wizard of Oz when I was a kid, but I have never read the Alice in Wonderland story. Jess said the Odyssey is super good, so I got that one. 

 After the mall, we went to Moonshadow, the BEST place to buy incense, but, they had moved locations, and we needed to get to our hotel, so I didn't get any incense. Our Hotel was pretty cool. Thank goodness we were only on the 12th floor, we both don't like being too high up. We even had valet parking, fancy! 

After we took our things up to the room, we headed off to walk around downtown. We first located the max, because we were going to ride that to the concert, but the concert was closer than we thought, so we just walked. We eventually found the Pioneer Square Mall, but we didn't get to look too long because we had to get to the concert.

 We waited for a half hour outside, then I think about 45 minutes after that for the first act to come on. The second act was 'I am Dynamite', they were super cool! Jess liked them so much, she bought their CD. We literally stood for I think a little over 4 hours, because it was standing room only. Our backs were toast by the end of the night....but....Blue October was worth it. Man, they were soooo cooool! I loved it too, that it was a small theater, because we all sang 'Hate Me' (my fave Blue song), and now I can say "I freakin sang Hate Me with Blue October", cause we were right there ya know! 

They had the Race for Cancer walk right downtown on Sunday morning, so the streets to get back were all blocked, but we made an adventure out of that too. We didn't have any stress.....woot!  We had a really good time, and are going to plan a just the two of us adventure every year now!!

Jess dressing her bear.

Pioneer Courthouse Square

Ha, ha. We couldn't pass up the chance to be disturbing with this statue.....lol.

A nice lady asked if we wanted her take a pic.

Waiting, and waiting, and waiting.....hee, hee.

After breakfast. I tried several times to get the Denny's sign in the pic, but it just didn't work.

Guess Denny's didn't want to share camera time!

Hangin with some old friends

My friend Sondra came over for a visit from Idaho so I drove to McMinnville to hang out with her and Janie. We planned on going to the coast for the day. It was so fun seeing them. I've known Sondra since the 6th grade, and Janie since Junior High. It's been almost 20 years since I had seen Janie, and it was like no time had gone by between all of us.

We ate here when we got to Lincoln City, the food was yummy!

Of course we had to go to Depoe Bay. It was cold and windy so we didn't go down to the beach .

We got lost on the way back....my fault, ha, ha. Alex is on the left, that's Sondras daughter.

A normal picture of us!

Funny Faces!

We made Sondra do another face, cause the one before this, just didn't cut it....ha, ha.

Smooch!

"Peace"

This hat cracks me up. It's for Janies grandson, but it reminds me of Dispicable Me.

Janie brings out props!

"Say what?"

I don't think Janie saw good things for our future.

I love these girls!

On an end note. I just wanted to share how proud of Janie I am. She has come a loooong way, and I wanted to share a link to her story on youtube with you, because it is an amazing testimony!!

Janie's story

September List

A few things I'm looking forward to:

• Meeting up with my Grade school and Junior High friends Sondra and Janie. I haven't seen them in years. We're going to go to the beach for the day this Friday.
• Having a Ptown day with Jessica. Were going to go see Blue October this month in Portland. We're going to make a day/night of it too, staying at the Hilton downtown, taking the max to the concert and of course picture taking, window shopping, and I'm going to buy my incense from the BEST shop to get incense at!
• Getting my eating healthy back on track. My goal is to stop eating such crap food. I'm not too bad about it, but I have more than I would like. I want to save treats for just that, a treat, and not something I need everyday. I tend to binge a lot when I cut something out, but I am so tired of how junk food makes me feel.....like junk! I also want to get my eating healthy so when I eventually quit smoking, I don't overeat. No, I haven't picked a date, I'm not going to be hard on myself about it right now. I just attempted it more times than I can count in 2011, I just know I am going to plan a quit time again, someday!
• The leaves falling.
• Bike rides.
• Actually running 4 times in one week, instead of doing it sporadically.
• Autumn Equinox.
• Making pumpkin bread..........oh, yum! 
• Reading The Help. Yep, a lot of hype over this book and movie. I just started it last night. But when I hear about a big hoopla over a book, I gotta check it out for myself.

Updates

Man, it has been a loooong time since I blogged. But, I was a busy bee this morning and updated, added a bunch. 

Lacey visits

I picked Lacey up from the airport, she came down for a visit for her birthday. It was really nice seeing her, I hadn't seen her in 6 months. We hung out at the mall for a bit, then headed over to Lukes place. I got my computer back, I am so freakin excited about that, because it has all my family pictures on it, not to mention World of Warcraft....ha, ha. 

At the airport. Some random guy saw us getting ready to take a pic of ourselves, and he asked if we would like him to take the picture, why of course we did!

We had to stop at Checkers, the store right down from our old apartment.

Luke and Lacey. I don't think he was really talking on the phone, it was just a prop.....ha, ha.

Chelseas Wedding

Saturday Chelsea got married to Sterling. The wedding was held at her grandma Maxines house in Tigard. I rode up with Jennifer, and was excited to take a ton of pictures, but discovered I had forgot my darn memory card. I could only take a few pictures because the camera doesn't hold much.....bummer!

Chels getting her hair done.

Cassidy, Jennifer and Trevor.

Joan (Jens mom), Maxine, mom and Trevor. Joan and mom made the wedding cake.

I love this one, it's so sweet!

I love the color!

Yep, had to take one of myself, just cause!

Cass and Me.

The only picture I got of her in her dress, and it's from the back.....grrrrr face!