Evans Camp Trip

Our camping trip this year was great. It only sprinkled a bit (Jess and Nick stayed home because of the threat of rain, and they had thunderstorms in Salem). We just had a lot of talk time and beach walks. We even visited the Tillamook cheese factory.

Hang on, John's driving!

Britt

Me and Heather

Brittany and Bill

Ice cream licks

Gamers

Handsome

His tongue, it cracks me up!

HUGE spider!

I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth and found the biggest freakin spider I have ever seen in my house. I of course went to get the proper catch and release tools (and was very lucky it waited for me to do so), but I decided on a plastic magic bullet cup instead of glass because I have never attempted a catch and release on this size of spider, ever. I didn't want to freak out and throw the glass so I chose the plastic one. It's been a long time since I have ever been freaked out by a spider, I even did the heavy breathing, I thought I was a pro at this catch and release business. Oh well, I handled it the best I could. After the catch, I held it up for examination to see if I could identify it before releasing it, since it was so big. John kept saying "get that thing out of here, you know how I feel about those things. If you are going to release it, then get it out of here". So, I went out to release it, and my usual release is to just let it go by putting it on the ground and tapping the cup. Well, I went out to do that and realized there was no light outside since our bulbs all burnt out. So I did a light toss and didn't pick the cup back up until John put new bulbs in. But, when he did put new bulbs in, he discovered a wasps nest right next to the light, so that was interesting. Oh ya, back to the identification part, I didn't do the proper identification because I had to get it out of the house pronto, as John doesn't share my interest in spiders. But, afterwards I did some research and I'm pretty sure it was a Giant House Spider. 

That's Johns hand behind the cup, oh and my Natural Grocers free bag of almonds coupon was used in  this mission, I was wondering where that went. 

More random Sookers

Nut

Dang Sookers!

She's so cute though!

Rissa Birthday

I love this picture

Bike ride with the Baba

Korissa and I went to Minto Brown Park for a bike ride. She had so much fun, and even kept saying, "this is so fun". We rode almost the whole way around the park, and even spotted a bunny. Good times!!!!

Noah and the cone of shame

Noah tore one of his nails so badly we had to take him to the vet and they had to sedate him to cut it down. He wouldn't stop licking it, so we had to put on the cone! Poor Big Guy.

Dead plant standing?

 I really wish I had a Green Thumb because I really do love plants and flowers. It's not like I don't water, well, sometimes I forget, but it really doesn't matter because they just don't live around me. Jackie and Heather decided to get me an orchid for my birthday. Well, it was mostly Jackie, Heather tried telling her not to get it, but she insisted........

So beautiful.

I'm so afraid it's going to end up like these :(