Halloween Party

Saturday night we finally had our Halloween/Dominic Birthday Party. It was soooo fun! I even won at Bingo and got a cool prize. I LOVE Halloween............

John didn't wear his costume for very long, but at least I got a picture with him in it!

Some of the goodies!

Jess setting up the craft table!

The cutest kids.

Me and V

V is kinda rude....lol.

Mom was excited she got her costume for less than 5 bucks.

Jessica being chucked by a Ninja.

The nun being not so nunly!

Trevor and his friend Parker. Trevor is suppose to be Napolean Dynamite, but his hair is more Carrot Top.

The birthday boy taking the first Pinata swing.

Adrianas turn.

Rissa's time.

He wasn't quite sure what to do....lol.

Jen is really happy that the pinata is finally breaking. That sucker was hard!

Someones tired.

John had this on his head for a while and didn't even know it....ha, ha. Lisa stuck it there.

Dominic is excited about his new bike.

Wearwolf (only partly changed), Clown and a hippy!

Spider Pictures

The light was perfect for getting some pretty cool web pictures, I couldn't resist......

This web is HUGE! I didn't see the spider that made this, but I imagine it's a biggy!

This spider I saw on a different day. This picture really didn't turn out too well, but he was BIG! A leaf landed on the bottom of his web, and he came out of hiding to get the leaf off, then he had to rebuild a bit.

Yellow Ribbon and Family Time

Yesterday morning we went to the yellow ribbon ceremony for the 1186 MP's. Last time Heather went to Iraq, we didn't really get much of a chance for goodbyes after the ceremony, but at this one, they got to leave afterwards for a few hours. I didn't want a big teary goodbye in front of everyone, even though it's family, to me, there were things I needed to tell both Jackie and Heather, that were a bit more intimate, so I was very glad for that. After the ceremony, we went to Elmer's with the family for breakfast. After breakfast, me, H and Jackie went to the mall so H could return a case to the Mac store. They were still in uniform, and got many thanks, and free Starbucks. When we got home, Jackie had to watch the new XMen movie...ha, ha, while Heather worked on downloading tunes. At least Jess got off work in time to be able to see her sister. John and I drove them back, and had many hugs and tears. It was heartbreaking.

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