Fun in Portland

We love Portland more and more every day. It's so beautiful we just can't get over it. We took a little trip on Kendall's day off and went to Multnomah Falls. We had a lot of fun. We took the "sceanic highway" and stopped and took a lot of pictures. We had a great fun day together as a family, which seem fewer and farther in between lately. We're hoping to do some more site seeing at the end of the rotation. We decided to stay a few extra days so we could have some Portland fun. I added a Portland slideshow to check out.

It's a Jungle out there

The condo we live in backs up to a hill and the stairs to get to the front door wind around the back of the building.  The other day we were walking up the stairs and zane said, "I want to go for a walk in the jungle!"  I asked what jungle and he responded, "the one right there!"  Oh...my kid has never seen woods....he thinks its a jungle.  Funny, but sad.  So I told him that it wasn't a jungle that it's woods.  The next day we were driving somewhere and zane excitedly said, "I want to go on a walk through that jungle and find all the monkeys."  Kendall and I laughed and told him there weren't any monkeys in Portland to which zane asked what kind of animals lived in there.  I told him probably some bears and maybe some wolves.  The disappointment was evident, "why do only scary animals live in  there mama?"  Seriously, what do you say to that?  The quick and easy answer, "that's where Jesus wanted them to live", which is always followed by the infamous why?, or the long drawn out explanation of the climate and why certain animals live in certain places, which is again, always followed by why?  

I'll post some pics soon.  I need to take some first, I'm not really sure where the camera is, although I do know it needs batteries.  I'll try to get more on top of things.

The Land of Wonderfulness

We moved to Portland this weekend, and yes, I call it the land of wonderfulness. It's so nice! The weather is awesome, it's so cool! I want to find a park to take zane to tomorrow. It's that wonderful you can wear a jacket if you want, but you don't have to weather (non-existant in AZ). We were driving around today (I was totally lost thanks to bad iphone directions) but it was gorgeous and ever neiborhood I drove through I just kept thinking, "I definitely want to live in this neighborhood." Then I drive a little more and think the same thing.

I found a house for us to rent back in Litchfield for when the Portland rotation is over. I've been trying to get that squared away today so we can move straight in when we get back. Hopefully we'll get it. If not, I guess we're going to have to rent a house based on pictures off the internet, yuck!

By the way...

We moved again... a week and a half ago. We're in Tucson now for another two weeks and then we're off to Portland woohoo!!! I have a bunch of pics to update, but I haven't uploaded them yet. A little anticipation never hurt anyone... :)

Off the Chair!

Kendall and Zane were leaving to go swimming and as I was working in the back of the house I yelled, "Bye Ziggy!" Zane's reply? "Bye Mama. Have fun. Don't fall off the chair!" I must say, normally this would make sense as I am a clutz, but I don't think I've fallen off a chair in quite a while. This kid comes up with the funniest random things to say. I guess he is a lot like me...he has an extremely vivid imagination and a really random mind.

Newport, Oregon trip

After much schedule swapping and negotiation, we were able to go to Steve and Alisa's wedding on the Oregon coast this last weekend. We're so happy we were able to go. It was absolutely beautiful and freakin' cold. Portland was in a hot spell and drawing all the cold weather off the ocean into the coastal towns. Basically it was really foggy and cold and we did not have the right clothes for it. Luckily I had checked the weather patterns and we took the warmest clothes we had, but it was still pretty cold. Friday we flew into portland and then drove the 2hours and 45 min to Newport. We went and hung out with Steve and some of the other guys until the rehersal dinner. We froze at the rehearsal dinner until they finished rehearsing and moved the dinner indoors. Later that night we went to a bon-fine on the beach. Zane's first. He had a blast. At one point he did try to jump in the fire but we caught him. We got to eat s'mores and just relax. Saturday we hung out in our room and then went and played at the beach w/ Steve and the rest of the non-getting ready wedding people and zane of course got soaked. We went to the wedding, which i must say, is one of the coolest weddings I've ever been to. Woke up at 3am and drove to portland to catch our flight at 7. All in all, it was a really quick trip, but totally worth it. We really needed a little vaca. Here are some pics from the weekend. We're even more excited to go to portland for kendall's rotation in september and we're going to be living w/ Steve and Alisa so we're going to have blast, as long as they can stand living with a prego and a 3year old. :)

The view from our hotel balcony.

At the bon-fire.

Zane having a blast, he's up to his knees in sand. :)

I think Zane might have taken this, we gave him the camera to keep him quiet.

View from our hotel room the second day after the fog dissipated a little.

Zane playing with his new best friend, although he can't tell you her name.

There's Steve-O (as Zane calls him)...

and Alisa.

Good News

So as some of you know, and most of you don't, I'm pregnant! Whoohoo! I'm about 8 weeks, the due date should be around March 10th or so. We've actually known for a while, but at my first check up they didn't think "things were developing as they should." So we were finally able to get someone to give me a one time ultrasound here in Denver and there's a little baby with a big head and a heartbeat. Yeah! It's so exciting. After the miscarriage in April and then my ob's nurse practitioner doing a crappy ultrasound we were pretty worried. It's kinda funny though, it finally feels real and I'm thinking, crap, I'm going to have another baby, can i handle that? I guess that's why the Lord made a 9 month gestation period...to get you ready for the baby. We're really excited though. I'm not really having morning sickness like I did with Zane. Kendall's hoping that means it's a girl. We'll see. I got my way with Zane, kendall wanted a girl then too. Maybe he'll get his little girl.