Missing Portland

Sometimes I miss Portland so bad it hurts. Yesterday I saw this blog post of a walk in my old neighborhood. You can actually see my old apartment in the last photo. Things like that give me little twinges of homesickness.

But then I realize my family is so close...
and they can stop by for a quick visit every now and then. That always seems to make the homesickness go away.



Portland Photo taken by me November, 2008

Oh Top of Mt Hood

Josh's sister came to visit us last weekend. We had so much fun having her here. We were able to hit up some of our favorite places one last time like Laurelwood, Porque No? and The Waffle Window.

On Saturday we took Kristi somewhere we had never been before. We headed up Mt. Hood to have brunch at Timberline Lodge.

For one thing it was the best buffet I have ever had! Also Timberline Lodge was so cool. It was pretty cold and rainy up there but the scenery was amazing. I'm still wondering why we waited so long to take a trip to the mountain.

It's already August!

Why does summer always seem to fly by so fast! The days are getting so much shorter and today felt eerily fall like.

Josh's family leave ended this week:( It's going to be hard getting used to being on my own a few days a week. I'm going to miss having him home in the evenings the most. It's so nice to sit down and eat a meal as a family, go for a walk and get Piper to bed all together. As you can see from the photo above the mornings were pretty great too!

Happy Birthday Sis!!!

My little sister is turning 25 today! Even though we now live on opposite sides of the country she is still the best sister anyone could have!
Love you Em!

Photo taken in 2008 by Matt Gonzalez, You can check out Matt Gonzalez Photography here

This and That

I've been meaning blog multiple posts this last week but between working late and the third trimester sleepiness I haven't had much luck. I'm going to try to squeeze everything into one post!

Today was an great day. My friends and co-works threw Josh and me a baby shower. We got so many cute things! Josh was a trooper he hates being the center of attention but he sucked it up and I think he even had a good time. We were able to have movie night tonight and finally watched The Hangover. I think we were possibly the last people on earth to see it...sorry Em we both really enjoyed it.

I've been having such crazy baby dreams these last couple of nights. I guess my mom and my sister have been having grand-baby and niece dreams too. In my latest dreams the baby comes and she has a baby body and Josh's head. I think It's because of this creepy website.

My little sis's Forensics (speech) team made their local news this week. My sis coaches forensics (speech) at Tennessee State. Check out the news story here!

In the last few weeks I've become obsessed with newborn photography. Here are a couple of the sights I've been looking at.
Lucy Lime Studios
Kerianne Brown Photography
I've been taking notes and I'm hoping that when the little lady finally comes she doesn't mind being my first model.

That's all for now.
Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!