Happy News!!

We're having a baby!!

No, wait... make that, TWO BABIES!! Doug and I found out last week that we were pregnant, and today that we are having TWINS!!

I am freakin out beyond excited, scared, all of the above, you name it! But we couldn't be happier or feel more blessed!

My due date is April 21, 2009, and today I am almost 9 weeks along!

Here are some pictures of the babies-

Camping in Crater Lake National Park

For the holiday weekend, we decided with our good friends back in May to go camping in Crater Lake National Park. None of us had been there, and they live in Sacramento, so it wouldn't be too far of a drive for us to all meet up there. We camped Friday and Saturday and spent a lot of time keeping warm by the campfire and hiking to the many BREATHTAKING views of the lake! I have never seen something so amazing before! If you have not been, you should make plans to go and see it sometime, it's truly amazing. It was so fun to see our friends again who we met when we lived in Florida. Right about the same time last year when we packed up and moved to Bend, they packed up and moved to Sacramento, so it had been nearly a year since we had seen each other and it was so fun to spend time together in such a beautiful place. It got REALLY cold Saturday night- all of our water froze! So Sunday we headed back to Bend, and showed them the sites in our neck of the woods. We did some shopping, and also took them up to Mt. Bachelor where in the summertime you can ride the ski lift up the mountain and look around since most of the snow is melted. We had a great time dipping in what little snow was left up there and taking some great pictures. I am so glad we were able to get out of the house for the long weekend and spend it doing so many fun things with such great friends! We love you Bradshaw's!!

I took over 200 pictures so here they are on PicasaWeb.

Addicted to "The Office"

I have been at my job for 3 months now, and the more I am here, the more efficient I am becoming at my work, which is good! But it also means I have more downtime throughout the day which I try to come up with things to do to entertain myself. On Monday I decided I would start watching "The Office" online from the first episode to where it's at today. I only started following the show this last season, so I felt a little behind as to what it was about the other 3 seasons. Right now I am starting season 3, and I am so hooked! I just love this show!! It's hilarious, (which I already knew) but now getting to see it from the beginning makes me appreciate it more. If you don't currently follow this show, you totally should, it's a kick in the pants! Plus it makes my day go faster when it's slow here, and for that I love it even more!

Hot, Hot, Hot!!

Summer is officially here in Central Oregon and we are burning up. It was 100 yesterday and 98 today, and totally beautiful! We love it!

But we also haven't been in heat this hot since we lived in FL, and we could survive it because we had Air Conditioning to come home to. We don't have a/c here, and we are feeling it! I've got everything closed up and dark during the day but even just now, my thermostat says it 87 in the house... ah! We set up the sprinkler in the back yard a little while ago and ran through it like we were 10 trying to stay cool. I forgot how much fun the sprinkler can be!

I think we'll be sleeping outside tonight- it's so dang hot in here we can't get comfortable! I try not to complain too much because in just a few short months it will be cold again, but for now, it's hot and I think I am enjoying it.. sort of :)

The House

Here are some more pictures of the house. We haven't touched our room yet, so pictures of that to come some day when we have the means to get it spruced up a bit.

Enjoy!

I am a slacker

So. I haven't posted much lately. Here's why:

A) family in town
B) Breaking Dawn came out August 2nd
C) So You Think You Can Dance finale is this week (another great dance clip below)
D) The crazy madness called moving, unpacking, painting and all of the above has caught up with me, and I am being lazy. And it feels really, really good.

Some pictures of some of the house!

I know, I know- It's about time, right? Well, I know I have been delinquent in blogging, but I have a good excuse, and it's called unpacking and painting, and decorating, and getting organized... and it's exhausting. I have some pics to show for my efforts, but there will still be more to come when I can find time to focus my efforts on some other parts of the house.

The guest bath- you can't tell well from this picture, but I spent a few days this week painting it a khaki brown, and it compliments everything really nicely.


Just like the rest of the house, this room has a lot of chocolate brown, blue, and tan- We just can't seem to get away from that color combo we love so much!


Originally, I wanted to paint the kitchen a light celery green with yellow accents, but in the end, we decided to paint our room green, and so I used some leftover red paint we had from Florida and gave myself the red kitchen I have always wanted, and I still got to keep my yellow. What do you think?


I am still working on sewing a red table runner, and finding a nice piece of art for the wall behind the table.


The whole picture- I love it- it's just the right mix of warm and cozy and classy I was hoping for!

More pictures to come when I can get the living room and guest room a little more presentable! I have a feeling our room will be the last to get put together, but that's the one people see least, so it works out!