the new year

my first post of the new year and it's on the first day of february...i guess you could say i'm running a bit behind. yeah. haha. let's do a quick catch up since my last post:
december 19-22 quenton pegues (piggies) was here and we had an amazing time together. :) we did the usual tourist stuff- downtown, voodoo donuts, hawethorne, grilled cheese grill, rocky butte, powell's, saturday market, etc. by the end of the trip, pegues finally understood why we moved to portland and why we love it here. idk why people don't understand how great of a city we live in, apparently a lot of our friends don't think there is anything here worth the risk, but we'll show them...we will show them all! haha.
december 23-25 jarrod flew out to meet his family in new mexico and i worked my booty off. i had the 23rd off and then closed christmas eve and pulled a double christmas day. after getting home from work around 1am christmas night (or early the 26th), jarrod and i opened our christmas presents and stockings together and then it was off to bed. the next few weeks we worked a lot. new years eve we both had off though, but we just stayed home and watched how i met your mother until midnight. the next day i worked another double. the next few weeks were pretty much the same: just work.
until: january 15th when we got a group of friends together to head to cannon beach. our adventure was taken elsewhere, however, bc it had started snowing and the roads were getting icy so our back up plan was to go to washington park and walk around for a bit.

 after a bit of hiking we headed to the falls...

and that was the end of our adventure for that day. we are going to attempt another beach day soon, just don't know when yet.
the next exciting thing to happen was me getting the most amazing tattoo known to man, which happened on the 17th:

yes, it hurt pretty freaking bad, but it looks so awesome now! was it worth the pain? undoubtedly!

then it was back to the usual until this last thursday when my dad came to visit. :) i picked him up from the airport after work and then we went straight to dinner and my favorite place: the grilled cheese grill! haha. and wouldn't you know it, right down the street was Tonalli's Donuts and Cream, so guess what we had for dessert? haha.

death by chocolate on top, cake batter on bottom. yum, yum, yum!

green tea and pistachio

after our lovely evening out, we came back to the house and just hung out. it was a laid back evening, but still amazing nonetheless.
friday we got a late start- didn't leave the house until after noon. our first stop was rocky butte, one of my favorite spots in this city.

by the time we were done marveling at the beauty around us, we were starving so we took jarrod's suggestion to heart and headed to Slappy Cakes (http://www.slappycakes.com/) and had the best breakfast anyone could ask for!

jarrod's chorizo, white chocolate chip and butterscotch chip pancake in the upper left, his white chocolate chip and butterscotch chip pancake in the upper right. daddy and i had bananas in our pancakes.

after eating a large breakfast, we realized it was time to walk it off. we headed downtown- powell's was our first stop. we were there for probably an hour and a half, but daddy was so overwhelmed, he didn't end up buying anything, so we left and headed to voodoo donuts.

and then it was time to walk off the donuts, so we went walking down the waterfront and over the hawethorne bridge.

after our walk across the bridge, it was almost time for jarrod to go to work, so we headed back to the car, but on the way there, we still got some nice pictures:

we headed home so jarrod could go to work. daddy and i then turned around and went back downtown to see Demetri Martin. HILARIOUS!!! and we both had such a good time. :) when the show was over, it was time for dinner, so i took daddy to the best fast food place around: burgerville. haha. what a delicious dinner!!! then it was back home to watch more demetri martin on netflix and then to bed we went.
saturday: BEACH DAY!!! we got to cannon beach around 1:30 and had lunch then we walked around the shops for a bit until we wandered upon the beach.

what a BEAUTIFUL day! it was absolutely gorgeous out there! i love cannon beach. anywho, we headed home around 5:30. once home, we ordered pizza hut and watched more demetri martin. haha
on sunday, it was raining but my original plan was to go to the falls, and so that is exactly what daddy and i did. my pics haven't loaded yet, so onwards! the rest of the day we stayed home and watched movies all day. a great day, indeed.
on monday i went back to work and daddy stayed home with jarrod. i heard they watched Louie all day. haha. once i got home, i took daddy down hawethorne and we stopped the red light exchange. daddy bought a button up shirt there, which wasn't too wild! haha. after that we headed to the Bagdad Theater (http://www.mcmenamins.com/219-bagdad-theater-pub-home) to eat some cajun tots and watch Drive. that was also a great time. ;) after the movie, we headed home and watched more demetri martin until we were so tired our eyes could barely stay open. haha. 
tuesday: i dropped daddy off at the airport. :( and now he's back in texas. sad days.
so....now we're caught up. :) haha
that is all.
-sarah-