this is halloween!!!

picture post!!!

i think these photos describe themselves, but in case you're lost: jarrod was carving out the lid of his pumpkin.

pumpkin pulp. who knew something so gross looking could turn into something so delicious?

so i wanted to stick with my costume as a "theme" for halloween. as you can see, i attempted to make a mockingjay cut out...the bottom picture is what happened with that stencil....it was very upsetting. i pretty much gave up after that and decided to go separate the seeds from the pulp of the pumpkin so i could start baking.

unlike me, jarrod stuck with his pumpkin (though he didn't screw up like i did. haha). he made a zombie pumpkin eating another pumpkin. it's pretty awesome, i admit. i'm so jealous of his abilities. why must he be good at everything?! haha. but seriously, his jack o' lantern turned out amazing and i love it and i know he loves it too. i'm pretty sure he had a great time making it, so that's good.

jarrod made me an easier, less likely to fall apart version of the mockinjay.

it worked!

and there is my glorious mockingjay pumpkin. i think it turned out pretty awesome. as good as hello kitty from last year? i'm not so sure, but it's still pretty great.
currently there is pumpkin bread cooling off. tomorrow i'll attempt to make some pumpkin cupcakes and.... something else. maybe more bread, maybe....idk, something.
so that was our "halloween decorating" day. it was fun. :)
i'm not terribly sure what will be happening this weekend, but i'm sure it will be exciting. haha.
that's it for now.

a month later...

as you may have noticed, it's been a while since i've updated. i have a perfectly acceptable reason for that and it is: we have done absolutely nothing in the past month. well, nothing worth mentioning, i.e. no exploring of any city, park, terrain, unless you count our house. the reason we have done nothing exciting is because our jobs do not allow us to spend any time together, whatsoever. speaking of jobs, i have recently been hired at NorPac Vector. yes, they sell cutco, and no, i do not sell cutco. i am a PR assistant. my job consists of taking lists of "interested" applicants from the representatives and calling them to get them in for interviews. that's my job. it's not terrible, but it's not great either. but hey, that's okay. at least i have a job, and not just one job, but two. sure, i make less at vector than the theater, and it is 15 miles away, but i'm still making extra money, which is always nice. :)
something fortunate happened this weekend: i got a sunday off, so i got to spend time with jarrod! as i mentioned earlier, we rarely get to see each other thanks to our jobs. we never really had the same days off together even before vector, and now i work every day; have no days off, which makes spending time together even more difficult. well, since vector isn't open over the weekends, i actually got to spend an entire day off of work from both jobs. anywho, back to the point: once jarrod got off of work (late....or on time, actually, but later than usual) we went to the Sauvie Island Pumpkin Patch (http://www.thepumpkinpatch.com/). 

once we arrived, we got some tokens and then went in search of our perfect pumpkin (duh). the farm is HUGE and there are pumpkin patches everywhere!!! we walked through the first one, which was overly crowded, so we continued on to the second one. we found our pumpkins there.

the ginormous one right in front of me is jarrods, as well as the pepper shaped one. the one in the corner is mine. i'm not gonna tell you what those pumpkins will look like as jack o'lanterns, but once they're ready, i'll post pics. :)

 

 

 after carting our pumpkins back to the car, we still had a few tokens left, so i suggested we go buy some organic apples from their little grocery store: bella farms (http://bellaorganic.com/about-us/farm-stand/). while buying the apples, we saw a sign for some apple cider, which made jarrod giddy as a school girl, so we bought a cup of that. BEST DECISION EVER MADE. that apple cider was so delicious....it was like pure apple in liquid form with cinnamon....oh man. it was so GOOD. SO GOOD. i want to go back just for that apple cider. fortunately, we have a pretty good substitute at the house: spiced apple cider from trader joes. (thanks, brandi!) so, we will survive with that for a while. anyways, after buying the apples, apple cider and a cinnamon sugar elephant ear, we went into the corn maze. 

the maze from a bridge that's a part of the maze.

i felt like pocohantas! :) haha. can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

scarecrow

jarrod thought he had it all figured out, so he didn't even take a look at the map...well eventually, we kept ending up in the same spot, so he finally looked at the map. he figured it out, which made him happy, even though he was still surprised they had tricked him. we had a good time. :) after the maze, we came home and ate dinner and that's about it. so that was our "day" together. 
and now we are back to our boring, no exploring lives for a short while. idk when our next "outing" will be, but we do have something fun to look forward to on thursday. we were going to go see Death Cab for Cutie in concert, until that got cancelled. well, we have the day off now, and some uncarved pumpkins to attend to. so we will be making our jack o'lanterns, and i will be be baking some delicious pumpkin-filled foods. :) it's gonna be tasty. i cannot wait! thursday, hurry up and get here!
i'll post pictures of our "adventures" thursday. :)
that's all for now.
-sarah-

The Emerald City

two days ago, catherine, jarrod, and i went to Seattle and it was just as great as i remembered it to be. it's such a beautiful city. as soon as we got there we were all saying "oh, i could live here. i want to live here." there's just something about that city that you just love as soon as you arrive. sure, it's probably not as "weird" as portland, but it has it's own unique personality. maybe we were just going crazy over it bc the weather was so nice! it was in the mid 70s and sunny w/out a cloud in the sky. i wonder when the rain will start? that doesn't matter, i love the rain and i love seattle. 

on to our awesome day: we started out at the Theo Chocolate Factory (http://www.theochocolate.com/) and we took a tour around. we had to wear hair nets into the factory, you know, so hair didn't fall into the chocolate that we weren't really allowed to be near... but whatever. haha. picture!:

don't we look fabulous?

our tour was recorded for some tv feature for a seattle news station. i think it was called the cheap bastard's guide to seattle (of course, they left out "bastard" as it's a news channel) bc admission was only $6, but let me tell you, they make up for that cheap price with their chocolates. i wanted to get a caramel box that had 9 pieces of chocolate in it. it cost $25! so i didn't buy it. catherine got that box and another smaller one that had 4 pieces in it. i have no idea how much it ended up costing but i'm sure i would have had a heart attack. haha. jarrod bought a few pieces from their display (he got 10% off bc we went on the tour). we haven't eaten all of the chocolate yet, but what i had was pretty tasty.
after the chocolate factory we went to lunch (even though it was already 4 something.) we ended up at a mexican restaurant called Poquitos (http://www.vivapoquitos.com/Poquitos/VivaPoquitos.html) and it was happy hour! our food was really cheap. haha. i got some brisket tacos, which were really tasty, and i got a poquitos punch...not as tasty, but VERY STRONG. i finished the whole drink by myself, which is a pretty big accomplishment. haha. i definitely felt it when we left. since we were still hungry, (you get what you pay for...the meal was really small) we went to Cupcake Royale (http://www.cupcakeroyale.com/) and we ate some seriously delicious cupcakes. man, i love cupcakes. haha.

after lunch, we headed to Pike Place Market, (http://www.pikeplacemarket.org/) which is one of my favorite places on this earth (that i have visited). sadly, we only had about 30 minutes to walk around since they were closing at 6. we walked through, but didn't really stop. we passed by the original starbucks and it was packed with people, as always. we continued to walk on and then pikes was closed so we headed to the space needle.

catherine said "i just need a book and i could lie in here forever."

jarrod would probably play video games instead

testing my strength by holding up the top of this sculpture.

jarrod, the monkey

the skyline and mt. rainier from the top of the space needle.

so the space needle...what is there that needs to be said when the pictures speak better than words do? the view was amazing, as you can tell. we stayed at the top for 20 minutes just looking around, taking pictures, etc. and then we went back down to the gift shop, which encompasses the whole bottom floor. we probably spend 40 minutes to an hour looking at everything in that store. i bought some postcards and a 4 set of magnets. jarrod bought a lego space needle (which he put together last night) and catherine bought...a magnet and i'm positive there was something else...not sure what it was.
we left the space needle and we were ready for dinner. i really wanted pizza, so that's what we looked for. we ended up at Bambino's (http://www.getbambinos.com/zgrid/themes/10240/portal/index.jsp) where we shared a fire grilled (not sure if that's actually what it's called.. it was cooked over a fire) meaty pizza. it was absolutely delicious. everyone was glad we ate there, even though there were some grumbles (from jarrod) when we decided on pizza. 
after dinner, it was time to head home. nothing exciting happened. jarrod and i fell asleep while i'm sure catherine had several heart attacks when getting caught behind slow drivers... haha. eventually, jarrod and i woke up, and just in time to PUMP GAS!!!! yeah for washington letting people pump their own gas. catherine was kind enough to let us do the job for her. haha. and we enjoyed that time. haha.

pumping gas like the good ol days

catherine dropped us off around 11:20 and then it was straight to bed for me.
and that was our visit to seattle. i can't wait to go back! we'll definitely spend more time at pike place market, and probably go to the pier...and maybe something we haven't done before as well. haha. whatever it is, i look forward to it. :)
seattle!!!

-sarah-

It's the Circle of Life!!!

Soooooooo... jarrod and i went to see the Lion King (in 2d, bc that's how it's supposed to be. actually, i knew the showtime we were going to would have less people in it, which is definitely for the best, as i hate children screaming...etc, etc.) earlier today and let me tell you, that movie is such a great movie. or did you already know that? haha. but seriously, i can't remember the last time i saw that movie, even though i'm pretty sure my parents own it on vhs. that doesn't matter though. the experience of seeing it again, in theaters, was just so amazing. now, i don't know if i've become a big baby or what, but i almost cried a few times during the movie. like i was more than teary-eyed. i had to hold back pretty hardcore so the tears wouldn't fall. when mufasa died...man...it was a close one. jarrod said he almost cried then too. what's up with us? bunch of wabies is what we are. haha. i don't know what it was...maybe it's bc this time we actually understood what was going on or maybe it's bc it brought us back to our childhood, maybe both. it's strange how a kids movie can affect us now that we're adults. it's nice that we can be affect though; that these movies can make us feel. i don't believe movies nowadays do that, unless their pixar. haha. but i won't get into my movies rant. (pretty sure i've become the biggest movie snob ever...) anywho, The Lion King- SO GOOD. i know everyone's seen it, but i suggest you go see it again while it's in theaters. it's just a great experience to reminisce and be taken back by that movie. so good. sooooo gooooooodddd. (in case you didn't understand that already)
alright, so enough about the lion king. after we watched the movie, jarrod and i went to a few thrift stores. my main focus was finding my halloween costume articles, but that's kind of hard when i'm undecided on what i want. all i know is i want to be Katniss Everdeen, but there's so much i can choose from, just from being here. 1. originally i was planning on being "the girl on fire"- the outfit she's wearing when she rides out on the chariot w/ peeta after they arrive at the capital. this outfit requires a full body black leotard, (easy solutions if i don't find a leotard) a fiery looking cape and headdress. i have an idea how to make this, but in case i do choose this outfit, i do not want to spoil it bc the pics i take in that costume will be AWESOME. haha. 2. i can be katniss when she's in the arena. the outfit consists of: a green shirt, khaki-colored pants, boots, and knee-length black jacket AND the mockingjay pin. oh, also, silver bow and arrows (substitution: my bow and arrows). 3. katniss AS the MOCKINGJAY!!! omg, if i could pull that one off, it'd be so amazing. this one is pretty much an all black outfit, w/ some white and grey in different areas, a breastplate, and the bow and arrows, again. here's someone's great interpretations of katniss' outfits (http://bookkittykat.tumblr.com/post/7512653187/katnisss-wardrobe) so, what do you think i should do?? help me, please! i can't make decisions by myself. though, eventually, i'll have to choose, but hearing some feedback would be nice.
that's really all i have for today....i don't even have any pictures, which is weird. oh well. at least i updated today, only 2 days after my previous update. go me!

-sarah-

May the odds be ever in your favor...

i'm gonna post pictures and start from there. let's hope i don't forget anything. haha.

At the Pirate Festival

Salted Caramel Cupcake. Absolutely delicious.

Pirate puppet show

blow up ship being destroyed by a giant octopus

My pirate costume. Very historical accurate.

Don't let this fool you, jarrod was only in full costume for this picture, which was taken about 10 minutes before we left the festival.

Pirate on stilts.

 

 

 

 

 The pirate festival (http://portlandpiratefestival.com/) was lots of fun. There were people dressed up like pirates everywhere, there were shops with pirate-related clothing and other related items (swords, guns, etc). i think we had the most fun watching the random shows they put on. the host of those shows were just hilarious. we were laughing non-stop, that is, until we left the festival... when we were ready to go home, we got into jarrod's car and to our disappointment, it didn't start. we were desperately hoping it was just bc jarrod's car was low on gas, since earlier in the week jarrod had fixed his car. so we went in search of a gas station. the closest one was off the highway, 1.2 miles away, so we walked 2.4 miles total. that's not too bad, but it still wasn't fun. all-in-all, we both handled it very well. (that's an accomplishment for me, bc we all know i wanted to go off and kill something. haha) it did turn out that jarrod was just low on gas, so yay! his car is truly fixed! what a relief.
onto more pictures:

Red Velvet Cake Balls before being iced

Red velvet cake balls, mostly iced with white chocolate

The "Mancake" from Stepping Stone Cafe

 The pictures above are centered around Jarrod's 23rd birthday. in case you were unaware, jarrod loves red velvet cake.(i think he gets it from his dad. haha) i think he gets red velvet cake for his birthday every year, so i decided to make something special with the key ingredient: red velvet cake. i made white chocolate covered cake balls. they did not turn out as pretty as the pictures i saw online, but they tasted alright. (i think they were really sweet, but jarrod absolutely LOVED them) they took a long time to make, even though it was really simple to make them. all you have to do is choose a cake mix you want, and bake the cake like normal. then you crumble up the cake, add a 16 oz can of cream cheese icing and mix it all together so that the cake will have consistency to make balls. let them cool and ice them. icing them was a pain in the butt. i didn't get enough white chocolate icing and the cake kept crumbling and ruining the pretty look of the icing. in general, icing the cake balls was the worst and i told jarrod i probably wouldn't make them again, which disappointed him. haha. but maybe i'll give them another shot. i do have to master icing them....blah. haha.
as for jarrod's birthday day, i took him to the stepping stone cafe (http://steppingstonecafe.com/) for breakfast. it had been featured on man vs. food and the menu said they had a cinnamon roll french toast. (yes, i am still looking for my replacement to the Cheyenne....no luck, so far.) Jarrod got a mancake, which is about 13inches; it's pretty big. he didn't finish, but in his defense, he also had some scrambled eggs and sausage...or was it bacon? i don't remember. haha. oh well. that's all we did on jarrod's birthday bc he had to go to work at 4. (if you were unaware, jarrod is back to his old, terrible sleeping schedule, ie: goes to sleep bw 3-4am and wakes up bw noon-2. yeah. terrible.) so that was jarrod's birthday, for jarrod. we had breakfast, he worked... that's it.
i, on the other hand, still had the day off, so i spent the evening with catherine. we went to Jimmy Johns and then we were going to go watch Toy Story 3 in the park, but once we got there, the park was infested with kids and so i made the decision that we come back to the house and watch xmen: first class (thanks to evan and britt for getting jarrod that for his birthday. haha). before coming home though, catherine and i took jarrod a jimmy johns sandwich bc it was his birthday. so let's add this up: i bought jarrod brunch and dinner. too much money in one day. blagh. haha.
that was for jarrod's birthday day. i had planned an extra fun surprise for jarrod for another birthday gift. i decided to take him to Ground Kontrol (http://groundkontrol.com/) which is a retro arcade. the fun thing was i invited jarrod's friends from work so that he would be totally surprised when he saw him there. i thought he'd have a great time with his work buddies, as catherine and i were gonna be there, and he's always surrounded by us or other girls (our roomies). well, i took him to ground kontrol, but none of his friends showed up. LAME. i'm not gonna talk about my disappointment. jarrod didn't know until after we left what was supposed to happen, and it didn't effect him either way. we (jarrod, catherine and i) still had an absolutely awesome time there. ground kontrol is defintely a way fun place, and we plan on going back again, probably very soon.
here's a special picture for my mom, taken at ground kontrol: 

it was the first game i played. :)

 

 

anywho, since tuesday (when we went to ground kontrol) nothing has happened. we were gonna go see The Lion King 3D on sunday, but i just remembered jarrod has P.I. (physical inventory) that day and now i will not get to see him until tuesday.
TUESDAY: catherine, jarrod, and i are going to SEATTLE for the day. a few things we have planned: the space needle, pike place market, a chocolate factory, and bimbo mexican restaurant. maybe something else in between... i can't wait!!!
and that's probably all that's gonna happen for the next few weeks. but i'll still try to keep you updated. maybe post some more pictures, if i take any.
i'm gonna leave you with this picture:

proof that iris is no longer a scaredy cat: she chose to sit in catherine's lap instead of mine or jarrods. HER CHOICE. oh iris, you're growing up so fast! (she'll be 3 october 1st. :O )

-sarah-

And we'll wait for the stone on your window

I believe the last time I updated this was the day of the Decembrists concert. It was a great show! Very lively and exciting. The band sure knows how to connect with their audience and show them a good time. haha. I don't know if they have that much fun everywhere, or if they were just really glad to be home again. It could have also been that their band mate, Jenny Conlee was back in action after going through chemo for breast cancer. She seemed to be doing well though. She was having as good a time as everyone else was, so that's good. 

anywho, close to the "end" of the concert, they played The Mariners Revenge Song, which required the audience to scream as if they were being eaten by a whale. that was pretty funny to hear/see. everyone was excited to be part of the show. haha. after a few more songs, the show "ended," but yes, they came back for an encore... they were up there for probably 20-30 more minutes for the encore (something i've never experienced before) and then, they were done....OR WERE THEY? no, they came back for a second encore, which is also something i've never experienced. what a great band. :) haha. i have a video of their second encore, which i shall share with you.

so that was the decembrists concert. :)

saturday night i went to another free movie in the park, this time with Athena. (the social network. yes, again. it's a great movie, okay?!) I heard Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein of Portlandia were gonna be there, and yes, they were. did i get to talk to them or get a picture with them? no. but they were there, and that's what counts. the movie was great, our picnic was also great. it was a lovely evening.

the rest of the weekend, we didn't really do much, just work and being lazy. nothing exciting happened until tuesday. during the day jarrod and i went traveling around to buy parts for his car and get his passport card taken care of. the best part of that afternoon was eating at mcmenimins in sunnyvale bc we got to have the most delicious tater tots on this planet: cajun tots. SO YUMMY! we also had a brownie/ice cream sundae for dessert. also very yum. haha. after getting everything we thought we needed for jarrod's car, we came back home and jarrod proceeded to work on his car- replacing the fuel pump. gene told me it was very frustrating to replace, and even after telling jarrod that, he refused to take it to a shop. he wanted to change it out and so that's what he did. and guess what? his car is fixed now!!!! jarrod fixed his own car with only the help of the internet and a bit of advice from gene. essentially, he did it on his own! amazing, right? i don't know how he does it, but he always manages to figure out how to fix things and he does it right. it just blows my mind how handy he is. haha. i think if he were good at spelling and grammar and would just wake up when his FIRST alarm goes off, (he has freaking 5-7 alarms go off. get up on the FIRST ONE. jeez.) he'd probably be the perfect human being, but as no one is perfect....haha. anyways, i think it's very awesome he fixed his car on his own. i think you get the point now. haha

on to tuesday evening: while jarrod worked on his car, and i went to the Bagdad Theater (http://www.mcmenamins.com/219-bagdad-theater-pub-home) to see/hear Colin Meloy (lead singer of the Decembrists) and his partner, Carson Ellis, read from their new book Wildwood. (http://www.amazon.com/Wildwood-Chronicles-Book-I/dp/006202468X) I went with a friend from work, Athena. We had a great time! We ate pizza AND i had more cajun tots! haha. can't get enough of those! anywho, i believe chapter 5 or 6 of the book was read aloud by Colin and then Carson went over a few of the illustrations (she did the illustrations in the book) and then there was a Q&A. all in all, it was a grand time. i'm still reading the book, and i'm really enjoying it! :) it's so fantastical! i love it. haha. oh, here's some pics i took.

Colin Meloy reading from the book

Q&A with Colin and Carson

that was the highlight of this past week. it was a good time. :) nothing exciting happened until thursday when i went to dinner with Catherine, her friend, Sara, and sister, Stephanie. we went to mcmenimins in oregon city where yes, i had more cajun tots. that was the best part of the meal. we were waiting for our food for FOREVER and almost got up to leave, when they finally brought our food out. thank you! jeez. anywho, after that, Catherine, Sara, and i went to coldstone. yum! and then Catherine came back to the house with me where we watched Kick Ass and Labyrinth. it was a good night. :)

and now you are all caught up on the exciting events of the past week and a half. something fun was supposed to happen today- we were supposed to go to the Portland Pirate Festival, but since jarrod STILL isn't off work, i don't think we will make it. awesome. there's no plan b...guess i'll probably just finish mad men. fun.

i don't really have anything planned for this upcoming week...jarrod works on his birthday, so on the 13th we're gonna go to Ground Kontrol, (http://groundkontrol.com/) which is a retro arcade, for some birthday fun. 

the most exciting thing that'll will happen in a few weeks is visiting SEATTLE! yeah!!! we're going the 20th. i can't wait!!! woot woot.

and...the end.

-sarah-

lazy, lazy, lazy...

as you have probably noticed, it has been a while since my last update. it's not like we haven't been doing anything, but i have been lazy in keeping up with this blog. shame on me! but oh well, here i am now to try to catch you up on everything...if i can remember it all. haha.
so on the sunday after my previous blog was published, jarrod and i decided to make a trek out to the coast again, (it's awesome to get to do that when our schedules work out well together. which is rare now, and sad. more on that later, maybe. haha) this time to Seaside Oregon. yes, that is actually the name of the town. i can't say i'd heard much about seaside, but i've seen plenty of customers or just random strangers wearing shirts/sweaters that said seaside on them, so i figured it must be a pretty cool place and we should go visit. so we did! when we got there we walked around downtown. our first stop was a candy store/taffy shop. we got some more sea salted caramels (delicious. i love those things!) and of course, some taffy. they had a TON of flavors, so we had plenty to choose from. i don't really remember what all we got though i do remember ameretto being in there and banana cream or something like that. we bought plenty more, but what their flavors were, i do not remember. anywho, so after the taffy shop we continued to walk around downtown, looking in random stores and gift shops. the one that stands out most to me was a vintage clothing store. vintage clothing stores are awesome! i wish i had found something i liked, but oh well. it was still very entertaining to look around and see all the wild clothes. haha. anywho, after looking through just about every shop, we decided it was time to go down to the beach, and so that's what we did. once again, it was cold, but not as windy as it was at the beachside campsite. we just sat around people watching until about 7, when we decided it was probably time to find a place to stay. once we checked in to a motel, we went to eat dinner and then we walked around a bit longer before heading back to the hotel to be lazy and watch some tv. that was our sunday.
on monday we decided to go to the beach first, and so that's what we did. this time we just walked around on the beach and watch the birds. yes, it was still pretty cold, but this time i had on jeans and a long sleeve shirt. haha. after roaming the beach for about 30-40 minutes, we walked back to downtown to look around at the shops we'd missed on sunday. we found another candy shop that was filled with retro candy and candy i'd never heard of. guess what i bought? sour skittles and more sea salted caramel. haha. after the retro candy shop, we went into another retro store where we found some pretty awesome drinks (non-alcoholic). first of all, there was big red! (which we don't have hear) and then there was just a bunch of other random drinks. jarrod got a jolly rancher pear soda, flashback root beer and something else. i chose a peach soda, (recommended by the girl working there) big red, and orange leninade. yep, that's what it's called. it's communist lemonade, so i HAD to buy it just to keep the bottle. haha. so by this time we were getting pretty hungry and decided it was lunch time. we ate at a mexican place called the Taco Shark (http://tacoshark.com/) and yes, they really do have shark tacos. i did not try that though. i had a beef, chicken, and salmon taco. all really tasty. :) after lunch, it was time to head home so jarrod would get home in time to shower and be lazy for a bit before heading to work. the drive home was annoying because people drive way to slow for some reason....but enough about that.
so that's what we did for the weekend. we had nothing planned until wednesday when we went to go see THE SHINS!!! the show was awesome, as expected. it seriously was a dream come true to see them, because i thought i'd never have the chance. man, if i had a time machine, i'd relive that show over and over and over again....yeah, it was awesome. you know that now though, don't you? haha. i have a few videos posted on my facebook if you want to check that out. :)
and the rest of the time these past few weeks has been spent staying home and being lazy, or saving money, as i will call it. haha. so nothing exciting there. 
i do have something exciting happening tonight though. we going back to edgefield to see The Decembrists. WOOOOOO. they're from portland, did you know that? so awesome. haha. 
oh! some news you'll find amusing: we finally hit the 90's last weekend and let me tell you, it was HOT. haha. but nothing compared to the heat back home, i'm sure. still, we may be weenies now bc we've been spoiled with awesome weather. not that 90 degrees is terrible, it's not. it's supposed to get up to 90 today. i may actually sweat. crazy. haha.
OH. i totally forgot that last tuesday we went back to multnomah falls with some of my friends from work (bc one of them who has lived here for a while had never been). we hiked to the top and we also hiked a few other falls. work that night was miserable bc i was so tired and yes, i was sore the next few days. :P i leave you with some pics from that and a promise to attempt to continue updating regularly (at least once a week).

yeah that's jarrod being dumb and going under a waterfall. i'm surprised the force of the water didn't knock him over. he did say the water was so cold it took his break away though.

 until we meet again. ;)