Tanner and Lisa come and visit.

Tanner and Lisa came to visit us a few months ago and I am just now getting a post up about it. We were so excited to find out that they are engaged! Above is Ben and Tanner digging into fried chicken and sweet potato waffles at the Screen Door. One of my favorite restaurants of all time.
Here is Ms. Lisa sitting at the Rose Garden
I really like that way that they have done the amphitheater here. Notice how green the grass is. This was taken in mid October!

The happy couple.

We decided that this looks like an album cover.

The fall color at the Japanese gardens was spectacular
Tanner and Ben. Long lost soul mates. I think here they are playing tomb raider.
We got out of the city and headed to the Gorge. It was just a short hike down to Bridal Falls.



YAY!

you must of been a beautiful baby...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEN!
Ben's Birthday beer from Rogue Breweries
Ben's birthday cheesecake from Elephant Deli. When I called to order this cheesecake, they were like "Turtle? That' s like caramel right?"
New Shoes.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAM!

Aaron made this awesome cake. It was delicious.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AARON!


Look at his awesome rain jacket from Sharon and Lynn
The saucepan from his Mom is fabulous. I use it pretty much every day.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! To many of the boys in our lives. The camera has been found, so brace yourselves for a blogging marathon the next few days.

The Grotto

The Grotto, owned by the Catholic Church, is one of the strangest and most beautiful surprises that we have found in Portland. The Grotto encompasses over sixty acres, and is in the smack dab of northeast Portland. You can read more about its history here.
Ben and I both really like this statue of Jesus and Joseph. You don't see them together in artwork very much.
This is the Servite monastery.
May peace prevail on earth.
A view of the Peace garden.
Fabulous color!
St. Francis.
St. Peregrine, patron saint of cancer patients. There was a place that you could write the name of a loved one and place it in a bin to be offered up by the servite priests.
With the rainy season upon us, we are all trying to get outside as much as possible, even if it means traipsing through the rain to absorb as much sunlight as possible. I am trying to get it together and be more consistent with blogging, but since the lost camera has STILL not been found, it may be a bit spotty for the next month or so!

Short post until I find my camera...

Hello! We are all alive and well, and super busy. I have lost the camera in the house somewhere so a much overdue photo blog will be coming next with pictures of Aaron's birthday party and Tanner and Lisa's visit! I will leave you with a ridiculous trailer for New Moon. Courtney, Ben and I have already purchase our tickets for the midnight release. Woot! Please don't judge us.

Suavie Island

So Ben and I decided that this year we were going to go and pick our own pumpkins. Suavie Island is about thirty minutes away and is an agricultural community with lots of you pick it farms and wildlife reserves. The day that we went there was a great view of Mt. St Helens, Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams AND Mt. Ranier. Crazy.
Ben and I were a little snotty about the corn maze. We thought it would take us fifteen minutes tops and would end up being a waste of time. However. it took us 45 minutes to an hour to complete the maze and by the end of it I developed a healthy fear of corn fields and we had a bunch of fun trying to figure out the maze and dodge the adolescent boys that were running through it.



I don't know if you can see Ben's face very well in this picture, but this is right after we had been in the maze for twenty minutes and had just discovered that we had ended up at the start of the maze again.
We took a hayride out to the pumpkin fields!



Hooray! All in all it was a really fun date. We ended our visit to the pumpkin patch with a carmel apple and some kettle corn. delicious.

MY what a busy week we've had.

This is what we come home to every day.
Is that your ridiculously expensive calculator you had to buy? Look at that smile!
Keep up the good work Court! Only a few more years and you'll be a physical therapist and able to pay for all of our rent. Hooray!
Look how long Ben's hair is?
This is my FAVORITE headband ever. Stevie and Kate got it for me.
Although, we don't have cable, ESPN 360 has been a God send for Ben this football season. Now he can watch two games at once! Oh goody.
Ben's been (hee hee) really busy with Farmer's basketball recently. In the two on two tournament he won second place! We decided to put the trophy on the mantel...for the week.
He really really loves me taking his picture.
The perfect way to end a week is to eat some awesome Thai food with friends.
Kasey and Ben, generally awesome. They will be more awesome if Kasey brings me over the pecan pie they made yesterday. Next post, Lindsay and Ben's trip to the pumpkin patch.