One thing I love about Oregon is how green it is.  I cannot stand the rain that is responsible for all this lushness though.  Once the rain ends it’s like this mad rush to get things planted and hope your garden has enough time to produce.  Last year we were rainy until nearly July so our garden took a hit.  The tomatoes didn’t have enough warm ( Read more... )

I’m trying to round up our garden pictures from the summer and sort through them to eventually upload onto Flickr.  But in the meantime here’s some of the rewards of having a nice garden.  Last weekend I was on a mission to get some things made and frozen before the rainy season hits us.  I made my second batch of spaghetti sauce (so imagine this ( Read more... )

Saturday was one of those intermittent rainy Oregon days.  That usually means, get stuff done outside when you can.  We started off early by getting the rest of my compost soil for my garden bed and then I hit up various stores to fill in the gaps of veggies/herbs I still needed.  Lastly, I had to get Lowe’s to price match the 99cent Margiold/ ( Read more... )

Last Friday we had our 4 year old check up for Braysen.  He’s 36 lbs and 42 inches tall now.  We are staying at a nice 90% height and well, his weight is on the same curve it’s always been on…didn’t say what % but I’m guessing 30% since that’s where we’ve always been.  What can I say, he’s tall & skinny like Patrick.  In fact, I pretty much think ( Read more... )

Patrick flies home this evening from Houston and then we hit the ground running with lots of stuff going on this weekend!  It’s been a crazy week!  One of the most annoying comments is about how we “did it or made it through the week” as opposed to the house burning down and all of us losing our minds or something.  Of course we made it, I  can ( Read more... )