Family Beach Trip

Today was beautiful! Even at the coast. Erik, Henry, and I took a mini vaca to good old Lincoln City today. As you can tell it was sunny. I know, shocking for April!! It was Henry's first visit to the beach, and he LOVED it. It took him a little while to get into the idea of the water, but after just a few waves, he was chasing and chomping them like a pro. It was a great way to celebrate the end of busy season!

Yet another self portrait...

Henry with his new friend Stick!

He's almost swimming!

I love this beach...and those boys!

Hope you all had a relaxing Saturday!

It has been awhile!

I know, I haven't posted in forever. I guess I felt like after we moved there wasn't anything exciting left to say! Okay, maybe that's a bit dramatic, so here's the update. Things around the house are going well. It's feeling more and more like home every time we hang something new, or move things around. It's hard to believe we have been in the house almost four weeks. It's gone by so fast.

We had a ton of fun last weekend. Erik mowed the lawn, I planted and weeded, we washed cars, Henry ran around like a crazy dog, everyone was happy! We also met my parents up at Mt. Tabor to take the dogs for a walk. Max (my parent's dog) isn't too sure about Henry, but they did great walking! After, we all went to Lucky Lab where Henry made some new friends!

All in all, things are great. We are definitely excited Erik will be around more as of next week (end of busy season). I think Henry is especially excited! I just don't wrestle the same way Erik does :) He's getting so big so fast.

Erin and Erik in Real Life

We did it! All of our belongings are in our new place. We cleaned and turned in keys to the apartment and are officially in the house! It was a whirlwind of a weekend with painting, more painting, packing, Uhauling, more packing, loading, and unloading. Oh yeah, and some organizing too! We are so thankful for all of our friends and family who helped. We really couldn't have done it without you! You are the best!

Here's what things at our place look like right now...and I love every bit of it!

Family room with full drill kit and blue ray box hanging out on our bench!

Kitchen full of, well kitchen stuff and a couple of lamps! (Yes, Erik is wearing a flannel and pajama pants...nice outfit babe :)

Dining room with a much better green than the first attempt!

Master with boxes of clothes still on the bed.

Master bath. More clutter!

Despite the pure chaos that is our house right now, we are loving every second of it! Thanks again to all who helped throughout this process!

The fun begins

Today is the start of the weekend of moving! We are taking this place over, changing a few things (wall colors) adding a few things (well, actually a whole lot of things....our things) and enjoying it all. We are so excited to be in the house! I (Erin) am ever so slightly overwhelmed with the thought of this weekend especially with the latest development of Erik catching a cold :) If you are a praying sort, a prayer in our direction would be much appreciated as we blaze through this weekend! We are so blessed that this gets to be ours!!! Technically the banks, but whatever! I'm hoping to take some pictures throughout the weekend as well, so I'll update sometime next week.

Carpet, a kitchen, and a final move in date!

Wow, I haven't done an inside the house blog in awhile, and so much has changed! We have carpet, we have a kitchen, and we have a fireplace!

Here is the view of the kitchen with our stove waiting to be placed.

Here is our nearly completed bathroom.

View from the family room into the kitchen.

From the kitchen into the family room.

We are getting more and more excited every day. We also have a final closing date. We close on March 12th and will move in on the 14th. We are hoping to use the 12th and 13th to get some painting done! Can't believe it's only 14 days away.

Henry

This is Henry. He is our newest family member. We think he's pretty cute. Henry is a 6 1/2 week old Border Collie/Blue Heeler mix. His interests include whining while he eats, chewing on shoes or ropes or toys or fingers or anything else you might put in front of his mouth, he also likes cuddling. Welcome Henry!

See ya!

We spent Sunday evening with some wonderful friends celebrating and saying goodbye. Well, technically we did a lot more celebrating and a lot less saying goodbye, since that's the sad part. We decided happy hour at Portland City Grill was just the right setting! If you've never been there, you have to try it...great happy hour with an even better view of Portland from the 30th floor!

As I've mentioned before Tracy and Tyson are leaving (this Thursday) for Peru for over two years. Although I am in total denial that we won't see them for two years I am so excited to hear about all their adventures. Jeannie, Tracy and I have been great friends since college and even got to share a house in the booming metropolis of Lafayette, Oregon. We have such fun memories and always have a blast when we get to spend time together. I feel so blessed that our husbands enjoy time together as much as we do!

A few moments from the evening...

We had to get the spacing just right :)

We did it! Girls...was this the good one??? Funny, when I looked at them again, they all looked the same. Maybe the last 9 pictures Erik took weren't really necessary!

Boys being boys...

Boys being well, I'm not sure well behaved boys?!...

Friends, we will miss you so much! We love you!!