Visiting Kat

The end of February Ryan went on a snowboarding trip with his brother and some friends to Tahoe so I headed to Oregon to visit Kat. It was such a fun weekend just hanging out and catching up. I loved Portland- the city was so different but had such a good vibe. I also got to see my Uncle Jeff and Aunt Mary while I was there, it worked out perfect that they were both in town that weekend! 

PORTLAND, OREGON

Getting attacked by Ben

Hanging out at the coffee shop

In the coffee shop they had these old library drawers that people can write notes and leave them in there. It was fun reading through a few of them!

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

We headed up to Seattle on Sunday and spent the day there. The two hour drive up there was absolutely beautiful! We watched the sunrise through the mountains and fog. So worth getting up at like 4:30am!!

Conversation with Michelle (Kat's roommate) and Kat before we left for Seattle:

M: "Have you ever been to Seattle?"

W: "No this is my first time to Oregon"

M: "So have you ever been to Seattle?"

W: confused by the question "No, I've never been to Oregon"

K: "Whit, Seattle is in WASHINGTON!!"

The Troll Under The Bridge 

(As seen in 10 Things I Hate About You) 

It was so neat to go see this, its just a huge troll underneath a bridge crushing a VW Beetle! It even had a heart beat...

I definitely came home and watched "10 Things I Hate About You" 

so I could see the part with the troll!!

My street

The Space Needle 

Back In Portland...

Voodoo Doughnuts 

On my last night it Portland we went downtown so Kat could take me here. Its a famous little doughnut shop with CRAZY doughnuts!! Things such as the bacon maple bar (a maple bar with bacon on it) And lots of others, many of them being inappropriate!! 

The before..Kat got the classic "Voodoo" and I went for the "Old Dirty Bastard"

The Voodoo

Doughnut with chocolate glaze and Oreo chunks then drizzled with peanut butter

So good...

"I think I'm going to die" 

And that was only after eating less than half!! It was so rich but great. But its probably the ONLY doughnut I will eat in all of 2010 so I'm glad I went for a good one!

Sad Puppy

Karma got fixed about two weeks ago and it was pretty pathetic!! Ryan was supposed to get home the night she had the surgery but got stuck in New Jersey due to bad weather so I was on my own!! It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be and she even had pain medicine! (even though is smelt AWFUL!!!) 

She insisted on laying her head on my hand

And being on my lap covered up any time I was home with her

Tis' The Season

LOTS OF PICTURES FROM OVER THE HOLIDAYS....

HANGING OUT

Karma trying to stay warm on a cold rainy day!

Logan & Gracie Belle

Spending time with the boys shooting guns

Emma Jane playing at the park

Birch Street after seeing the Squeekquil!

CHRISTMAS PARTY

The Nativity...

Mary Joseph...and baby Jesus Trixie! 

(The real baby Jesus was Gracie, Trixie just tried to steal her spotlight) 

Also...the only reason this picture is in sepia is because of that stupid black line, this was the only way for the picture to come out and I thought it was a good one and kind of summed up how our attempt at a nativity went!

The Angels

Emma, Abbey, Sophie

The Wise Men

Jon, Ryan, Royal

The Cow

Logan, who was so not into this whole thing!

Sophie sharing her cute snowman that Karen made for all the kids

An intense game of Left, Right, Center

CHRISTMAS EVE

Cooper & Owen

Ryan & Owen

Mackenzie & Sophie

Owen

Matching sister jammie's

And matching brother-in-law pj's...

CHRISTMAS MORNING

Poor little Karma went into heat on Christmas Eve! So here she is a little traumatized in Gracie's onsie with her favorite present!

Owen checking out the love blanket I made for him

Gracie opening her's before her nap

NEW YEAR'S EVE

The long awaited opening of Cafe Rio in Lake Forest, so amazing!!

Karma getting into the festivities

No one was in the New Year's spirit but Karen and Ashley were good sports and celebrated with me!

Cheers!

THE ROSE PARADE

Sadly my camera died during the parade so I only have a few..

Karen & Layne

Trying to get Landen to enjoy the parade!

Ryan and Abbey at the Grove

BIG BEAR ATTEMPT 2

Last year we tried to go sledding up in big bear and only made it half way up the mountain due to too much snow. This year, we made it less than half way up the mountain, it was 75 degrees out and taking about 4 hours to make it to the top! So maybe next time we'll actually make it up to Big Bear!!

Not wanting to turn around..

Trying to decide if we should..we were moving so slow that Ryan could get out of our car and stand on Royal and Nicole's to talk to them!

It was so hot and we were all in sledding gear!

Snack Time!