//smidgens/sept/20-22/2013

//Friday/dinner out at Goose Hollow Inn/first time pop in to City Target/family fun night at the in-law's

//Saturday/beautiful day/day trip to The Vista Point for amazing views & history/dinner with the fam

//Sunday/golf/brunch/honorable mention:homemade biscuits

//note to self/start packing the real camera!/sorries for the crappy photo quality

Tristen has been hustling Entertainment Books all week.  You know what I'm talking about, right? Those books with coupons that all the kids hustle for the school?  It's the first year I've allowed him to participate in a school fundraiser.  I had him trained not to even bring those darn things home.  I've always been highly opposed to guilt'ing friends and family to buy cheap crap.  But this year he's fundraising for a trip to Ashland for the Shakespearean Festival, and I'll be damned if I'm not going to swallow my pride and allow him to raise the money on his own. ;) Every Portland based family in the family has bought one, what Gems of family we have.  It's been a fun experience for us too, really.  We've already saved more than the purchase price of the book by taking that coupon book out and about town, and have eaten at some fun places we likely never would have discovered on our own.  Fine School Fundraisers.  Fine.

// I will be posting back and forth between our Wedding story and keeping up with current life happenings.  

:: _________ ::

:: crossfit ::

class was saturday, and she talked for half of it, and we worked out for the other half.

and today?  today I hurt so bad, I feel so many muscles I didn't even know I had,

and it's misery.  pure misery.  Rhett knew what he was doing when he prepaid a hefty

little sum for 10 classes.  I have to go.

anticipate a lot of dramatics and whining to come.. 

:: eating well ::

"tomorrow, I will start my diet"

I've been saying that ... for about three hundred and forty-three days.

hopefully tomorrow it will really happen.

:: family ::

just look at him! 

friday night we BBQ'd and hung out with the fam,

and there was a bubble machine involved.

:: Sixto "Sugarman" Rodriguez ::

have you heard this story??

HAVE YOU HEARD THIS STORY

it is incredible.  brought chills and tears.

"Searching for Sugar Man" is out on DVD 

I highly recommend you get your hands on it,

if you haven't already.  Amazing.  

:: apple bottom ::

nothing further.  ;)

:: lost ::

see that beautiful, almost white, 

8 module (2 sections not shown in photo above)

sleek, contemporary sectional above?   

I don't know what to do with it!!!  

I loooove it, but it brings such a new feel to the house,

there are 101 possibilities of how to arrange it,

and man, I just don't know what to do.

I feel a total re-haul coming on.. 

-m-

20 hours with my nephews

taking a four year old to his favorite place in the whole world is the best thing in the world.  My brother and sister in law jetted over to the coast for the seafood and wine festival and Rhett and I jetted over to my bro's house to spend some quality time with my momma, who was watching my nephews, and the boys.  The extra cherry on top was that my brother Brandon was able to drop in and we got to spend time with him too!!  Ryan was dying to go to Putter's, so to Putter's we went.  My how the clicker on my camera goes nutso when I'm around these little people.  It was a quick over and out trip, but truly the sweetest duration of 20 hours I've had in some time.