Sunday, June 15, 2008

Video???



Ok, so I have messed around and messed around with this video...I know that I was able to rotate it once, but I can't figure out how to do it again....so just tilt your head to the left and ENJOY!!

The first video was taken about 1 month ago, the 2nd video is so cute and it was taken on Friday.

Jobs...jobs...jobs...change!!

Liam "posing for the camera"
More poses...what a ham!!!!



Tree-hugger!
Tyler is pretty hard to get a picture of these days, that kid is fast and doesn't sit still at all!!!


Tyler having fun at a party!!


Liam is almost a computer tech!
Liam liked the swing!!

Ok some random stuff! Of course, the big news was Ryan's graduation!! YEAH after 7 years, I don't think either of us really think he is done. It will be short lived because he is off to grad school soon!

Luckily Ryan got another job offer with Intel, right in his same area, just as a Engineer! So, unlike me he will be using his degree. He is just waiting on some details before all that is official, but if everything goes through, it will be a Monday-Friday 8-5 type job, so we might even be able to have a normal life.

With all the excitement with Ryan...I actually have had quite a bit of excitement with my career. I quit my job at Emerald Staffing after 5 1/2 years to accept an offer at Leonard Adams Insurance to be the Assistant to the Commercial Lines Manager. I am hoping it is a good career move for me. The company is bigger and it is a new industry! I will be doing all their Human Resources and general management there, of course that is all after I learn to speak insurance! I start my new job on Monday! So wish me luck!

My friend at work had a going away party for me on Friday, so alot of the above pics are from that! Tyler and Liam had so much fun!!

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Ryan Graduated!!!



After 7 LONG years!! Ryan graduated on Friday! Of course it isn't "really" official yet because PSU mails the diploma's out (stupid-I know). But at least he went to the ceremony and his name was on the program as a graduate, so I am feeling pretty confident that he finished!


I tried to take some pictures but the lighting was horrible! You would think that for the commencement ceremony for the Electrical Engineering department that they would at least figure out how to use some lights, but I guess some things just aren't meant to be!


Enjoy the few pics and Congrats to RYAN!!!


Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Busy Busy Busy...

These last three weeks have been pretty busy!! Ryan's mom came out for Mother's Day weekend. We had a great time! The boys had so much fun with her. Ryan took us out to an amazing brunch at one of the nice hotel's downtown...we had Salmon, Ahi, Oysters, cheeses and all sorts of fruit. Plus the dessert area was amazing (I think that was Tyler's favorite part!)

We had to get a new washer recently, our old one was making this awful noise and Ryan was sure that it would go out at any moment, so sure enough, after almost 10 years of marriage, my husband committed an unspeakable act and got me a washing machine for Mother's day. I'm a lucky gal...what can I say! Liam loves the washer, he loves to watch the clothes go around!


Here he is at 10 months old! I almost forgot to take pictures that day, so this was right before bedtime! He still has some "crazy hair"!

The weekend after Mother's Day, I went up to Mt Hood for a company retreat. (yeah, fancy word for party). My boss has a 6000 sq ft "cabin" in Government Camp, there is still so much snow there. At his house there was literally 20 feet of snow piled up on the side of the house. It was really wierd because it was about 85 degrees out and 20 feet of snow...here are some scenery shots.







Last weekend, Memorial Day, we took our annual camping trip to Lake Billy Chinook in Central Oregon. Tyler had so much fun, he really loves camping!


Tyler did a good job sitting by the fire with the other kids! That kid can eat some marshmallows!






Here is Liam in "jail". He didn't like to spend any time in his playpen, he had much more fun out crawling and walking around! Speaking of walking...he can take 2-3 steps here and there on his own and every day he seems to be getting better! I am pretty sure that he will be walking no problem by summer! Look out Connecticut!






Tyler and the dogs in the dog park!





Liam loves to hang out in the hammock, he would pull the flaps over himself and play peek-a-boo!






After we got back from Camping, Liam discovered the quad. Ryan caught him standing on the seat area! FUTURE STUNTER??



Other than being super busy, the kids are doing well! Tyler is really into Star Wars, Ryan has these legos that he let Tyler play with and then one day we let him watch the movies....big mistake...all he does is talk about Star Wars. Yesterday he asked me for a Yoda costume for Halloween....oh man, he is all boy!
I am going to try and attach some video of Liam walking.








Saturday, May 10, 2008

3rd Generation Submariner??




Well, I don't know about that...(Tyler isn't so silent!!!), but Tyler sure had fun all over the submarine at the museum. He is finally old enough to go on the sub so Ryan took him on Friday. Ryan said he tried to play it cool on tour, like he was just another tourist, but he said that somehow it slipped that he was on a sub before and of course the tour guide was full of questions!! Liam and Ryan's mom hung out at the baby section of the museum...sorry Liam you have about 3 more years before you can go on the sub!!!

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Winter Camping in April!

It warmed up a bit and a lot of the snow melted, there was still some cloud cover but not a half bad day after all. It was very pretty up where we were.

We also brought along indoor activities since we knew it might be cold, so here is Liam doing his new favorite thing, standing up! He likes to stand up and play on this play table and we put it up on one of the bunks for him to play with, Think he is having fun? I cant really tell!!!


Liam found a water bottle that became his new favortite toy for the day, he was obviously very happy with it.

Tyler went out for a bit to play in the snow and ended up throwing snow at Emmy who just tried to eat it. Tyler loves camping and has a ton of fun regardless of weather.

Our Modest campsite. Everyone else there was in full on travel trailers and fifth wheels, they must have thought we were crazy for being out there in tent trailer. I have extra insulation that I installed though for colder weather and we had an extra space heater that we brought along, it actually stayed pretty warm inside, a littel cramped with two kids, two parent, and a dog but we had fun none the less!

Saturday morning this is what we woke up to, very pretty but a little on the cold side.


Snow in April! And we went camping in it! Crazy peoples from OryGun!

I am writing this instead of Julie so bear with me this time. We recently had a new State Park (Stub Stewart) open here in Oregon (about 35 minutes from home), so we decided to get the trailer out and take a weekend trip to celebrate my sabbatical starting. We were supposed to go with some friends but they heard it was going to be cold and wussed out on us, I said "Its April, it wont be that cold, we are still going!" Well the day we were leaving we heard it might snow, good thing I had taken measures to add extra insulation to the trailer for colder weather camping (and hunting!). Anyhow, I picked Tyler up from school early and him and I took the trailer and got it all set up and then drove back to pick up Mom and Liam. We had cooked dinner before hand (great idea Hon!) and I was just building a fire when this crazy white stuff started coming down! Needless to say it didnt stop and we woke up to about 3" of snow in the campground. We had two heaters though so we stayed warm inside.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Walking?? Soon??

9 months old today!!








We stopped by a vineyard after the knife show in Eugene, there was an awesome view of the mountains, wow, there is a ton of snow out there still!



Tyler and Liam after our picnic lunch at the knife show!










Well, Liam has his sights set on walking, now that he has the crawling thing down he has no interest in crawling. He spent most of the day today pulling himself up into a standing position. I found him standing on the kitchen chairs, the dog's food dish stand, Tyler's step stool and all of his toys...He was only happy when he was standing or walking today.






Oh boy, what am I going to do?



I have some video to load up, I should have it up by tomorrow, since my laptop won't load video...