hello again...

Well, it's been forever, I know. Since I last posted I started teaching first grade at Logos (which I love), moved into a new apartment (which I love), and gained a nephew (whom I love). Those are just a few of the big things that have happened so far. Of course more has happened, but for now, just a brief update and hopefully I will get better about posting.

Summertime Poem

Walking Across The Atlantic

I wait for the holiday crowd to clear the beach
before stepping onto the first wave.

Soon I am walking across the Atlantic
thinking about Spain,
checking for whales, waterspouts.
I feel the water holding up my shifting weight.
Tonight I will sleep on its rocking surface.

But for now I try to imagine what
this must look like to the fish below,
the bottoms of my feet appearing, disappearing.

A little preview of the concert I'm going to tonight...

Sometimes it's just crazy...

crafts and snacks at the same time...probably not the best idea.

Guess who turned 21!!!

JILLZO! Christy and I took her out for her first drink!

An Interesting Waste of Time

Well, my roommates and I have been doing a lot of sporcling(or however you spell that). It's a site that gives you random quizzes of everything you can think of...very educational - at least that's what I tell myself when I've wasted lots of time on it. Anyways - you should check it out... www.sporcle.com. Be prepared to get stuck.

Here Comes Christmas

Well, now that Brian is married and has tons of children (haha...just two actually) we have started drawing names for Christmas. This year we drew two names each, plus we all get gifts for mum and pop. This year I got Brian and Luke. Brian was pretty easy - but I won't tell you what I got him in case he reads this. Luke however is a whole different story. His list is very specific and also - strange. For example he asked for a Bugatti Veyron(very nice, very expensive, and very impractical sports car) and t-shirts - but not just any t-shirts of course but "t-shirts that don't flare out after going through the wash and make me look slim and trim and also don't get all stiff and wrinkled at the edges." So, I laughed out loud when I read his list and still have not gotten him anything. Not cuz I don't want to, but because his specificity has challenged me to surprise him, but I haven't thought of something clever enough to do it with yet. Anyways, Christmas is coming!

Loved At All - Joel Ansett Featuring Dan De Cristofaro

Baking

So Oliver and Layla helped me use up my old bananas the other day...I think they had fun and I know Oliver liked the muffins.

Layla ate while we cooked...actually Oliver fed her:)

Layla's ONE!

Layla turned one on the 12th! I went over and babysat for about an hour for Paige and had to document the day...Oliver prefers to take pictures rather than be in them.

She is the happiest baby I've ever met and we all love her - me especially.

Crepes - Paris again?

Margeaux, Monique, and I were really missing our crepes - which we had every day in Paris. So, we decided to have a little reunion and make ham and cheese crepes for dinner, with tomato, basil and mozarella salad, and then nutella and strawberry desert crepes. They were delicious!
Oh and we invited Jill along cuz we love her! We missed Kate, but decided that maybe we should just visit her in Spain before she leaves...so that's the dream for now.

The Dunes

Last weekend we went to the Dunes. It was so nice and warm, even though the tide wasn't out as far as it usually is in the summer. Layla and Oliver loved it...

Riding out the roof.

My Fair Ride...thanks to free tickets from Paige!

The Fair

I met up with Brian and Paige and the kids at the Moscow fair tonight. It's not very fun, but Oliver loved the animals - and the ride too apparently though I wasn't there for that part. He and Brian spent a long time watch the huge pigs and their babies...
They also petted the cows.
While Layla and I just hung out together - we had a great time too.
Fair Food Anyone?

My Date with Oliver

Today Oliver and I went to the park...
We saw Jill there as she was leaving her last class of the day.

Oliver ate a very large cookie.And then he did some yoga.
It was soo fun. I haven't gotten to take little O out for a date in such a long time - because of how busy I was with school. Now I am no longer in school and have a lot more time to take him to the park and buy him cookies and teach him how to shop for toys. Isn't that just grand!

School...again.

I finished my first week of school and loved it. I'm only taking two classes this semester, but that's mostly because I am trying to finish my pre-reqs for nursing so that I can get into an accelerated program. Anatomy/Physiology is so interesting...especially because the professor is a veterinarian-which means she relates everything to animals. Chemistry is less exciting, but still cool. Plus I love the fact that I can just memorize things and then write them out on tests and that's all I have to do. I'm crazy busy right now because I'm also working 20 hours at Logos, but I love that too. I do secretarial things and then put band-aids on scraped knees etc. I start volunteering at Gritman next weekend, which should be interesting, since I'm not sure what I'll be doing yet. I love being busy though, because I seem to get more done in shorter periods of time. I know I haven't put up pictures for awhile, but it's cuz I haven't been carrying my camera around with me as much, so I need to start doing that. But for now, that's it and I'm off to study the cavities of the body.

Le Creuset

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Camping

I went camping with some girlfriends this weekend and it was soo fun. We were going to stay at Priest Lake, which was full, so we ended up camping at Marshall Lake and driving to Priest Lake for the day. It worked out great. Beautiful Priest Lake...
Delicious Breakfast made by Lizzie (eggs, bacon, sausage, oatmeal, and coffee).
Sitting around our lantern fire while we waited for the logs.
Driving around looking for a campground...nourishment and a map.

Palouse Cup

So, the boys all played in a little soccer tournament a few weekends ago. The Gordons came over from Seattle and we had a grand time watching the games and hanging out.



Oliver got a little tired of it all...