Since we haven't blogged forever...

Since we haven't blogged forever here are a few updates:

July: We were going to move to Redmond into a rental we owned but we really didn't want to so heather put a sign in the yard "for sale by owner" and it sold 1 week later and closed in 3 weeks (that's what we call a miracle folks).

We also took a week long family vacation to "the Chaz Mar" heather's families beach house on the Oregon coast. It was nice

August: We had a full on garden (to us at least) and we harvested tomatoes, zucchini, yellow crook neck squash, sweet peas, lettuce and we had a bunch of sunflowers!

September: We moved into a new house with 4 bedrooms (the McGarry's old house). With all the extra room we were able to get a roomate (Jeremiah Spanbaur) as well as have my good friend Adam Short stay with us for 5 weeks while he was doing a rotation for his physicians assistant program.

October: I started a new job at the Church as director of the kid's ministry (and I love it), and we hired a new part time worship leader named Chris Chabot (and I love him).

Heather turned 30 years old! I had a little suprise party for her at our house. We got home from dinner and everyone was hiding in the kitchen. Heather went straight up stairs to feed Samantha, put her to bed and then Heather went in our bathroom to get ready for bed. 15 minutes later she comes down stairs and everyone yelled suprise :-)

Also our really good friends Gary & Courtney Christenson had their baby girl!

The Fruit Loop

O.K. I haven't blogged for 4 months but now I am feeling ready to blog as much as a geek plays computer games. Right now we are in Hood River Oregon with the McGarry's. There is a 35 mile loop where you can visit over 20 farms. Today we went to this organic farm with really good apples and an amazing view. We rented this vacation home on-line and when we arrived at it this afternoon it was funny because the 2 pictures of it on the internet are like the 2 nicest things in the house, the rest of the house feels like it was pieced together from scrap wood and thrift stores! Our room doesn't even have a door. We are having a great time though, it is nice to get the heck out of dodge every once in awhile.