Christmas Spirit

I have been feeling the Christmas spirit early this year and I'm going to enjoy it. I can't decorate my home in all my favorite decorations so I'm decorating my blog. Yes, my Mother will disown me for "putting up" Christmas decor before Thanksgiving but I'm willing to risk it. Plus it has been snowing in Klamth Falls all week so I can say this is for Chris. : )

update

We're not dead, we're just not any fun. Chris is studying and or working EVERY minute he is awake. I'm back up in Washington to work for the next few months. I couldn't stay busy enough with just massage and couldn't find other work either and considering that we still have bills/tuition to pay we figured that I better follow the money. I've been busy working at Massage Envy in Issaquah and I'm bringing in the dough. As much as I miss Chris everyday I try to appreciate the extra time with family. He's already been able to visit once last weekend and will be back up for Thanksgiving. So although our situation sucks I do still have a lot I am greatful for.

Birds!!!!!!!

There once as a flock of pigieons who liked to poop on my house.

But I am not one to get pooped on so to fight this injustice I became the Pigeon slayer.

and by night I hunt the pigeons with great determination. Using the most powerful of weapons the Silent and deadly sling shot known to only the mightest of warriors to ward off would be grand daughter theives.

One night I "the pigeon hunter" had slain one of the unholy pigeons with my mighty wrist rocket.

But little did I know pigeons are able to ressurect from the dead. Because the next afternoon the unholy pigeon was gone.

so behold the unholy pegion lives again and I the pigeon hunter must do all that is his power with his mighty sling shot to prevent my house from be pooped on.

And this is a picture of stark doing his new trick the Nose treat balance

Pumpkins!

I counted down the days till it was officially October so I could by a pumpkin and not be a wierdo. Well, Chris still thought I was wierd for buying pumpkins so early but then he saw my awesome design.

I saw this idea in a magazine and loved it. They had
black gems glued on but I just did glitter paint.

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... Uh, it's snowing outside. Not sticking yet, but still snowing. I guess I better get used to this "cold front".

Cold Front

I am excited about Fall, I am not ready for Winter.

The Belated Post of Labor Day Camping

Our first... and last ... evening at Brooking.

Stark LOVES camping and the beach. This trip was just as much for him as it was for us.

We had foil dinners on the first night, so good. You may notice the "cocoa" pot, my favorite camping supply.

So lots of long stories short: we got rained out of our Brookings campsite. We new it was going to rain but didn't quite expect this. It was great, it added to the fun memories and we explored a lot more because of it.

One of the days it was rainy and stormy. I was thinking our trip was ruined, Chris was thinking this was the perfect day.... to fly a kite of course. Chris had a lot of fun learning to fly his new kite and loved every windy moment. We have even flown it on a few evenings here at the park.

We moved on and camped along the Smith river about 15 miles inland. We had lots of trees, dry weather, and lots of room for Stark to run around but we still didn't want to miss out on our planned activites. We drove back to the coast and had a fun day at the aquariem and the Trees of Mystery.

While everyone else was surfing I found these guys.

Oh yeah.

Back the the aquariem. Chris pet a shark, but never really would take his eye off it.

And she was there too, at the family friendly aquariem. On to the Trees of Mystery.

We stopped at this beach along hwy 101 then went back for lunch later. This one's for you Juliana. Chris wasn't wild about the idea of eatting random weeds from the forest but Nic and Ali liked them.

Smith River

It was a great trip.

Trick or Treat?

So as usual I'm very excited about Halloween but I have a problem. I really want to go trick or treating and I have no kids to dress up. I've offered to steal other people's kids but no one will go for it and I think following random children around a neighborhood is just creepy. My other option would be dressing up Stark but I still don't think I would get any candy for it. So I think my last hope will be to decorate the outside of my house to try to lure the children here. I don't think I'll have any luck convincing Chris to dress up just so we can sit around our house and eat candy and watch a "scary" movie. Uh, what to do.

Laptop Down

Our laptop is currently out of commission. I've been anxious to blog about our exciting life of camping and the fair but it is really boring without pictures so you'll have to wait.

Lava Beds National Park

This is the Lava Beds National Park in Tulelake CA. Chris and I learned a lot of cool stuff about the area and it's history that I have already forgotten. We had a ton of fun exploring and it was a great workout. I know this was back in June because I remember still being sore from the relay.

Chris is sure that 200 years ago when these petroglifs were made it was just the village idiot doodling.

One of my favorite wild flowers, Indian Paint Brush.

Inside a cave with the flash on.

Hippie Ice Cave - or something like that.

Inside a cave with out flash :)

Looking down a chimney.Me looking down the chimney.