Stuffed to the Brim!!

My parents were nice enough to stock us up on the essentials before making the trip home from ARCTIC BLAST '08. After raiding their pantry and a trip to Costco, we are now ready for another semester of home cooking. This picture does not do our new pantry justice but helps you understand why we are just a little concerned about whether or not the shelves will live up to their stated 300 lbs. capacity.

Beautiful Bow Pt. 2

Even though we were not home most of this month to put up the pieces, I thought I would show what it would look like completed.

Arctic Blast '08

The weather outside was frightful. It also postponed our trip back down south for almost a week (6 days that is!!). Here are some pictures from the storm that broke all previous Portland Records.

It really wasn't a ton of snow, about 2 feet, it was the complete lack of any means to get rid of the snow and 6 inches of ice on all roads. IE: Plows, Sanding, DeIcing, Etc. The driving was treacherous, not to say we didn't drive all over in it!!

PS... THIS IS THE HIGHWAY!!!!!!!

Million Christmas Lights

WARNING!! If you get motion sick beware!!

I'm just kidding. Its not that bad. We just wanted you to sort of see what the town looks like during Christmas time. So many lights!!

Christmas Time is Here

We are prepared for it. Well, as prepared as anyone can be I suppose. We have our tree up with the train ready to go. It makes a TON of noise but is pretty fun (for about 30 seconds). The smoke stack still smokes. Which makes me wonder what they have in there to make it do that.

We have our stockings hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that someday we might actually have a chimney to hang our stockings.

Beautiful Bow

Here is the fruits of our labor. True, the bow took us many hours to make but I believe it turned out very well.

Strangeness In Ashland

While walking around the little town of Ashland we are always amazed at what we see. Here is a 15 foot bronze... thing...

Not sure if you can notice, but down on the bottom left corner there is a Donkey/Man... thing... Very strange!! The image somehow became messed up but perhaps thats just from the large amounts of strange!!