Evergreen Museum

When we were in the US on vacation, we took a trip to the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum. It is the home of the famous Spruce Goose, built by Howard Hughes. It is a great museum with a separate building for space history and aviation history, an IMAX theater, a wonderful snackbar/cafe, and even its own vineyard with wine tastings held under the wings of the Spruce Goose. When we move to Oregon, we will definitely become members. (And when Bill is old and retired, he can volunteer and tell visitors all about airplanes they don't care about!) We had the museum mostly to ourselves so we were free to run around and enjoy it. We also had the special treat of Army helicopters visiting the museum for the day. It was a very thrilling outing...can't wait to go again! Enjoy the video of our recent visit (sorry if it's kind of long...we had fun!).

Bill enjoying a wine tasting
(with the wings of the Spruce Goose above)

Grandpa's Wedding

While we were in the US, my grandpa got married. I was so happy that we could be there and share his special day. It was a nice ceremony with family and friends. I made a small wedding video montage to help them remember the day. (Unless you're related, this probably won't be too interesting, but I wanted to share it anyway.) Congratulations Grandpa!

Swimming

Hello, friends, I'm back!! After a two week vacation, and 4 days without internet, I'm going to attempt to get caught up on my blog. I will start by posting some videos of our time in the US. We spent a lot of time with family just having fun. We didn't do anything too fantastical, but we enjoyed ourselves. I really will try to catch up on all the things I've been meaning to write about. I guess I'll find out if I still have any readers out there!

For now, enjoy a video of my niece and nephews at swimming lessons! They are GREAT swimmers and we had fun watching them!

Halfway

Hello, friends! Yesterday was my half birthday. Not something I celebrate, but I was aware of it because this year I have a list of 30 goals I'm trying to accomplish. And, if yesterday was my half birthday, you might think that I'd be halfway thru my list...but you'd be wrong! Very wrong! I took a look at the list last night and it was almost depressing. I only have 6 goals crossed off! ONLY SIX! Now, part of the reason is that I can't fully cross off some of the goals until the year is over because they are ongoing or reoccurring. So, I am making progress on about 5 others. But, that's still only 11 goals, out of 30. I realize that I need to get busy. I also realize that I probably won't make it. In fact, I know there are a few that I've already failed at...like exercise twice a week. (that's just an impossible goal for me anyway). So, at the end of the year, I will give myself 1 point for each completed goal, half a point for each partially completed goal, and a negative point for each goal that hasn't even been attempted. I hope I can get a passing grade...but at this point I'm really not sure.

At least the near future looks promising...I have plans to complete a few more goals in the next couple months so it will feel good to cross some things off. I'll be sure to blog about each goal as it is completed. Oh wait, I think I missed a post! I did! Back when my computer died, I never wrote about our Valentine's Day vacation. I will get on that. I'll have to find some good photos and then I'll write about our trip. Something to look forward to!

Until then, have a wonderful day...

Happy Easter

I trust everyone had a happy Easter weekend! We had a wonderful 3-day weekend and enjoyed the quiet. Things here shut down for Good Friday and everyone leaves town...so it was nice and calm. On Easter, after church, we had a few friends over for Easter Dinner. I made roast leg of lamb, a bunch of side dishes, and carrot cake. I've never made lamb before but it turned out great and everyone enjoyed it! All the side dishes (wild rice pilaf, roasted vegetables, grilled stuffed mushrooms, jello salad, devilled eggs, and pesto crescent rolls) were tasty as well. It was a fun evening of food and friends! Looking forward to doing it again soon.

the table was set

roast leg of lamb
roasted vegetables (yum!)

enjoying Easter Dinner!

Beach Video

I finally attempted to piece together a video! I don't have fancy software, so it's pretty simple, but I like it. Considering it's my first video, it's not too bad. And, it's a video of the beach so that will always make me happy. Just another glimpse of what we did last weekend!

And even though we went last weekend, I'm including this on TidyMom's series "I'm Lovin' It Fridays". Because I really love a weekend at the beach (even if it's not this weekend). And I also love TidyMom!

Weekend

This is what we did last weekend...

Ubi enjoyed the water

and we enjoyed the porch

so relaxing...