I’m alive! It has been so embarrassingly long since I have blogged that I had to google “wordpress login” to figure out how to sign into this thing. So, now that it’s late July, I figured I’d play mega catch up and update you on everything that happened this spring (partly for the benefit of…
winter.
It’s been a long winter, folks. You may have noticed that I haven’t hit the ol’ blog since December, which is sad and embarrassing, but also a testament to how insane these past few months have been. Between entering the hardest quarter of grad school so far, going gluten-free for the months of January and…
mcneil point in the snow.
One of the reasons I love Oregon so much is because of how different it looks on any given day. Rain, sun, fog, snow, clouds, hail- they all turn Oregon into something unique. Sometimes when we’re driving through the city on a sunny day after a few days of clouds, the place is almost unrecognizable….
26 books in 2016.
Back in January, I made a few goals for the new year. These goals included learning to bake a mighty fine loaf of bread (there were a lot of failures, but one massive Thanksgiving dinner success in the challah from this book), cooking 100 different meals (which I started recording at the beginning of the…
thanksgiving in bend.
Now that Christmas break is officially here, it’s time to finally share what we did for our annual Thanksgiving trip! If you’ll recall, since moving to Oregon, we haven’t been able to spend Thanksgiving with our families. After a pretty lame first Thanksgiving on our own, waaayyyy back in 2012, we decided we should take…
falls creek falls.
Somehow, it is December, and I’m about to blog about a hike that happened in October. Where, oh where, has the time gone? Let’s throw it way, way back to October, when the sun was still shining, the leaves were still golden (to be fair, the tree right outside our window is holding on strong),…
the timberline trail.
Let me tell you about the most perfect day.
indian point.
The Columbia River Gorge is straight up magic. A few weekends ago, we took a hike through the woods, completely unsure of how the weather would cooperate with our scenic vista hike. It turned out to be a fog-filled journey that obscured most of the views at the top, but it’s hard to find anything…
drift creek falls.
I think Oregon has five seasons. Spring, Summer, Sunny Fall, Rainy Fall, and Winter. When Sunny Fall rolls around, it’s all beautiful leaves and cool breezes and pumpkins and long runs and picnics and hikes and boots. But Sunny Fall can only last so long. Then comes Rainy Fall. And it’s cozy and foggy and…
ringers in portland.
Eric’s parents and sister came to visit us in Portland for Labor Day weekend. They live in Southern California, so we only get to see them a few times each year. Luckily, they arrived just in time for a delightfully autumnal weekend (no more 90 degrees! no more 90 degrees!), so we spent the weekend…
catching up on the rest of the summer.
This summer has come and gone in the flashiest of a flash. We kept ourselves pretty busy, and almost nothing made it to the blog (hey, grad school time constraints). So here’s a little rundown of everything I missed.
six years.
Guys, Eric and I celebrated our sixth wedding anniversary at the beginning of August. Six years! In some ways, I feel like we’ve been married forever (we’re going on 10 years of togetherness, after all), but I also feel like our wedding was yesterday. But all 6 years have been pretty spectacular.
grad school: one term down.
In case you’ve wondered why it’s just been crickets around the ol’ blog for the past few months, it’s because I’ve spent the past 8 weeks in my first quarter of grad school! I’m in a one-year Nutrition Masters program at NUNM, a naturopathic medical school in Portland. The summer term is the “fun term,” so…
blueberry scones.
Blueberry scones can be either really delicious or terribly disappointing. I find that a lot of scones sold in coffee shops are rock-hard and bland. But when you make scones at home, you can make them delicious, tender, and full of wholesome ingredients. These scones are buttery, filled with tasty spices, and bursting with flavorful…
cooper spur on mt. hood.
I started grad school 5 weeks ago, and weekends are suddenly incredibly precious. This takes me back to the two years when Eric was in grad school. Each weekend, he would make a designated “Ally Day,” where we’d do something fun (see a few favorites here, here, here, here, here, and here, if you’d like). This…
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