Well, it’s been a heck of a long time since I’ve posted on this thing. I’ve realized that without the ol’ blog, I have a really hard time remembering anything that we’ve done. On our anniversary last week, we had to scroll through our phone photos to even remember what we did to celebrate last…
wrapping up 2017.
I am not much for new year’s resolutions, but I hoping that this will be the last time I do a mega-wrapping-up-a-season-of-life-because-I-got-so-behind-on-everything-giant-photodump-post. Our lives are full and fun, and I want so badly to remember everything (and if I don’t photograph it or write it down, it’s like it never happened), so here’s to being a little bit…
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…
priest lake, idaho.
This has been one amazing summer. I keep calling every trip (see Colorado, parts 1 and 2, California, and Crater Lake) my “last hoorah” before grad school. But this trip to Priest Lake, Idaho was the “official last hoorah” of summer, since I started school about 11 hours after we got home. We were super…
crater lake.
In a continuation of the summer of reunions with old friends, we took a little trip down to Crater Lake National Park to meet up with the Pugels. Dustin and Shelly are some of our dear pals from our Kentucky days. Apparently we hadn’t seen each other in THREE YEARS, so this reunion was extra…
apricot lane farms.
As one of my “last hoorahs” before starting grad school (next week!), I took a little trip down to southern California to visit one of my college pals, Mallory. Mal lives and works at Apricot Lane Farms, an amazing biodynamic, organic farm outside of LA. After years of promising to make a visit, I finally…
colorado (part 2).
Colorado is pretty cool. We spent a week in the Vail Valley with our pals, the Bloems, for our annual Blinger adventure of hiking, eating, strolling, and laughing. (You can read about the first half of our trip here.)
colorado (part 1).
We had the privilege of kicking off the month of June by visiting our old pals Megan and Jordan, and their new little fella, Simon, in Colorado. We first met when Eric and Jordan started grad school together in Eugene way back in 2012. Now that we live pretty far apart (Portland and Chicago), it’s…
a smoky oregon tour.
What’s better than two Kentuckians in Oregon? Three Kentuckians in Oregon! Our friend, Mallory, who we met back home at UK, and now lives an incredibly awesome and interesting life on a farm near LA, came to visit! We haven’t had a ton of visitors from home since moving to Oregon (as Oregon is quite…
on food and community.
There’s a reason why people gather around the table. I’ve been reflecting on this idea a lot over the past few months, especially after reading Shauna Niequist’s “Bread and Wine,” which is a book that moved me to laughter and tears and intense hunger for curry and wine. If your soul sings for God, food,…
lately.
This has been a somewhat frantic month of trips to Portland, apartment hunting, working strange hours, attempting to rid ourselves of everything that won’t fit in the new apartment, organizing, making messes, marathon training, and general exhaustion. But it’s also been a delightful month of reading in the hammock, taking evening strolls, planning future adventures,…
an epic camping trip.
We’ve had a pretty epic few days. Our pals, the Bloems, are moving to Chicago (which makes us terribly sad, but let’s not talk about that right now). We wanted to get in one last round of awesomeness before they left, so we went on a camping trip/hiking adventure together. Our first stop was just…
hood river.
We had a pretty insanely awesome weekend. Eric and a few classmates had to give a presentation in Portland on Friday morning, so we, along with our pals, the Bloems, planned a full day’s adventure in Portland and Hood River. While the boys presented, Megan and I enjoyed the perfect weather (mid-70’s and sunny!) and…
the rest of our time in the mitten.
Like I said, this is going to be a slow catch up. Let’s wrap up our trip to Michigan. We spent an afternoon in Grand Rapids with our pals from Oregon, Jordan and Megan. It snowed gloriously enormous flakes the entire time, which made for a grand time. Eric and I took a hike through…
apple pie.
I think we can officially call ourselves Oregonians. It has been raining non-stop here for days, but we didn’t let that stop us from visiting Detering Orchards for some seriously wet apple picking. We took our pals Jordan and Megan along for the adventure, and the four of us picked those apples like it was…
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