August 7 marked our ninth wedding anniversary! According to Google, “pottery” is the traditional ninth anniversary gift (or, the more modern option: “leather”). Instead of those fine goods, I suggested we go on a 40-ish mile backpacking trip around Mount Hood. It says a lot about Eric’s love for me that he quickly agreed and…
one giant catch up.
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…
vista ridge.
Life is breezing on by, as it does. The last time we went hiking, we sweat it out in tank tops or short sleeves. Granted, it has been a while since we’ve hiked, thanks to Eric’s travel schedule and my penchant for jobs that require my nights and weekends. But our most recent trip to…
independence day at mount jefferson.
As you may have noticed from my general absence on the internet, our adventures have been a bit more few and far between than they once were. I’ve been reminiscing about Eric’s grad school days when we would have a mini-adventure every weekend (you can check out a particularly good “Ally Day” here, if…
we’re still alive!
Greetings, old friends! My drafts folder tells me I started writing this post back in March, but apparently I’ve just given up on timeliness and actually finishing things. But here we are, at the end of June, still very much alive. I’m going to play an insane game of catch up and power through everything…
suttle lake lodge.
Remember when the concept of “hygge” took over the internet? I jumped on the bandwagon a couple of years ago, fully embracing the idea of cozy time: candles, blankets, oversized sweaters, a fireplace (only in my dreams- in my reality, we’ve occasionally cast the yule log on the ol’ TV). Sign me up. But in…
a long weekend around the mountain.
Am I about to write about something during the same month that it occurred? Heck yes, I am. Progress, my friends. Progress. Eric’s parents came to visit over Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, and we lucked out with unusually dry and sunny weather for an Oregon January.
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…
autumn.
Well, here we are. Mid-December, and I’m finally getting around to sharing everything we did this fall. I’m concluding a year of terrible blogging with the fourth seasonal post (see winter, spring, and summer, if you’d like). I have big ambitions of being better at documentation in the new year, but for now, we’ll all…
summer.
There’s no time like mid-October to wrap up the summer, right? I’ve reached the point where I am so far behind on life documentation that I’m afraid I’ll forget everything we did this summer. But it’s kind of nice to stay in solidarity with these seasonal blog posts, yes? (Check out winter and spring, if…
call me master ringer.
Well, I did it. I finished graduate school. I’ll spare you a bunch of photos of me in a graduation gown because (1) I’m not very photogenic, and (2) all photos taken of me on this day involved me sweating and squinting into the blazing sunshine. #memories But after the fastest year of my life,…
spring.
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….
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…
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