Let it snow!

This holiday season is different from the last three for me, in that I am officially a teacher and with that comes the perks of Thanksgiving week off and two weeks off for Christmas! I'm so thankful to have had the job at the Loft, but I will not miss working the (insane) day after Thanksgiving, or the day after Christmas. I get to truly celebrate the holiday season with my friends and family and for that I'm giving thanks. Today as the snow is dumping, not just falling, I can finally say I like the snow! I'm cozy in my house, with the fire on, Christmas music playing and the puppies enjoying their first winter together! Happy almost Thanksgiving almost Thanksgiving everyone!

Here are some pictures of the first real snow of the season!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays! I just love the costumes, the candy and all the fun decorations. This year we carved pumpkins with our good friends the Joneses and the Johnson's! The pumpkins turned out pretty artistic I must say. For Halloween our friends the Bolling's invited us over for a costume party. Evan dressed as a much too believable hick/trucker and I was a gangsta :)

Kip Jones as a pumpkin, pretty life-like :)

Evan's beer mug and my corgi!

Scary couple!

Will Ferrel, hick, grandma from little red riding hood.

Bend finally has a fall!

One memory I have missed most from California the last 3 years is the lack of a fall in Bend. The last 3 years it has snowed early in October (like the first weekend of October last year!) and ruins all the colorful leaves, leaving them brown on the ground by mid-October...However, this year, we have been blessed with a relatively warm, beautiful, snow-less fall and I'm loving it! We actually get to enjoy the trees in all their colorful glory and take walks with dogs frolicking in the leaves :)

Pictures tell it better

Well, I've made a pretty nice dent on my to-do list however updating once a week fell off the wagon. So, prepare for a barrage of pictures (since we all know I take pictures of everything) from pretty much last Spring til now...hopefully I can do better updating from here on out :)

 For our 3 year anniversary we stayed home, went on a fun hike with the puppies and went out to an amazing dinner at Ariana's!

 Evan made me a yummy homemade chocolate coconut cake for my 25th birthday!

make a wish

great friends

Our anniversary dinner :)

anniversary breakfast!

Ben and Katie came to visit in  their annual July trip, so we finally took them to Portland, one of our favorite cities!

We went to the Portland Rose Garden for the first time!

We HAD to try the famed VooDoo doughnuts! 6:00pm + 30 minute line out the door = yummy doughnuts worth the wait!

Ok, well that's a small glimpse of our fun summer! Fall pics to come :)