Roloff Farm!

I am sure most of you know who the Roloff family is, they have a show called Little People Big World on TLC.  Well they only live about 20 minutes from our house!  They grow pumkins every year and open their farm up to the public. And as you can see, there was a lot of public.

It didnt take too long to get through the line.

  You can go on a tractor ride to see their property and you even get to visit the old western town Matt built.  We saw pretty much the entire family except for their youngest boy.  I was really excited to get a picture with Jeremy for my cousin Alyssa!  As Joe and I were waiting for our turn to get on the tractor tour, Jeremy stopped and took pictures with everyone who wanted one. Very nice guy!

While waiting in line we also got a glimpse of Zack, who was driving the tractor taking people on tours and Matt driving away on his Mule.

When we stopped in the western town we got to meet Molly and Matt's parents.

Amy was greeting people in the pumpkin patch.

Ohh! We even met the dog, such a sweet heart.

Let's see what else have we been up to lately...

A few weekends ago we celebrated our friend Ben's 30th birthday.  Joe and Ben went out to some private land owned by his in-laws and tried to shoot some clay pigeons before it started to rain on them.  Meanwhile I got to hang out with Vanessa and Molly by the bon fire, sooooo relaxing.

Till it got dark and a bit too cold! Then we all headed in the house for rack of lamb, roasted red potoes and fresh green beans.  For dessert Vanessa made a home made chocolate peanut butter cheese cake!

We stayed the night and Vanessa's mom made us all awesome waffles and sausage in the morning.

On our way home we had to stop and take take in the beautiful place we call home now.

Ocean air

Joe and I decided to take a day trip to the Oregon Coast.

It was a beautiful drive out. It takes about 2 hours to get there, we use to live 3 miles from the ocean, big change for us!

 We went to Tillamook, they make our favorite cheese! It was perfect weather for the trip, sunny and cool. We stopped at the Tillamook cheese factory, got some ice cream and cheese samples and bought cheese curd which you can only get there. Never had that and loved it! After the factory we headed to the beach, it was a little windy!

It was nice to get out somewhere new and explore a little.

Birthday Weekend

Today is my 29th birthday. My 28th year was pretty crazy! So I am excited to see what is to come this year. It has been a quiet day so far, just me and my dogs at home being lazy and waiting for Joe to get off work. I have enjoyed all my phone calls today and all my messages, thank you! I'm excited to out to dinner with Joe tonight to the most descent Mexican restaurant we have found so far. Actually my Dad and I found it when he was here and heard them singing Las Mananitas to someone there for their birthday and I knew I had to come back so they could sing for me on mine! It's a tradition, my Dad has always played that song for my brother and I on our birthdays. I don't think the day would be complete without it!

I had an awesome birthday weekend!

Saturday we got to spend the day with my Aunt Sheryl and friends. We went to a great lunch in Portland then headed over to the Japanese Tea Gardens where we walked around and enjoyed hot tea and cookies overlooking the gardens.

After that we went to do some shopping downtown and I got a beautiful new winter jacket from my Aunt and I can't wait to wear it!

Then we all headed to my aunts friends house. They made a wonderful dinner for us. And we got to see their sweet dog Delilah.

Sunday we had our friends over for dinner. The boys made dinner while the girls got to go to a happy hour and just have some good old girl time! It was so much fun. We made it back to our house and had awesome ribs and home made BBQ mac n' cheese, mmmmm!

Thor had a great time too, he decided it was getting late though and it was time to sleep, our friends son Tabor had so much fun he fell asleep too.