Our House

This is a slide show I made of our house! We are so excited to finally be in a house!!! We are making changes here and there, but we REALLY love having a house! Enjoy!

Tagged

I was tagged by Keri to post the 4th picture in my 4th folder! I decided that I have to take more pictures! All of my pics are of random things! I think that will be my new goal: take more and better pictures! Anyway here is my picture! A shot of the Gorge from a wedding I went to at Bridal Veil Lake! It was such a beautiful wedding!

Election Day!

I am so happy about the outcome of this years presidential election! When he was the projected winner I started jumping and cheering and then as the night went on and I thought about the meaning of this election and heard his speech I began to cry!I have never been so into politics! I have just been completely inspired and revved up about the idea of CHANGE! I drove 2 hours to Eugene to a rally, where I waited in line for an hour and didn't get in because there were so many people who wanted to hear OBAMA speak. He ended up giving an "encore" like speech to those of us who gathered outside in the outdoor stadium before he went in to address the people who actually made it in! I purchased yard signs, a car magnet and a t-shirt, and I even volunteered to help register people to vote! I had many options to help the OBAMA campaign but I thought that registering people to vote was the most "non-partisan" way to help! I am hopeful about the future of America, and about how far we have come as a country! I hope my participation in American politics continues long into the future! It feels good to be an active participant instead of just someone who wishes better for the country! I have enjoyed listening to the inspiring speeches by Barack Obama especially his speech on race in America. The election has been tough and very divisive I hope as a country we can come together to make a difference and move forward in a positive direction! YES WE CAN!

I know Aaron is glad the election is over! He can finally have his wife back instead of loosing her to CNN and long loud political conversations with her mom and anyone else who will listen!!

HALLOWEEN NIGHT!!!

Yea!!!! Halloween is here! Aaron rented Indiana Jones and Forgetting Sara Marshall to watch as we passed out candy and we got a papa Murphy's Pizza for dinner! HOW FUN! We are getting quite a few trick-or-treaters and a few of those have been my students! I am getting responses like, "Ooooooh! It's Mrs. Cooper!" and "Dang! You live here? I live right around the corner!" Then as they leave they say " That was my math teacher!" I just laugh! and say "have a good night! be safe!" I am sooo excited to have a house and live in a neighborhood! I even had a friend stop by with her son! I feel like I have a real HOME here! I am also feeling a little nostalgic! I miss being a kid in the Condo's on Halloween! I am glad we have gotten so many kids! I think we are going to run out of candy!
H-A-P-P-Y H-A-L-L-O-W-E-E-N!

Getting Ready for Halloween!

We are really enjoying fall! Aaron and I went hiking in the Columbia Gorge in the Bridal Veil Falls area last weekend! It was beautiful but I was a little disappointed that the leaves were not as colorful as we expected! After our hike we had a picnic at Multanomah Falls, with everyone else in the Portland Metro Area, we could not believe how many people were there! Then we stopped and bought pumpkins to carve. Aaron worked on our new patio while I carved the pumpkins and we felt like we had a very FALLISH weekend! We are so excited to finally have a house and kids to come trick-or-treating on Halloween! I put lights up in the front walk way with the pumpkins I carved. I think it looks great, especially with the yellow leaves in the yard!

Our patio is looking really good too! I cannot believe how fast Aaron did it! There are still a lot of finishing touched to put on it but I am REALLY excited to put a chiminea on it and enjoy lots of outdoor evenings! Here is what the process looked like!! Believe me it was A LOT of bricks!