Dinner at the Rhodes

We had such a good time today! We finally got to hang out with our good friends Ben and Jeanine at their new house! Matt was so excited to mow their lawn in the tractor, he even invited me to come and join him on it (pictures to come of that escapade). What a fun time to just relax outside in good weather, with good friends, good food, and good drinks. I even learned to open a beer bottle with a lighter (a very important trick I guess if you live in Oregon).  It took me a couple tries the first time and by the time I did, that beer never tasted so good because I worked so hard to open it! As I said before, good time with good friends.

Cottage Grove Fair

What another great day we had. Matt and I took the bike down to Cottage Grove to see our friends Aaron and Rachael, and our Godson Liam.

First of all, my new seat on the motorcycle is awesome. I have so much more room and once it gets broken in a little more it will be even better. When we got to the Grove we took a great walk over to the downtown area where they were having their Bohemian Mining Days. There were some booths with mostly jewelry, face painting, and tie dye t-shirts. But once we walked a little further we saw the carnival part! There were rides and games and food. It was a lot of fun to be a part of Liam's first carnival experience. Matt, Rachael, and I tried to win Liam a gold fish, but we all lost. So Rachael and I did the pick a duck game (winner every time!). I won a small little fish for Liam and Rachael got him a shark. It was a pretty fun day, and it was even better that the weather was so nice and not too hot.

Tomorrow will be a day of relaxing and watching some Feasting on Asphalt.

Ems Game and World Record!

Tonight we went to the new PK Park right by Autzen Stadium and watched the Eugene Emeralds get beat by the Twin City somethings. It was all good though. Matt scored some awesome tickets from the bar where he and he friends have lunch about once a week. The manager asked if they would like some tickets to their box suite with all the beer we could drink (till the 7th inning) and he said "Yeah!"
So we had a blast.

Not only did we get to sit in a box suite for free with free beer, we also got to be part of a world record for doing the moonwalk for 5 minutes! Of course we got to do the dance to Billie Jean, the best MJ song there is. Lots of fun had by all!


I even got my picture taken with Sluggo, the lovable mascot!

Summer Update!

Hello All! It's been a pretty fun summer so far! Last week of June, I went up to Seattle to help prepare for my brother's wedding. Matt came up on Thursday just in time for all of the fun to begin. We rode the Ducks on Friday, and after that we had a great lunch with some family friends that we hadn't seen since our wedding. It was great to get to spend some time with everyone since at our wedding we didn't get to spend a lot of time with everyone that came out.

Joe's wedding was very nice, luckily the sun came out for the big day and it was beautiful! I'm so excited to have a new sister!

Matt and I took an awesome motorcycle trip up over to Bend. I think it was the longest trip we've taken yet, and after that trip, I can't wait to get our new seat! I'm taking the motorcycle safety class in August. I'm excited to learn how to drive a bike, but I still prefer to be the passenger.



I also started my summer job today! I'm working at the UO Sports-o-Rama camp as the gymnastics specialist. Right now I'm pretty sore since I haven't done any gymnastics since high school, but I'm thinking by the end of the 4 weeks I'll be pretty limber again. It's so much better than sitting behind a desk all summer staring at a computer. So much fun!