Todd Times 2009

Among our list of fall visitors is our friend Todd, who shacked up at our new place for a few home cooked meals and some good Oregon trails on his road trip back home to Colorado.

We visited the beach where we're getting married next summer, just south of Yachats (yaw-hots).

A sweet Father-Daughter moment.

This is the house that we're getting married at next summer!  

Save that date 8-7-10!

Rez dancin in the sunset

My new favorite photo.

The whole fam-dam

Hiking out to Tildon Lake in the Santiam Pass

The Fam and the Flock

Todd + Casey + Rez + Oregon = Just Right!

I'm too sexy for this Bjorn!

Bishop all too obviously overcompensating.

Come back soon Todd!

Silly Sippy Cups

Which way's down and which way's up?!

Auntie Becca and Uncle Scott

Norah was happy to have her Auntie Becca and Uncle Scott come for a visit this fall.  It was Uncle Scott's first time visiting Oregon, so we wanted to show him some highlights that would leave him wanting more!  Mostly we just let him hang out with Norah, as she is the best thing in Oregon we have seen to date!

We started with an intro to wine country and stopped for a bottle of the Willamette Valley's finest at Erath vineyards 

(the second vineyard established in Oregon!)

Norah and the boys!

The whole gang post pinot gris!

We then moved on to the coast where we stayed in a cozy yurt for the night.

Our little yurt home, just a hop skip away from the crashing waves of the Pacific.  And oh so affordable at $35 a night!

Norah with her Auntie and Uncle enjoying the ocean vistas.

Checking out the wind surfers!  Hard core!  They would catch 10 feet of air hopping around those waves!

Uncle - Niece bonding

Sisters!

Norah checks out the sea lions who are putting on quite the show, barking and spa

More Trail Times

Norah and I are getting some good hiking in before this summer wraps up.  Greg takes his bike to the trails and Norah and I spend some time communing with the woods... at a much slower pace ;)

Here are some of our most recent highlights

Pacific Crest Trail

Summit Lake

Testing the waters of Summit Lake.  

Diamond Peak in the background 

(which Greg climber earlier this summer)

Douglas firs draped in enchanting Spanish moss on the PCT.

Happy Hikers!

Diamond Peak over Summit Lake

Norah's first section of the Pacific Crest Trail

Goodman Creek

Norah crossing Goodman Creek

(I'm not as far away as it looks!)

Nature's playground

Mount Pisgah

Our favorite hometown hike