Woodshop Beginnings

Who needs vacation when you can just take the money and buy a super sweet router table with router lift instead? Amidst the merger and everything going on with Eldon's old company, they paid him for his unused vacation time. So we decided to get a router table with it. We are pretty stoked! Here is a video of us using it for the first time.

Winners!

Eldon and I went to the Fair here in Hillsboro this last weekend for an evening of fun and games. Eldon said he was gonna win something for me so he picked out a difficult looking darts game. He easily went three for three (actually he got five balloons with three darts but they only count one for each shot). Very proud of my man, I walked away with a very soft and silly frog. Then I decided to try my hand at beating a Fair game and winning a prize for my Significant Other. I chose the race-to-blow-up-a-balloon-by-shooting-a-water-gun-at-the-target thing. I was up against quite a tough looking group but I zoned in and, much to the surprise of many, popped my balloon first. Eldon picked the blue elephant for his trophy. After a night full of laughing and fun, we headed home. 

I rocked this test!

So I took the Educators' Skills Test in reading, writing and math and I killed it. Check it out!

All that stuff above it is saying a minimum passing score is 240 

and scores are scaled from 100 to 300

Go ask Kristin

I was going to put up pictures and blog about our super fun-filled week with Kristin and Lee but 1) Kristin is way better at posting things in a timely manner so it is on her blog already and 2) she also took all the pictures...I only have a few that were taken on my phone. So to feel like I'm contributing, here are a few of the pictures Kristin didn't have. To see everything else, go to Kristin's blog (there is a link on the left hand side towards the bottom of our blog).

Boys like to climb on everything

This was the waterfall we hiked to the top of

Memories from Memorial Day

I apologize for really not being on top of things and always taking so long to update the blog but, here's what we did for Memorial Day Weekend. Eldon and I went 4-wheeling and camping with Chelsea, Loni and Jordan, their two cute kids and, of course, Duke. We went about 45 minutes west of us to the Tillamook Forest where we found a nice little camping spot next to a beautiful creek-river-thing. We made foil dinners, which tasted so good, hiked around a little, played card games and sat around the fire (which Chelsea and I started the first night on top of wet grass cause that's all that was there to work with- go us, it was tough getting it started). While we were sitting around the fire not doing much, Kyren and Duke kept each other entertained...they are a great team when it comes to mischief. After not watching their every move for a while, Duke came back with yogurt all over his head and back. We realized that Kyren had taken the yogurt, Duke opened it with his teeth, and Kyren poured it all over Duke...funny but messy. Kyren also was constantly trying to eat Duke's food, we had to put it under the truck so only Duke could get to it and not Kyren. As for Parry, he did great on his first camp out, just sat around and ate since that's all babies his age do. Here are a few pictures from the adventures.

Better Late Than Never

I realized after I put up pictures of Duke, that I forgot to put up pictures from Easter. So here is our late post from Easter.

This Easter we spent the weekend in Washington. We hung out on Saturday with Eldon's family. We played with our (what at the time was new) Indo board, dyed a few eggs, and of course did some shooting (since Eldon's parents have the perfect back yard for it -the woods- we usually practice shooting every time we are up there.) Sunday morning we went to church with the Chatmans (Kyren and Parry Carr even had matching Easter outfits complete with vests) and then had a easter egg at their house. We hid I think it was 88 eggs for all the kids to find and one large "money egg" for the two oldest kids to compete for. A Delicious dinner, some fun games and nice family night concluded the weekend. Here are a some pictures of the Easter egg hunt.

Jordan found the well hidden money egg

Meet Duke

This is Duke, the cutest new addition to the Parry family. He has one blue eye and the other is sort of a grayish brownish color- really cool. He is super playful and full of energy. We have had him only a week and he is already starting to respond to his name and going potty outside really well. When we walk he stays right by our sides and we don’t even need to put him on the leash…yet. He will follow us anywhere, even places he isn’t quite big enough for yet, he’ll find a way to get there. He weighs 8.75 lbs and is just an adorable fur ball.  He has started running with me on my morning runs, though we don’t go all that far. He is perfect at nighttime, doesn’t make a single sound. He sleeps on towels on the floor next to our bed and when we are gone he is content hanging out in the garage where he has his own little area. He absolutely loves Eldon’s socks and so we donated an old one to Duke to play with. He has become more fearless and loves wrestling, especially with the little dog two doors down from us. He is so cute and so much fun. We love having him around.