Happy Independance Day!

Thank you to all of our soldiers, forefathers and mothers who have fought and continue to preserve our freedom. God Bless our beautiful country.

Bad Blogger Lady :-(

Yes, I know, I have been the no update Lady for too long. So here is my little update :-)

Aaron, as you saw from my previous post, has made it half-way through school. It sounds soooo surreal! I remember when me moved here and thought dental school would never, ever, ever end (bit of an exaggeration there). Now, it feels like the someone finally turned the light on at the end of the tunnel and we can see the little speck slowly getting brighter. God is so good!

This now brings to mind our living situation. Where does God want us? It's becoming more and more clear that we want to stay here in Portland, but time will tell. We are also starting to talk about housing, jobs, future practice for Aaron, and our adoption. So much has come out this year, it's like we're adults :-P It's so amazing how life works. Five years ago I would have never dreamed I would be here with my hubby making life changing decisions. I look back on the past and think hos awesome God is and how He has brought me and Aaron through everything. I know He will continue to lead us where He wants us.

Right now, I mainly need patience. I want everything to happen too quickly; I've always been that way. I pray that God will help me in that area, just give me patience. I hope everyone in blogger land is well! God Bless~

Lauren

The above picture is from my parents' trip. It's the interior of an old pioneer church, I'm not sure where the church lives. God Bless!

Whoa Half Way There, Whoa Living on a Prayer

It's official, Hubby is halfway through school. I'm so proud of him and all of his acomplishments! It feels like we will actually make it and he will be done someday. To congratulate him, hop on over to his blog and leave him a note :-) God Bless!

http://aarondmd.blogspot.com/

Here is Mr. Handsome :-P

Wonderful Weekend

This weekend was wonderful. Mom, dad, grandpa, and Mary came through Portland on their 2 week trip across the west. It was so nice to see everyone. Here are a few pics from their trip, before and during their visit with us. God Bless!

Dad

Mom

Mary and Grandpa

Dad being silly :-P

Me and Aaron goofing around :-)

I will post more of their amazing pictures later. I'm just running short on time tonight. God Bless!

Love,

Lauren

Someone's Been Playing in My Garden

I've been meaning to post these pictures for a while, and just seem to forget. Anyway, one morning as I was leaving for work I found these...

Weird Weather and Poor Little Cucumber

So we are in the midst of November-like weather, and last time I checked the calandar it was June. Craziness! Anyway, or little garden is doing okay, but our wee cucumber plant died. It was said. We had a rain storm a few nights ago and I came outside to find our little cucumber plant flat on the ground. Sigh... Oh well! The rest of the plants are doing fairly well, but they're small from the lack of sunshine. I heard a report that said we have had 13 days of sun this entire year. It will be interesting to see what the summer is like, if we ever get one :-)

I hope all of you in internet land are well. I will be offline for most of the weekend spending time with my parents and grandparents. I'm sooo excited, I haven' t seen them since Christmas. God Bless!

Lauren

What We've Been Up To :-)

Well, we haven't been doing a whole lot lately. We had a much needed relaxing weekend at home, just spending time with each other and our fur babies. Today we went for a very long walk down to Reed College, about 5 miles from our house, and back home with Leila Lu. It was nice and overcast, but not raining. And the scenery, of course, was beautiful. Then we headed home for lunch and took a nice long nap :-) It was a wonderful weekend.

I also started on a new project. I'm doing my own version of a 1795 open robe coat, like the one pictured below on Marriane Dashwood.

Here is the start of mine :-)

And finally, I leave you with pictures of our little kitchen garden. It's coming along quite nicely. God Bless :-)

Video From the Ball :-)

The Ball in Eugene was wonderful. We danced, mingled, ate yummy food, and I won most of the raffle!!! It was so much fun. Here are the pictures and video from our evening. :-)

Our Little Garden

Today I planted our little baby sproutlings in our garden. Now we get watch, tend, and wait for them to grow :-) God Bless!

Silly Animal Tricks :-)

It's official, I taught Gico bird how to sew. Here's the proof below :-) Enjoy!

Being Very Brave :-)

I have been encouraged by my friend, Sarah, to share this video. God Bless!

P.S. This was Christmas Eve 2007 @ Lakeview Community Church in Lake Havasu City, AZ (my home church) The music is by Sandi Patti.

Little Stinkers :-)

So our dogs, Max and Leila, are on a strict diet, because they just eat too much. So we have a large plastic bin, with a snapping lid where we store their food. They get fed twice a day and that's all. Well, I discovered that the kiddos have figured out how to open said bin and treated themselves to a gorging feast while I was at work. They are smart, sometimes too smart. I came in the door, looked at the opened food bin, the lid cast aside, and looked at the dogs. I didn't even have to say anything. Both dogs belly crawled to me and all I could do was laugh. I know that they know better, but it was pretty funny and quite clever of them. Now I need to find a new spot for said bin :-)

Leila and Max on "their couch" :-)

More Regency Underthings

Below are the pictures of my latest project, a Regency Short Corset and Chemise. The corset is entirely hand sewn, eyelets and all :-) The patterns are part of Sense and Sensibility Patterns' Regency Underthings pattern. Enjoy :-)

Okay so this last picture kinda looks like Max is trying to eat Gico. That, of course, was not the case, he was trying to kiss me and Gico was playing with Max's ear. My boys :-)

Latourell Falls

Sunday was a simply wonderful and beautiful day in Portland. The sun was out, it was warm, but not hot with a slight cooling breeze blowing. We took advantage of the wonderful weather and headed out the Multnoma Falls. We hiked the 2 mile loop at Latourell Falls and just enjoyed God's wonderful creation. Here are some pictures of our little adventure. God Bless!