Rainbows and Beyond

On the drive back from looking at a prospective new home for me we saw a beautiful rainbow end around Yaquina Bay Bridge. Funny, thought it was made of steel, not gold.

The rain seemed to subsided after this colorful show. We decided to make the best of surprisingly sunny weather, and my new Coastal Passport that I bought a few days ago, and cruise out to Yaquina Head Lighthouse. This year I am determined to get my money's worth.

There have been many sea nettles washed up on the beach as of late.

Thousands of perfectly round rocks, and not one of them agateized. What a crazy beach!

Pig-alligator?? Fossilized? No, that would be petrified.

Yaquina Head Lighthouse

Crazy stray pelican thought he could hide ten feet up on the side on the road and not be seen. Jered spotted him just before we were leaving the park. It was about time we saw one of them on this coastal adventure, they seem to be super prevalent this year. This one had a yellow tuft that I hadn't noticed in the many other that we have been seeing around; I am waiting for a mutant breed to emerge. They have been hanging out with the seagulls, what else could be happening!

Sunset at Yaquina Bay beach.

Exhausted Daisy

The almost eleven year old dog is totally exhausted after the average beach walk now. She did manage to find her own tennis ball, and ward off a very annoying white husky type dog that thought it was very appropriate to follow us around and bark at us. So maybe it wasn't so average. Good job Daisy.

New Years Eve

What a fun way to end the year! We went and listened to some music at Cafe Mundo, then when we got our fill on that, we headed to the Sandbar. We ran into Adam and Tiffany right when we walked into the door at the Sandbar.
Jered and I went to a quiet, private party with Adam and Tiffany where we enjoyed what is called "jager bombs". I think it has Jägermeister and some sort of energy drink mixed in with it. I had never had one before, and I must admit, it wasn't bad.

Ashley and Alex at the sandbar.

Ashley and Tiffany

Serina, Kelly and Emily, one hour and ten minutes into the new year. Seems to be going well so far. Luke, one of my neighbors, getting close to Deydra. I think they thought my lens was zoomed, and she didn't want to be cut off.

Me, Emily and Jered. I have no idea who that blurry person is beside me, but even if I did, "he" may be in protective custody and "his" name cannot be reviled.

These guys were on one of the softball teams we played this fall, I think it is Roxie and Kyle.

George and his girlfriend, can't remember her name.

Sarina and Sam, looks like she may be holding him up :)

That is Chris on the left, he is the lifeguard at the pool in the morning.

Emily and Julie, friends, or.........

Not?? No, just playing.....

Adam and Tiffany seemed to have a great time tonight.

Ladies with crazy wigs, they are just asking to be photographed.

One of the main regulars at the sandbar. He has a Volvo just like my old one, except it is blue. Nice enough guy though.

Death of a Fly

I guess I have never been known to keep a "super" clean office, but in the temporary office that I am working in now, I may have let my sloppiness get out of hand. All one would have to do is dust the window sill once a week, and I could have prevented this catastrophe.

A large spider web has developed on the slider part of my window sill. I have watched it develop over the last month or so, and each day decided to leave it how it was. Today, an especially annoying fly was wondering around my office, and amazingly enough, he flew into the spider web on my window sill, and he lay there helpless while the resident spider began to wrap the fly in the SPIDER WEB OF DEATH!! It made for a very dramatic day. I think I may clean my window sill on Monday.

Christmas 2008!!!

Early Christmas morning Jered and the twins thought it would be very interesting to check out Janelle and Austin's blog. I think there they are reading about frozen drinks!
After checking email, facebook, and a few other blogs, Gabe thought it would be nice to paint some more. His artistic side emerging throughout the morning.

Janna getting down to Gabe's level. Will he have hair like that someday??

After a fun and eventful Christmas early morning, it was time for some stocking exploration. Janna seemed to be very excited. She opened hers first.

I can't believe I cut off her hand! I will never remember what she got! Jered thought it was some pens, so I am going with that. All I really remember from the stocking unstuffing was the portable twister game, and I am pretty sure that was something that Eric got....so I am going to go with pens for Janna.

This whole time Grampa John and little Gabe are watching Janna with complete seriousness. How could portable twister be anything but completely serious though, so I can't blame them.

After a little munching for breakfast, Jered and I packed up our stuff and headed toward Logsden. The snow had melted considerably from the night before, but then had refrozen on the roads once again. We got a tiny bit of snowfall while passing Enchanted Forest (which I thought was totally appropriate) but other than that, the roads were pretty clear up until our turn off to Logsden Road. The snow covered the trees off in the distance.

It started snowing on us again over Nash Hill. Off to the left, right after the pavement starts again, there was a small pond with a crazy discoloration in it. We couldn't tell what was making the color difference, but after capturing it, we didn't stick around. Our bellies were growling again, and I was told there would be good eats up at grandma's house.

Weird and pretty, very appropriate for Christmas.We made it there just in time for my sister's wonderful breakfast burritos. They were fabulous!!

My mom loved them too!!

After some nourishment I thought I would be coherent enough to hand out some presents. I got Ashley a BPA free water bottle with survival stuff in it. She liked it, even though it was yellow so the water looked like pee :)

My mom, showing off her wonderful new makeup. She got a whole kit of it from her brother.

My dad is still upset because Obama was elected president, and because the economy is so bad..........

I made my mom the coolest calender, it was by far my most exciting present.

All the while Halo is in the background saying "hello," "peek-a-boo," and other such mumblings. Crazy bird.

Mom and Ashley made a super soup with shrimp and crab. They even 'almost' remembered to make some without any seafood in it for Jered. It was good, awesome because it is the only meat that Ashley eats, and I am not down with tofu dogs on Christmas. No way!

No, grandma did not get run over by a reindeer! She is giving one to Jered! Crazy, it didn't sing that song when you squeezed it, but "Jingle Bells" made more sense once I saw the bells on its forehead.

Jered is so willing to share his coffee with Ashley, she looks so cold with her giant scarf. She is scared to remove her scarf, in fear that her head will fall off. She will have her head glued to her shoulders after a few weeks back at Portland State. Good luck Ashley.