SYTYCD

It has been a beautiful season on So You Think You Can Dance…here a couple good ones from last week.

So sad there is only one week left.

BUT…I'm not too sad because I bought tickets for Maya and I to see them LIVE (yay) next February when they come to Portland.

Yahoo!

Oxbow Camping Part 1

That's the beautiful Sandy River.

We decided about one month ago to go camping.

That's a little late as far as summer camping in Oregon goes and so the only place I could find that still had campsites available was @ Oxbow Campground, a short 25 minute drive outside of Portland.

In fact, the park isn't run by the State, it's run by Metro (regional government).

Urban camping, kinda. :)

It was beautiful though and we had an excellent camping adventure...

Beautiful Ruins

Hi.

I was gonna share this later but every night I just love it more and more and feel compelled to share now.

I'm reading Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter.

I know this book made a lot of top 10 lists a couple of years ago so you may already be familiar with it.

If you haven't read it, read it dear ones.

I'm only on page 28 and not because it's not a page turner but there are so many juicy nuggets of thoughtfulness on each page I find myself pondering and musing about these observations of his.

It's so, so good.

Nothing scary, nothing violent, nothing weird and awful. 

Just lovliness.

And I'm always looking for more lovliness in my life. :)

Sneak peek...

From the beautiful Sandy River bank to Maya's disgusting feet…more camping photos to come!

Deer visit.

Hey…we went camping this weekend. 

Some totally awesome photos are coming but meanwhile, check out our deer encounter…

O's quote interpretation

In an attempt to prevent the "summer slide" Woody has been leaving quotes for Owen to write about while he's at work.

Here's a recent one…

Another before and after for My...

A full summer of swimming almost every single day did a number on Maya's growing locks.

She wanted to grow it out but the chlorine just destroyed her hair and she grew tired of the 45 minutes it would take me to brush out her thin, fine, brittle hair.

So, back to the bob for Maya...

We think it really suits her anyway so we'll probably forgo the growing out thing for awhile.

Check out Maya in her beautiful new dress.

Our neighbors that live in the apartment above us have become good friends.

They are tearing down their house in the neighborhood and building a new one so they are living in the apartment while that happens.

They have two kids (from the swimming photo a couple posts ago) that OM love and play with every day.

Anyway, the dad went to South Korea and China two weeks ago for work and brought back OM some gifts! 

So thoughtful. :)

Maya got the lovely dress (that she, my dirty birdy, even removed to eat watermelon and then put it back on…she never gives a rip about watermelon stains normally).

O got some excellent pajamas that once upon his body released his inner ninja warrior...