Hello August!

Well it is adios to to July and hello to August!! July has proved to be a great month, and I am hopefully that August will be just as good if not better. Kickball is wrapping up only 2 more games after tonight, and I am only 2 weeks away from leaving on my trip to Northern Europe. This trip is highly anticipated and should prove to be interesting. I am lucky enough to be going with my family, which is really my first trip traveling with family outside of immediate family members, should be fun!! I am still hoping to get up to the zoo before I leave for my trip but we will see if that works out. I can't believe after almost 18 months of talking about this trip and things going back and forth, in about 14 days we will be descending upon the great city of London, and then we are headed out from there!!!

I stopped at the local farmers market yesterday and bought more fruit than any one person probably ever should. I do plan on eating all the great stuff I got, but I may end up needing to freeze some of the blueberries. So needless to say I am on a bit of a fruit frenzy right now (see picture in previous post) and I just can't believe how good they all taste!! It makes me sad to think that in a couple weeks it will all be gone, and I will have to wait another year before the summer fruit season is upon us.

Thanks to all those who made July a great month, I am looking forward to August!!!

Yummy

As I sit here dining on my fresh locally grown giant blackberries, and blueberries I can't help but fall in love with the Oregon summer all over again!! We have the BEST berries in the world here, and I get to enjoy them all!!!!!!

The Dark Knight

Oh man, I just had to jump on the blogger this morning and tell everyone how awesome my night was last night. I had my kickball game last night, we lost, but I made one and a half awesome catches!!! We stuck around for the second game to watch and support our teammates who were umping the second game. So we do our usual thing after the game, drinks, food, and fun. But last night was different because everyone was talking about going and seeing The Dark Knight at the 12:15 showing and the smaller local theater. My Brother and I being ever the skeptical optimists decided to go at 11:30 not really believing that there would be a theater in the world that didn't have a line around it and sold out for this movie on opening night. We were pleasantly surprised and very wrong!!! Not only did we get in to an almost empty theater when we arrived at 11:30 but I got in for, shall we say, less than market value!!! So I rolled in to bed this morning at 4:00am and was actually on time to work at 8:30, not to shabby!!!

So about the movie, amazing. The movie totally lives up to the hype, and all I can say about Heath Ledgers performance of the Joker is that you will NOT be disappointed, it was great, a bit long when you are in an old theater with no A/C but it was GREAT and well worth the complete exhaustion and emotion roller coaster I am destined to be on from lack of sleep!!! Thank you to all those guys that talked me into staying in Portland and checking out the movie, it will go down as one of those nights that reminds me to go with the flow and live it up!!!!

Kick Ball!!!

Oh man I have joined a kickball league in Portland and it is 100% awesomeness!!! It includes a little bit of athletic ability, lots of teamwork and camaraderie, and even more BEER!!! We can even drink ON the field!!! So far we have a 2-2 record which for an almost entirely rookie team (with exception to our capitan) is not to shabby!!! If you are ever in Portland on a Thursday come check us out! This Saturday is our mid-season mixer, it is going to be awesome.....




I have also enclosed some pics from our outings at the bar!!!

It is so much fun even the pregnant girls get down!!!

The team (part of it atleast) after our first game, by this time we didn't care that we lost!!