Spring Beauty

This Spring has been gorgeous!  The flowers are blooming and the days are getting longer and warmer.  Perfection!

 

This was our May Day weather!  A few summers ago we never reached 80 in mid-summer, let alone by May 1st!

 

Photography

Jillian is taking a film photography class at school and wanted to go down to the beach to take some pictures.  I took the opportunity to take some pictures of her taking pictures! And some of Ben, too.

 

 

Easter

Just in time for Easter, the Spring flowers are bursting in our yard! 

 

 

 

 We had an Easter Egg hunt with my sister and Brad's sister's kids.  It was a lot of fun trying to find creative places to hide the eggs!

 

Ben went for it and didn't get stung!

 

Happy hunters!

 

 

Happy Easter!

Covered Bridge Regatta

  Brad and I went down to Eugene, Oregon to watch Kylie row in the Covered Bridge Regatta, held on Dexter Lake, and to celebrate our 21st anniversary.  It was a beautiful Spring weekend, and we enjoyed a stroll through the Mt. Pisgah Arboretum before heading out to the lake.

 

 

 

 

How can we possibly have been married for 21 years?  Do we even look old enough?

 

 

 

 The Covered Bridge Regatta is named for an actual covered bridge at the top of Dexter Lake.

 

You can't drive across it anymore.  It's been turned into a museum, which unfortunately was closed when we were there.

Team bonding before the race.

Their 8+ boat won 1st!

 

 

It's tradition to throw the winning cox into the lake!

And their 4+ won 2nd.  A great regatta and a beautiful weekend!

Mt. Hood on our way home. 

We also saw Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Rainier, but I wasn't fast enough to get pictures. 

1-5 is a volcano corridor!

Spring is here!

We've had some beautiful March days, the kind that tempt you to come sit outside in the sun and when you do, it's actually warm! Plus, the early spring flowers are blooming!

 (photos courtesy of Jillian)

 

 

On one of these lovely afternoons, I decided it was warm enough to visit the beach.  We still needed jackets, but we were able to enjoy the water and sand for quite a while.  We went home because we had other things to do, not because we were too cold!

 

This little piggy greeted us from the path back up to the car.