"rain rain go away"

I used to love Oregon and the rain. Now I find myself wishing I lived anywhere else but here. It makes me depressed and I get that feeling of being trapped. Every year in February there is a week of sun followed by WEEKS or MONTHS of rain. I knew this rain was coming after the great sunny week we had but I was still thrown by how annoyed it makes me. So can you guys remind me of the good things about rain? Just leave me a comment stating your favorite thing the rain brings or does for you. I need some reminding before I go completely MAD.

Happy Birthday Danette!

If you haven't already you should check out my sisters blog. You will learn fun things about Germany!

little black dress

I am a jean a sweater kind of gal. Can't remember the last dress I wore. Usually wear flip flops so no need to own those prefect high heel shoes. But Ben is a business man. He needs to be involved in the community and that leads to parties and mingling. On Feb 4 I get to go to a Habitat For Humanity Fundraiser Auction. I love auctions but this is also a cocktail dress auction. So I bought a little black dress. Well, honestly I ordered 3 online and they came today. I figured there is a lot more selection online and I can take what I don't wear back. Thankfully ordering a dress online is not like ordering pants. I know my dress size. And thankfully I think at least one of the dresses will work. Alicia likes 2 of them, Ethan doesn't really care and Ben hasn't seen them yet. Alicia wishes I could return black for a red dress. But it's much harder to find a red dress in my style then a black one. Now I am starting to freak out about what shoes to wear, what jewelery, do I wear stockings or go bare legged. I think I need help. Any of you have the perfect heels I should get for this black dress? Know what kind of jewelery I should wear? This is most likely the dress I will choose. It at least gives me the feel of sleeves to hide behind. It won't be the fanciest dress there but it is one of the more fancier dresses I have ever worn.

Metal Mouth

Alicia got four braces put on her front four teeth about a year and a half ago. Yesterday they did the enite mouth. All but one tooth, it's only half in, have a brace on them. (You can see the tooth on the right, top side in the picture.) It seems amazing that at almost 10 she has a full mouth of metal but then again it seemed amazing when she started loosing her teeth at 4. She choose pink for Valentines Day and green for St Patricks Day. It still hurts to chew but she is in a lot less pain compared to first four braces that went on.

This is Hwy 22 down the road from us. I wasn't able get these kind of pictures so I am stealing them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3aMqe5FK1E




(some of you have seen thesepictures, these are for my sister and for future me to look at and remember.

Rain Day

Well rain may not be as fun as snow, not nearly, but it does bring school closures.

So we went and drove around Sublimity and Stayton with a hot cocoa and looked at some flooding. The pictures really do not do the flooding justice. I would have loved to stop to take pictures but these are all taken while driving along.

I think that the road in front of the school on the way to our house is actually one of the worst areas we saw.
And what is amazing is this was these pictures were taken on our way to take a look around. On our way home in just 30 minutes this area is much much worse.

The very worst flooding was the on-ramps and exits off of HWY 22. Some are closed, some are just lakes. They won't have time to dry out. The rain just keeps coming and is supposed to go for DAYS. By this evening Ben may need to take the back route to our house. Ben saw a car drowning in the middle of a closed down road. I didn't go take a look because getting there was going to entail too many detours.


Our van was going through a "puddle" and Ethan took the picture of water splashing up. He is very proud of it and wants you to see it.

Snow day

***********best friends*********

They had just told their moms they had put ice down a sisters shirt. STINKERS

It was so nice not having school yesterday, Tuesday. Alicia's and Ethans best friends invited us over to play at 9:15. For some reason they had a bit more snow then we got, they are up a small hill from us. And it snowed off and on all day. We were there until 1:30. The day was so much fun. The kids played, the adults gabbed. F.U.N.



But it was a bit dissappointing to wake this morning to risen temperatures and RAIN. And I do mean an amazing amount of rain. Hard not to feel a bit like if that rain could be snow we would have real snow fun. O, well.