sunny day on the oregon coast!

there is nothing better then a sunny and warm day on the oregon coast!  we made a quick day trip over to enjoy the sand.  i think the girls could sit and play in the sand all day!

 such a gorgeous day!

we ended the day with a visit to the docks to see the sea lions and then it was time to warm up with some clam chowder!  i love our day trips to the coast!!!

fun time at the cascade rapture center!

a few weekends ago we visited the cascade rapture center with the carter family...it was awesome!  its located in the hills of south eugene and believe it or not i had never heard of it!  there was lots of owls, eagles, falcons, and other birds to check out.  they also have a wildlife hospital that specializes in birds of prey and most of the birds had a story behind why they were there.  it was fun to know a little background about each bird.  the girls of course loved checking them all out, so if your in the area you should totally check it out!  

this kids had fun acting like birds in the large bird nest!

notice caleb's eagle face in this pic...he looks like a mean one! :)

just a very sweet group of friends in the nest!

e and a looking like owls...

c and e also made cute owls!

peek a boo...

friends!!!

thanks again ada for introducing us to the raptor center, we loved it and can't wait to go back in the spring!

fun in the woods!

yummy chantrells that dad brought home from a day at the office! :)

over the weekend we escaped the fog and headed east to cut some slit rail fence posts.  the girls and i had a great time hanging in the woods with dad!

brian cut some log rounds for the girls to sit on and amelia insisted on siting on sisters lap instead! :)

we even had a fire and roasted hot dogs...

look who found some mud puddles...

big sis joined in on the fun!

keeping warm!

my little lumberjacks...notice how tight miss a's hickory shirt is getting...hint hint christmas idea! :)

eating apples in the sun!

and this hard working man was sweating like crazy on this warm fall day in the woods!

of course the fog never burned off in the valley, this is the time of year where i want to move east...the fog gets to me!  so here's to some sunny days in the valley, otherwise we might be chasing down some sunshine! :)

success!!!

this hunting season  turned out to be a good one for the hubs this year! 

this is his big horn sheep he got in october in the snake river unit which is in the very NE corner of oregon.  its a once in a lifetime hunt...its a lottery and you can only draw it once.  so it was a big deal in our house!!! :)

awesome country which makes for intense hiking/hunting!

brian's hunting crew...colton, chad, brian, tyler, jake and cal

it turned out to be a great group of guys and from the stories i hear i think they had a great time at "man camp" for the week! :)

this was one hillside they hunted...

brian and colton stayed and helped the out of state tag holder get this ram...of course another adventures story!

brians hunting partner tyler had some success in early september in the mt. emily unit.  these two were in the same unit last year with brain's tag, so they were excited to go back!

that's the recap of 2013 hunting!  so happy for their success!!!!

now we will have to wait and see what hunt of a lifetime pops up for 2014!  :)

this is a ongoing joke in our household, even through the sheep hunt was a hunt of a lifetime i have learned that brian always tells me that every hunt is a "hunt of a lifetime!" :)  

more pumpkin patch fun!

you know us, we like to hit up a bunch of pumpkin patches in october!  here is a few pics from of our visits...

gorgeous sunset on one of those amazing sunny october days we had!

happy fall!!!