30 August 2009

Happiest Sunday!

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Today was a fantastic day! We love our new ward...it is such a blessing to be in the same stake as the Portland temple. We also had a blast hanging out with Eddie and Leila. Anita had to work, so we hung with the kids. We took them to both of the playgrounds in our little Villebois neighborhood, one had fun water fountains and the other had swings - what more could you want as a kid? Here are just a few of the great shots we got today. I brought out my new/old manual 50mm to give it a try again. It took half the day to get the settings right, but I love the photos we got. More to come if I ever get some more free time (not likely).










25 August 2009

Updates!

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Dan's top 3 updates

  1. His BFA program starts in 2 days!
  2. He looks good in plaid.
  3. New invention: the fanny messenger bag

(Prague: Eating chocolate!)

Carlie's top 3 updates

  1. Her job starts in 3 days!
  2. She just found out that her science classroom is going to be loaded with technology (SMARTboard and clickers!)
  3. Got offered a job coaching volleyball today......but quickly turned it down because I think I'm already going insane and the year hasn't even started yet. Hmm....this is going to be a frequent theme of working at a small school huh?
    (Ewww....sorry those are all about teaching. Ugh.....)

(Athens: view of the acropolis and a byzyntine church from our hotel rooftop)

11 August 2009

Bloggity blog

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So I am constantly blogging because
  1. it's the lazy days of summer
  2. i'm procrastinating lesson planning
  3. starting Aug. 28th you probably won't hear from me EVER - except maybe my screams of frustration about being a 1st year teacher.
SO -
Last weekend we went to our friends Roseann and Jeremy's wedding. It was absolutely gorgeous. Also we also had a mini Willamette track reunion. We had a great time catching up!




08 August 2009

Graffiti in Prague

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This is one of Dan's favorites. The tram stop outside of our hostel in Prague had some pretty intense grafitti, despite it being a nice outdoorsy place along the river. Right next door to our hostel was a sort of outdoor park. People were constantly rollerblading and biking by. There was a golf course and a place to rent fun water toys (kayaks, etc).

07 August 2009

06 August 2009

28 July 2009

Home sweet home!

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Being goofy and excited as we wait to board the plane in London.


We are home! We arrived back in Wilsonville very late Saturday night. We were SO EXHAUSTED! We traveled and were awake for nearly 24hrs. It really is disagreeable traveling on an airplane for 8-9 hrs! And that was just getting back to Chicago. But we did make it home and we have been trying to relax and catch up since then.

We've unpacked most of our house, we just have the decorating type stuff to put up now. We probably would be done by now, but the heat wave Oregon is having is just killing us. We don't have air conditioning....which is just miserable. It's about 105F here - not fun!

But we've enjoyed catching up with some friends and have plans to see other friends later this week.

We are working on going through the rest of our photos to post too.

We hope everyone is staying nice and cool in the heat!