WE'RE STILL HERE!!

I'm so sorry for not updating the blog in so long. Rich has been busy at work and this past term turned out to be really busy for me as well. I got out of school for the Christmas break a little while ago, but I'm sad it's almost over. So if you don't get any updated for a while, it's because school started again, Sorry!! I also apologize for how long this blog update is going to be, I'm trying to make up for lost time here.

Let's see, where did I leave off?? AUGUST!! Man, it has been a while. I'm such a slacker! So in September, I had my birthday and school started again. I was working full time during the summer and that kept me pretty busy. I'm enjoying my job and Rich seems to be enjoying his job too. It's pretty hard to beat the place he works for, there are a lot of good people there. Here are some pictures of things we did during September:

Our flowers were blooming like crazy and we had some nice honey bee visitors!
Then we went to a wildlife refuge near our house and we saw all sorts of things. We saw tons of white pelicans, otters playing on a log, lots of frogs, and a white egret!

Then towards the end of the month we got a new goldfish and we went to Rich's company's camping weekend at Silver Falls...and yes, my hair is dark brown.
Cooper and Kiki (mini ausies!)

So that was September! In October our flowers were still blooming! Rich and I went up to his parents house one weekend and we helped refinish their deck before the rain came. We helped my parents clear the blackberries out of their backyard so they would have a nicer view of the field behind their house (sorry, I don't have any pictures of that). We carved pumpkins that molded immediately :( And we took a day trip to the beach. We went down through Monroe and down to Florence. Then up along the coast to Newport and back home to Corvallis. And a quick stop at the wildlife refuge again...just for the fall colors.

In November we went down to Medford to visit my BFF and her hubby. One day while we were down there we decided to go to Crater Lake. It was so cold and there was snow and icicles everywhere! We went to my parents house for Thanksgiving and Rich's family came over too. It was fun having that many people around. I don't have any pictures of Thanksgiving but Meghan does and you can look at them here!

Now to December...We haven't done a whole lot this month. So far, we had a couple humming bird visitors and we got a Christmas tree so I'm going to just post pictures of the tree. Hopefully I get some more pictures soon of Christmas day which is only 2 days away!!! This year has gone by so fast!