Yes, that is an almost completed mitten and scarf. The scarf is now complete and the mitten still has no thumb. And my homework is still in progress. I think this is something I need to work on. But my Seahawks finally won again this week (granted they played the Lions but I will take what I can get).

Our office is being reconfigured today and tomorrow. It is loud and hard to concentrate, thank goodness for earphones and music!

Last weekend Andrea and I joined the team from ResCare HomeCare to help support the Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk in Portland, OR.  Alzheimer’s is a disease that has affected my family and one that I have seen a lot of during my time as a caregiver so I was glad to help bring awareness to the disease.  There are still some walks going on in the state of Oregon next month and there is also the option to participate virtually if you wanted to help out as well!

Myself, Heidi and Andrea

The ResCare Group

I started my online classes today, I will be very busy and most likely very quiet here.  Well, not that that will be much of a change over the last six months.  But here are a few pics of what I have been up to lately.

Heidi’s 30th Birthday Bash…with a bouncy castle!

Went to Jewel Meadow and saw some elk

Did Race for the Cure

Had some fun at Powells trying on some new glasses to go with my new hair cut.

This week has been a busy one.  Monday was Labor Day, which Becky and I spent traveling home from a fire in Omak, WA.  We were on the Milepost 281 Fire on the Colville Indian Reservation.  It was a quick up and down fire camp, but it was a great time.  And on the way home we got to take the Keller Ferry.

We had to leave Karrie and Laura behind for one round on the ferry:

Here is my current project on the ferry, they are called Walter’s Manly Socks:

After getting home from the fire late Monday night I got to catch up at the office from being gone.  I also got to register for classes for the upcoming quarter at Eastern Oregon University.  I was finally able to get on the phone with my advisor, we had been playing phone tag for about a month.  And I found out some great news! I have 24 upper division credits left to graduate, all of my course work is done for my major and two minors! This means that on March 20, 2010 I will be done with my undergraduate degree! I am pretty excited about this fact, hence all the exclamation points.

One of my best friends decided to go have one of the cutest babies I have seen! Well, technically I haven’t seen him in person since he and his parents live on the other side of the pond but I have seen pictures of the cute guy. So I am knitting a little gray sweater for the little guy so he can be warm when the fall comes around in England. I found this pattern on Ravelry, it is going well. I am almost finished with the main body part and getting ready to start the edging on the front.  I am excited to get it over to him.  The yarn is  Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran and I am knitting it on Addi Turbos.

I was reading through all of my blog posts from when I started this blog and was getting a little down on myself.  I was feeling that I had been moving backwards in my life since I have moved to Portland.  Do you ever have those days where you questions the decisions that you have made? And wonder how you got to where you from where you were.  Yup, it has been one of those days.  I think that it started last night when I was getting quarters to do some laundry at my apartment.  I was remembering that not too long ago I had my own washer and dryer in my own laundry room.  I think that I was only remembering the good things about my marriage and the home.  I wasn’t remembering all of the negative aspects (which I really won’t go into, this is not the place).  At times like these I am so thankful for my best friends and my family.  Oh, I can’t forget my dog Mac has been so very helpful since he has come to live with me in Portland.  So, I would just like to thank you all!

I had to put Heidi in twice just ’cause she is that awesome!

The girls and I were finally able to get all three of us together after what seemed like months without seeing eachother…ok it was really only two weeks at the most but STILL.  With all of our crazy summer schedules we were able to fit in a great dinner at Screen Door after I got home from a fire assignment, Heidi got home from a family reunion and before Andrea flew out of town for 10 days.  We had some great food! If you ever have an opprotunity to eat at Screen Door, do!  Here is a sneak peak at our appitizer and cocktail.  Hush Puppies and Porch Swing Lemonade.  Yum!

This is right before you pop out of the minam canyon and into the Wallowa Valley.  Growing up in the Wallowa Valley I did not appreciate the beauty of the area that surrounded me.  But, as I am older now and get to come back to visit I see how lucky I was to grow up in such a beautiful place. 

Here is a view looking at the county from the other side, we are facing away from Mt Joseph and looking down towards the town of Joseph.

I was home for the Chief Joseph Days Rodeo.  One of the cutest things in the world to me are little cowboys and girls.  This little one just couldn’t get enough of the action sitting in the stands so they had to go up closer.