Road Trip

We made a quick road trip to Oregon this weekend to pick up Rachel and Traygen.  She wanted to come for a visit but didn't think she could drive that far with a 3 week old.  This was the last weekend that we could guarantee that Matt would be available (before he has to start riding the trains) so we decided to drive out.  Mom and Dad drove out with us (actually we took their car).  We stayed in a nice hotel in Ontario then drove home the next day.  It was a fun trip.  We did a lot of visiting and saw a lot of pretty country.  Traygen did pretty well on the drive back.  We had to stop a few times to give him a break from his car seat, he definitely let us know when he was ready for a break. :-)

We didn't take any pictures but here are a few screen grabs from Google Maps so you can see where we were. These images were obviously taken a few years ago and later in the season but you'll get the idea. :-)

Here is Rachel and Destry's house

This is Destry's parent's place (mostly you can just see the farm yard but the house in under the trees on the right side of the picture).

March 14th

Ok so it has been a year since I posted anything.  Oh well, Que Sera Sera.

My sister has recently started blogging.  Her blog is so cute and fun that it has made me feel like I really should be doing something with mine.  (Thanks a lot for the guilt trip. j/k).

Nothing much exciting is happening in our lives at the moment.   Matt's new job is going well.  He has one more week of class then he has two weeks of student trips as a conductor.  My work is the same a always but it is going well.  I did get to start my garden this weekend.  Matt brought me home a four pack of broccoli one day last week in lieu of cut flowers (what a romantic ;-) ).  Since we had the broccoli I decided to go ahead and start the other cole crops as well (cabbage and brussel sprouts).  Also we ended up at Home Depot on Saturday and a pack of spinach and two things of strawberries jumped into our cart. :-P  We won't be able to plant anything out side for another month or so but it's fun to have some things started.

I guess that's all that is new from our end.  I have some pics that I will try to post of various family activities.  Also I have some video from Rebecca and Spencer's good bye party that I will try to post soon.  Bye for now.