Summertime . . . where the living is easy

So the past week has been pretty busy and definitely making me ready to go away for the weekend. I spent some time with Kaitlin since she's back from her trip. One of the days we decided to hang out and take some pictures up at the rose garden together. It turned out to be a super nice day! 

I have been working a lot which is good and bad. Its nice to get the hours and more money but Dan and I have been working opposite schedules so its kinda crappy when it comes to that. I am so excited to go away this weekend. Dan and I are going with my parents to Sunriver for the weekend. We are renting a house and just spending the weekend relaxing. I am SO excited to go. it will be so relaxing and just what we all need. On saturday Dan and my dad are running a half marathon so I am really looking forward to going and watching Dan. I am so proud of him! 

On another exciting note, we scheduled our engagement pictures! I'm so excited to take those pictures! We are going to take them at the beach in about a month. It will be so much fun & I definitely can't wait!

Well I'm off to work on some homework before work. I'll write more soon :-)

Weekend Wrap-up

So this weekend was really nice since Dan was off all weekend. We had been planning on spending this weekend together just the two of us for about a month and a half since it seems like our lives are going 100 miles a minute and two completely different schedules. So our plan was to just spend time the two of us all weekend. That worked out well on Saturday but ended up being time with family on Sunday which turned out alright. 

Saturday we went to the Oregon Garden. Dan had never been there and it had been years since the last time I had gone so we decided to go somewhere new. We have been enjoying going on new adventures and trips together for the past couple of months and it seems sort of like our goal for the summer to explore new places together. The day actually turned out to be decent. It was cloudy but not super hot, which was nice since there's a lot of walking involved in the garden. We first took a tram ride all around the garden where someone explained about each different individual garden and about how everything works. Then the two of us just walked around and took pictures and talked. It was a fun, relaxing, and enjoyable day. We went out to dinner just the two of us and then went home and played cards and relaxed the rest of the night. 

Sunday we went over to Dan's parents house for his dad's birthday party. There were probably around 20 people there. It was fun but a little overwhelming at the same time. His dad enjoyed it though, which is all that matters. After hanging around over there for a couple hours we went and visited my family and talked for a little while. By dinner time we just wanted to go home and relax so we spent the rest of the night together just hanging out. I miss him so much when he's gone all the time so I cherish the time we have together. 

Now we're counting down the days till Sunriver when we get 5 days off together and can just relax! we haven't had that many days where he is actually home five nights in a row to sleep in his own bed in probably 4 months. I am so looking forward to our trip and spending some time with dan and my family. 

It's Been Forever!!

Sorry it's been so long since the last time I posted. I have been really busy finishing up school and spending time with friends and of course working. Dan has been really busy working a bunch of overtime shifts and covering other people's shifts that he hasn't really been home too much so I'm really looking forward to spending this weekend with him. I made sure he didn't plan anything for this weekend & i requested it off of work so we could spend some time together. Our schedules have been crazy for the last month and a half, I feel like our lives never stop or give us time together, but it does make us cherish the time we have together. 

We have been having a lot of fun exploring different festivals and fun places around town. We have been to the iris festival, the tulip festival, the portland rose garden, the rose festival, and the japanese garden and been to the beach a couple times, all in the last month. We have taken some gorgeous pictures and it is really making me want to take a photography class. At the end of this post i'll add some pictures that we have taken. 

After messing around a bunch with the super nice camera dan's dad let us use it is making me want to take pictures all the time and really making me want to take a photography class. I'm not sure that Linfield really offers any so I might look into taking one somewhere else. I find it so much fun and so relaxing that I would love to learn more and get better at it. It's really nice cause one of my friends also loves to take pictures so she and i enjoy going new places 

where we can take lots of pics. There are so many gorgeous places in the portland area that you never run out of pictures to take. 

 I am off to wake dan up since its like 10:40 in the morning lol . . . and then we are going to spend the day together which i am super excited about. I promise to write more later hehe. 

& here are the pics I promised . . .