Showing posts with label visitors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label visitors. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

0064 -- the kirby's

Yesh! This post is awfully late, but I've been busy lady and my motivations have been places other than my computer lately. 
So how late is this post now...almost a month! Kirby and Katja came up from the warm sunny south (San Diego) to visit us for a weekend. We took them to eat, drink, walk the gorge, and eat some more. Instead of bore you with details, here's some photos!
This champagne drink was great from The Parish!

We had to get Katja some Voodoo Donuts!

Apparently a rock came tumbling down off the side of the waterfall and hit the bridge so we couldn't cross. You can almost see the hole it left! Mother Nature is crazy!
The Ladywife came on our adventures seeing at Stephen was working and 5 bodies in a car keeps it warmer than 4! 
It was so windy we thought the Kirbys would fly off the side!

It was so much fun to have them up here and we can't wait to see them again (if it means waiting until August for their wedding)!!! <3 div="">

Monday, December 9, 2013

0055 -- our first visitor!

This weekend our old roommate and dear friend Dawn came up from LA to visit us. We have been so excited to get to show some one around as well as finally get to put our newly finished spare room to use! Of course I woke up for work on Friday and it was snowing. Yes, you read that right, SNOWING!!! I was too excited to see it, but with it came some seriously cold weather (duh)! Here's what our street looked like on Friday morning!
Fortunately the snow stopped before I had to drive back home, as much as I find it really neat and pretty, I'm still nervous to drive in the snow. We picked up Dawn from the airport and headed right over to grab some dinner and drinks!

Saturday we headed over to the NW to feed Dawn the best donuts up here (sorry Voodoo)! From there we shopped around at all the cute and painfully hip shops in the Pearl area. We headed over to a neat little gift pop up shop back in SE before finally heading up to Mississippi for some lunch and oddities shopping!
We walked around Mississippi picking up fun decorations for Dawn's new place and stopping into a few bars along the way for refreshments! How cute is my Dawny?! Love this girl to bits!
Check out what we ended up creating with all the awesome goodies Dawn found! I hope to make something similar to this soon!
Jordan and I also picked up a new little creepy plant for our house too. Meet Seymore, our Venus Fly Trap! Apparently this little guy will attract his own food as long as we make sure he gets enough sunlight and water. 
Jordan and I wanted to make a nice dinner for Dawn Saturday night so we made some pork chops, apple sauce, and sweet potato curry latkes. YUM! After dinner we walked over to a local bar to meet up with some other friends. Of course, we thought we were so tough walking the few blocks to the bar in 11 degree weather...


On Sunday we started over at City State Cafe, a little breakfast spot over by our house. One look at the menu and we knew we had make the right choice, I mean look at that bloody mary pyramid! 
After breakfast we headed down to Hawthorne to show Dawn some other fun shops and areas of Portland! We paused in one of our favorite knick knack shops and she snapped this hilarious shot of me in a pug mask.
As always, it's hard to let our friends leave (even Larry didn't want Dawn to go). We had such a great time and are really looking forward to having more visitors!!


Update again soon!!

xxo