Back to Oregon

I am headed back to Oregon tonight. My assistant back in Oregon is leaving. : ( So, my boss is flying me back out there for the week to interview, hire and train a new one. I leave tonight about 6:45pm and get back home really late Friday night.

I have about 11 interviews scheduled for Monday & Tuesday... hopefully I can find that special someone within those 11. I do have my favorites... but sometimes that changes once you bring them in, sit down with them, and get them talking.

Hope you all enjoy your week!
And just to make you all a little bit jealous... Um, it is suppose to be 90 there on Thursday & Friday!!!!! Oh yeah!!

Diggin

We went back to our parents this past weekend. My little brother was getting confirmed... which basically means he became a member of the Catholic church. I was his sponsor. For some reason I was really nervous. All I had to do was walk to the front of the church with him, put my arm on his right shoulder, and say "Bishop, this is Adam." Of course I joked around with Adam before it started and told him that I was going to say "Bishop, this is Aaaaddddduuuum." Then we decided on "Bishop, this is Rubber Ducky". If you ever call Adam's cell phone and get his voice mail you will hear hilarious voicemail greetings. One day I called him and got "This is Rubber Ducky. It is swimming weather, so leave a message." Every since I heard that I call him Rubber Ducky.

Oh and Adam was the very last person to be confirmed. So we were the last ones standing up there with no other people to block us - so you know everyone is looking right at you. Ick! Right before we stand up to walk to the front of the church I see a scuff on my shoe... "Um Adam - I can't go my shoe is scuffed!!"

It all went well. For some reason the Bishop liked him and confirmed him. : )

Sunday we spent some time with the Freys. When we got there Jesse's Dad asked him what he was doing for the day. Jesse said nothing. Dave got all excited and said "Good. I have a project for you." This project was to help him dig out the sewer ditch!! FUN! (kidding) I volunteered to ride shotgun so that I could soak up the nice day we were having.

Here are some pictures that I took with Dave's camera...

Here is Dave & Sally-the-dog. Sally would sit up there and look at you

with a smile on her face. She had this look of... Ha! Aren't you jealous of me!

This is what Jesse and I drove - the pug! Dave would put his sewer yuck in here and we would haul it away and dump it.

And what is a day of running equipment without getting stuck?!? Yes, we are stuck!! Dave needed to go across the highway to dig out another sewer and he thought he would go around back (kind of threw the field) to avoid the highway and well... we are stuck!!!

Dave had to take the digger off the trailer and push the trailer and truck out of the mud.

Now we are safely on the other side of the highway at Jesse's cousins to dig out their sewer. Here is Jesse taking a whirl at digging. So, I can totally see why Jesse caused so much trouble when ever he was to run equipment for his Dad when he was younger. Let me tell you what we are doing... we are digging out the yuck in the ditch and putting it in the pug. Jesse takes a scoop - a huge-mega scoop and goes to put it in the pug and gets 1/2 in the pug and 1/2 hanging out. Then he looks at Dave & I and starts laughing! Dave lets him keep digging and pretty soon I tell Dave "We are going to be here all day if you don't get back on there."

Then Dave says "Hey Lynn you want to try?" Um!!!!! Are you serous?!!! He was! So I hoped on and he showed me what to do. Here I am. Dave wouldn't let me dump the yuck in the pug so I just made a pile on the ground.

I only did a few scoops then I gave it back to Dave. We would have been there all day if I was doing it too.

There you have it... I weekend back at our parents! Fun, eh?!

A Doctor in the House!

We finally have a doctor in the house!! You know I can use this to my advantage... he can write my boss a note that says "Lynn can't work today - Doctors orders." Except he is a doctor of psychology... so they might think that I have gone crazy and that is why I can't go to work. Oh - we'll let them think that... maybe they'll give me an extra day to get it back together! LOL.

Back on track here...

We went back to Oregon on Wednesday for Jesse to graduate with a PsyD at George Fox University. It was so much fun being in Oregon!! The weather was typical Portland weather. We were greeted with rain but we did get some sunshine towards the end of our trip.

The first night there we went back to our apartment complex and had a cook out with our neighbors. Way too much fun! The girls stepped out for a bit and went to the bar down the road for a drink.

Friday was graduation. Jesse was able to give a speech after he was hooded. I cried! When he was writing his speech he told me that it was funny! But somehow from the time he wrote it to the time he actually said it - it brought tears! Even Jesse got a little choked up! Awww! Too sweet!

Saturday we spent the day with Jesse's parents. We went to the Columbia River Gorge to Bonneville Dam.

This above picture is where the salmon come up. They count every salmon in this river!! We even saw the gal in her room with a huge window where she just watched for a fish to swim by. When one did she would push a button on her keyboard. Pretty sure I would not be good at this job, as I would fall asleep. It is even dark in this room!

It was a wonderful trip! We were able to see all our Oregon friends which was much needed!!

Thanks to Ryan & Lin and Scott & Megan for opening up your house to us so that we could see everyone!!