Flickr

So, I was blog-stalking yesterday and found this amazing idea! Basically, you take a subject, like what your name is, then you input it on Flickr and choose one of the pictures that pops up! Here's what I came up with for Billy and I:

Name

Kera

William

Morbid, right?

Favorite Food:

Italian

Pizza

High School Attended

Riggs High School

Ok, this wasn't the high school I went to, but it looks pretty cool!

Greene High School

This obviously isn't Billy's school either, but he said everyone in his small town was a bit weird, and so is this picture.

Favorite Color

Purple

Blue

Celebrity Crush

Eric Dane

Seriously, who wouldn't crush on this guy?

Rachel McAdams

Billy wouldn't admit to crushing on her... but after much provocation, he finally said she's a "good" actress. Whatever. I guess he's smart.

Favorite Disney Princess

Ariel

I was obsessed with this movie as a girl! On that note, I would love to watch this movie again..

Jasmine

Hussie

Favorite Drink

Diet Mountain Dew

On a side note, this wrapper is in the shape of a deer! I guess people have way too much time on their hands.

Coke Zero

Dream Vacation

Italy

How awesome would Venice be?? Can't wait.

Italy

Billy didn't know this was my pick - and I didn't know this was his dream destination either. I guess we are just meant to be :)

Favorite Dessert

Candy!!

Brownies

Dream Career

Social Worker

Attorney

Haha seriously - can you believe this turned up for "attorney?" I had to choose this one!

What do you love most in life?

Family

Family

Again - we are just meant to be on this one - along with this little jack-o-lantern family.

One word to describe you..

Blessed

Stressed

What you dream about..

Toilets

My story is TMI. Just trust me on this one.

Nothing

Billy never remembers his dreams. I've tried to tell him he still has them, but I'm not sure if he believes me.

Flashback Friday

Well, I decided to take a crack at Flashback Friday. 1) Because I think it's cool. I always enjoy reading other people's flashbacks. 2) I've been up since 1:30am and I'm really really bored.

When I was in 5th grade, I signed up to play Percussion because I had always been drawn to all the different instruments when listening to music. While it never became a huge passion of mine, I had a blast doing it and ended up trying out for drumline my freshman year.

I was so stoked when I made it, even though I had no idea how to play the quads! I remember the bruises on my back every year from my harness, but I still continued to play because I was a huge dork. Man I miss making music!

New Camera!

Last night Billy and I bought a camera! I can't tell you how excited I am about this. We knew which camera we wanted, a Canon SD780 IS, but didn't know if we could afford it. We stopped into Target and found it. Turns out their display camera was their last one, and they gave us $60 off! Seriously, I don't know what I'll do with the 12.1 mega pixels, I've had only 5 for so long. There will DEFINITELY be better pictures to come!

Day in Portland

Yesterday was another amazing day in Oregon, so Billy and I decided to spend it up in Portland, which we don't do often enough. We started our day at the Portland Farmer's Market, which I will say, is just like the Salem one. Now I know to just stay in Salem if I want to go the market - there are less people there!

This is just a portion of the market, but you can see how crowded it was. Too many people freaks me out!

Us having a little picnic for Ethan. We decided to fill his tummy before sticking him in the stroller.

We had to make a pit-stop in the parking garage before we made our way downtown. Yes, we WALKED the town, and it was a blast! Except for that weird guy who screamed obscenities, then screamed at me: DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT! I was scared he was going to knife me..

There's this street that has probably 20 vendors along it, all different ethnicities for food. We ended up having incredibly overpriced kabobs. I can't wait to go back and have some Thai food!

Ethan was such a champ. He normally doesn't like his stroller AT ALL, or his teething ring, but he was sooooo good the whole time.

Can you see me holding his hand? He kept tearing off those glasses, but I just wanted one picture!

Can you see the building has windmills on the top of it? Coolest thing I've seen in a while.

We went to Powell's Bookstore, which is supposed to be the biggest bookstore in the nation, and it was pretty cool, but somehow I think it would be more fun without Ethan..

The super ghetto 7-11 downtown. I really am fascinated by how they do everything in big cities. How they don't have real convenience stores, just little convenience apartments. Do you see Ethan has no socks? As soon as we took his socks off, he was the happiest camper - I couldn't put them back on! He sucked his toes the whole way back to the parking garage.

Before going home, we made a stop in Vancouver to get Billy his 12-hour Clariton D, because Oregon doesn't sell it - apparently you can make Meth with it. We just chilled out in McDonald's before driving all the way back to Salem, and Ethan absolutely loved his fries (as you can see).

My men are serious about their food.

Washing the fries down with some milk. Ethan's favorite thing to do.

I'm going to go Coastal!!

Ethan and I have had the BEST week! My friend Leanna was kind enough to invite us to her home at the coast, and I of course jumped at the chance. Really, it was such a wonderful time, and I'm so thankful Leanna thought of us to spend time with. It was great company and amazing scenery!

We first started at Manzanita Beach:

This is probably one of my most favorite pictures of Ethan. But really, any picture at the coast is frame-worthy.

Leanna putting the kite together. The coast is always a great place to have fun with kites.

Leanna doing what she does best! It was great to be with other women who take pictures as much as I do. Well it was great to be with other women in general! I miss Leanna and Melody already.

Again, one of my favorite pictures.

Ethan checking out the sand, trying to decide what to do with it..

MMMMM....sand. Seriously, he ate sand for quite a while. At first I tried to stop him, but figured he's a boy.

Trying to decide if he wants to eat it again, and just so you know, he did.

The next day, we stopped at the Tillamook Cheese factory, and were able to try all different kinds of cheeses. This picture doesn't do it justice, but those cheese blocks were absolutely HUGE!

Leanna was then kind enough to treat us to ice cream, which was AMAZING. Ethan also loved it. He had his first taste of ice cream, and it was truly priceless.

There are more pics to come from Leanna's camera. We later went to their dairy farm, and I'm so excited to blog about it!