Moon & Sixpence British Pub

Yesterday Scott and I strolled down to Moon & Sixpence, a British Pub in our neighborhood, for some beer and a few games of darts.  They have a vast beer selection, seventeen on tap yesterday, and the menu is traditional British pub food.  We plan to go back to try the food out soon.  Maybe if we have a snow day this week?

Scott's winning bulls eye

Hey, three on the dart board and not on the wall!

Merry Christmas

Christmas Eve photo op

My parents and Zezo

Our stockings hung by the fire

Pre-Christmas Day run to the mailbox and back (some of you know how far this is)

Post Christmas Day run

Just call me the Dog Whisperer - Seriously where one goes the other follows

The Newlyweds

The goof offs!

Tis the Season to Volunteer

Yesterday I joined some of my coworkers to volunteer at Medical Teams International in Tigard, Oregon.  This was my second time volunteering at their site and each visit has been very meaningful and rewarding to me.  We were fulfilling Santa wish lists for children from various non-profit organizations.  Of course I loved going through the lists for all ages of girls and picking out Barbies and all of their accessories to put in their stockings.  All of the toys were donated!  I am proud to say I completed my 16 hours of volunteering that is suggested by my company for 2010!

Peacock Lane, Colgate & Tasty n Sons

Another week has gone by and once again I didn't make a blog post.  Here is a recap of our week!

Date night for the week was trying a new Hawaiian food restaurant in Portland called Ate-Oh-Ate and a tour of Peacock Lane.  I finally found a Portland attraction that Scott had never attended!  The people that live on this street are so generous in decorating their homes, paying outrageous power bills and letting hundreds of people walk up and down it every single night.

I think this guy means to be at a rave instead of a Christmas attraction.

Guys night out on Saturday included Cory, Scott, Mark, Josh and Mark P.  Don't they look thrilled to have me taking their photo?  I won't go into the details of where their night took them.

Christmas came early with Mark P. staying with us!  He works for Colgate traveling the world auditing the company and always brings his "goody" suitcase full of products.  THANK YOU Mark for giving us enough toothpaste and tooth brushes to last us a year.

Before sending Mark P. and Cory off on Sunday morning, we went to breakfast at the new hot spot in Portland, Tasty n Sons.  We arrived twenty minutes early and we only had 20 or so people in front of us.

The rest of the day we hiked the Wildwood trail in Forest Park, grocery shopped at a favorite local spot for fresh pasta and started our 2011 goals list.  More on that later.  

Out with the Old and In with the "New"

Yesterday was a big day for me.  I finally found a hutch that I liked and was in my price range.  My go to website for furniture is the ever so popular Portland Craigslist.  If my memory serves me right, it is the second most used Craigslist website after San Francisco and I love selling and buying off of it.

When we purchased our home it came partially furnished and some pieces are wonderful and fit my taste and some not so much.  Case in point the buffet in the photo below.  Thankfully due to my bargain pricing, I sold it a few hours after posting it on Craigslist to a couple driving through Portland from Boise.

Now after renting a Uhaul cargo van, driving down to Sherwood in the pouring rain, having two wonderful friends help me unload it (thank you again Adam and Sybil), I can now store all of our dishes in the kitchen!

The buffet that was left by the previous owners

My "new" hutch

Our kitchen (the island on wheels, bar stools and rug also came with the house)

The eat in area

Where was Scott during all of this?  Golfing at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, it is his annual guys weekend and it appears there was a touch of wind yesterday.

The Balloon

Who knew a balloon could provide hours of entertainment with Uncle Scott?  I love Logan's giggles and shrieks of laughter.

Christmas Cactus Right on Time

Thank you again to Cory and Lindsay for our Christmas cactus!  It looks like it is going to be in full bloom right on schedule.