Spring

It has certainly been a busy Spring and I only wish we had more pictures of our happenings. As we’ve found that we need to get better about blogging we’ve also found that we need to step up our photo documentation. We’ll get there!

For me I suppose that one of the highlights of this spring was my birthday. I felt well-celebrated with multiple days and multiple people! A few days before my actual day, Kerry arranged a trip to OMSI After Dark. For those of you who love going to museums that traditionally attract children and are always annoyed that they’re constantly in your way, this is the event for you! Basically the last Wednesday of each month, OMSI opens up to the 21+ crowd. With a decent selection of wine and beer all of us kids at heart get to generate electricity, launch rockets, learn about sewer systems, and find out just how color blind we really are.

It was a great evening that started out with a trip to the Rock Bottom Brewery in Portland. It was a fantastic meal--the company was superb--and with the purchase of a new pub glass, I think that I have officially started a collection of some sort. The other thing that came out of this birthday, was a new project! I do love projects. This one brought new landscape lighting to our backyard and some very comfy hammock chairs that Kerry saw me pining after at the State Fair--that is the place to pine!

Other celebrations included a trip to the coast with the Weeks crew for their birthday; a trip to the beautiful King Estate’s Winery for Kerry’s dad’s birthday; a trip to Puyallup for birthday celebrations for my dad, brother-in-law, and me; a baby shower for our friends Megan & Steve; a weekend in Portland for my sister’s graduation; and sending some flowers up to our dear friend Abbey to celebrate her graduation. Whew!

On a less-than-celebratory note, our friend Neil (from Alaska), was deployed to Bagram AFB in Afghanistan where he will be for the next few months flying MC-12s. It definitely brings our presence over there closer to home and are excited for his return.

On to the work world! Kerry’s 19-week healthy challenge program, PowerUp has finally come to a close. It was an event that took a ton of coordination, time, and effort, but really made a huge difference for the participants. Kerry has also finished up a TON of other things this spring. You may have read in our previous post that she finished her ombuds training in Baltimore. As of this last week she has also finished her Health Coach training through Well Coaches.

In my sphere, my work with the construction of our new residence hall on campus is winding down somewhat now that we are pretty much done designing it. For those construction nerds out there, we have a live webcam setup at the construction site.

From here on out Kerry and I are stoked about the upcoming summer and the mixture of rest and adventure it will bring. Kerry’s started quite the garden on the balcony outside of our bedroom. While the tomatoes have been hating our recent weather, the climbing-peas have been going absolutely crazy! It’s a pretty complete garden with tomatoes, spinach, melons, eggplants, peas, a pumpkin, mint, basil, oregano, and peppers. If the weather cooperates we should have quite the salad!