2 years!

It's our second anniversary! Yay! We spent the weekend enjoying the hot weather by taking in a movie, going out for ice cream, swimming in the Washougal river, and then hiking Silver Star Mountain. Tonight we'll enjoy a lovely dinner at Montage and scramble around Portland. I'm craving macaroni and cheese or maybe I'll go with jambalaya or gumbo. We'll see how the mood strikes later this evening. Did I ever mention here on this blog that we wanted Montage to cater our wedding, but due to their (new at the time) weekend brunch service, we wouldn't have been able to secure food service for our Saturday reception. Big sad face ---> : ( Ordering the food a day early and reheating it also would not have been an option.

Anywho, we were quite happy with our self/group catered soiree. Here's a little diddy from the reception, showing off our photo wreath which was put together by my Aunt Sue. She's a crafting genius!

Embarrassing childhood photos FTW! Photo courtesy of my Mom.

Another lazy Sunday

Not much to report in regard to the weekend. I spent most of yesterday catching up on the last few episodes of Law and Order: SVU while Andy worked. Here are some other updates in bullet point formation:

• Our Las Vegas vacation begins in 38 days (as well as my 30th birthday)! We'll be staying at the Golden Nugget on historic Fremont Street, taking in dinner and a show, relaxing by the pool, drinking, perusing the multiple buffets, and potentially getting swayed into hopping on a few rides. I've been on the NYNY coaster and the Big Shot atop the Stratosphere, but the other two rides scare the bejeezus out of me!
  
  
  
• We celebrated Andy's 31st birthday last week with family at Gustav's.
  
  
  

  

  My nephew Tommy is a huge ham!

  

  Happy Birthday Andy!

  
  

  
  
• We hiked Dog Mountain on Thursday and it took us just over 5 hours round trip, but was well worth the multiple days of sore calves and core muscles. This is our second hike of the season; our first was the very easy Multnomah Falls. Not all of the flowers were in bloom on Dog Mountain, but the weather was perfect: 75 degrees, plenty of sun and minimal wind. No rattlesnakes were sighted, but we did encounter a bit of poison oak.



I wasn't too sure how I was going to make it up the side of the mountain.






The last .4 miles!






Us at Puppy Point






Andy, on top of the world.



Looking northwest toward Mt. St. Helens.






Looking southeast into the Columbia River Gorge.






Looking west.






The last pull to the summit!

• We're still in the midst of C25K and will be running W6D2 this evening. It's been nice to engage in other outdoor activities, and we've also had to kick our own behinds a few times to run in the rain (which is actually quite refreshing). I was very surprised that I could run for 20 minutes at a pretty decent pace, without stopping! We've been looking around for 5k races that are compatible with our schedule, but need to do a little more research before we commit.