Busy Weekend (Swim Meet, Krystal & Rylie, Vollyball game, Mac forest, Bowling birthday, Magic show, Jim's house)

So as you can see from my monsterous title, it was a pretty busy weekend. I debated whether or not to separate the different activities into different blogs but it would still be the same length. I tried to get several pictures from each but that means about 40 pictures! It really didn't seem as busy of a weekend until I started collecting all the pictures for the blog.....I don't know why I'm not more tired! Anyways, here we go.....

The weekend started Friday night when mom and I went to the Oregon State womens' swim meet at Dixon Rec center. I heard about the meet from Krystal since her sister Keri swims for the Beavs. We met up with Krystal, Rylie, Colleen and Krystal's youngest sister (sorry I forgot her name :( ) to cheer on the OSU swimmers against Rice. I don't know what the final score was, but it seemed like the Beavers were winning more often and had a lot more depth. It made me miss swimming and competing, although I don't miss the 6 AM practices!


Rylie and grandma Colleen.

Kerri, Krystal's sister, on the blocks for the 50 free.

Our next stop that Friday evening after the swim meet was the OSU women's volleyball game. It was "Spike out Cancer" night so you got a discount if you wore pink, even the volleyball team had pink jerseys. Mom and I met up with Tami, Wes and their daughter Kayla for the game. The Beavs played Arizona and ended up sweeping them in 3 games. It was really fun and exciting to watch.....I may have to go to more OSU games!

Kayla cheering on the Beavs!

Tami and Kayla

Final score of the 3rd game

Saturday morning I took Tasha out for a walk in McDonald forest. It was gorgeous out and decided to bring the camera. Tasha was fairly cooperative, although sitting still is NOT one of her favorite things to do :).

Saturday night was Christina's "Dirty Thirties" mini-skirt bowling party. Christina is one of my technicians at work and has been talking about doing this for quite a while. I didn't have a mini skirt but since it was so close to Halloween I decided to wear my dirndl that my parents brought back from Germany last month....hey, at least it was a skirt! Mom was dressed in one of her magic outfits since she was going to put on a little show for the birthday girl.....at least the best she could in a noisy bowling alley. I convinced Matt to wear one of the Oktoberfest hats my parents brought back as well. It was a pretty crazy collection of people for this party....Christina wouldn't have had it any other way :)!!!

The birthday girl Christina...apparently the first skirt she tried on was a little too short and she was worried about getting kicked out of the bowling alley!

Tiina dressed up to look like Christina.....hey Tiina, since when does Christina wear glasses?

Tami dressed up as.....well, Tami.

Matt and Mom

Not a very good picture of me but it gives you an idea of my outfit...yes I got a lot of stares!

Laughing at trying to bowl in a mini-skirt

Will teaching Jacob how to bowl....I think Jacob was the only one who really cared what his score was.

Michael, Christina's hubby, concentrating on the task at hand.

Michael and Christina

Most of the Pharmacy gang (Tami, Tiina, Toni, Charlotte, and Christina)

Since my Mom was already here to do some magic at the birthday party, we thought it would be cool to invite some of our friend's kids over to the house for a little magic show. This would also give Mom some practice on some new tricks.

Justin hanging out on his dad Trevor's shoulders before the show.

Zoey and Kayla assisting in a rope trick.

Anna becoming an "assistant" magician.

Justin, Hayden and Karen watching the show.

Afterwards I took some photos for Mom since she was already dressed up.

And finally the last activity of the weekend......I took Tasha over to her brother's house for a few hours and I once again brought the camera along.....here are a few good pics.

Jim, Tasha's brother

Tasha

Anna and Drew playing with fire

Muddy thinks I have a treat for her :)

Hope you had a good weekend......we sure did!

"Portraits" of Tasha and Gang and some Rylie

So Sunday, Tasha got to go over to her brother's house to play while Matt and I headed to Portland for the day to meet up with Jon and Tami. They were in the area and so we met up with them at La Provence Bistro in Lake Oswego for brunch. We haven't been able to hang out since our trip to Costa Rica in January :( We had a great meal and then went on a walk around downtown Lake Oswego and, not on the purpose, the lake!

Anyways, when I went to get Tasha from Jim's I also brought along the camera. I have been itching to play with a new lens that Andrew let me borrow. I really need to just play with all the setting so I am comfortable with them and know what I need for each situation. I saw the barn on their property and the lighting was so cool on it I thought I would try to get some "portraits" of the dogs.....it was a little chaotic but I thought I would share some of the better shots;











Did I mention how hard it is to make one dog sit still let alone four!? Well I also had some time a couple of days ago to try the lens on little Rylie, she sits still a little better than the dogs :) Although that smile is difficult to coax out of her! Here are a few good ones;