Crabbing

So crabbing was one of our many fun adventures in Oregon and I decided it needed a little extra attention.

Check out this cool video!

I was pretty cautious about touching them, hello they pinch!

I wasn't afraid of the star fish...mostly.



Dan and Clem weren't afraid of either...or the raw chicken.

Rita came down and joined us making the crabbing experience complete.

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Trip to Oregon

We went to Oregon last week and had a great time!

Ben picked us up at the airport and we met up with Andrea, Jakey B. and Lizzy at Ikea (Emily was in school).



We helped build a deck, ok it was mostly Dan and Clem.



We went to the coast.

And went crabbing...

The second day of working on the deck I skipped out and went to an art exhibit and lunch with Rita.



It was great hanging out with Clem and Rita!



Our Awesome Wendy

So, for the last 15 years, Wendy has worked with an assortment of friends to paint holiday decorations on the windows of local businesses.  For the last few weeks, Wendy's been working like a champ, going out at 9:00 a.m., painting until 4:00 or 5:00 p.m...

 and then working a shift at the Home Depot until 10:00 p.m...

The window paintings that Wendy's done are absolutely incredible (I'll post some pics below).  They're so incredible, in fact, that in the last few days Wendy's received two calls from people that saw her paintings at local establishments, tracked down the management there to ask who the artist was, and then called Wendy to ask if she could paint portraits for them.  She's awesome!