It just proves that the Oregon State Beavers when they dig down deep and try really hard can actually walk the walk instead of just talk the talk!
Sunday, September 28, 2008
The "How 'Bout Them Beavers!" Special Edition
Sunday, September 7, 2008
The Rod Is Runnin' !!
Saturday, September 6, 2008
The Back To School aka How 'Bout Them Ducks (!) Edition 2008
Monday, September 1, 2008
Where oh where has the summer fun gone?!
Good Grief! My last entry was the beginning of June and now it is the 1st of September!! As you have probably noticed (or maybe not!) there has been a lack of activity on my blog lately! Not because there hasn't been much going on - are you kidding?! We just haven't been home! That's par for the course during summer in the Crawford house!
We ended June with Alyssa's dance recital. She participated in Tap this year. Their perfomance was a karate-themed piece to of all things - Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song"! Way Cool!
Before we knew it, it was July, and Shawn and I traveled to Lake Tahoe for a weekend getaway to celebrate our 19th wedding anniversary. We decided to relive our adolescence just a bit and got tickets to see Cheap Trick, Heart, and Journey in concert. It was fantabulous! I was a little nervous about hearing Journey, one of my most favorite groups, without the vocal stylings of ol' Steve Perry, but I have to say their new guy, Arnel Pineda, does a stupendous job!
After La Grande, we headed home for a few days of laundry and then were off again to the coast to visit Shawn's grandma in Coquille and his aunt, who came out for her summer visit from Nebraska. And you guessed it....more geocaching!!
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Our new electronic friend...
Anyway...not only does GPS Lori help us when we travel, but we have found that she can also help us with a new hobby we have heard about but never tried until this weekend! We decided to try "geocaching" this past weekend with our longtime pals, the McDowell family.
For those of you who don't know, geocaching is kind of like a treasure hunt using a GPS unit. All sorts of folks go out and hide these little treasure "caches" all over and then enter the latitude and longitude coordinates and other information about their "cache" on a very cool website called http://www.geocaching.com/ for other people to go out and find. We have found that cache etiquette allows you to add to the treasure (as space allows) and even take a little momento from the cache if you choose.
Our first excursion led us to an old cemetery near Tumalo where we had to look for clues on headstones to get the final coordinates to lead us to the hiding spot of the cache hidden in the cemetery. Very clever! It took us a little bit to get the hang of how the GPS works, but what great fun!! We are hooked!
Today we decided to try it again on our own after the McDowells took off for home and were able to locate another cache near the Deschutes River just outside of Tumalo.
We think it will be a great summertime hobby and help us and GPS Lori get to know each other better! Happy Hunting!
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Happy 11th Birthday, Alyssa Rae!
Can you believe it?!? We sure can't! How can it be that our very own Miss Alyssa has turned 11 already!?! She's our baby! But a baby no longer - she is turning into quite a young lady and will be off to middle school come fall! She is quite excited at the prospect. It has been a challenge for her to wait and watch her big sis gain her independence and get to do all sorts of new things while little sis watches from the sidelines. She is so ready to spread her wings...sigh...as mom and dad watch from the sidelines as now our two "goosers" become more and more grown up before our eyes! Ah....snap yourself out of it, Mom!
Like everything she does, Miss Alyssa likes to party dramatically as well, and this year was no exception. So, her dad and I were most brave and allowed her to invite a few of her most special friends for a sleepover to help her celebrate being a decade plus one! Six pre-adolescent girls in one house! Whew! But, being the smart mom that I am, I acquiesced when Alyssa suggested the girls go to open gym at one of our local gymnastics locations for a couple of hours. Yep, let's just say that by the time we got home at 9:00 and they hopped into the hot tub for a little soak and some ghost stories, all was quiet by no later than 12:30 a.m. Thankfully, no bad dreams or bouts of homesickness!
So here's to a new year of memories with the youngest member of the Crawford clan...our "Sissa Rae"!
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
The Crawja 4000
Watch out Baja 1000 racers, it's the Crawja 4000! We may be small, but we're spunky! One of the Crawford family's favorite activities is taking our little "be-bop" 90cc ATV's and Shawn's "antique" 1980 Yahama Enduro 175 (no laughing please!) out to one of our local OHV trail areas and tearing around the sagebrush and kicking up the dust! And I would just like to say, it's not the size of the machine, but the amount of fun you can have with it!!
Next is "Ass-kickin" Ashley.....!
And last in the lineup, but definitely not least ~ "Speed Racer" Shawn!