Yearbook Yourself

1950's

1960's 1960's 1970's

I have been looking at other people's blogs and a lot of people have gone to http://www.yearbookyourself.com/ and posted the pictures of themselves. So I thought I would do the same thing. It's really funny.

Portland

Last weekend we were invited by two couples in our ward to go on their ski boat for a ride on the Willamete River and out to dinner. We went with three couples and started in Portland and rode on the boat all the way to Oregon City. Then we docked at a fish house and ate dinner. It was such a fun date night and way fun to see

Adoption 101

So, for those of you who don't know Sheldon and I are working with the LDS Family Services to go through the adoption process. We started way back last spring going through the process and we are still going through the process. First, we had to meet with our caseworker twice in a town that is about 45 minutes away and fill out a whole bunch of paperwork that took mega too many hours to complete. Then, on Monday, our caseworker is coming to our house for our homestudy. After that, which will be our third meeting, we have to meet for a fourth time for individual interviews and we also have to work on getting our online profile up and running. But, I am so excited! I am so excited because this is a process that has taken a long time, not just since this spring, but a long time to come to the decision to adopt after 5 years of infertility and struggling with what to do. I am also excited because this is bringing us one step closer to becoming parents. It has been hard watching my sisters, friends, and girls younger than me have babies and get to be moms. But I am so happy and at peace with the fact that our family will come together in a different way and that Heavenly Father has a plan for our family. I can't wait for our profile to finally be online. I have been reading other couples' profiles on itsaboutlove.org and we are going to be on there soon. Yeah for the Olsens!

A Fun Saturday!

Sheldon and I had so much fun today! First we went to the Rose Garden in Portland. I took pictures of some of my favorite roses. Then we went across the Columbia to Vancouver, Washington and walked along the river. We also saw Fort Vancouver. We really did have a great time and we are continually amazed by how beautiful it is here in the Northwest.

New Decorations!

I have some new decorations that I love in our house. I bought two new signs, one that says always say a prayer overlapping ASAP and one that says Choose the Right overlapping the word CTR. I bought the coolest decoration at rod works that has vinyl writing and a cool rod hook. I love rod works and wish I could spend more money there! I also painted my black Faith sign white. One project that I just worked on today was making some new throw pillows. Since I know nothing about sewing I enlisted the help of my friend Char. She helped me pick out material at the fabric store and sew the pillows. She is awesome for doing this and totally rocks with her sewing skills. I helped a little bit and even sewed one pillow. I was kind of nervous but it turned out great. Thanks Char for your help! I love my new pillows!

The colors I have been decorating my living room with are burgendy, rustic orange, and sage. green. I sewed the long paisely one! My first attempt with a sewing machine!

My Sisters

I was just online looking at some pictures that my sisters have posted and I thought I it would be fun to write a post with their super cute pictures in it. I love my sisters! I wish I could live closer to them so we could spend more time together. I guess I am just a little home sick for them after our vacation this summer. I miss you and love you!

Melanie & Joe Heather, Chad, Kyra, Sky & Dane Natalie, Thomas, & Cali

A Fun Weekend

It has been so hot lately that Sheldon and I have been trying to think of things to do to get out of this heat. It has been over 100 degrees with high humidity and its been pretty unbearable considering we don't have air conditioning. So on Friday we went to "Stub" Stewart State Park and went camping. The cool thing about this state park in that it is only about 20 minutes away from our house. There are so many hiking trails and the park is beautiful. We had to hike a 1/4 of a mile into our camping spot uphill and we weren't really prepared to do that. We forgot a flashlight and we didn't even make it into the park until it was almost dark so Sheldon and I were trying to haul all our stuff to our camping spot in the dark. It was pretty humorous and I had to haul the cooler up the hill! The cooler had wheels, but on a dirt road it's pretty much like pulling the cooler all the way and not really rolling it. But, after the craziness of hiking into our camping spot with all our gear and getting everything situated we had a lot of fun. We got up early Saturday morning and went hiking to a creek and we just had fun exploring the park. We are definitely going to go back and next time pack our bags a little lighter and not bring a huge cooler. I think it's awesome there is such a beautiful place to camp so close to our house.

We didn't take any pictures. The camera was one thing that got left in the car but I have some pictures I found of the web that show how beautiful the park is. And here's a link to the park if anyone is interested in finding out more about it.

http://www.oregonstateparks.org/park_255.php

Air Show

Sheldon and I went to the Air Show in Hillsboro last Saturday. We saw lots of planes/jets/helicopters in the air and some on land that we could look at more closely. The jets were so loud and one even broke the sound barrier and made a huge boom that shook the buildings we were next to and made car alarms go off. It was awesome!

Sheldon getting ready to sky dive-well not really-but you get the picture!

There were army dudes jumping out of the airplanes and doing all sorts of cool tricks on their way down.

I even wore my pretned army hat in honor of our trip to the air show. We had a blast!