Annual Update...

Okay, I know I am horrible at updating this. I am going to try and be better than every 4 months. This is what I am like with my journal (only worse). I've been such a slacker that I don't even have access to a lot of my friend links anymore because they went private and I didn't know! :( Oops! That is what I get I guess! So, let me give you the update on the last few months. We have had some happy things, some sad things, and some big changes in scenery.

So the happy and sad. We have a new nephew (Cooper, to Luke and Ashley) and a new niece (Leah to Joe and Trina)! They look pretty darn cute! I haven't seen either of them in person yet, but from pictures they are stinkin cute! Also, Cam and I have now been married three years now (crazy)! We have had some sad things on the Kay side of the family. It has made me extremely grateful for the knowledge that we can see our loved ones again after this life! However, the pain of missing those loved is still pretty hard.

We are also now living in Portland! Technically, Beaverton, but pretty close to Portland. We have went to a few places, so I will post some pictures (hopefully entice someone to come visit!). My parents and Cam's parents helped us move up here (which we are VERY grateful for)!! Our first night in our apartment, we had a flood! It was traumatizing! We went to fill up our car with gas (around 11:30 pm or so) and came back to a laundry room and kitchen full of water! I started freaking out (for those of you that don't know me well, I have some anxiety issues!)! The safety pressure valve was spitting out HOT water. I called my parents and they came over to help. We called the on-call maintenance person as well. The real hero here was the Sham Wow towel that my mom remembered we had! I'm serious! I think my dad would offer to be a spokesman for them! It really does the job! It was a long night! Cam and I had another episode before we went to sleep (1 am to 2 am). We filled and emptied containers until it drained out. We woke up at 5 and there was another flood. Cam thought we should pretend we hadn't seen it. I decided to just stay awake at that point. Lots of filling and emptying containers, and putting the sham wow to use. Come to find out, another water heater upstairs was the one with issues, and they had covered the drain in the laundry room with the flooring (nice). Pretty eventful first day. When Cam's parents came, we also had some excitement. We got stopped for about an hour coming back from Tillamook (there was a wreck). There were so many people out of their cars walking around. Cam's dad went and was talking to people to pass the time. It took forever, but we finally got going. Good times on our first week. Things have settled a little now (thank goodness!).

Coast and a shipwreck:





Here is a farmer's market in downtown Portland and the Columbia.



Rose Gardens, Japanese Garden, and the Pittock Mansion (I was too cheap to pay to go inside the mansion. Maybe someday we will and I will post those as well):






Our kitty made it here okay. She actually did really well on the drive! Here is a little kitty video montage. She is such a weirdo! Cam's favorite is the karate kick in the second video. Sorry about my annoying voice in the background. Proof that we need kids: