First day of spring....

It was a beautiful Saturday in Portland! Brad and I decided to put on our sunglasses, plug in the iPod and drive around the back country. We decided to have lunch at Helvetia Tavern which is in the back hills of Hillsboro. The burgers there were so good! We’ll definitely plan a trip back out there this summer.
Just thought we’d share how we spent our first spring day in Portland! :)




After living in Portland for 5 years, I've never been over the St. John's Bridge.

Shamrock Run

Jim, Maureen and Joe Weber with Brad before the start of the Portland Shamrock 5k run!


Here they come, Joe and Brad running to the finish line!

The Bales Baby

Our best friends, Alicia and Nick, who were our Maid of Honor and our Best Man, also got married four weeks after Brad and me! Right after their honeymoon, they made dinner plans with us to tell us their happy news of expecting a child. Brad and I were so excited for them!

20 weeks later, we learned their baby is healthy and what the gender is. They had family and us over for a revealing party the day they found out what they were having. Each person had to wear the color they think the baby is, pink for girl, blue for boy. Nick and Alicia had the color of what the baby was under zipped jackets, and it was Blue!!

We are so excited for the Nick and Alicia to be expecting a little boy! I guessed right, blue for boy :)





Brad really thought they were having a girl!


Excited girlfriends!


"It's a Boy" cigars from us

Our new nephew!!

Brad and I became and Uncle and Aunt again on Thursday, March 4th !! Brad’s older brother Casey and his girlfriend Chelsea had Caleb Raymond Fetrow at 6:59pm! Caleb was 8lbs. 120z and 20.5 inches when he was born!

We first visited Caleb on Friday night! We were holding him and realized that he wasn’t even a day old yet!! Couldn’t believe the little guy in our arms was less than 24 hours old! Incredible!

Brad’s parents came up on Friday for a long weekend. Chelsea and Caleb came home from the hospital on Sunday morning and we all gathered at their place to celebrate Mike’s 60th birthday!










Caleb is so precious! He has big cheeks, beautiful blue eyes and a ton of hair! We joke that he needs a haircut and needs a shave! He sleeps a lot but when he is awake, he is alert and loves to move his arms and legs! He makes the cutest noises and love it when he yawns, which he does a lot!













Needless to say, we adore our new nephew and can’t wait to see more of him!!

Seafood & Wine Festival

Brad and I experienced our first Newport, Oregon Seafood & Wine Festival last weekend. We had a great time wine tasting with our friends. The theme was “The Grape Wild West” and so we dressed up for the event!

The weather at the beach was beautiful; the sun was out but still a bit chilly. We stayed in Lincoln City with our friends Genny and John both Friday and Saturday night. We met up with another group of friends Friday night and then we all got together as a group and headed out to spend the whole Saturday at the festival.

There were a lot of great wines that we enjoyed and hope to visit some of them this summer in wine country.