Lunch with Mom

Mom has been in town for the week, she brought Dexter back to us and has been hanging with Tracey. We went to lunch and spent the afternoon with her and Tracey!

Dexter is Home!!

We welcomed Dexter home Tuesday night! We were sooooo excited to see him! Missed his cute little face! :)

Weekend with Friends

We spent this weekend, enjoying the nice weather and hanging out with friends.

We had dinner with our friend Kelly on Friday night. It was such a nice night, we walked to the store to get fixings for S ‘mores for our dessert. However, the men were not able to start a fire without the proper “kindling”, so we resorted to the gas stove. Needless to say, they were delicious and hit the spot.


Saturday we went to the season opener of the Timbers game with Alicia and Nick. If you have ever been to a Timbers game, then you know how devoted their fans are to their soccer team. Portland became an official city to host a Major League Soccer team. They will be renovating PGE park and by 2011, the new soccer stadium will be ready for its major league team. These fans are devoted to ninety minutes of constant chanting, singing, clapping and cheering!

The Timbers ended up winning, 1-0. It was a fun game to watch!


Sunday we went over to Kelly's house where she hosted a brunch for all of our friends! She is leaving again for two months on the road for her job! So, it was great to get together and spend the morning with good friends and give hugs to Kelly before she leaves!

Portland Beavers Game

At the last season opener of the Portland Beavers baseball with some friends!

Easter Weekend

We had a packed Easter weekend. Friday night, we had a date night with dinner and a movie!

Saturday we hung out with the Weber family and help celebrate a few birthdays in their family and also watched the Final Four games. Side note: I’m very excited that Duke is going to the National Finals! Mostly because I picked Duke to be the National Champion! So I’m hoping my bracket holds out!


We headed downtown Portland Saturday night to a place called Matador (off 23rd in Portland) and met up with our friends to welcome home our friend Kelly Sanders! She has been away for 6 weeks working on her new job! Needless to say, we were all excited to get together with her and catch up!













Sunday morning we meet up with our friends Bree and Sean for breakfast and attended their church. The Lindquist family (Alicia’s parents) invited us over for Easter lunch, where we got our fix for ham!! The food was delicious and we were stuffed by the time we left.













Travis and Tracey came over that night to have a family dinner. Tracey brought us yummy EASTER TREATS! And Brad and I got Easter Baskets from Mom! Thanks MOM!!



It was a fun and packed weekend filled with great friends and family! We are blessed to have spent this weekend with people we love! Happy Easter!

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.