Soooo, I thought once soccer ended life would be much easier and I would have much more free time to do things such as blog. Turns out I was wrong. Instead, I have spent more time focusing on teaching and keeping our house and sleeping just a tad bit more (which was VERY necessary). But to look on the bright side, even though I still work late most weeknights I have been able to dedicate ONE entire day off per week: Saturday. Sunday is still my planning day and consumed with reading textbooks, working on powerpoints, creating assignments, etc. But Saturday has become my day of freedom- my day of creating a better work-life balance.
So, the past two months I have spent my Saturdays/weekends doing things that I neglected for the previous 3 months: like spending time with family/friends and taking time to be sane. I have been up to Portland several times, been to Corvallis for some Beaver games, and even spent a couple of Saturdays just relaxing (gasp!) with my amazing husband and dog. I must say, it has been nice and I have loved every minute of it.
Because there is really too much to write about in detail in one post, I will briefly highlight some of the fun things we've done the past couple of months. And of course, the pictures to illustrate...
1. Rachael's Bday Pub Crawl
The birthday girl!
The theme was mustaches and wigs:
Ironically, most of the girls wore mustaches and the guys wore wigs :)
Some abnormally large men in attendance
Our mustaches itched like crazy, so they came off pretty early :)
2. Meeting little Brynn Richards
Mama Merissa with her sweet baby girl
She loves her so much!
Auntie Mo soothing Brynn
Swaddled and sleeping :)
Two tired goldens... the sweetest ever!
3. Hanging out/eating with friends and family
Dessert at Papa Haydn's with two of our favs... just wish we lived closer!
My happy place: Portland, friends, dessert, and my man :)
The Newton clan on a family walk through the woods
Sinah looking cute as always
Wyatt: future baller
Tre climbing up the bball hoop
4. Civil War- While we all know it wasn't pretty in the end for the Beavers, it was still fun to cheer on our team with my man in our favorite little town :)
Starting the day off right with a cinnamon roll from New Morning Bakery
A beautiful December day and our seats weren't too bad either
Best uniforms ever.
Handing off to Quiz AKA the man.
Touchdown and PAT Beavers!
Had to get a picture of the scoreboard when we were winning :)
Look at the disgruntled Duck fan in the background, haha
There were lots of other fun things that we did in these two months, but shockingly I don't have pics of them all. (Gucci's bday party, skiing at Mt. Hood Meadows, more trips up to Portland, etc.) I will be back shortly with posts on: baby, Maui, and Christmas. But for now, it is snack time and then snuggle Jack time... priorities people!
