Oregon Trip

Last week, we ran down to Oregon to visit Mima and Papa since Mima's birthday is this week. Thank goodness we did since we are snowed in! (Not literally but with 4 inches of snow on the ground at the house....I'll be darned if I'm leaving the place!)

We kept ourselves very busy while Mima and Papa worked Thursday and Friday. Thursday we went and visited Gram Gram, a couple of quilt shops and then we went back to Browntucky and visited Neighbor Jake at the ranch. Jake got one of the babies out of the pen for Lauren to love on! It was very nice of him especially since they are so busy lambing right now. And the fact that Jake's not a big "kid" person....made it even more special!

Lauren attached her self to this one because it was crying. It was bummer lamb and lost it's mommy. Jake thought we needed to take it home. I asked him if he liked being friends with my husband?? The lamb stayed.

Giving the baby a kiss bye. It's a good thing Lauren doesn't understand that Andersen Ranches doesn't raise lambs long enough to become sheep....they are one of the top suppliers of lamb to high end restaurants on the West Coast. I know, right? So we left before they started vaccinating and other things!!!

On Friday we ran to Albany to run some errands too avoid sales tax! Ha! We ran to Coastal to get daddy some shirts, Costco to pick up some cleaning stuff, Joann's....well because it's Joann's, and then to Red Robin to have lunch with Sandy and Carley. Carley is Lauren's babysitter from Brownsville whom we miss tremendously! I'm still trying to talk her into going to college this fall in Olympia and being our live-in nanny!

I worked with Carley's mom Sandy in Brownsville and it was so great to catch up. I miss the girls a lot....but only the work part a little! Lauren was a big fan of the hunting game. She's never had toy guns so it was interesting this came naturally....or from the hunting shows on TV....not sure which one! It's probably 70% genetic and 30% hunting shows.

It was a good trip. We had a good time catching up with everyone. I'm sure we'll be back down that way and do it again soon.