ever wondered exactly why you don't like someone?

Boy, kids have it down. You know sometimes when you meet someone and you just don't jive. You don't get the feeling they're someone you want to ever see again but you can't explain why? Evelyne does.
We've been church hunting trying to find one to call home here in wilsonville. One particular church she didn't like and I asked her why. She didn't like the sunday school teacher. "Why," I said, "she seems so nice." "Well," said Evelyne, "I don't like her hair or her voice, but I like her eyes and her feet."
That's it, the girl knows what she likes and doesn't like.

Girls get-away-weekend

Of course we brought a camera, but forgot to take photos until the very end but hey at least we did! These are my good friends from college, Charla and Amy. The last time we took a weekend away was pre kid and even pre marriage for Amy so needless to say, too long ago. We had a great time in Lincoln City shopping, eating and just hanging out. The weather was perfect on Saturday and Amy treated us to Breakfast at Tiffany's playing on her DVD in her new car on the way down to the beach; what a treat! So much has changed for us all since college days, seems like a lifetime ago. But time away with friends is so refreshing, it makes you look at yourself in a different way, check in, and most of all miss the family you so wanted a break from.

Gilly is Silly!...and the winner is...

"gilly" is the name evelyne has coined for her brotherwe often say "gilly is silly"

here's evelyne sporting her "academy awards dress and eye mole"

evelyne and her new kitchen cooking an academy awards dinner

brother Alex having a heart to heart with James Dean...he's so aloof!

We had a fun time at our academy awards dinner with my family. We had champagne cocktails, caviar and shrimp and all kinds of decadent things. Gilbert and Evelyne had a lot of fun dressing up; gilbert as the paparazzi and evelyne as a movie star...

Open House and Neighborhood Updates

This lake is where the old Damasch Hospital used to be

This is the street where retail is on the right below condos above. To the left is supposed to be an open plaza.

Evelyne and I are walking into the area where the plaza is going to be; retail and condos are in front of us.

First of all, a big thank you to all of you who came to our open house; we had a great time seeing and visiting with everyone and now that you all know where we live and realize it's not THAT far away, please stop by anytime!
Now that the weather has been nicer, we've ventured out a bit to see how the commercial center is shaping up in our neighborhood and all of the parks etc. It was a nice walk, felt like we were really out in the country. There are tons of frogs here, and we hear them nightly, it's kind of cool.