Scrap Metal, Beaches, and Froggies, Oh My!

  Jim took these two photos while working at Phil Knight's property in Terrebone a while back, along with the big Indian above. A local artist creates these sculptures out of scrap metal and we love them. There were various little guys playing musical instruments and holding little guns and such and they each have the look of their own personalities. The cougar's eyes are made from spoons.

 For our 13 year anniversary we wanted to go to Crater Lake, but it was totally booked until October (wow, who knew?) So we went to the coast instead! We had never been on a trip with just the two of us for an entire weekend, ever. I don't think we really had any idea how exhausting it is to bring along the whole fam until we got there and just had ourselves to worry about! It was absolutely wonderful and I really look forward to a trip like this again with My Love soon :) Here are a few favorites from the coast:

 I took this photo of a seal lion fishing beyond the breakers early one morning, you can see his mouth open after catching a fish...before this I had never seen a seal lion fishing in it's natural environment, just laying around being lazy on a dock - so I'm glad I got a picture of it! And this house below was a place we happened to turn around at in Yachats. We have always dreamed of having our own little place in Yachats, right on the ocean like this. It's like we randomly found our dream cottage at the coast, that was currently for sale, and has an address only one digit off our home address....why oh why does the timing have to be off for us to buy our dream cottage? Pooh.

 And here is an update on the boys tadpoles....they are frogs with tails now - pretty cool actually! And I'm pretty sure there is still 3 or 4 of them, so we're holding strong with the last numbers until release day....