Ryan's Fishing Escapades

Ryan has been going fishing every Thursday for the last month. The result has been good. He has tagged out 12 Coho Salmon and pretty much taken over the whole freezer. A few of the days he has come home with 3 fish (the most he can catch in a day). Here are some pics of him and his fish.

Good Job Sweetie!

Our Pumpkins

These are our pumpkins this year. Mine is a ghost, and Ryan's pumpkin was so big that he made a skelaton on one side and a ship on the other side.

Crabbing

Yesterday we went to the ocean to go and catch some crabs. We only caught a few but we couldn't keep them because they were females. But it was still really fun anyways. We started off by feeding the seagulls. They really liked cheetos.

This is the crab trap they are really heavy when you are pulling them out of the water. I slipped once and hit my cheek on the boat.

Ryan's puny crab.

My MONSTER crab!

Guess where we're going???

Orlando! And the Bahamas! I'm soooo excited!!! Ryan and I are finally going to take a honeymoon trip in December. (I call it a honeymoon trip because we never got to go on ours) We are going to fly to Orlando on a Saturday, go do something fun, see my cousins who live there, then go on a 5 day 4 night cruise to the Bahamas which will leave on a Monday. We'll get back on friday and go do something fun in Orlando friday & Saturday then fly home on Sunday. It will be a blast!! Eight days of pure fun. Can't wait!

Our boat

I just thought I would show you Ryans little toy. His boat. He loves this thing! We bought it this summer and have only been able to take it out a few times. Ryan is so funny about it, I keep it at my school and every single day he asks me to go check on it and make sure its ok. You would think it was alive or something.

Our Weekend Trip

So this last weekend Ryan and I went for a little trip. We drove down to southern Oregon on Saturday morning to go to a steer sale and then we stayed the night in Medford, Oregon. I really wanted to drive over to the beach on Sunday morning and drive all the way up Hwy 101 beccause its beautiful, but I had never driven from Medford to the coast so we ask a friend we saw at the sale what was the best way there and he told us Hwy. 199. So we take Hwy 199 and are driving for ever, then suddenly we came to a fruit and veggie check point. Then we all the sudden realized we had drove an hour and a half south to Northern California! Holy Moly. Then we had to keep going on that road and ended up in...... are you ready........

THE REDWOOD FOREST!!!!!!!

That is soooooooo far away from our house. Well it ended up being really cool seeing all the big tall trees and I think Ryan really liked it too. Here is a picture of him in one of the trees.


We finally ended up on the coast & drove up Hwy.101 and landed at the West Coast Wild Animal Park. It was a interactive petting zoo were you could pet wild animals and feed them. They had so many lions, tigers, monkeys, kangaroos, bears, ect. that were so close to you. It was awesome.

Holding a baby mountain lion
And finally we ended our little trip at the beach and the sand dunes.

What We've done in Oregon so far.

Ok so this may be kinda long, lots of pics, but I thought I would share with everyone some of the fun things we have done since we have been living here. (I can only put stuff on since we got our digital camera sorry) So sit back and check it out!!!

Silver Falls State Park: This State Park was absolutely beautiful. This is where they filmed Last of the Mohicans. It was a 7 mile hike and there was tons of water falls. We only walked 5 miles and it took us most of the day.



Oregon is so mossy. It grows everywhere. On trees, on roofs, where ever. Kinda Creepy!


This was the view to the park I thought it was pretty.


This was the main waterfall. You can walk behind it.



more falls




Lincoln City & the Sea Lion Caves: The sea lion cave was so cool. You take an elevator clear down to the bottom of a cave and you look at hundreds of sea lions. It was interesting but it stunk.


Ryan at beach in front of caves. So pretty.




Sea lions hangin out on all the rocks. The rocks were so steep it seriously looked like it would hurt to get on them.




Light house outside of the calves. There are fun lighthouses like this all over the coast.





Ryan's Fishing: Ryan loves to fish here in Oregon. Actually he would be happy as a camper if he went fishing every single day. We have tons more pics of fish I'll have to have him download them tomorrow. But here is one fish he caught, the other pics are of his friend DJ (Fishing buddy) and some of the rivers he goes on.




Wilson River in Tillamook: Very fun there, but rains all the time!




Sandy River: Only 1/2 hour from our house. (new fishing spot)



The Beach: We don't go to the beach to often it takes us about an hour and a half to get there, but it is really pretty!! We have gone crabbing in a bay that was fun (I have pics but they were on our old camera) we went to see fireworks there on our first 4th of July in Oregon and it was HORRIBLE! I was so excited thinking it would be romantic watching fireworks over the ocean, but it was nothing like that. It was caotic, sooooo smokey, and way to many people. Needless to say we didn't do that agian. But here are some pics of when its pretty. The second one is of a old ship wreck we found.





Once was the largest Sitka Spruce Tree: This tree was sooooo big and pretty, then one night we got a crazy wind storm (like 80-90 mph) and it broke in half. Ryan always goes fishing by it and we always used to stop and look at it on our way to the beach.






Aviation Museum: Ok so I really don't think Ryan wanted to go to this museum but he was nice enough to tell me I could go where ever I wanted so we went here. It was kinda cool because they had the Spruce Goose that Howard Huges made. It is huge!!!



My computer is really slow and im tired so I will have to continue this tomorrow. Stay tuned.......