Enjoying our new home

We are now officially Oregonians. We have our new Oregon drivers licenses, new Oregon license plates and we are registered to vote in the state of Oregon. That should prevent us from future hand gestures as we drive "California Style" on the freeway. I can't even begin to describe the difficulty in slowing all the way down to 55 mph while driving to work! We do take the speed limit more seriously up here being that the fines are the 8th highest in the country and the highway patrol are out in force. It has been 2 1/2 months since making our sojourn to the north. C is slowly aclimating into the Portland office and T continues to press on teaching a classroom full of kindergartners at her new school. We love being home in the evenings and on the weekends and have spent a lot of time enjoying our yard, hot tub and new couches! These photos are some we found and wanted to post from various activities around the house. One of the photos is of a little toad that hopped out to explore his new surroundings after T cut down a fence full of ivy. He had been stuck to the side of fence and seemed to feel a little too exposed once the ivy was gone.. He was a cute little guy so we couldn't resist the photo op. The tomatoes are ones that came from our garden. They have been delicious, but we don't think we'll get many more. The roses in our rose garden are absolutely beautiful and so fragrant as well. T loves clipping them and putting them in bud faces around the house. The other photos is of C enjoying lunch out on the back deck one sunny Sabbath afternoon.