spring came at summer time

Just about June and spring is finally showing up. Couldn't have come at a better time. I'm in the middle of a "I hate Oregon and I wanna move home but I can't cause I dont make enough money" rut. Happens just about every time I hang out with someone from home, then watch them go home while I'm stuck here. After 3 years you would think I would have put some roots down and made friends, but I can't seem to let go of "home". Anyway now that I have finished school, Kyla is starting preschool, and the sun in finally showing its face after a long 6 months things might start looking up for me. I am going for an amazing job, and hopefully we will be buying a house next spring. Kyla is growing up so fast. Shes a little fish with her swim lessons. Shes so good. She knows all her letters and how to write them, reading is the next step then she gets a dog (we made a deal with her). We've got a few vacations this summer.. Bend in a couple weeks, OC for a week in August, hopefully I can get a room on the coast for a night at some point. Maybe see the sea lion caves. In laws came from New Zealand last month, it was really awesome spending time with them, they just adore Kyla and it breaks my heart she doesn't get to be around them all the time. It is what it is though and we get to go to New Zealand every other year so thats pretty awesome! so ya.

Mt. Hood

dream within a dream

Last night i had these weird dreams, or one big dream, im not sure. But everything started out normal. I was laying in my bed, with my husband, aware or Kyla in the next room, I seemed to be awake. I heard Kyla playing in her room and i yelled out "you better go to sleep in there" and turns out i was dreaming, because I think i woke my self up actually screaming that out. So i fell back asleep and went back to the same dream, except my bed was in some sort or bank or financial institution, but at the time i thought it was normal and i was awake. Then something happened that made me realize it was a dream, and i wanted to wake up, so i did.. or so i thought, as time went on i realized i still was dreaming. Then i started to panic because i really wanted to wake up, i kept asking my husband to wake me up in my dream, but he was nonresponsive, and eventually disappeared. After "waking up" but not really waking up at least 3 times that i remember, i asked some woman (who appeared behind this counter at this bank where my bed ended up) why i couldnt wake up. She first tried to deny i was asleep, then told me i couldnt wake up cause i was in jail, or something like that. I finally woke myself up somehow and i had this really bad feeling that if i went back to sleep i might not be able to wake up again, but at the same time i was SOOO tired, so i did go back to sleep and that was the end of it, at least as i can remember.

Thought i would start recording my dreams, since sometimes they are so vivid and i almost always remember them. Since i dont use this blog for anything but photography might as well use it as a dream journal too. Interested to find out more about dreaming and meanings of dreams. Maybe someone will have some input?

Trillium Lake

Good 2 mile hike around the lake. Perfect temperature, and the water was so warm, too bad no one was prepared for swimming. Next time we will have swim suits and our tubes with us to float around on the lake. Can't wait to see it become ice and get covered in snow. What did you do this weekend??

Zoo day

Another day at Oregon Zoo with my boo bear.

Falls fall Washington

So pretty! I almost didn't make it, about half way there i got hot and lost Kyla and Simon and barfed behind a tree. After resting and Simon pushing me, I finally made it, and it was well worth it. So i guess im really out of shape...

Kyla the Photographer

Tennis ball













Grocery store clerk












Rainy day




















Kyla Capturing the moment of me driving in the pouring rain













and her feet














and her legos








and her dad on the computer














and me reading

Its her new favorite thing to do and it gives me time to relax for 15 minutes at a time. She goes around taking pictures of just about anything in sight from my phone, and sends every photo she takes to my online album. I found these today while paying my phone bill. Thought it was kind of cute to see what she sees. xxx