Sunday, April 26, 2015

Welcome to our new home!

We have been in Eagle Point for a little over a week and we love it! The Rouge Valley is so beautiful. It is full of orchards, vineyards, and rolling green hills/mountains. We are especially excited to have shopping options, but we have to restrict ourselves. We are going to the Spanish branch here and they are very welcoming and warm.  We haven't gotten to explore too much, but there are so many things to do! We will be busy for a while.

It was a priority to start our garden since we have a patio. We scored some free pallets and pots and Jamir made us a little planter. Hopefully we will be getting some fresh vegetables this year.

Hemos stamos en Eagle Point por un poco mas que una semana y nos encanta. El Rogue Valley es muy hermoso. Esta llena de huertos, vi~nas, y monta~nas verdes. Estamos especialmente emocionados de tener opciones para comprar, pero necesitamos ser moderados. Vamos a ir a un rama en Espan~ol aqui y ellos son muy calidos.

One beautiful (warm) evening on our back patio.
Jamir jumping to break some wood.
We decided in honor of our new home we would try a new fruit. We picked up a dragon fruit. It basically has the texture of a kiwi and is not as sweet. We also had a "wine (grape juice) and cheese night" with cheese we had brought from our favorite Face Rock Creamery in Bandon.

Happy to enjoy being outside.
Silly, but we really missed having a mall and Chinese American food.
Jamir is mesmerized by the cup that won't fall over.
Outside the mall. I promise we don't shop that much, we just really like to have a mall.

Cupcakes made for our Spanish open house. 
On Saturday we ran a 5K for BYU alumni on the church's pear orchard. It was fun and beautiful. I can't wait to go back and pick pears and can them- oh and take pictures!


Amongst the trees
They had very official bibs. It was a donation run for scholarships for kids in their wards going to BYU.

After the run we did a shorter hike to Upper Table Rock. It was so pretty with wildflowers and gorgeous views. We still have to do the lower one.

So many of these all over
Jamir was excited to find chalk on these rocks-evidence that other people came to boulder. 
Cool trees with reddish, plastic bark.
View from the top.
Lower Table Rock in distance.

The top was a huge flat meadow.
And my favorite part about our new home. Jamir gets jealous about the time I spend with my new boyfriends.


Sunday, April 12, 2015

Blacklock Point

We spent our last weekend on the coast camping at Cape Blanco and hiking Blacklock Point. I have been wanting to do this hike for a while so I'm glad we took time away from packing and stressing about moving to do it. It rained all night, so we woke up with puddles in our tent. Luckily, we were not wet and I'm only (slightly) sick today.

Pasamos nuestro ultimo fin de semana en la costa acampando en Cape Blanco y haciendo la caminata "Blacklock Point". Amy, queria hacer esta caminata desde hace tiempo ,entonces estamos podemos estar felices que la hicimos. Lluvio toda la noche, despertamos con agua en nuestra tienda. No nos mojamos tanto pero a Amy le dio un peque~no resfriado. 

We went with simple hot dogs and s'mores for dinner. So good over a campfire.
I came back from the restroom and I found E.T. at our campsite.
A walk in the morning along the ocean at the campground.



Starting the hike. It was so flooded. Jamir sang camp songs along the way
Part of the trail was very open and other parts were through jurassic park-like forest

We made it to the open view.


There were pretty wildflowers all over
The sun came out the last half!
It reminded me of Lord of the Rings scenery
It is supposed to be the western most part of Oregon (so I read).
Eating lunch-pretty awesome view


Blacklock Point

 We went down to the beach and found a TON of starfish! I was so excited because I still had not see them all this time living on the coast.





It turned into a warm, sunny day.



Sunday, April 5, 2015

Happy Easter!


Pitching our Tent

We decided to try something different for this general conference. We literally pitched our tent toward the prophet's voice (or the radio on my cell phone). It was fun to sit around the campfire and be in nature without distractions as we listened to the talks. We saw this campsite when we took our last pictures and it was perfect. We were right by the water and no one was around except for some cars that passed by. Perhaps it will become a new family tradition-depends on how ambitious we are in the future.

Decidimos tratar una cosa differente para este conferencia general. Nosotros literalmente "plantaron nuestra tienda" a la voz del profeta (o al radio en el celular). Fue divertido sentarnos cerca a la fogata y estar en la naturaleza sin distracciones cuando escuchamos a los discoursos. Vimos este campamento cuando tomamos nuestras ulitmas fotos y fue perfecto. Estuvimos cerca del agua y no habia nadie excepto por alguien en su cuatrimoto que pasabe por la playa de vez en cuando. Quiza esto se convertira en una tradicion nueva (depende de que tan ambciosos seamos en el futuro).

Excited to get there!
Usually Jamir makes the fire. I needed documented proof.


We decided to buy fresh red snapper and shrimp from the fish market and cook it. It turned out surprisingly good.

It was a beautiful evening.
See the star?
I made Jamir do this with me. I've been itching to play with long exposures for a while.
Next morning. The majority of the time we were close to the fire keeping warm.
Resourceful Jamir cuts all our firewood
Our (messy) campsite
Jamir wanted to do a "service project" and cover up inappropriate graffiti on the bunkers.
Saw a big boat heading out at high tide.
I was particularly excited about the fluffy clouds.
Yup, that is an octopus
Played a little croquet
Eating smores and listening to the priesthood session
Again playing with long exposures
The dock at different times of day
It rained in the morning and that was our que to head out