Happy Thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving!! Hope you have a safe & fun holiday with family and friends. I miss you all very much & wish I could visit with you this Thanksgiving!

Love you & if you are shopping on Black Friday...be safe as well!

MUCH LoVe!

Fall is in the air!

I just love fall... crisp mornings, beautiful sunrises, snow in the mountains in the skyline, beautiful colors glistening from the trees, football, chili, hot cocoa (or Chai), snuggling in blankets... the list goes on.

We made a trip down to Portland last week & had a great time with beautiful views of Rainier, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Baker, and Mt. Hood. In a two hours drive I saw four mountaintops.... amazing to live here in the Northwest. Everything is still green here, because of the rain... and just two days ago tons of snow falling in the mountains, ski season is about to begin (yah! for Eric, I like to snowshoe & that's about it:)


I have been working quite a bit, but today is my day off & oh how much I appreciate that I have a day off! I am learning a lot from my job here, but also learning more from my patients. I work in skilled nursing facilities on the weekends & I have learned growing old can be what you want it to be if you're offered the choice. I feel honored to meet a whole spectrum of people, I think they help me with my life decisions as much as I help them recover from an injury or pain.

Eric is gaining a lot of client's with selling his discs! He is truly a great artist, I never knew, but he is good! We had a good day on his Birthday, Oreo cake, steak dinner, disc golf gifts, time with eachother. Maybe his "Golden year" wasn't his most rewarding upfront (but deep down I think much has changed for him). We have some wonderful things to look forward to in his 27th year & 2010. I will keep this blog updated for sure.


Here are some pics of his Birthday & other random photos.

Happy Birthday Eric!

October 26th Eric Michael McGowan was born in Aliquippa, PA. Thank God for that day or else I would not have met the man who has changed my world. I have learned more about myself and my capacity to be loved and love since I met him 5 years ago. Happy Birthday Eric.

October Showers

Lately it has been rainy here, like everyone always thinks it is. BUT it isn't :)

We have been puttering along with our lifes, I'm loving my job & learning as always from my friends at work. Eric has started a new hobby! He has been designing disc art and dying discs. (If you don't know... which you should b/c I always talk about it :), we play disc golf quite a bit). He is really good and has been selling some of his discs, he started only two weeks ago. Here a few of his discs.

We are not going to make it home for the Holidays (again). But our next visit will be in the winter (off season for flying) due to the cheap airline tickets. Much love to all.

We're going to Haifa!

We booked our tickets this weekend, transaction complete. We are going on our Baha'i Pilgrimage in March of next year. WOOHOO! Nine blessed days in Haifa, Israel. What a blessing, not sure how we are paying for the entire trip. But, we've waited 4 years to get invited & our time has come:)

Fall trips

Hello! It has been couple of weeks since posted anything on here. We've enjoyed the Fall season sweep through the Cascades, although the colors aren't as pretty as the Midwest, we have enjoyed the nice weather. 60-70s & sunny. Today was the first cold day (low 50s for the high). We are chilling (literally) in our basement apartment, with no heat except for heat fans in the wall... no central air for our place:)

We finally got to visit Mt. St. Helens, it was breathtaking & very windy!

I also went home for Katie's 11th Bday in Indiana. She is soooooooooo BIG! I love that girl, she is my favorite:)

Last day of summer is tomorrow

Well... dang! This was my first summer without any breaks from school. It went by faster than it ever has before. Eric is back home from a visit in Indiana for 3 weeks, looking at a few full-time positions here in WA. I have picked up some extra work on weekends, and taken an exam through NAIOMT..looking to take another NAIOMT course in October & November. Continue to LOVE my job!! There is not much new here, but loving the time we have together, but all the while missing the fam & close friends from home very much! Here a few pictures of a sunrise at Sunrise Viewpoint in Mt. Rainier National Park over the Cascade Range with Mt. Rainier in the background and our Labor Day weekend in Port Townsend on the Olympic Peninsula. I can't believe we have been out here over a year...