Baby Shower

This is the fun part of the week. My work had a baby shower for me. The yucky part of the week is that I had my weekly baby appt at the doctors and once again this little boy has turned the wrong way. So I go to the hospital on Saturday to see if they can get him turned. YIKES! So hopefully nothing goes wrong or there will be a baby here on Saturday.

Bike Trailer

This is the first test run in the Burley bike trailer. Grandma Oram had a friend at work that gave it to her. SCORE!

Todays Crop

We picked the bushes dry on Wednesday and by Saturday morning this was our crop. Yesterday the young women came and each went home with a bucket. I can't keep up.

Tractors

This is a picture I took for Fathers Day last year. Quinn and I often rode my bike over to see the tractors and trucks building a new shopping center.

Front Porch

Nate, Grandpa & Grandma Thomas, and Robyn coming back from church last winter.

Garden Tomatoes

This is last years crop of tomatoes. We are hoping to rake 'm in again this year.

Jeep

A couple weeks ago we sold Nate's SUV and bought a commuter car. In the meantime he borrowed his friend's Jeep. If you are in this jeep for more than 2 seconds you smell like gas and exhaust. And you have to take the back rodes cause its not safe to drive on the freeway. I offered to drive it my short distance to work but my pregnant belly wouldnt fit behind the wheel. It just so happened the day that Nate had to drive this to work, he was meeting with people from China.

Project after Project

Before and After

This is the "After" picture of our closet. REO came down and helped Nate with a good portion of this project. Believe it or not, Maile hung the clothes rods.

Before and After

This is the "After" shot of our bathroom.

Renovation

This room was a hot tub room off of our master bedroom. We started to renovate a year ago and as we stripped the walls, we discovered major dry rot. You can see that we literally could just push right through the wall to the trees on the other side. We made this room into a 2nd bathroom and a walk-in closet.

Mr Fix It

My mom came this weekend to help me before the baby comes. In her marathon of casserole making the pipe under the sink gave out. She had water rushing out of the cupboard onto her toes. So we had to call in Mr Fix It.

Raspberries

The raspberries on our bushes this year are prolific. Grandma Oram came just in time to clear them off and she even got to take two gallon bags of them home.

Milkers

Quinn found his halloween costume hanging in his closet this week and wanted to put it on. When we got it on he said, "Mommy, where's my milkers?"

Party

The Olson's and the Jensen's come to party.

Nate's bday

Can you see the haze of smoke com'n off that cake. He's 34.

Oram Christmas 2005

Jensen Cousins

These are cousins, Myah & Aurora on the Thomas/Harris side of the family. Gabe, Nate's sister and her husband Dave live an hour from us. They are Quinn's nearest cousins that we visit regularly.

Grandpas Shoes

Quinn put Grandpa Orams shoes on so he could go out on the back patio to seach through the toy bin for more tonka trucks.

Montana Firefighter

Quinn and Nate rode the train to Montana last weekend and that was a 3-year-old dream come true. While there, Quinn's Grandpa Thomas took him down to the fire station to see the firetrucks.

Joining the Bloggers

Ok, it has become my weekly ritual to visit all of the Clark blogs (my cool cousins the Clarks) to see the mischief they have strummed up for the week. It has been quite entertaining and being far far away in Oregon, it's my way of keeping up and still feeling part of the fam. Thanks for your inspiration and here I begin. -Maile