Love

I love alot of things...and we'd be here forever if I named all of them off..one local place I love is Cannon Beach.  Not sure what it is about this little beach town, but I truly enjoy spending time there.  Part of what I love is that its not dumpy like some beach towns, and yet its not commercialized like others. 

This last Saturday Brandon and I dropped Davis off with the grandparents and headed to CB.  We haven't been to CB together in years, and lets face it...some time alone without a little one deciding he wants to do something different ever 2 minutes just sounds like bliss.

The funny part of it is, is that most of Portland had the same idea.  We had made our reservations a few weeks prior not knowing it would be sizzling in Portland. 

The minute we rounded the corner into town, it was cloudy! hahah  We didn't mind the clouds and breeze. We wandered through town, had lunch and talked, and then sat on the beach for a few hours reading.  The one thing that struck me as we were sitting down having coffee and pastires the next morning (reading the paper uninterrupted), was this is what life was like before kids.  I had sort of forgotten.  And while I wouldn't go back to that life and we kept wishing Davis was with us, it was a great reminder to get away for even just one night every once in a while and enjoy. 

Had to post this one...not sure what this lady was thinking? 

Maybe the rock looked better than we did :)

Such cute houses!

ahhhhhhhhh so relaxing!

Do you have any fun/quick destination spots you want to share?

Big Boy

I put off the transition of Davis moving from crib to a big boy bed for quite some time.  I don't know what it was, but I just wasn't quite ready...not only that but I didn't want to store the crib.  I just wanted to move it right into the new baby's room.

I had been searching everywhere for a good looking bed, and when I say everywhere...I mean everywhere.  I had finally found one on PotteryBarn Teen, but was hoping to find a bit better of a steal.  Our last stop before placing the PB order was Kids Zone in Beaverton.  Much to our suprise they had a great selection and we found his bed for a great price.

The transition went well, no problems...and I have added some side rails to keep him from tumbling off.

When we decorated his room before he was born, I stuck with things that could grow with him...so this was a quick job...add the bed, get some bedding and done!  The nursery for baby girl will be a bit more involved.  Can't wait to tackle that!

We are painting the front room this week!  More pics to come!