Lady Gaga!

We bought our Lady Gaga tickets ages ago and had been awaiting the show for months! 8 of us went and the show was great!

The girls at Rialto beforehand-

Heather, Emma, Misty, Tina, Liz and me

Liz and Tina-BF's

Liz and a stranger on the MAX, also headed to the show

Tina & Rick on the MAX

These girls were only a small hint of the costumes we saw the fans in, at the show. It was almost as entertaining as the show itself!

Lady Gaga and the first set

The girls in front of us and what they were wearing (we didn't know them!)

Gaga in all her craziness!

Emma and Heather

Rick and his very sweaty wife (it was HOT in there!)

Gaga's fairy outfit. Even the things on her head were moving!

Oops Emma wasn't ready, and I didn't get the shades memo!

Liz took a very expensive nap during the show

My favorite set-the awesome monster!

All in all, it was very entertaining. So glad we went! We are now done with shows and concerts til the next good thing comes along!

Dayville!

Trying to find a place that is halfway between Portland and Boise, that can accomodate 4 girls isn't easy. As you know, my best friend Becky lives in Boise, so we (Brianne, Shannon, Becky and I) tried to figure out a place halfway for us to meet. Somehow we settled on a TINY town called Dayville, OR, just west of John Day. There is pretty much nothing there but a tiny cafe and a tiny post office. Luckily there is a small place with 3 little rentals attached to the back of the post office, so this is where we stayed. I didn't get any pictures of the place, and now I am wishing we had! It was quite an adventure, but we had a great time cooking and being together. We played did a LOT of madlibs and watched Labyrinth, since Shannon had never seen it! We also took a day trip to the John Day Fossil Bed National Monument-both the Sheep Rock unit and the Painted Hills. Eastern Oregon is so beautiful!

Sheep Rock

Brianne scoping out Sheep Rock

The inside of the visitors center had lots of awesome fossils, but really weird paintings of prehistoric times. Here is a prehistoric Brianne and a prehistoric Becky.

The Painted Hills...

 

And one last one of Lucy riding a chihuahua sized trike. The trike was in the funny place we stayed :)

 

And that's it for Dayville!

Seattle

Rick and I went to Seattle the first weekend of August to celebrate our anniversary early. We knew we were going to the beach for Kelly's birthday the weekend of our anniversary, so we had to plan early! Thanks to my friend Josh, we got an amazing deal at the Westin in downtown Seattle. We were on the 39th floor of the hotel overlooking the sound. It was gorgeous. We spent our weekend relaxing, shopping, eating and going to a soccer game. It was a great weekend away!

View of the space needle from our room

View north from our room, there were a few cruise ships in port

The weekend we were there was the Seafair, and they had the air show on Saturday. We didn't go, but a few of the Blue Angels flew right in front of our hotel, which was awesome, but I didn't get a good pic of. Two came back later around the other side, this was the best I could get!

Nice clouds over the Sound

Seattle skyline from the soccer stadium

Glitter and fireworks during the national Anthem made for a fun start to the game. We got tickets through Samsung, had awesome seats, and had an entire row to ourselves! It was really fun, I'm excited for the Timbers games next year!

Us at the game

Yesterday was our actual anniversary (and my Dad's birthday!). I can't believe 2 years have flown by so fast. I love being married to Rick so much. He treats me so wonderfully, he makes me laugh every day, he keeps me challenged and on my toes, and I know I am blessed to truly love spending time with him both one on one and in groups. He is my very best friend, I love you Rick!

We were able to go to a nice dinner at Ristorante Roma downtown last night after I got off work. We had a LOT of food, and it was really good. If you ever want a good Italian restaurant downtown, I totally recommend it. 

Work is going well. So far so good...its just been a bit of an adjustment getting used to working full time again. I like what I'm doing though so far.

I have a lot of pictures to process through-girls weekend in Eastern OR, Lady Gaga concert and our weekend in Lincoln City for Kelly's birthday. To come soon!

TJ & Christy's wedding

Last Tuesday we headed out the gorge, up to the Bridal Veil area for our friend TJ's wedding, to his beautiful wife, Christy. The wedding was held at Bridal Veil Lakes, which I had never heard of, but was absolutely gorgeous. I got a lot of great pictures, it was hard not to take a ton since the location was so perfect!

Walking in to the ceremony, which was on the other side of this lake

The bridal party. We know TJ through Dylan (3rd from right), and now TJ works for AT&T as well. The funny part is that one of the bridesmaids, Kelly (2nd from left), I graduated high school with, and one of the groomsmen, Ryan, (2nd from right) is my first husband Adam's cousin! I tell ya, small world!

 

The happy couple during the ceremony

 

The bridesmaids, I loved those grey dresses with the yellow

 

Its official!

 

The newlyweds

 

TJ & Christy taking a canoe ride. She was brave, not sure if I would've gotten in a canoe in a wedding dress! 

 

The gorgeous setting

 

Dylan looking stylin' in his groomsmen outfit and complimentary dollar store shades

 

Rick and I all dressed up

 

Dylan & I

 

The setting for the reception

 

The beginning of one amazing sunset, looking over the Columbia

 

Me, Jen &  Misty

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Love TJ's face!

 

 At sunset the light started streaming through the trees and it was gorgeous

 

Definitely my favorite shot of the night

 

TJ & Rick

 

and one last one of my lady friends...

Me, Alison, Misty and Amber

 

It was a great wedding and we are glad we got to be a part of it!

In other happenings, I start my new job tomorrow. I am excited to have a normal schedule again, but at the same time, I haven't worked full time in about 4 years so its going to be a hard transition after having this whole summer to do nearly nothing! Back to being a grown up!