Konichiwa

Wow...we have had tons going on. We celebrated Paul's birthday up in Portland, ran back to Corvallis to meet up with friends, Paul rode 100 miles on his bike to celebrate his birthday, back up to Gresham to welcome Kristi and Darrin's baby boy and to see Tiffany Maddox who was visiting from California, to Gaston to listen to Paul's dad preach at a small community church, back to Corvallis for a wedding, and then back to Gaston and Gresham again this weekend. We try to limit our trips, but we wouldn't want to miss all these good things. In between that we had two Japanese boys stay with us for a week. They came last Thursday and left today. Masaru and Yutaro are 11 and 12 and came with their school for a visit to the states. The school Ashley works for has an exchange program and we were blessed to host these two boys. We had so much fun together; it was really hard to see them leave today. Below are a few pictures from their visit.

25 big ones!

We are off to P-town to celebrate Paul's 25th birthday. His actual birthday is tomorrow, the 11th, but he and some friends are riding in a century to celebrate on Sunday and didn't want to be up too late the night before. With Ping Pong, Scrabble, Phase 10, friends and a pony (?) it is guaranteed to be a good time!

Well I am off to meet a friend in Salem, hopefully to get a warm cup of coffee (for the next nine months I will be nothing but cold...did I mention that I love summer?).