What do you have to wait 9 months for?

Apparently that's how long it takes to build a hot tub...the same amount of time it takes to grow a human!!  Just like when the baby arrives, you kind of forget how long you had to wait and you just enjoy the gift;)  And bonus it came just before the weather shifted to cold and rainy.  Now we are just waiting for the girls to come home and enjoy it:)

Rainy Weekend in Portland

Missing Ginny & Ashton's wedding will always be one of my biggest regrets...but this year they invited us along to celebrate their anniversary (haha) with a quick getaway to Portland!

I don't think it stopped raining for more than a couple hours the entire weekend, but luckily it was during our hike.

I've always wanted to go to Multnomah Falls!  So happy to finally get there.

Top of the falls!!

We had lots of yummy food...possibly TOO much...actually WAY TOO much!  Salt & Straw Ice Cream Modd Pizza, Little Big Burger, VooDoo Donuts and Duck House

Salt and Straw had their "Thanksgiving Flavors" in! Most of them were yuck!  I got the "last chance" Candycopia--YUM

VooDoo was crazy!  So many wacky flavors:)

Modd is always delicious

We stopped at the outlet mall, John Fluevog and of course Powell's Books for some shopping.  And spent hours talking, reminiscing and just enjoying being together.  What a treasure to have old friends:)   

Hard to get a good picture of how enormous Powell's Books is...here's the boys waiting for us in the children's section.  

Times, they are a changin'

Only 3 of us at the pumpkin patch this year

Only 2 of us at the trunk or treat

We took Summer's friend (and her parents) along trick or treating

I carved pumpkins by myself 1 hour before trick or treating

Although there are fewer of us celebrating together, it was still a wonderful Halloween with our cute little butterfly:)!