Saturday Market

They have a large assortment of fresh fruit, veggies, and all sorts of other food. Not only that, they also have a large section of prepared food. On top of that, they have a lot of clothing, trinkets, and other things. Of course, all of these things are organic, even the clothes. They have non-dyed organic cotton. All of the fruits and vegetables look really nice, but they are all insanely expensive because they are organic. There is also a lady who reads tarot cards. I have never seen this in real life. They don’t have stuff like this in public in Utah. That is all for today.

Our Apartment

Here is our home sweet home... for now anyways! This is our place, we are the big upstairs window and the one to the right of it. Our whole apartment is just behind that window and the little one is our tiny kitchen. The tiny bathroom is next to the kitchen and our full bath is down the hall. :)

You can see two blue buckets on the roof. Those are our tomato plants! We hope to get at least a few tomatoes before we go. One is a cherry tomato, we are crossing our fingers!

This is our street: 10th and Washington. Washington is a one way street. The one way streets are hard to get used to. Mike almost turned right on this street.... that's why I drive the most! :)

Goodbye to Buddy

We said goodbye to Buddy this month (from Oregon). Mom and Chelsy took him to the Humain Society in SLC. They said he was calm about it and only resisted a little when they took him to the room with all the dogs in it. 13 years old and he's not used to being around a lot of dogs!I think he'll like the friend though.
Bye Bye Buddy!


These are pictures took of his last day at home. He had a happy last few days running around Mom's backyard and pooping all over the grass. :)

The following are just cute pictures of him.

Our 1 year Anniversary!

We were lucky to have our anniversary (May 26) fall on Memorial Day this year, so Mike didn't have to work and we could go do something fun! We decided to go to the Oregon coast at Florence to see what there was to see. Of course it was rainy and cold, but this is to be expected. We had a fun time at the beach and hiking out on this rocky peninsula with a little green lighthouse on it and lots of pelicans and seagulls (thus the white "paint" all over the rocks! :)














We also visited a little restaurant/grill for lunch which kept us full all day and was the cheapest prices around. Restaurants here are nearly all around 10-20$ a plate! Pretty crazy. We got a huge meal for just 7$ each :)

There was a little place called "Old Town" in Florence that had little shops and gift places. We toured around there and then headed home. It was a fun day!

We caved in....

Well friends and family, Mike and I have finally caved in. We gave into Facebook and we both signed up now. We felt like we might like to be a little more in touch with everyone! This is weird, it's like we just entered the technology world! :)

Retro Couch-- Free stuff!

Lets just begin by saying we love Craigslist and their free stuff! I (Alex) have been diligently watching Craigslist for free furniture to fill our new tiny apartment. Well, to organize it is more the word, it is VERY full as it is VERY tiny, but we didn't have anything above 1 foot off the ground except boxes and our keyboard, and the whole floor was covered because it only stacks so high! (We moved to a new and clean place that is closer to Mike's work. It's about 1/3 the size of the old one, but so much nicer!) But now, thanks to the kindness and generosity of people who give away their stuff, we have an amazing new couch in Eugene representational colors, and a practically new dresser! And now we live a little more civilized instead of out of boxes and off the floor :)




Isn't this the most amazing pattern you've ever seen??
And it folds out into a bed so we don't have to sleep on the floor with our air bed anymore!

The guy said this dresser was a little wobbly and some drawers didn't work. He thought it could be fixed but said he wasn't very good with tools. Well, to fit in in our car we had to take it all apart. When we got back home and put it together it worked perfectly! At least that guy knew he wasn't good at putting things together! :) We're grateful! This is real wood too!