Portland vs Wasatch Front

The weather from the last week in Portland has been amazing and here is a picture of Mt. Hood I took, and a picture of what it is like in the Salt Lake Valley this week. Who said it rains all winter and we will never see the sun.

Hiking through the city to see an owl.

Although still chilly, thursday was a sunny day. Richard came home early and we drove downtown to go for a hike. yeah, that's right, hiking in downtown Portland. It's amazing how green it is in the winter here. At the end of the hike, there is a bird sanctuary, where I got up close and personal with an owl for about 15 minutes. They are creepy creatures. You would have loved it dad, there is a big tree on the hike, 241 feet to be exact, and it is "thought to be the tallest in any major american city" according to our hiking book. And - no big suprise - I rolled my ankle on the way home. It would have been reminiscent of logan hiking, except that it took us about 45 minutes to get home since we hit rush hour coming out of the city....blahhh. I miss logan hiking.

Now that we are done with the thesis.......

We went on this cool hike on another cliff. This time I wouldn't go any further after I saw the drop off. Richard took some nice pictures of the columbia for me though while he was out on the drop off (: Whata man. After the hike, we drove out on this cool bridge. It's sure nice to have our lives back now that the thesis is finished.

"how to cook everything"

This recipe book has an awesome pizza crust recipe. Thank you mama Buhler!

coolest oven ever

Who knew it had a flip top for easy cleaning?! That makes me so happy.

Dont Brush Too Hard

I'm going to have get gum reconstruction. That sucks. Before and after pictures I found online:

before:


after:






For a more gruesome picture of what they actually do, copy and past this: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bp3.blogger.com/_Ni-dKS6hvs4/RjwkQof3ERI/AAAAAAAAAek/pJUUtplfrA4/s400/2nd%2Bmolars.png&imgrefurl=http://ajouimplant.blogspot.com/2007/05/periodontal-surgery-for-severely.html&usg=__X4gJFO-Zf35BwNqwije0dSa4MeY=&h=288&w=400&sz=202&hl=en&start=33&um=1&tbnid=AD4aKUlyT00dKM:&tbnh=89&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dperiodontal%2Bpouch%26start%3D21%26ndsp%3D21%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

(mine won't be this bad, it's alot simpler than this and they will graft tissue from the roof of my mouth, actually this is a whole different surgery, but the closest I could find to a "pouch" - which is where the make a little pouch for the graft, shove it in the hole and sew up until it heals!)

A weird gift

This was Salem Hospital's gift to the RD's and food service staff:


Weird huh - but still nice to give us something. The most awkward part was carrying it home on the bus. I was hoping someone would try to attack on my walk between the hospital and the bus stop so I could make good use of that cheese knife.

Oh well, we put the wine bibber container to good use last night on new years eve (mmm martinelli's)! Thanks for a great night evan and jessica! Hooray for 2009.