Playing catch-up

Worst blogger ever award goes to.....Me!

I'll give you a rundown of what has been happening in the Oregon Ryther household over the last few months.

• My Mom and Dad (Bill and Lou) came out to visit for 2 weeks at the end of April.
• Danica finished up her first year of pre-school in May.
• We had our house on the market trying to sell so we could get into something a little bigger that suited us better out here in Oregon. Unfortunately we weren't able to get it sold before the tax credit expired and nobody (and I mean NOone) was buying houses after it did.
• We took our house off the market and are now trying to make it a little better for us since it appears that we will be staying in it for the time being.

Needless to say we have been in such a state of limbo for most of the summer. Not knowing if our house was going to sell or when it would sell and timing everything really sucked. But now we are doing our best to make some changes to this house including a new shed and re-organizing the garage. I am also redoing Danica's room since we had told her she was going to get a new room in a new house and was very excited. Still working on her room but it should be done in the next week or so and then I will post some pictures.

I will do a few catch up posts with some pics from the summer. Danica has changed so much in just the last couple of months! Gone is the toddler/preschooler type to definite little girl. She has also gotten taller which sometimes throws me off guard when I'm not expecting it.

We are very excited that we will be coming to MN for 3 weeks in November. Danica will be turning 5 and I am happy that we will be around family for that milestone.

Jason and I still have our jobs (in this economy you never know!) and for the most part are happy with them. We've had a very weird weather summer out here. It didn't really seem to start until July and now it is over already. Hopefully the winter isn't too terrible. (I know it's all relative to where you live!)

Hopefully I will keep up with the blogging more. I know that some of you have been missing the pictures of Danica.