Saturday's mini "Road Trip"

We were lucky to have a nice long weekend together. Wayne got home from work late Thursday night. We had a nice chill day at home on Friday and decided to hit the beach on Saturday a keep out fingers crossed that it wouldn't rain. Lucky us it was a beautiful day at the beach! We went to my favorite beach of all time, Pacific City. This beach just screams comfort to me. My family camps here every summer, we surf, Stimulus Cafe has the best coffee, Grateful Bread Co. has the most amazing scones in the world and of course the beautiful Cape Kiwanda. If I were an Oregon beach bum I would shack up here no doubt.

The first thing I made Wayne do once we got into town was go to Grateful Bread for said scone. An orange cranberry scone that was fresh from the oven like 5 minutes before. Heaven, warm fluffy, I thought about taking a picture but I ate it too fast. I'm not sorry about that. We wanted to wear Dakota out before we went a chilled by the Cape so we went to Bob Straub to throw her ball around. Dakota loves the beach just like her mom.

After she wore herself out a bit we parked ourselves at the cape, ate our picnic lunch at the beach then made our way up the dune. I was being an over cautious ma'ma. I didn't want to let her off the leash. I was afraid she was going to go crazy running around and fall off a cliff. I lefter he explore on her own for a little bit when we were on some of the trails but the thought of my dog falling off the cape and landing in the ocean kept playing through my head. 

Then we made it to the top of the dune. 

Love a happy and tired dog!

I love to just sit up there and take in the scenery. 

Then comes the best part of hiking up that dune, running down!

 That black dot is Dakota, she would race down then run back up to us. She probably climbed that dune four times. 

After the climb down we helped Dakota get clean and comfy in the car. We walked over to stimulus to share and iced latte, and I wanted to window shop at Moment Surf Shop because that's just what you do when your on a budget. I wanted to grab another scone before we left but that was a firm NO from Wayne. He didn't want me sleepy, he knows me well.

We headed to Tillamook, Wayne wanted to stop at the cheese factory. Then we headed to the Tillamook Forestry Center.

I told Wayne to wave his hands around like he was excited. This is what I got.

We have been here before, they have a pretty cool museum about the history of the area. 

And this beautiful bridge that leads you to walking paths along the river.

Then we headed home with a very tired pup in the back seat!

Simplifying the Filling Cabinet.

You know what I hate? Clutter, hoarding, a lot of stuff with no use to it. This ginormous desk that I have is a clutter magnet. It became a habit to throw whatever didn't have an assigned home into a drawer to only be found months later. I have been on an organizing kick since the beginning of the year. It all started with my taxes this year. I was super organized, have everything from this year in an organized binder so I thought "why can't I do this with the files in my desk?" So that's what I did.

I felt some rearranging was in order.

 Yeah, this desk is huge and has a ton of drawers.

And the files come out. This includes a mix of business and personal junk.

After a few days of filtering through junk papers and organizing things into categories I came up with a few different binders.

Home Information:

This will include mortgage/refi/HOA documents.

Paint colors used in the house

warranty manuals

approval of home projects

animal health records

Heathers Personal:

Important items like birth certificate

SS card

previous taxes filed

Massage Business Documents:

This is a big one. Everything I need to run my business and anything that Wayne will ever need in case I die.

Massage License, CE Docs, Provider Contracts, Lease Info, Massage School Docs. I know one day this binder will need to be upgraded to a 2 inch.

And then 2012's Completed taxes and 2013's Profit/Loss.

If I ever get an audit for these two years I will be the most prepared LMT they have ever seen.

A few others that I need Wayne to organize the documents for are auto maintenance and we will have a finance/budgeting binder as well.  They will all sit neatly and organized on this shelf. 

So maybe you are wondering why I went through the trouble of emptying out my desk? We have plans for a homemade desk in the future.

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Saga de Fence

After weeks of working on the fence, screwing in fence boards, building gates, raising the retaining wall, staining, and working in the rain the fence itself is done. Then guess what we had to wait on. Fill dirt. Well not necessarily wait for it, it was available all along. I guess the correct term would be waiting for wayne to call around for cheap fill dirt. It finally happened on Friday morning. We were able to get fill dirt (mostly clay) from Boring Bark for $7/half yard. So guess what we did all weekend? No we didn't make pottery.

Dakota sniffing out the new dirt. We were able to do about 3.5 yards of dirt over the weekend. 2 more yards of dirt and we should be ready to move onto bark dust.

We picked up out fire pit. and enjoyed it friday and saturday night.

 While Wayne had all of the clay loaded I was able to spend each trip looking and mentaly choosing flowers and shrubs for the side yard. Wayne has agreed to build me a few raised beds.

Crazy to think 6 weeks ago it looked like this. 

Why Crossfit is amazing.

This week marks my first complete month of joining my local Crossfit box, Crossfit PFB here in Sandy. I have to say, it is the most amazing thing in my life right now. What is CrossFit? I know thats what you're thinking. Let me tell you about CrossFit This video explains every reason why I love this sport so much. I have seen changes in my body, fitness, stamina, energy, and overall feeling so much better about my health for the future.

I do believe this was my 3rd day of CrossFit

Saying goodbye to soft massage hands. 

The first workout that left me on the ground. My first of many sweat angels.

I love this place. I look forward to seeing the lovely faces here everyday.

Well, because I am!

CrossFit PFB here in Sandy offers your first week for free. What do you have to loose? More importantly, what do you have to gain? Everything.