Sunday was Party Day!

On Friday, I caught a ride down to Eugene w/Mom and Peter, (Thanks!!!,) and stayed the night at my Pop's place. The next morning, we beat the rush to the Original Pancake House, then went down to U-Haul to reserve a trailer. We picked up Uncle Lou's big Ford truck and headed to Julie and Ted's house to pick up their old sofa-bed. Julie tried, and partially succeeded in sending me off with more stuff! With the couch on-board, we headed to U-Haul, picked up the trailer and returned to Dad's place.

The trailer swallowed all of the crap that I still had at Dad's, and the rest of Paul's with room to spare. I briefly considered checking out what was for free on Eugene's craigslist, but common sense prevailed.

By four, we had the trailer unloaded at the new place, and the couch moved into the new room.

I made that sound easier than it was, hehe. After an unsuccessful attempt to bring it in through the main hall, we broke out the tape measure and determined that it would go through the window.

The room looks great, Teri did a wonderful job! Now, envision a 54" plasma on this wall. Just kidding!


On Sunday, we went to Michael's 3rd birthday party. He and Abby are only 5 days apart, so the first part of August will perpetually be birthday season. Doug and Joy had his birthday party at My Gym, which was a lot of fun for all the kids!

The birthday boy!

Rally kids: Abby, Michael and Haley!

After Michael's party, we headed back to Doug and Joy's for lunch, but couldn't stay too long because Kricket had another party to go to: Heather's "I'm reaalllly ready to have this baby" party.

Kat brought mini-E along.


While all that girl stuff was going on, my father-in-law Frank and I headed to North East to pick up a craigslist find for the garage. A hot-rod enthusiast, who was moving to the greater Fossil/Heppner/Spray metropolitan area had 6 surplus school lockers for sale.

When I got them home, I found that I had unwanted guests, and gave them the Orkin treatment.

Next, storming the castle!