Betty's Birthday!

In the Arambel tradition, my birthday revolved around 'food'! For lunch Dave took us to the Trailside Cafe/Tea Room, I had heard good reviews about it and it was very good! Martha and I relaxed thru the afternoon, not doing much and then for dinner we headed to Wasabi, sushi has become one of my favorite things! We had a very nice dinner on the patio and Martha entertained us with some dancing to the music. (one of these days I'll learn how to download video from phone to computer to blog)

Let's see, backing up, Friday was Sara's Birthday, Saturday was Kaiya's 1st, today is Leah's and tomorrow is Parker's! Not to mention all the birthdays that fell towards the beginning of the month and those in July.

Martha's 'stone boot' She spotted this on the Mulberry River when we went canoeing with the church youth.

Bikes, Bikes, Bikes and more bikes....our church hosted Bike and Build, they rode in Sunday 14th from Clarksville, AR (up the pig trail) It's a group of young adults that ride across the country, raising awarness for projects like Habitat for Humanity and they stop and help build houses. They are headed to Colorado Springs, CO and will eventually end up in San Diego, CA.

You can see what they are up to at : bikesandbuild.org (I haven't actually been there yet, hope that's right) Martha and I are going to check in on the group to see what and where they are going.

I have been busy working at my mothers house, cleaning out the beds and yard. I finally got the last of the limbs cleaned up from the ice storm out of the front yard! Yeah! And in it's place I have been planting flowers to brighten the walk to mom's front door a bit.

No pictures of it, but Dave and I worked the NCAA Track & Field Meet held in Fayetteville. We got to escort athletes to various places. We got to talk with and watch some amazing Athletes!

I have to say after meeting the winner of the men's Decathalon and the women's Heptatalon (sp?), I will be watching the Oregon State team. They were both very nice young people!