UPDATE!

I know it's been a while - we've had a lot of computer problems lately, stupid viruses - . . . so I thought I'd do a photo update . . . . Here goes:

This past weekend, two of our housemate's graduated from RISD (Rhode Island School of Design). Matt, who lives in our apt and Jeff who lives one floor below us both received their master's degrees. We cheered them on in the morning and then celebrated by stuffing our faces at a bbq in back of our building afterwards. The weekend was full of meeting families and celebrating. Teegan, Jeff's wife, even had a piano recital scheduled for the same weekend so her family could check out her amazing talents while they were all in town already. What a great time for supporting our friends and eating lots of good food. (did I mention that I love good food?)

Here's a photo of the four of us housemates (matt, me, Jon, and Lisa) taken at the bbq. (Lisa left us for the summer and we have someone else living in her room for three months. we miss her!!!)
Waaaay back in the beginning of May, my friend Joanna and I co-hosted a clothing swap/Mad Hatter Tea Party. It was divine. Joanna really did all the work I just came up with part of the idea . . . About 15 or more girls atteneded, bringing bags and bags of clothes they wanted to get rid of (spring cleaning!) we had tea and lovely desserts, playe "Alice in Wonderland" in the background, sorted through each other's clothes, took what we wanted and Donated the rest to the Rhode Island Women's Shelter. I already have 5 more bags of clothes to get rid of for the next time we do it!


Here's just a cute picture of hudson from when he wedged himself in to the small space where Jon was working to fix his office chair. Hudson missed Jon while he was away at school . . . can you tell? Of all the places he could lay in the ENTIRE house, he picked this one:

Here's a photo of the banditos from the end of March when we visited our friends Abby and Dylan in their new home in Asheville, NC. These are our friends that we lived with last summer in Alaska. Hudson and Jack (the blue heeler) are BFFs . . . so we all had a GREAT time!

Here's the crew of us on our hike up a Mountain which I forget the name of . . . bald mountain maybe? dunno. It was wonderful whatever it was called.

Lately, we've been working hard, playing in the smatterings of sun we get every now and then, tending to our plot in the community garden, spending time bbqing with friends and hanging at the beach . . . we've seen some family recently (when our cousin Emily graduated with her Master's Degree in Boston) . . . we are watering our first floor neighbor's flowers while they are in Wisconson getting hitched (sadly, we couldn't afford plane tickets to their wedding . . . sniffle) . . . Last night we went and saw the new Star Trek movie and LOVED IT! . . . Jon is playing intramural softball with Brown for the summer (Tabitha just watches), Hudson is making friends with other dogs around town and we are looking forward to a trip home to Oregon in a few weeks for Sara and Pete's wedding! huzzah!

oh and also? we found DROP TOP AMBER ALE from Portland, Oregon at the liquor store across the street!!! Finally! Beer that tastes like it should! sigh . . .

thanks for reading, lots of love!
T, J and H.