Went to a harvest celebration at Cooper Mountain Vineyard today with Hank (my father in-law) and of course the hubby + kiddo. He bought us 2 bottles of exceptional wine there: 2004 Faces Pinot Noir and the 2004 Malbec. Cooper Mt. is an organic vineyard and “2002 Cooper Mountain Vineyards becomes first U.S. winery to gain label approval for a no-sulfite-added wine under the new National Organic Program standards. Label approval process proves difficult, but “Made with 100% Organic & Biodynamic® Grapes” statement approved for use on label.” We didn’t buy any of the non-sulfite stuff tho. Cooper Mountain is also the first Oregon winery to bring Malbec here and it is wonderful stuff!!!

Anyhow, a pretty pic I took of the grapes. I can’t wait to see more vineyards during the upcoming crush season!!!

We had such a long long Labor Day weekend full of lots of site-seeing trips and felt like talking about them & of course posting some pics!

After picking up my friend at the airport Friday nite, we woke up Saturday to start our wine touring day. She had a list of some wineries she wanted to hit and we attempted to get at least some of them in.

These are the ones we went to:
Adelsheim
Willakenzie
Duck Pond
Tori Mor
Lange
Sokol Blosser
Cooper Mountain

I was going to type up things on the various ones we visited but i’ll do that some other time. We did finally join up the Sokol Blosser wine club and they’ll just will call us whenever our wine is ready to pick up. We of course love Evolution but we found a new blend they have that we really liked so we bought a bottle of that with our 2 Evolution bottles. In the end, Rain ended up with I think 9 bottles going back with her and we had 5. We are planning on going to Cooper Mt. the 17th for a harvest event and may have to get another bottle that day because we didn’t buy the Pinot i’m in love with there. More to come on the wineries when I have time!

Sunday we went to the coast and hit up Moe’s for some chowder! Monday was our Gorge / Falls day which was beautiful. Then we had a bbq over at a neighbors house that evening. Rain left Tues. morning. I went high chair shopping with my mother in-law Wed. morning. My grandparents showed up Wed. afternoon. Friday my mom showed up

Here’s a nice family shot from the coast

We started kiddo on solid foods this last week. I’m making his own baby food because well it’s easy and good for him. I started of course rice cereal then we introduced him to sweet potatoes! He LOVES both so far!

Goofy pic of him eatting cereal for the 1st time! We were trying to catch some nasty eww face or a mess but he didn’t do any of that really ..yet that is!

I’m exhausted from all the excitement lately! We are going to do a housewarming party at the end of the month but giving ourselves a few weeks break to get some stuff done and relax a bit, if possible!

We have another coat to do on the top green and then touch up to smooth out the border some (textured walls suck to paint nice clean edges with i’m learning, the paint runs under the damn tape!) After that it’s time to do our stencil quote in the spot above his crib, finish up the ceiling with clouds and see if my animal stencil things will work for his border or not. Thennn we might just have a nursery out of this whole process!! (better late then never I keep telling myself, although it’s still sad I’m doing this after he’s already here and didn’t get to do it before he arrived!)

This is of the nook area where his changing table dresser thing will go. You can see the different greens and then the ceiling is a pretty blue that we’ll paint clouds on here soon!

Next weekend my best friend from KC arrives. We just had company leave today that stayed with us for the weekend, was good times and great to catch up. We went to the little girl down the streets b-day party briefly on Saturday to give her our gift. She’s a cutie named Isabella and turned 2! Stopped by to see the in-laws yesterday, had a glass of wine and picked up some things they had gotten us at Costco! Busy days I tell ya!

more to come in the future!
heather