The other afternoon we attended an old high school friend’s wedding. It was nice to see old friends and faces, but it made me miss my family a lot.

So, to take my mind off of it, we went to Sauvie Island to pick our own produce and get out of the heat. All of the colors looked almost unnaturally bright.

Our first stop was the U-Pick Lavender farm.





It was just nice driving around through the many farm roads and enjoying the pristine mountain views.





The Sauvie Island U Pick Farm was awesome as per usual. The best moment, however, was when I looked up from the apricots to see Paul standing in awe before the below:

We did pretty well for ourselves and left the island with our mission accomplished, so we went back over the bridge and into the city.


For a total of 4 dollars, we got a bag of rainier cherries, two walla walla sweet onions, and the largest avocado I have ever seen. Not bad.

Hope everyone had a great weekend. We, of course, enjoyed the view from our new balcony.

the pictures were beautiful, the story was great!!! and I felt like we were there with you on that special day on Sauvie Island, keep up the great pic’s and blogging. I love and miss you both so much, love, mom