Once upon a time...

...I kept my blog fairly up to date. I am horrible when it comes to taking the time to update my blog. I get in a rut and tell myself I'll do it later and I don't. So this is me finally making an attempt to update this thing.

So I'm starting fresh. A new theme for a new blog post. (Thank you, Ryan.)

It feels like we just got back, but I guess it's been a week and a half since we returned from our trip to Portland, OR. The trip went really well. I got a laptop! Some of the highlights of Portland include walking around downtown and seeing the beautiful buildings, going to a thing in town called the Saturday Market, which actually happens on Saturday AND Sunday. It is this awesome outdoor market where people bring their art and other things to sell. (I bought a pretty necklace from an Asian lady.) There are probably a couple hundred booths, plus around 50 food booths to choose from, which our group did both days because it was so much fun. There was also the TriMet Max train rides. How practical those trains are. We were so spoiled by them that when we got back home, it felt weird driving a car. We were like "man, I miss those trains". I will try to get some pictures up soon. I promised my mom I would, (sorry mom). The mountains from the plane were amazing! We saw Mt. Hood from the air, then we could see it while riding on the train. It was breath-taking. We were supposed to go on a boat ride, but the weather decided that we shouldn't. But Portland is an amazing place and I hope we get to go back one day to explore more of it.

We'll be going down to Florida in a little over a week. Ryan's sister Danielle is graduating from college. Congratulations, Danielle! I made her invitations, but forgot to take a picture in the rush. They came out pretty nice. Also, there is Father's day coming up, and my lovely sister's birthday as well. Happy Father's day! Happy Birthday, Erica!

We've started a new budget for ourselves that we think is going to be great for us. We've always been able to pay our bills and eat, but have never been able to build a good savings account. I'm learning a lot just by reading smart people's blogs online. So you may see more from me about what I've learned.

Anyway, part of our new budget strategy is cooking at home a WHOLE LOT more. So I may also show you what we've been cooking up lately if I can get Ryan to help me figure out how to post pictures in my blog. We'll see... We've made some great meals this week.

We went to Taste of Cincinnati last weekend. It's a big event downtown that happens once a year. Hundreds of restaurants from around the area bring their food to downtown in a booth and you get to walk around "tasting" (you pay for it) different restaurant's food. Nothing beat the corn on the cob. There's also music.. so it was a fun thing to do on our Saturday.

Well, that's all I have to say for now. Hopefully I will be better about blogging.

- SMB

This entry was posted by Stephanie Briones, on Monday, June 4, 2007. You can leave your response.