Jacobsen Family

Squirrel Stealing Seeds

Check out this rascal stealing the bird seed! He hung there for a long time oinking out.

My nieces four day visit with us!

Me with my nieces Emily & Allison, rockin a game of Headbands

We visited Wildwood Recreation Site which is 15-20 min from the house.
It is more for salmon season excitment so we enjoyed the swamps,
boardwalks, and salamanders instead.

Are we looking at how little Allison's finger is, or how big the caterpillar is? Hmm

This salamander looks dead, but I assure it is not.
Needed to change the shutter speed on my camera, which I didn't, so caught it on its side.
I love the way they swim, their arms and legs tucked with the tail doing the work.

Took the girls to the zoo. We didn't take a ton of pictures but was great fun!

Spiderweb in the Sun


Check out the spiderweb shining in the sun!

Otter sighting

The Tickle Creek Trail walk behind our house has become a regular thing for us to do, can you blame us? On our last walk we spotted the otter and noticed she had a few pups with her. She had hold of one by the back of its neck as she moved them into the den. We didn't have the camera this time, but went out this morning and got a couple shots of her swimming out on her own.

Sandy Ridge Trail - Love it!

Today I enjoyed the most amazing mountain bike trail I ever experienced, so far! It is part of the Sandy Ridge Trail System which is only 15 min from the house we are renting.

It started with a 1 & 1/2 ride uphill on a paved road. The road isn't too steep, regardless of the sweat beading on my face and the burn in my legs. You have to work sometimes to play, and the ride up was absolutely worth the ride down! Lars had his Go-Pro camera which shows the trail but I was in front of him and am not about to debut my first ride on this sweet trail sharing my geeky white socks and lame riding. Now that I know what to expect out of the trail, I expect some better riding out of myself. Maybe next ride I will wear the Go-Pro cam to help muster up some of my competitive drive and post that later. :)

Had our legs been able to handle the ride all the way to the top, it would have been 3 miles to the top and then we would have had 5 miles of downhill bliss. We chose the shorter route since it was our first time on the trail. This trail is one the of most expensive to build in the nation, and it has to be one of the best! It so rocked!!

I even made a new friend named Colleen who has trouble finding other girls who are willing to mountain bike. So we exchanged info. and now I can meet up with some ladies for some all girl rides. She is from Portland and even just got back from a trip visiting Utah. She rode on the Shoreline trail behind the University of Utah Hospital where Lars and I rode often, small world.

We also met a guy that moved here from Utah! He lived in Draper area, so we talked trails and had a good 15min or more chat with him, so cool.

So far things are going well. Still need to find a job, and have started a bit of looking online. I will post pictures of the house once I get around to taking some.

Living in Oregon

We moved to beautiful Oregon!

Every morning I wake up to an orchestra of birds and a view of an enormous cedar tree.

I am loving it more and more every day. There is a trail a short walk behind our house called Tickle Creek Trail you can see the trail map below. The pictures don't do justice for how beautiful the trail is.

We have seen blue jays, a white dove, an otter, squirrels, red-striped Northwestern Garter Snakes, and slugs. The air smells clean and wonderful and I am looking forward to hitting some downhill mountain bike trails which are 15 min. from the house!


Tickle Creek Trail Map

There are 5 total bridges that cross the creek

Lars & Kaiser

Lars and my sister Shannon - Look at the size of that tree!


Anyone up to finding a four leaf clover?


Red-Striped Northwestern Garter Snake


Here is where spotted the otter

Mmmm yummy! How dare he venture out without his shell! These slugs always heebie jeebied me out when I lived in Washington. Snails are cool, but slugs...ewwww.

Here is a sweet mountain biking video in Canada. The filming is awesome and the music selection is cool. I swear Canada is where all he most amazing mountain biking is. One day there will be a post with me riding at Whistler!

http://www.pinkbike.com/video/256965/