Dinner at Vita Cafe, an incredible vegetarian/vegan restaurant in the Alberta Arts District. Boy would we love to live in this neighborhood someday. We had the vegan nachos and the vegan club sandwich with french fries. Amazing.
A musical drama depicted the doomed marriage between local law enforcement and ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). Numbers included "Ice Ice Baby" and "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga. So great.
Always taking pictures. My kind of girl.
Eliser and Justin and I with my "new" bike outside the amazing pupuseria we recently discovered:
Breakfast with Evan at our place. Eggies McScramblins. Mmmm.
I recently visited a friend who lives with her husband and kids on one side of a duplex whose other half is inhabited by her brother and his family and have been thinking ever since about how great it would be to live next door to any of our siblings and their families: Justin and Lil, Rose and Robert, Scott and Hilary, Mike and Tanya. Maybe we live in a giant house together. For now, we are dispersed: California, Michigan, Oregon, Georgia (soon to be Chicago!), Washington. But man oh man, we'd have a great time!
F is for flag.
I is for intelligent.
L is for list.
Q is for quiet.
X is for x-ray.
Z is for zebra.
This project has been so fun and I've been impressed by their photographs! 
Planting and watering veggies in the labyrinth garden. Jazmin kept saying, "This baby is heavy!"
Checking out new places to eat. This restaurancito is just three blocks from our house and was recently opened by Guadalupe, who I know from my time volunteering with Adelante Chicas, and her husband. That's Guadalupe in the window.
Guadalupe and her family are from Mexico, but one of the cooks is from El Salvador and makes the most amazing pupusas, which are basically thick tortillas stuff with cheesy, beany goodness. This here is a delicious quesadilla full of fresh spinach. So good! Eric says it's his new favorite place.
Enjoying the gorgeous, summery weather that finally showed up! We're on the hunt for a good used bike for me, so yesterday we walked across town (which takes about 15 minutes) to check out a place (with no luck).
We rode our bikes to Forest Grove for pizza, coffee and more window-shopping for bikes. Still no luck. But we had a great time, of course.
This picture is from Days of Prayer and Action for Colombia, when we decorated portraits of displaced people in Colombia with requests for President Obama to end military aid to the country. Andres is our neighbor and is just about the cutest kid around.
During an ESL class last week, it poured down rain and then this beautiful double rainbow appeared, so we paused class and just hung out by the windows for a bit.
We've been super busy with church work and with school. This spring has been the most scheduled couple of months I've had in years--something that has helped us get to a better financial place but that has also been quite challenging. My days are full of wonderful people and good things but my current amount of rest time and social time is just not enough. I am loving my days with the K-3 kiddos but have decided to not return to my position as an ESL assistant next fall so I can focus on my ministry and be more present in my own community and with Eric. And now only four weeks remain until summer vacation!!! 