Oregon coast trip!

We went to a wax museum in Newport and happened upon Johnny Depp!
Picture from the tide pool


Brynlee swimming for the first time


Yaquina Head Lighthouse


Dustin and Trevor checking out the waves crashing in


Brynlee out all alone by the tide pool, tide was coming in though, so we got her and got out of there!


Dustin walking by the tide pool


Out at the beach outside our resort, Brynlee was quite bundled, it wasn't too cold though.


Brynlee all bundled to keep warm as we went down to a tide pool


So here we have Trevor, Dustin, Kierstin and Brynlee looking out over the tide pools as the tide was starting to rise. There were a bunch of seals down there!


We had a super great time over spring break! Trevor, Brynlee and I went on vacation with Dustin and Kierstin to the Oregon Coast! It was so nice to get away and relax. We stayed at the Worldmark in Gleneden (thank you Aunt Nicole). We ate horribly, well I guess I should say we ate deliciously, but badly! We went in the hot tub every night (we brought Brynlee in her carseat) and we gallivanted about the coastside! We spent a day in Newport, and ate at this awesome like food shop on the coast. We went shopping in Lincoln city, where they had a Carters outlet! Oh yea! I got Brynlee some summer stuff and some new onesies! We went to Tillamook! Mmm Cheese (baw!!! I don't like cheese, but Trevor nearly cleaned out the squeeky cheese samples!) We had ice cream! We got the 5 scoop sampler (we got: birthday cake, German chocolate cake, sticky cinnamon bun, marionberry pie, and another I can't remember). The ice cream was DELICIOUS! MMMM..... There was an indoor pool at the Worldmark in Depoe Bay, so we went and took Brynlee swimming for her time. We also went to a light house at Yaquina Head. It was beautiful (picture up top). They had a tour of the lighthouse, which we decided to go one, however, when we got there, they said that no one that could not walk themselves up the stairs could go. Lame! So Brynlee and went walking around the lighthouse and went and watched the ocean, she thought it was pretty cool.

So I feel like I am rambling now, Moral of the story, it was a blast and I was so glad that we were able to go with such good friends!

Catch Up!

Jenny Jump Up! She loves it!


Can you tell she just woke up? She is a little loopy looking!


Big girl Piggies! I love them!


Sweet rosy cheeks


I-D-A-H-O Idaho Idaho Go Go Go


Cute Smile!


Mohawk Baby!


Cute little lady!


So here is Brynlee trying rice cereal for the first time. She was not so sure what she thought of it, as you can see. I usually end up dumping the rest into a bottle to drink before bed. We practice eating it everyday, she is getting better!





Hi all! So this is Chantal, I am now the blogger in the fam. Trev started our blog, but he is handing over the reins. I am still a little boggled by it all. I am going to figure out how to make it amazing, I promise!

So... What have we been up to? Well, Trev and I are both looking forward to graduation in May! Glory Glory Glory, I have been in college for 6 years! Trevor is just so special that he is going to get done with 2 degrees in 4 years, show off! :) Just kidding, I am so happy that he is taking a shorter route than I did!

Brynlee is doing wonderfully! She is awesome, we love having her. She is just such a good girl, she never gets too worked up about anything, she normally just wants to hang out with the fam. She loves attention (cough, like her father, cough :) ) and as long as she is getting some, she is good to go!

We are still working on getting everything taken care of for the house. We found out on Saturday that our paperwork was sent to the wrong place, which is way stinky! We are hoping it will all come through sometime soon, if not Mom and Pop Dougal, here we come! :) That was meant to be a threat! So the deal is, we reserved the UHaul for right after graduation, whether we have a house to move into or not!

I am trying to play catch up with the blog on this post. I am going to post about our Oregon trip in the next on, just to keep them separate!

More on the baby!

So here are a few. I will send out more as soon as I get the chance and will write what is going on in life. She is getting big!

Here are a few more

The baby has arrived

Well life has been pretty crazy to us. Today it is snowing like crazy and thank goodness it is Thanksgiving break. I'll let you in on a little bit that is happening in our lives. Chantal finished her student teaching and can now graduate and teach, but she won't be yet because we just had a beautiful baby. I will come back to this later in my blog.
To make life fun about a month and a half ago I was playing football and as I was diving across the goal line I got kneed in the back of the head. I split my head open really wide and spent the night getting stitched up. I'll add a picture for those of you who did not get to see my fun yet. Then two weeks after that I was playing in my intramural soccer game, that was getting a little more rough than usual, and ended up popping my knee out of place. I spent the next month hobbling around but I am happy to say that I am finally to the point that I can walk again and it doesn't hurt. I know I know, accident prone...won't stop me from doing what I like to do.
Now on to our newest news. Our baby was born on Nov 17 at 3:45. Chantal's water decided it was time to break at 11:30 the night before. No sleep at all seeing as those beds at the hospital are painful. We went through about 12 hours of labor before the doctor came and told us we were stuck at 8 cm. They said they would give us two hours and then do a c-section. We decided it was time to pray and in the end everything worked out and we didn't end up having to get one. Chantal was lucky and only pushed for about ten minutes and out came the baby. I thought I was not going to want to help, but when it all started I got to help out the whole time. She came out and was born with an amazingly large amount of brown hair. We did not expect it! She was 7.7 lbs and 20 inches long. Her name is Brynlee Marie Dougal. She is pretty much adorable. The nurses were all obsessed with her and didn't want to bring her back into the room. She has been such a good baby though. She rarely cries except when getting her clothes changed because moscow is freezing cold and snowing. I will add as many pictures as I can. The last picture will be of the head wound so if you are woozy don't look at the last one.so I won't be showing the other picture below because I can't find it. I will and then I'll post it!

Random tidbits

Well, we are under two months until our new little girl shows up. We are pretty excited about it, but sometimes wish it didn't take so long. I guess if it wasn't hard everyone would want to do it and believe me, there are far too many screwed up parents already. I have time to write today because for the last week I have been fighting the flu and yesterday I woke up and could fight no more. It only knocked me out for about a day. Today I have already removed myself from the couch the couch, so that it a plus. It is not fun. I would suggest not getting it, but I can't complain because it wasn't really that bad compared to everyone else up here.
What else is new? Well, I added some new music. There is some pretty good music out right now. We are excited for So You Think You Can Dance again, but hope they don't turn it into a gimmick. I hate when everyone has some random story to get them by the judges. I know some are legit, but really, it's a dance show, not a soap opera. I figure we have enough of that in our lives. It seems that lots of facebook, myspace and blogs these days are only to whine and complain about things we dislike. So I will try to be more optimistic so I won't be one of "The Complainers"! Intramural soccer has started again and so far we are doing really well. We have won two for two. I have the shin bruises to prove it. Ballroom has also started. It looks like it will be the best year we have had so far. I hope it keeps going.
Soon enough I will start looking for jobs and figure where Chantal and I are going. That should be fun! I can't really think of anything else so I will write again another time.

and a little bit more

I'm just writing the post because lately I have been a little more down. It is frustrating. I have been to five doctors and all of them have no clue how to do their jobs. So I came to a new doctor and he did a great job and he had tons of ideas about my ribs and how I tore the cartilage between them! Well life was going well. We finally knew what was going wrong and how to fix it. Then this morning I received a call from the doctor. The radiologist went over the xrays and was kind of confused. He said my chest looked like I had bronchitis. So he asked me how I was feeling and of course I am still terribly sore, but I have not been sick really. They checked my white blood cell count to see if it was a gallbladder problem and it isn't. They checked my blood oxygen levels to see if that was a problem. They checked my liver and everything else and so far have drawn lots of blood, but no conclusions. SO basically what this is coming down to is we could use all the prayers we can get right now. If anyone has any ideas other than that I am very much up for the suggestions! Thanks
Trevor