Rock climbing!

For Erik's 17th Birthday he and Jennie went to an inside rock climbing facility in Seattle. They had their very own teacher for an hour. They had a great time (a little sore though!)

Happy 17th Birthday Erik!

Look what my daughter made me!

So every year I have been able to get my kids Santa picture done. Most years it was at the same Santa setup. Jennie took all of the pictures and made a quilt out of them. This picture doesn't do the quilt justice so you will have to come to my house to see it :)

Thank you Jennie! You rock!

Disneyworld 2009

The pictures say it all!

Thanksgiving

This year was a bit different for us. We got to go up to Sequim with Donna & Laif. It was fun that much of the family was able to be there. Donna & Janet set a beautiful table!

Good food and lots of company! The only sad part was that Rachael got really sick and wasn't able to come over for Thanksgiving dinner. Lucky for her she was at her parents house so she had some good company. Michael did a great job with the kids though.

The "Kids table" It is fun to see the next group of kids growing up.

How cute is Hazel!!!

Anna loved playing with Hazel. Anna is such a polite young lady. I love her smile and the happiness she brings!

In our family of men it is rarely the "Thanksgiving Day football game" but rather the Thanksgiving Day video game

This is such a great shot. The kids are looking at the video game but they are standing in front of this beautiful quilt that Donna made.

Cousins, Cousins, Cousins

Scout Rocket Blasts

Our Scout troops have been working on their Space Exploration merit badge and as part of that they went to Flaming Geyer Park to launch them off. The only problem was that someone forgot to open the gates to the park!

After being stranded for over 1/2 hour the Scoutmaster walked into the park and found someone who came and unlocked that gate. (I think someone over slept..............)

So the boys got right to setting up for the launch and really seemed to have a good time.

Erik & Eric off to launch their rockets together

The "Erik(c)'s rockets set to go. On the first launch it went really well. On the 2nd launch Erik's disappeared and he could find it for a long time. Everone was watching Eric's because it went so high and then nobody saw were Erik's went. Finally after we were eating lunch then Erik found his closer to the river.

There were so many people here. The weather was chilly but great for the launch.

Of course nothing like some food to finish it off. The Jacobsens brought Hotdogs, chips & hot chocolate! Way to go Jacobsens!

Christmas? You have to been kidding

So I have been in traveling a lot this week to Dallas, Atlanta & Detroit. While in Detroit I found a radio station that is playing nothing but Christmas music!! I thought, oh, it couldn't be here already could it. I want my 2 weeks before Thanksgiving first!. So I was looking at old pictures of last year. I thought about how much had changed in my house and the first thing is that I have a new kitchen! So goodbye to these countertops and canisters, I can't wait to do my Christmas baking in the new kitchen :)

One thing I hope does change from last year is the weather. Oh what a long, cold, snowy, blizzardy winter we had. I don't mind a little snow but that was ridiculous..........

So here's to happy baking, fun holidays and NO SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So bad about bloggin...

I never seem to take the time to put up anything on the blog anymore! We really goofed off all summer and did very little on the house. Today we were taking out a couple of old stumps. One might think this log that Kent was carrying was heavy but it was so light weight you wouldn't believe it. This stump has been decomposing for years and it is like a sponge. We are just trying to do a few projects around the house. Painting the front porch, nailing up the molding, installing the water line for the fridge and moving the gas stove back in place. The last item cost us a bit of money... We moved it last weekend on a dolly and didn't realize that some of the logs in the stove were loose and very very heavy. We broke the glass door and so that was a $120 move... Such is life.