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Sitting in a silver van beside a country road in Firestone, CO looking at the cute prairie dogs when a police car pulls up behind me, lights flashing, and the officer warily gets out and approaches. Hmmm, I think, what could I possibly be doing? Is prairie dog watching illegal?? Soon 2 more police cars come up behind the first, lights going. Hmmm, weird. So I roll down my window and ask what I

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I had fun this year carving a pumpkin. I found one of the design sheets in an old Halloween box from when the kids lived here and set about marking it on my pumpkin. It took about 1.5 hours but I think it turned out great! And the best part is that I carved it on a "reusable" pumpkin that I bought at Michael's so next year we have it too!You wouldn't recognize Larry but he is under all this! We

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First the Grand-daddy long legs is making out under the eve with his lady friend.Then we have the BIG spider in the bedroom!And then the spider in the kitchen. I think we need to spray or something.

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Once upon a time, there was a wisteria plant that wasn't very happy just living on the deck. It aspired to much greater things. It wondered what it would be like to see across the river and down to Portland. But, alas, how could this be. Then one day, the Wisteria plant realized it could reach up and over the roof and to its delight, found a tall, tall antennae. This looked like the answer to the

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We camped for the past 3 days at Potlatch State Park on the bottom end of the Hood Canal. It was fabulous! We arrived Friday night about 8 pm, just as the sun was setting, and it had been raining off and on since Centralia, WA. We were hoping and praying that we would be able to have a break in the rain to put up the tent! And we got just that. For about 40 minutes, it didn't rain at all. We got

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Wow, how time flies! We have been married nearly 30 years and Dad turned 65 today! We are moving towards OLD and we are not sure we like that! Oh, well, OLD is certainly at least 80.

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somedays, I still feel every bit of 59, but it is a nice thought that I am not too out of shape. Or at least I have this game buffalo'd!

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About 1992 Kevin received his Eagle Scout award. Part of it involved creating and mounting this sign on the cover for the park behind our church. Every summer for years, Dad and I have tried to remember to put another coat of clear sealant on it so it will last through the rains here in the NW. It was made of laminated plywood and over the years the weather has started delaminating some of the

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Just got home from a fantastic day! We spent the AM in Banff, walked a bit in town and toured all the shops and then drove up to beautiful Lake Morane and Lake Louise which are 2 of the most beautiful alpine turquoise lakes you will ever see. We thought we could go kayaking on them, but you can't unless you use their canoes and pay $40 an hour which we weren't about to do since we brought our own

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Not bad for a 59 year old! wish my knees felt as young. Granted, this is the best score I have gotten, it is usually in the 45 range!

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For my birthday Dad told me he would make me a nice big topped sewing table.It will be 7' x 7 ' when done with the front 3 feet in a drop down leaf. It will go in Jenni's old room with all my sewing stuff and I can't wait!

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I love my roses! They smell so good and look so pretty and even though they prick me and need weekly attention to keep them blooming and looking their best, I love them! They started blooming this year the first week of June. I have 30 now, I lost 2 this past winter. My friends at work gave me this one years ago.

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1980 2000 2005 2006 Fall 20082009

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Last weekend Dad and I drove my Miata to Seaside, OR and spent a wonderful afternoon and early evening with Becky's family and Lorilynn's family. I can't get these pictures to go in the correct order so just enjoy!The joys of youth - to not feel how very cold the water is! It was about 65, sunny and no wind so it was great at the coast! I wanted to go on the Bumper cars too, but they got the last

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For Mother's Day this year, Dad cut up the hot tub and then we purchased a new rectangular, offside umbrella for the deck. Once we get the deck sanded and repainted it should be really nice!

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Dad and 2 of our friends from Prune Hill ward had a sawsall party on Saturday and cut the old hot tub up in 1/4's! It was very dead. It had cracked throughout the inside, we had mended them twice, and finally this winter the pipes froze and broke, and Arnold had clawed this whole cedar strip on the corner. It was time for it to go, LOTS of great memories in this old hot tub! It was a great buy,

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Thanks to Dad for arranging to have Becky and her kidlets over, I had a nice birthday. At work, no one remembered and I was kind of bummed, and I was getting a headache and my fibromyalgia was beginning to act up.When I arrived home, what a fun surprise to find out that Dad had invited Becky and the kids over to celebrate my birthday, he had bought pizza so I didn't have to cook, and Becky

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  This weekend, I spent several hours in the strawberry patch resurrecting it from the ivy since it has been 3 years since I have lived here at this time of the year. I also tied back the raspberry plants so they are ready to be fruit bearing, and planted the tomatoes and artichoke plants!

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We had a wonderful time in Houston Texas this week visiting Kevin and his family and Jenni and her family!  Here we are at the OIL RANCH on a hay ride feeding the long horns! what do you think about this big guy? Did a 10x zoom on him! ( He was not at the OIL RANCH! ) Can't make this picture move below so I guess you get him here.Brazos State Park was a thrill with lots of alligators, rosey

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The furnace fairy visited us yesterday and sprinkled some magic dust on our old furnace and voila... it worked again! We were just downstairs picking up all of the used tools, cleaning up the floor and putting away things and weren't even trying to get it to work. We had given up on that! So, as of yesterday afternoon, we have had 68 degree heat in our house and it feel so good! I even ventured

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Dylan had his 4th birthday this past week and we got together at Becky and Kyle's to celebrate with them. Becky made this really cute CARS cake and he loved it.Mr Potato Head was a hit with all 3 kids! From Dylan's Birthday Party 2-28-09

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We had a varied weekend of fun. Last week Dad and my cars' headlights both had problems, both on the L side. The cool thing is... my headlight costs $12 and I repaired it myself using the Miata picture repair manual. Dad's costs $700 for the whole thing, so he took it all apart and isolated the problem to a high energy light filament and it ONLY costs $130. We found one online for just under $100

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OK, this says it all. It was warm and toasty in here from Sat to TH of this week and then we come home and it is 58 again. Argh!! Dad tries everything and we have decided to give up. We will just use the Propane heater (very effective but slightly smelly) and our 2 nice room heaters.That way we will save a LOT on heating, the old behometh really is VERY inefficient. And we will have time to

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Hint #1 - it produces HEAT!Hint #2 - it connects to somethingHint #3 - Dad made it. :) Give up? Look below... it is the way our heater works now. The above picture is our new heater thermostat! Bet you never would have guessed that one! Plug it in and the furnace turns on, unplug it and the furnace stops. Pretty simple and we have HEAT! Dad ran a long, heavy duty extension cord from the furnace

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Tyler had his first birthday a few weeks ago. With Lorilynn in town with Addie, we got together at Becky's house and had a birthday party for Tyler. 1st there was a clean baby! And Becky was so cool that she let him just dig in and have fun! 

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I love homemade bread. I used to make 3 loaves every Saturday morning for many years while the kids were growing up. I don't think I have made bread in about 8 years but was inspired to make some on Sat and it is SO YUMMY. Makes three 5x9 inch loaves.   Plus for the flavor, keeping quality and nutrition. You can substitute some wheat flour for the white flour if you wish. Have ingredients at

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We had a busy and very productive day! I think we finally leased our condo, we will know for sure later this week after we do a reference and credit check. That the best thing today!Since it is my last day of Christmas break I really was feeling pressure to get the nasty painting in the front hall done. We hadn't finished repainting the ceiling all white yet and the walls were still the awful "

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 Snow is so much fun and it creates so many beautiful scenes. On Saturday and Sunday there was a lot of East wind along with the fine snow drift which blew over the roof and caught on the back on the roof. Over time, it created this overhang which lasted until it hung out about 12 inches over the gutter. Then, whompfff, down it came on the back deck.

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Well, I finally got my wish and we have LOTS of swirling, blowing, tingling snow! It is 24 outside and has been snowing nearly all day with little flakes of crystal snow mixed with real snowflakes. We are supposed to keep snowing all through the night and sometime tomorrow or Monday turn to freezing rain.Now there is one I can pass on. A free skating rinks for cars. Anyone say bumper cars? But...

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Well it wasn't really a Christmas sing since school seems to think it is politically incorrect for it to be Christmas, so all the Kindergarteners sang 25 nursery rhymes and it was so cute. Katie had a fabulous time. And so did we. We love the Grandparent thing! Wish all our grandchildren were closer!!!Drew had a fabulous time too!

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I LOVE hummingbirds! I was thrilled when we moved back home that one decided to frequent my feeder as soon as I put it up. I have been filling it regularly. Uncle Roger and Sherry Burkman, both who have lots of hummingbirds, shared with me that you have to make sure that you continue to fill it during the winter once you start. Seems the silly birds get "on the dole" and begin to rely on you for

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For years and years we have had a small ceramic Christmas town. Lorilynn was far and away the best painter, but I think I rival her now. Once the girls moved out, there wasn't much fun to painting alone so I didn't for several years and then last year I decided to paint a new house. Actually a country house to go with the barn from years ago. Merry Christmas everyone!

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Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble... what does the kitchen brew? Yummy Caramel Christmas bears!Remember them kids? Yummm...

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What a wonderful sight this morning when we woke up to a dusting of snow. All day it has snowed lightly and it seems like fairy dust falling from the sky. I love snow to look at, not to drive around in, especially when it has ice in it as this does. I know, Christopher and Lori- you guys have REAL snow, but we are enjoying our 2 " now. And it is supposed to snow more on W and TH and perhaps this

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I have one sister, Lori, actually Loraine Elyse, but we have called her Odie for years. The kids didn't say Lori very well when they were young and then when I had my daughter, whom I named Lorilynn, it became confusing which Lori we were talking about. So... she became Odie.I have a terrific sister. She is 3 years younger than me but we have always been good friends, even when living at home

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What a fun time we had in Denver. Amy and Misha met us at the Denver airport complete with signs welcoming us! It was so good to see all 3 girls and Chris and Jo and to give them real live time hugs! It had been over a year since we had seen them. On Tuesday morning bright and early, Dad and I stood in for Chris and Jo at the LDS Cannery in Aurora, just N of Denver and canned PearSauce for 4

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One of my favorite games when I was young was in the HIGHLIGHTS magazine where you looked at 2 pictures and tried to find what was different or what was out of place. So here is our version of that game.We heard some loud thumping one evening this week downstairs and couldn't figure out why there were noises. It sounded like we had BIG ghosts in the house bumping around. Turns out it was the

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Well, we did LOTS of cool stuff with Dylan and Drew this weekend on their first sleepover. Katier had a sleep over some months back and it was time for Dylan and Drew. We worried they might be scared sleeping downstairs in the dark and long hallway, but they slept in Lori's old room with nightlights and slept all night! Except for the prefunctory potty visit about 11 pm Becky had warned us about.

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Fall has the most incredible colors. Dad and I took a walk this afternoon down the Old Highway towards the Fish Hatchery and saw the most beautiful things. Here are a few and a walk down memory lane.

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Christopher visited us this week and we spent 2 nights enjoying seeing him since it had been nearly a year or more! We were really lucky that his work sent him here for training! Yay Portland!Our stake recently purchased a #10 can canning unit for home use. We checked it out this past weekend to finish up our 50 lb of rice and some cat food. Dad is sure we need cat food so I made sure Arnold is

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Seems like all we do is move and sort and lug and heft. This weekend, we moved Dad's heavy tool chests and drill press over to his garage. And he put in new shelving to hold some of the less used things like the kitty vet cage and things that can go up high. He has all his tool chests lined up now so I told him I expect great things made! With the paint job and all the neatness, the garage really

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Well, we painted the living room and the hearth and I love it much better than the icky color the realtor had us paint it to try to sell it! And we have the TV in the Living Room now so we are actually using the room rather than having it be a "walk thru room". We will put the condo up for lease by the end of the month. We only have Dad's tools to move now! Your pictures are all back up on the

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Cute little Addie came to see us early this month. I am just now having time to download my pictures to tell you about it! And I finally have internet so I can post them! More pictures of their trip can be seen here on my Picasa album. Well, Addie is as cute as ever, and a whole 4 months old now. We went to the Clark Co Fair Grounds for a dog obedience show, where the dogs go thru tunnels, up

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Today is our 29th wedding anniversary and we decided to celebrate several weeks ago. Now don't laugh too hard at our picture! We had to wear wetsuits for our adventure. Dad and I celebrated by taking advantage of a gift certificate that my Motor Team at work had given me more than a year ago. We had tried to use it summer '07, but it didn't work out, so I decided we had to make it work this year.

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It is really true, we took 2216 off the market today and it feels good to have it really be ours again. We have the townhouse/condo listed on the MLS www.brokerdirectmls.com/111132 and hope to be able to sell it, although we aren't holding out great hope. It is in the much better price range and it has a VIEW like very few other properties. I also have it on Craigslist and Zillow and our 2 "ex"

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We had a great time on a very HOT day at the Fair. Becky and I had not been in at least 5 years and going with children always make the fair more fun. We saw everything! Drew love the HUGE rooster, Katie loved the goats and Dylan just loved being there. Fat Baby, just loved keeping cool in the spray mist! It was a great day and Grandma got her caramel apple while the grandkids got cotton candy.

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Dad and I adore our Wii Fit. We exercise nearly daily with it and are getting more coordinated and strong. Or so it says... :) And I love it when it tells me that my Wii Fit age is 36, 37 and 40 and then tells me what a young body I have!Dad is REALLY good at the soccer activity and has several 550 perfect scores to prove it. He also is very good at the downhill skiing, having very fast times -

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We sure had a great time visiting Jenni and Kevin and their families! It was plenty hot there and humid, and we are so thankful for air conditioning, makes it all very nice. Love those grandchildren! And great to hear that Kevin and Candace have a new arrival for Feb 09!We love J and K's new house, it is terrific, and Lucy, well, I just adore her. She LOVES to run upstairs in the morning and

Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12293229324272884821noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243037213520233323.post-64690791909278107222008-07-06T13:29:00.000-07:002008-07-06T14:16:59.407-07:00

Monday I worked at getting a PT, an OT and an Adapted PE person hired for my department at work. Didn't feel like I was on vacation yet. But, things were starting to look up and I had the rest of the day to myself to plant another tomato plant, get the hot tub cleaned out, sort some stuff that needed putting away and other asundry jobs. Tuesday I watched Becky's kidlets again so Kyle could work.

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Well, I had great fun over the past few days babysitting Dylan, Drew and Katie! We hiked in the woods behind the fish hatchery. Katie wanted to know if there were dinosaurs there! We fed the fish, and then watched the big TRAIN go by, that was a hit. We played in the Camas park several times- they especially loved the old fashioned merry-go-round! And of course, there were many hours

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While Becky is in Houston on her freedom vacation, I am helping by watching the children. We are having fun, but it sure is noisier around here and LOTS more stuff on the floor to step around! We have great plans for the park, the river beach, the hot tub, and more, but... it is still 60 degrees and it is already 1:30 pm in the end of July! But, it is supposed to warm up to 75 today,

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Yay! It is done, but... I have still had to go to to work for bargaining for the school district on behalf of special ed and to finish up the interviewing and staffing for my department, but.. the best part is that I can sleep in until I want to get up, not when the alarm clock goes off! I can't wait until I don't have to go in at all, but that isn't until after the 25th. Summer is calling.

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Well we scared him to death, but I think we are equal! 3 days ago I was sitting at my computer in the kitchen and I saw a small dark rat like thing run from under the refrigerator to the oven. Oh my- not rats! I was worried, and Arnie had left us a dead mouse just that morning on the floor. But as I sat and worked I saw it again and realized it was something different, didn't look like a rat or a

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I was sitting in church today listening to the speaker and I began to think of all the things we had done as a family and what a good father Dad was. So, I thought I would write a tribute to the man in my life and remember some of the great things he has done to bring up 5 such great kids.tells me he loves me nearly each and every day and sometimes several timeschanged diapers in the middle of

Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12293229324272884821noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243037213520233323.post-34135280155616936852008-06-08T16:39:00.000-07:002008-06-08T16:51:01.349-07:00

Last Saturday evening I went with Becky, Kyle and the kids to the Starlight Parade in downtown Portland. I hadn't been to that in about 10 years and we had so much fun. Dad was in Spokane for the long weekend at the WA State Republican Convention. I drove to Beaverton and met them at their house where we all went in their van to the MAX train and came into town. The kids thought it was super to

Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12293229324272884821noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243037213520233323.post-90603030334626605742008-06-08T15:35:00.000-07:002008-06-08T16:39:36.325-07:00

OK, I am really, really bad at this weekly blog thing. I mean to, and I think about it during the week, and even think about what pictures and fun things have happened... and then Sunday comes and I run out of time and nothing gets done. So, here is my attempt to resurrect my oldy, moldy blog. Lots of fun things have happened for me in the past several months! I have 3 new grandbabies, Tyler (Jan

Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12293229324272884821noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243037213520233323.post-51354329415694659232008-04-17T21:59:00.000-07:002008-04-17T22:23:39.855-07:00

Well, at the old house, my daffodils are gorgeous, the daphne are in bloom, the camellia is laden with pink flowers, the tulips are getting ready to bloom and the lawn is a deep, brilliant green. I do miss all my flowers. The 31 roses are all bedecked with new leaves and look so shiny and ready for spring and summer.At home now, I have no flower garden, those darn deer eat it! But, inside the

Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12293229324272884821noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243037213520233323.post-37114573494847950792008-04-05T13:49:00.000-07:002008-04-05T20:48:52.061-07:00

Off we went to cold Canada to see my sister. My kind hubby bought me these wonderful new NIKE boots last Saturday! We stopped in Chehallis for a stretch on the way up to Canada at the factory stores and Larry found them and required that I buy them! They are soft sided, well padded and warm. And so fashionable am I! Now, you say... these are not just Nike boots. Yes.. my sis is responsible

Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12293229324272884821noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243037213520233323.post-40717014107181081492008-04-03T09:37:00.000-07:002008-04-03T14:20:17.527-07:00

2 days ago I saw one of the coolest things I have always wanted to see... a big animal born. And to make it even better, later that day twins were born. It is incredible how in just 5 minutes or so it goes from little hooves protruding to seeing nostrils and then a squished head and.. a big push and all of a sudden there is a new little life. As soon as he hits the ground momma cow starts licking

Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12293229324272884821noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243037213520233323.post-40458695169222281562008-02-29T21:39:00.000-08:002008-02-29T22:09:07.751-08:00

The Lunar Eclipse last week was awesome. It turned the moon orange and with the steam from the stacks of the paper mill in Camas it made for a great picture. Nature is amazing. Work has been all consuming lately. It is the time of the year where we bargain our school district contract again. And.. I am the head "bargainer" for Special Ed. This is my 12th year and I am definately ready for it to

Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12293229324272884821noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243037213520233323.post-56999785586562292532008-02-10T17:54:00.000-08:002008-02-10T18:17:09.688-08:00

The view is so incredible, and it always changes, making things interesting. I feel like I just checked into a Trendwest resort when I look out the window and heaven knows my brain needs the de-stressor and relief! Let's see. this week, what happened? Well, probably the most notable is that Larry and I attended the Republican caucuses to vote for Presidential delegates. In WA state, 1/2 the

Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12293229324272884821noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243037213520233323.post-82162587247416022482008-02-03T19:24:00.000-08:002008-02-03T19:30:45.631-08:00

We had so much fun seeing Kevin and Candace and their kidlets. What a treat! One of the best things we did was go up past Carson , WA and play in the snow! It was Jonathan, Jeremy and Ashley's first time playing in the snow and it was LOTS of snow. Unfortunately they didn't have the best shoes and gloves so we needed to hide them in the van from time to time to get warm. Another family there, had

Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12293229324272884821noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2243037213520233323.post-42410588826188754542008-02-03T18:52:00.000-08:002008-04-05T20:52:46.347-07:00

Wow, it is so cool to ride a jungle boat for 45 minutes up some unknown river looking for crocodiles until you reach this very wide spot in the river, so much that it looks like a lake. On the far side is a small wooden dock.... Lamanai... a fairly recently discovered and unearthed Mayan city with temples and all. We walked up the gentle slope of grass from the edge of the river to the first of 3

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