It's time to update!

Well it has been well over a year since I last posted, and I wouldn't be doing this but Nola wants me to come over to her house and teach her how to blog tomorrow, so I best be brushing up huh?

We are doing wonderful! I sold my business in McCall, so this summer was spent playing with family and friends! It was great!

I'm back in Weiser for a few days, then back up to McCall to try and squeeze one more week of play in before I go back to teaching clogging.

Here are few pictures of fun we had this summer

Jumping off the dock with Grandpa!

Fishing on the Salmon river! Good thing we had a fun time cuz we didn't catch anything worth keeping!

Just some random photos-

Gotta love Beau and his quirky personality! He keeps us laughing!

Mexico with Mag

Here are some pictures of my trip. We snorkeled with baby and mama sea lions. They were fun, would bump into us, bite our flippers come right up to our masks. But we had to watch out for the Daddies. They were mean and gouchy!

Mag and I after we snorkeled

This is way they washed the dishes!

All the girls on the trip with zinc on our lips

We did yoga every day on the trip, here I am doing yoga on our hike.

Mag and Me with our new friends.

Our #2 potty. One can for sawdust to put on your ditty, one can for the ditty and one can to put the used toilet paper in. The small white box on the ground was an old ammunition can. That is where the new TP went. It was stored there so the scorpions wouldn't hide in the rolls!

The outside of the #2 potty....#1 potty was in the sea!

Wash Stand

This is our home! Tents with a sand floor. Wooden cots and sleeping bags. Believe it our not it was wonderful!

Look at that blue water! It was wonderful and warm.

Pre-camp picture....a post camp picture was not taken!

Our view every night! It was wonderful! I would do in again in a heart beat.

Mag and I went to La Paz Mexico last week for our 5oth! We had a blast, we went sea kayaking, snorkeling, deep sea fishing,snorkeling with sea lions, and hiking. We had no running water, only solar showers, & potty in a can! It was our kind of trip! Just like back packing. Here are a few pictures----

This was our #2 potty! One bucket with sawdust to cover your ditty, the middle one was where you did the ditty, and the last bucket was for your used TP. The little white box was for unused TP, it was in an old ammunition can to keep the scorpions out!

#1 was in the ocean!

This was our bedroom

This was our camp from a far

Me in La Paz (pre expedition)

Hallie Kate's Blessing

Last week-end we went to Utah for Hallie's blessing. On monday we went to a

Discovery center in Salt Lake. It was Steve's first time ever to a place like that. He really thought that there should of been something for the parents to do while their kids played!

For Christmas Owen is getting a shirt with his name on it and a tool kit. The kid is crazy about fixing things!

Cute little Hallie

Even Urban got into the action

Porter found a new friend!

Steve finally got into it when he a Porter found a wind tunnel

"Fireperson" Hazel was in her own little world!

Look at all these girls......

Christmas List 2009

Here is the list! Your name is listed then who you are getting a gift for. If you have any suggestions of what someone could get for you (your List!) leave it in the comments!

Beau- Paige

Emily- Derrick

Echo- Hallie

Porter- Urban

Piper- Layla

Justin- Devan

Elsie- Emily

Layla- Echo

Hazel- Piper

Urban- Owen

Derrick- Elsie

Katelyn- Beau

Owen- Porter

Hallie- Hazel

Devan- Justin

Paige- Katelyn

Man I'm the worst on keeping up with Mom and Dad so thank you Mark and Jan for doing so. I do have one comment however, when Paige and Devan went to see Mom and Dad about 2 weeks ago Paige called me and made the comment that she hasn't seen Grandpa look or sound that good for a long time. I have to agree. When I went to see them the first part of June I was surprised how well Dad could talk and

Thought I would shock you all and put on a new post! I'm sure by now you are all tired of looking at the Japanese visitors we had months and months ago.

So here is a few pictures of what had been happening in our life for the past few months

You can tell by the long faces that Salmon fishing this year was not to exciting for Devo and Beau

Steve was the only one

of us that caught a fish, unfortunately it was to big and he had to let it go

Beau with his sweet new little girl

We had a great time when Layla and Hazel were here for a few days. I was teaching them how to play "chubby bunnies" with grapes. Oh the fun you can have at G&G's!

In May I went to Womens Conference with the "Lunch Bunch" It was a fun time!

In April I took some of my cloggers to Portland. We had a blast! We spent the night @ the Portland Zoo, went to the coast and played on the beach, and of course we clogged.

Beau and Em's and the kids came up earlier this spring for a visit. It was not really warm yet but that didn't stop Porter. As soon as the sprinklers went on he headed for the water and just played! By the time he was done he was sopping wet, but happy!

That is all for now.