Liane ADMIRING Craig's gift

Liane was jealous Craig got the Adonis lamp and she only got a plastic cat!

Liane is soooo excited with her new family addition

Christmas in Arizona

Celebrating our White Elephant gift exchange with dinner at Chris Hansen's new house.

Waiting for Santa

Max is eagerly awaiting Santa to see if the jolly old man brings him a new dog toy or treat.

Hadley celebrating her 2nd Thanksgiving

Hadley turned 1 earlier in the month but was too sick to celebrate so we combined it with Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving day family picture

Walking the beach looking up at the house we stayed in.

No beach access by our house. We had to walk 2 blocks south to get down on the beach.

Weekend at the beach

The view from dining area looking through front room to the ocean...beautiful!

Halloween

our scary skeletons with the scariest creature in the back "mom"

The Group

After 4 rounds of play and 4 courses of great food, nobody guessed who the muderer was. It was a blast!

Our 1st mystery murder dinner party

Nate Ashbury (aka Gary) and Reina Terra (aka Lori) in costume and set to head over to our friends place for a mystery dinner. These names are in the game and were given to us by our hosts along with a brief description of each.

Dawn & Adam are Engaged

Dawn & Adam Deguire announced their engagement this past weekend. We are very happy to welcome Adam to the family, he is a special young man. They are looking to marry in February 2011 since Adam is campaign chairman for a candidate running for the New Mexico governors position. Elections are next year and he will be very busy until then. This gives us time to plan a nice wedding and save our $$. Once a date has been set you will all be notified.

Main room of the cabin

Fireplace is on the left across from the bay window in the living room of the cabin.

Celebrating Kaitlyn's 15th Birthday

Beautiful Kaitlyn celebrates her 15th birthday in Strawberry, Arizona at the Hansen cabin.

At the Hansen cabin

Enjoying the outdoor pines and playing cards on the deck at the cabin over Labor Day weekend.

1 bed done and 3 to go.

I got all my shade plants in and now need to work on the other beds. They will be a combination of sun and shade plants plus 1 or 2 trees.
Now it's time for some football.
GO SEAHAWKS!

Got him!

SWEET SUCCESS.
This guy was harder than all the others to trap. This makes 5 moles that I have now trapped. They are so destructive and a menace to all yards.

Today

Today is Jonah's birthday if I am correct. "Happy birthday Jonah", hope you have a great day!
Would one of you Billings people tell Carla about this site since she never reads her email, I never sent the link to her. I can add her to the list of contributors if she thought she would be interested. I did send this to Mike's work computer...........speaking of Mike....he should have left for Bolivia yesterday. We all hope and pray for a safe and successful journey.
Have a great day everyone.

Gary

Yippee!!

I finally figured out how to Post AND add pictures! Hopefully by tomorrow I'll still remember how to do it! lol
Gary - FYI - Liane & Craig - anniversay Sept 20th, Pam & Dan - anniversary Sept 27th. I've done my good deed of the day so ADIOS! Luv you all, B

SUPER!

Hey Pam & Be, I am so pleased you figured out how to post pics to the blog....they are great! You realize that if you click on the pic, it will go full screen and very clear?
Way to go girls!
C'mon the rest of you!

Hansen cabin in Strawberry, Arizona

This is a front view of our 2 bdrm, 2 bath cabin in the cool pines. Now summer will be bearable for all!

mommy and her boys

hiking at Woodbine

school days

The boys' first day of school and were ready to go about an hour before we had to leave. I am so glad that they like it. They would go every day if they could. Thanks Gary I figured out what I was doing wrong. I forgot to hit accept on the agreement. It really is easy.

love you all

pam

Lori being pulled along by Max

Our Max

Ok, paw protectors?!

They are all so cute!

Lot's of Westies in pairs

People LOVE their Westies

I missed another one!

Yesterday was Chris Hansen's birthday....sorry Chris, hope you had a nice day! Be, you need to help me out here.
Have a good weekend everybody! We are off to do the Westie walk in old town Portland. It is a parade of West Highland Terriers and so we had Max groomed this week and will be heading out shortly. It is a benefit for Dove Lewis animal hospital which does major surgery for animals especially for those who can't pay. It was mid-90's yesterday and supposed to be the same today.
I will post some pics later.

Is this how you tried?

Go to this link and see if it is any different from what you tried.
http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?answer=41641
I hope this helps, if not, I have another idea to try so let me know.
Gary

hey Gary tell me what I am doing wrong. I go to add image and find a picture I want and I open it and it won't go into the blog. Easy my &%*!

Welcome sister!

Hey Be! Glad you figured out how to become part of the group. You and I are the only ones who have created a profile so far and only Pam and Darin have done any posting.
C'mon everyone! Posting pictures is easy and you don't even have to compress them, just use the "insert image" button at the top of the posting window.

Thanks Liane for forwarding the email from Mike O. We all wish him the best and will keep him in our prayers. I have seen those pictures of Yungas Road before.....they almost make you pee you pants looking at them!

Congratulations Dan (and Pam) on your promotion! We will have to get together some time and celebrate.

Hi everyone. I'm still trying to figure this out. Just wanted to tell you all that Dan did get his promotion at work. Love and miss you all. Pam

Days of September

Wow, there is a lot going on in September. Sorry Kyle and Lori, I missed your anniversary yesterday, hope you had a great day.
Today is Kaitlyn's birthday...."happy birthday Kaitlyn"
I will try to do a better job keeping up with things.

Have a great day everyone!

A normal Saturday night for us.

We obviously don't take this too seriously. Here we are at Kevin and Janice's place for a night of poker.

WOO HOO!

Way to go mom and dad! I'm glad to see you found a way to this blog. Were you able to sign in on your own or did someone help you? Be sure to click on "older posts" at the bottom of the page to see pics and posts from past dates.

Taking it easy without the boys.

Pam and Dan trying to relaxe while somebody else watches their boys. Pam looks a bit tense, don't you think? Could she be trying to figure out just WHAT those boys might be up too at this very moment?!

I think we parked back there.....

Mike and Carla deep in the Beartooth mtns. trying to decide how best to get back to civilization. Mike looks quite comfortable in this environment...a real mountain man!

They're engaged!

Eric and Taylor are getting married. No date has been set yet but they are looking at next August or September. They are also looking at venues in the Vancouver area which we are pretty excited about.

You're invited.

I have sent an invitation to you my siblings, to post on our blog. You can post comments and upload pictures to this blog so we can all share them.

Happy posting!

What should I plant here?

Note all the mole damage that must now grow in. I have trapped 4 of those buggers so far.....GRRRRRR!

Finished and filled.

The slope is gone and so are the 2 ornamental trees. This side yard had a steep slope that made it hard to mow.

One of my yard projects.

It took 3 pallets of rock to build this wall and this past week I received 10 yards of 3-way mix to fill it and do some mounding in the back yard.

Say what?!

Could it be a hole in one?!

Dad hitting his approach shot on the 18th of Peter Yeagan Golf Club.

My brothers and I

Hiking in the Beartooth mtns.