Oh wow. These next pictures and paragraphs are completely out of order. I'm so sorry and I don't know how to fix any of it. Oh well.........I hope you enjoy it all just the same. Love you.
Mom/Michelle

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We also went kayaking in Alaska on a glacier lake way up in the Canadian territory above Skagway. We rode the old train on the scary tracks all the way up and then took the kayak trip with our guide. That was fantastic!

The pictures are also of our cruise trip to Alaska here and there. The order of it all is quite mixed up, but you might be able to figure it out. There are a couple of pictures of Anna's birthday party and some other events. Have fun looking at them.

So, since I'm still a bit confused about this blog routine, the pictures and the writing are probably going to surprise me.....I'm never sure how it will all turn out. Anyway, the purpose of these blogs is to show our pictures of what's going on lately, so here it goes. There are pictures of our camping trip a few weeks ago at Ike Kinswaa. We are testing our new inflatable kayaks with great pleasure.

June 2009

Hmmmmmmm. I'm so sorry about the confusing way my blogs turn out. Sometimes the printing is after the pictures and sometimes it is first. Oh well. Ultimately, it only matters that I have sent you all a few pictures to look at so we keep in touch. I love everyone else's blogs so much.

April 23, 2009

Here are some happy pictures you all might enjoy. I'm including pictures of: April 1st snowfall, spring blossoms, the visit with our parents, visits of Eric and Julie's family, great fun at the spring Puyallup fair and a recent day with Conner. Have fun!

Hello everyone. I realize that I haven't written a blog for a long time. I love looking and your wonderful blogs, but find that time gets aways from me and I forget to contribute. Oh well. Things have been so different for us during this last month, that I haven't paused very much to participate in blogging. So, here are just a couple of little pictures. Now that Bill has his wonderful camera, I depend on him to take the great ones, but then I need to have him put them on the computer so I can post them. Oh well. I did try to fix a red eyeball problem on one of the pictures. I made a couple of quick lap quilts to celebrate my twin brother's 60th birthday. And, Bill's birthday was well celebrated with funny cards, phone calls, gift cards for books, a toy helicopter, DVDs and love from us all. This was an especially poignant birthday for us to be happy about. He is doing very well now and should be just fine, by the way. So, enough of all this...........We love and miss you all. Spring is coming soon and we already have daffodils pushing up even on the snowy days that seem to pop up here and there. Love you all. MOm

January, February and little bit of March

December 2008 moving on to January 2009

I ended up publishing three different picture collection blog posts. Sorry about the confusion. It is all from today. These pictures show a little bit of the joy and beauty of what December brought to us. All the gorgeous snow, all the wonderful and happy Christmas joys, all the family happiness together is hard to share in a few pictures. But, this was one of those family memories that will be always cherished. Somewhere in these pictures, you will also see Orion dressed up for the clam dig we went on with Evan and Heather last weekend right after the huge floods. That is the beginning of our new Year 2009. Fun and sweet family happiness.
Today is Liams birthday and he is five years old. Time is so hard to slow down.
I love my family.

December 2008

NOVEMBER

Well I don't know quite what happened to this entire beautiful month of November. Now it is December and I'm working on Christmas presents, projects, church music performances, cards, and the decorations. Hmmmmmm. So, this is really brief today. Plus, I don't seem to have a lot of great pictures to choose from. You would think that I would have taken pictures of Thanksgiving, but I didn't. Oh well. The picture with the pumpkin and Christmas tree probably says it all. Time just flew. Love, Mom/Michelle

Hello everyone, We just returned last night from a great trip in our Denali to the great Pacific coast at Camp Canby State Park. We've been there once before, so we knew how wonderful it is there. This time, the weather was wild and wet with patches of beautiful sunshine. Our hikes and beach walks were so wonderful. We just had a great time together. I forgot to grab the camera and snap a picture, but Evan and Eric did join us late Friday night for a quick sleepover and then went with Bill on a little (wet and challenging) elk hunt all day Saturday. They returned for cookies and a quick shower in the afternoon before driving back to their homes. No elk was "harvested", but they had a fun day together. I took a picture of the most unusual deer ever seen, by the way. It had reverse polka dots like an appaloosa pony. So, this was a delightful trip and I'm so glad we went. Love to all. Mom