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