Birthdays in a New Year

 Karissa is 8 Years old!

Alexis is 12 Years Old!

Halloween

October Birthday Parties

Gil, Rae, Desirae and William all celebrate in October, so we invited Dave, Brenda and Family to join us for one big party.

My annual Lake Quinault Trip

We traveled up to check out the Twilight zone ane ran into a few characters.

First Beach and the line between .....

We sang in the rain by the largest Sitka Spruce

We stopped in Astoria to enjoy the weather on the way up into Washington

The last day on the drive back to Oregon, we found Sunshine!

Biking in October

Kevan crossing another bridge

kevan and gil resting and snacking.

Karissa and William using the new patio

Sod day

We got lots of help and lots of pictures while Gil and the 'boys' rolled out sod....

This was before we got started

kids helping out and sharing time together.

September Was too Soon Over

We saw the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone for the first time. Gil Standing in front of Old Faithful waiting for the full explosion

We reconnected with Happi Thurston Hansen - she was my roommate when Gil and I first met.

Cousins visiting after Aunt Glady's funeral - Elaine Kemp, Cynthia Decker, Nancy Robertson, DeWayne Lee, Mike & wife Jefferson

More cousins at the funeral: Daniel Lee, Tom Lee, Nancy Robertson, Rick Lee, Laura Hoffman, Delwin Lee.

Aunt Gladys and Uncle Boyd's children with their spouses

A collage I put together from pictures I had of Aunt Gladys.

We stopped at the Malad River gorge on the way to Aunt Gladys funeral.

Gil was laid-off after 36 years of working for Tektronix. His group had a farewell lunch at Happy Panda. (the 'gold' watch he was given last year, for the patents and trade secrets he developed, failed this month also). ah well.... time for the next adventure.

My niece Tara and her husband Jason Reynolds brought their new son, Eli, to visit.

Nancy got to hold and play with Eli.

We spent a rainy afternoon at Jacob's while Nancy was wonderful and worked hard on lots of hair.

Karissa showing us how it's done.

Kevan playing for William









Alexis blowing Kevan's horn

Nancy perming Jenn's hair.

Karissa playing

Kids dodging raindrops

Alexis swinging along

Karissa on top of the world.

William trying to figure out the climbing thing...

We did another trip to Oceanside.

gotta eat before ya can play.

Karissa in the rocks