We're home!

Well we made it home last night. We had such a good time visiting our family in Seattle and Cour D' Alene. I'm really glad we did this road trip. It was a little intimidating traveling so far to places I'd never driven before. I had my map quests with me and I had a month of navigator on my cell phone too! Verizon let me have a month free :) Lucy wasn't thrilled about doing a road trip with mom when we left but she admits to having a great time. Haley slept the whole way home. That's a little over 8 hours and over 500 miles. She was tired from playing with Robyns dogs. We got out and explored Cour d' Alene. Here we are down by the lake. It's a huge lake! Robyn said something like 128 miles of shore line. I have lot's of great pictures to scrap. Hopefully I'll have time soon. I got up this morning and walked Haley and went and worked in my mom's garden. We are getting tons of veggies and our tomato plants are 5 feet tall!

Here is Nate, Lucy and Robyn.

Same location, me in the picture too.

Here is Sam proving he's taller then his mom now! I believe Robyn is 5'10" so Sam is closing in on 6'

Oliver and Haley played and played! I am seriously debating on getting a second dog so Haley won't be so lonely when I'm gone. Her and Oli get along so well I wish I could bring him home :)

Here is my little Lucy with the waterfall we stopped to see just east of Portland.

Zak called my on my way home to let me know that he'd been so sick when he was down in San Diego that they moved his colonoscope to today. He's having a severe flare up of his Crohn's disease. He meets with his doctor tomorrow to go over the results but the doctor did say they are going to have to put him on Remicade. Hopefully that will get it back under control and he won't require surgery. I'll post updates.

Still Vacationing

We are in Cour D' Alene having a great time with Robyn, Mark, Sam, Nate and the dogs Rusty and Olli. Haley has been a great traveler. This is how we went from Seattle to Cour D' Alene. Notice Haley's head between the seats so we can pet her.


Thursday we went to Silverwood. A combo water/amusement park. Lucy made me ride acouple roller coasters with her. I really am too old for those! I'm still recovering. I loved laying out by the water though.
Lucy and Nate had a great time. We're leaving tomorrow morning to go home :(

Vacation Day 1

Today Lucy, Haley and I left to go on our road trip to Seattle to visit with Aunt Ginny, Amanda and Grandma Pat. We were originally going to leave on Monday, but I wanted to wait until Alex returned from his 4 days of living his mid-evil fantasy at the Renaissance Fair. He had a great time. Returned tired, dirty, smelly and sun burned/tan. He managed to snag a new sword while there too. I need to ask him what he traded for that. Anyway, once he was home we left the next morning. We made great time to Seattle. 5 hours and I don't think I was speeding and we even stop a couple times for me and Haley :)
Here are me, Lucy, Amanda, G Grandma and Aunt Ginny out at Jimmy Mac's. Dinner was good. The company was better. I think I have a really great, fun family and I love spending time with them. I hope to get up here more often.

After we got back to Aunt Ginny's Haley, Giddy Up and Tye all wrestled Aunt Ginny to the ground and made her play with them. In the morning we are heading out to Cour D'Alene.

Bohemia Mining Days

There are many things I really like about living in a small town, particularly Cottage Grove. It's beautiful! , friendly, everyone knows your kids and keeps you informed on what they're doing (the kids don't like it, but too bad), no cars go by my house with boom boxes going shaking the windows, I feel safe walking down the street. One of the best things is the parade for Bohemia mining days. Very small town and the street is lined with people watching it. Even the circus coming to town next month had their floats in.

The lion was trained to lay down and not make a sound!
Elmo was there. Lucy ran out and hugged him. She remembered him from Sacramento! Notice a Walgreens is being built!

The high school marching band didn't play because they are on summer break (they're unionized). Luckily we have an old timers marching band and they are great!

Cottage Grove is a great place to retire. Rosie and several of her friends are here.
I wanted to ride in the wagon.
And you thought only San Fransisco was known for their bath houses :)



The mine actually has an interesting history. Lucy and I are hoping to go up for the pancake breakfast in the morning, but I'm not sure how to get there!
http://www.ccrh.org/comm/cottage/primary/bohemia.htm

Haley and the lake

Being a lab I shouldn't be surprised Haley likes the water. She has always liked playing with the hose and the sprinkler, but she hasn't been in the water other then one time at the river. At first she was hesitant about going in the water. I threw her ball and she just looked at me like I was nuts! Then I threw it just a few feet out and she went and got it. Then I threw it a little further and she went and got. Now she loves going out to the lake and swimming out to get her ball. If she pushes it under the water she puts her face under water to try and get her mouth around it. She is truly a water dog :)

Co-op

The most totally exciting thing about last week was I got my closet cleaned out! It might not sound like a big deal, but trust me, it was :) Alex cleaned out his closet too. I would like to tell you he was as excited about it as I was doing mine, but he only did it because I insisted. Lucy cleaned hers too. We are now known as the clean closet family! Good Will has several boxes of stuff coming to them too. I also did my first day of my summer co-op at the hospital here in Cottage Grove. Much smaller but I really liked it. It's only about 3 miles from my house so I don't have to leave 45 minutes early to get there!
Lucy and I went to the high school in Creswell for a fireworks show with some friends on 4th of July. Here is a page I made with some pictures. The kit is a freebie from Redju called American Kit.



The next 2 pages are pictures Lucy and her friend Lexi took with my camera when we were at concert in the park a couple weeks ago. We went this week too but I was too busy enjoying the music to take pictures :) I've noticed that teenage girls love to take pictures of themselves these days. Lucy is constantly taking pictures of herself. I found these on my camera and thought I'd do a couple pages with pictures she likes of herself. There are so many wonderful freebies out there to scrap with that I don't buy many kits. I do have my favorite designers though and Chaos Lounge is one of them. I love her stuff and thought this kit, Dear Diary, was perfect for scraping teenage girls.

Summer so far...

It's still pretty hot here. I guess since we're not burning like California I shouldn't complain. I am totally loving my summer break. Today I took Lucy, her friend Lexi and Haley out to Cottage Grove lake to swim. Haley loved it! That's her swimming in the middle of the picture. I only had my phone camera so I couldn't zoom in. I'd throw the ball out there and she'd swim out and get it and make me throw it again.
Last night was concert in the park. Lot's of fun. I went with my friend Cherilyn, Lucy and Lexi. We took a picnic dinner and listened to music. There was a wine sampling too :)

Lucy ran into someone with a ferret! Mom can we get one? Geez no! They give me the willies!

Look, I got a picture of Alex and Lucy yesterday. If you don't zoom in we can pretend Alex is smiling. Why is it that teenage boys think smiling is uncool?? Tomorrow Lucy and I are going to the fireworks show at the high school in Creswell. I'll get pictures :) This page is made with all ChaosLounge stuff.