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Homecoming Hudson's Bay 2009

Denise, Zach, Karter & Sarai
Homecoming 2009

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an afternoon at Satruday market. just for the elephant ears.

Denise's first Elephant ears. she likes them.

Our year with Denise.

This is my family without our son of course. We are at PDX picking up Denise Reiner the blond. She is living with us for the school year. Denise is from Germany and her cousin is a friend of ours from church. She is a sweet girl who so far doesn't eat much. Taken Sept. 2, 2009. We went out to lunch after picking her up it was nice.

Mother Daughter Tea Party 2009

This is my Annika at her best.

We made our hats. Don't we look lovely.

A change for the better!

Do you see the difference a year ago & today

The Spirit of Portland 2001

Me and Alex on the dinner
cruise for being at Panasonic
for 10 years.

Having dinner and driving the ship

Troll uner the Fremont Bridge

With the Fremont Trolll Under the bridge Seatttle.
With my sistr Tina on our Day Saturday. It was

a perfect day for a Daycation.

Future Missionary

Sean met with the Stake President today.
His mission papers are on their way to
Salt Lake City, Utah. It will be about
two or three weeks now before we hear
where in the world he will be serving the
Lord as a missionary. Where do you
think he will go?

my new dresser

My husband baught this and a mans one (high-boy) for $30.00 from a man from his work.
It took several days to get the bookself and all the stuff on it moved from this spot so I can put up my new dresser. I love it.

Treasures in the mail today!

These are my latest treasures I got in the mail from my Auntie in Utah. She was packing up her house to move and put these things in the mail for me. The little trees come apart into seperat peases. The other picture is a tiny saw. cool huh. I love so much getting bits and pieces of my family history in the mail sometimes it gets me very excited I mean it truely. I also got pages of his original poems some of which are in his own handwriting. Cool huh.

Youth Roadshow 2009

All the youth at church are given 3 weeks to come up with, practice, and preform a skit. The theme was. "Be an example unto the believers" Our kids did such a good job. They did a take off of West Side Story and called it West Stake Story. It was fun. They preformed it twice in one night in two buildings. Hence the name Roadshow. I was worried at first that it wouldn't come together but it did and was great. My girls were wonderful. And Sean was asked to step in for another boy Thursday night and the preformance was Friday night. He's actully to old for this now. The youth do Roadshow about every 6 years and its a blast when they get to do it. It was fun to be a part of. I was incharge of the scenes (Props) Fun stuff.

Snow Camping

This group of brave souls are

heading up to Mt. Hood to camp

in the snow. They are going to

dig out snow caves and climb inside

to sleep. They say it's actully warmer

inside the cave than outside. Yea, this

isn't for me. Sarai is very excited this

will be her first camping trip to the

snow. she's in front with VSAA on her

leg. she does look cute though, huh.

several years apart.

Ok so these are the latest pictures I got. the oldest girl in both is my mother and the little blond is her younger sister my Aunt Donna, who by the way still has that same color of hair. the woman is Donna's mother Lee and my Grandpa Edwin Martin. It looks like they were taking a trip somewhere huh. Mom doesn't look to happy in the first pic. I noticed.

Compare me then and now.

Ok so this is me in Augest of 2008 with my
Auntie and this is me today. do you see
a difference. Size wise, i mean. I've lost
18 lbs in the last two months, can you tell?

Peru, 1988

We took this in 1988 in the main post office
in Lima, Peru. This was while I'm still thin.

The Portland Spirit

I just found this picture again. It was taken
in Aug. 2001. Alex and I got to ride the river
paddle boat the Portland Spirit. He had been
with Panasonic for 10 years and this was where
they had their 10 year dinner. It was so cool
we even got to drive the boat.

Crazy Hair Day!

Spirit Week!
Crazy Hair Day 2009
This is my Gillian she is 12 and had been sick for three days but realy wanted to be well enough
to go to school for this day. She went to school with the rags still in half her hair. Cute huh. She still had a little curl after her shower that night. Her hair hold the curl well. Yea her.

Happy Birthday DJ

Me and my friends on DJ's birthday. We had a little party for her at my house.
It was fun. DJ is of course the princess in the middle and Kate is next to her. We
had fun.

Family History can be so much fun.

So I have gotten into family history lately and just finished typing up my grandmother personal history. Although is was just a chunk of her life, but it was a fun part. I discovered that she quit school just shy of her senior year to marry my Grandfather. But she tried to go back later and get it. Grandpa was drafted and she had to follow by bus. What an amazing time they lived in and what an amzing life to read about. I'd like to be there in the past and record all that I witnessed of there lives first hand. Wow! Family history can be such an adventure. Discover something new about someone in your family and have fun doing it.