Brayden is 9 Months Old

Brayden is now 9 months old. Time just zips right by and he is no longer a little baby.

 He has always loved reading books.

Christmas Ship Preparation

It's once again time to prepare for the Lions Christmas Ship that goes up into the Canadian Islands and some US islands at Christmas. This year I needed to make about 100 hats as they will be distributed at one of the larger islands. Looks like I just dumped them in a pile and took a quick picture. What a mess! There really are over 100 hats here.

 We once again gather in Don's garage to bag up the treat bags for the kids. This is a sampling of the stuffed animals the kids get. So cute and fun!

 The individual bags are packed with treats galore...

and then put in bigger bags, labeled for each island, and put in the truck. They are now ready to be loaded on the Christmas Ship.

Thanksgiving 2012

I always make breakfast rolls for holiday mornings.

 The table is ready...

 and the food is ready.

 Amanda (Jennie's friend), Jennie, Dennis, Will, Brayden, Amber, Jerad, Julie adn Ron

 Brayden found it was lots of fun to play with the balls in the hallway. He loves to crawl through them and in the hallway they stay closer together. Much more fun!!

 Ron's brother Dennis has been wanting to bring some of his pictures from the Viet Nam War to show the girls. I'm not sure if they were more impressed with the pictures or the old slide projector and screen. I do know they were very glad that he shared his memories of the past.

Leaf Clean Up

We love the big  maple tree at our river property when it gives us nice shade in the summer. However, come Fall it is nothing but work.

 It took Skeet, Jan, Ron and I several hours to get the leaves all raked up.

Whew, what a job!

 We did get a couple sets of the "Garden Claws" and they worked so well. While Jan and I raked, the boys picked up big bunches of leaves to put in the back of the truck. When the truck was full they took it to the compost pile and then we started all over again.

 Almost finished

 Another project on the new lot for this trip. Ron is putting in a little fill and getting ready to put some boards down before we spread the new gravel.

 Skeet and Ron are putting new gutters on the garden shed. This should keep the mud from splashing up on the bottom.

Baby Shower

We had a Baby Shower for Jen K who is having a baby girl in December. It's a very exciting time for her and her husband Mike. Since they have been calling the baby "Grasshopper" we went with a grasshopper theme for the party. Notice the grasshopper on the bag.

 We had the party at Amber's house and she thought it would be fun for the quests to snacked on popcorn while they were waiting for everyone to arrive.

There were 3 different types of popcorn with several different topping flavors to put on them.

 Amber made this for Jen to take home to Mike. It's filled with ingredients to make cookies.

 After the gifts were opened we had desert. This is a darling punch for a baby shower.

Amber made a "Grasshopper" dessert to go with the theme. Yummy!!!!

 Lots of good friends to share this special day with.

Carole's BIrthday

It's my birthday and let's just say I am another year young!!!  

I think Brayden could care less about the birthday, but he looks like he's ready to dig into that cake!

The Addams Family

We went to the 5th Avenue Theater in Seattle with Skeet and Jan to see

The Addams Family.

It was excellent and brought back memories of the TV show.