Yard Update

Memorial Weekend

We had a wonderful adventure on Lummi Island for Memorial Weekend and my moms birthday.
It was north on I-5 for 6 hours, west on a ferry for 7 min and we were there!!!
Friday morning was very wet and we got soaked on our morning beach walk. But around 10am the clouds parted and the sun shown and it was a glorious day! Also my moms 55th birthday! We made sure to celebrate as hard as we could. A nice walk on the beach, fresh spot prawns for lunch, a walk though the fragrance garden and board walk, bbq/bon fire at my cousins, Reid made it up for a few hours.....and that's all just on Friday!

This pretty much sums up the entire weekend! This boy loves the beach.

Bob and I had a friendly little beach glass gathering competition. I smoked him, but he did good for a beginner!


My little mini me and I, just lost in our own little world.....

She likes to get down and dirty on the beach. She is so me!!!


Out bird watching at Tennant Lake.

Walking the board walk at Tennant Lake. Such a great day!


The kids turned the hot tub into their personal pool. Snorkeling and everything. They played out there for hours!!!

My Big Bear. My Rock. My support. By Friend. I love you till the end of days. ( and as I am typing this the song "I Loved her First" by Heartland just came on. I will always be your little girl.)

No trip to Lummi would be complete with out a little bb gun shooting!!!
This kept these boys entertained for many hours!

Lucy talked Grandma into pulling out her microscope, wow was that a cool idea! We looked at just about everything you can think of! I mean EVERYTHING!!!

Put a little shrimp on the barbie!!!!!


We found the "Honey Pot" when it came to beach glass!!!!


Lucy showing us what a tough little lady she is.

The crew!

Lighting the birthday cake....it took them about 5 minutes to light them all.....

And we made her put on sunscreen to blow them out! Happy Birthday Mama! I'll love you forever, I'll love you for always. So glad we got to celebrate with you!

Galveston

Well I got home a few weeks ago, but its taken me this long to blog about my week in Texas. We just finished up hosting the largest Coking & CatCracking Safety Seminar in our history. What and accomplishment after a few down years. We had over 360 people in attendance.
This looks to be a very promising year!


This is the view from our pool side suite we spent much of our down time in.....


My job is the Event Director....This is a visual of what I do. I arrange with the hotel all details around food, beverage, set up of rooms, equipment in rooms and so on. I also coordinate with the exhibitors and get this set up. Its fun but a ton of work. This was our largest show yet and I had 50 exhibitors set up in the hall, including one 50' trailer driven in with a semi, one 35' trailer and several VERY large valves.

My girls! Jane, my mom and I enjoying an evening paddle boat ride and dinner.

I finally got my crawfish fix!!! I got totally hooked last year and have been craving it since....

My mama and I....we are a couple cheese balls and have an awful lot of fun together!!!

Easter, family runion, the beach!

What a great weekend we had at the Lummi beach house! I know this post is several weeks old now, but I forgot to download all the pictures off of my folks computer before we left so I was waiting till I got them before updating.
My little brother, his wife and daughter had come up for his pre-deployment leave ( they live in Kansas, he is in the Army), my other brother graced us with his presents from Crystal Mountain and we journeyed up from OR. It was a whirlwind weekend but well worth the family time we did get!

My adorable little crew! They love going to the beach house so much!

The family....What a bunch of crazies! Now you see we all come by it naturally!

Lucy and Isis reading some books and watching a movie. She is such a little sweetie! And boy does Lucy love her!

The 3 stooges...Trying to get us all to look half way decent for a photo is next to impossible, so why even try....The boys kept coming up with expression ideas...I think they are pondering a deep thought, or gazing into the future here. I on the other hand just keep smiling at the camera...Its hard to believe I am the oldest....they passed my up long ago.

Easter egg hunting.

A nice soak in the hot tub....awwww so wonderful!

Lucy was loving the fact that she can carry Isis around....I dont think Isis minds to much either!

The egg dying operation. They really got creative this year using rubber bands to make the eggs striped. Very cool!

Bob and I getting ready for a nice run on the island, I think this is my favorite place to run.
And he is my favorite running partner.

My Big Bear and I at the beach. Love this guy so much!

Coloring the eggs before dying them.

My cute little niece! Isis Moon!!!


Caymus and his Tio Reid, he loves that guy so much!!!

Bob and I coming back form beach combing early in the morning.
Bob and I enjoying the beach.

Reid slept on the deck testing out some of his new camping gear, Caymus couldn't wait to go check it out first thing in the AM.

Who would have thought that my mama would be the little one in the family! HA well she is!

I stole Isis and took her to the beach, I dont think she ate to much sand...she sure did have fun!

And our fairwell picture. Bye bye Lummi, we will be back soon!!!

Family Reunion

This is the last time our entire family was all in the same place at the same time....June 13, 2009.
This weekend we are all gathering together at the parents island getaway aka there house. Bryce, Desiree and Isis are flying in from Kansas, Reid is driving up from his mountain getaway on Mt Rainer and we (Lucy, Caymus, Bob and I) are driving up from Oregon. Should be 2 whole days of family fun!!!

My organized garage!!!!!