Up North '08

everyone at the beach.

campfire popcorn. yum!

Horse Riding

The little girl who was at the end of the riders. She was only 6.

Allison on her horse.

Gordy and Megan on their horses.

Up North 2008

Loon's Landing from the lake.


Mom and dad on a boat ride.


Chris, Diane, Mitchell and Amanda on the boat looking at the loons.

The loon family. (mom, dad and baby)


The loon mom and baby.

Taylor's Big Fish

Here is the Northern Taylor caught. Gordy thought it was at least 30 inches long!

Taylor's Graduation Class Song

This is just a clip I took on my regular camera of the song Taylor's class sang at the graduation ceremony. I thought they sounded so pretty.

Me again. For our anniversary we stayed at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki. They have penguins and I got a good shot of one. Also, is a picture of their chapel. (Megan can get married here ) : )

I am also adding picture of The House of Seven Gables which we visited when we were in Salem Massachusetts in May.

RIMPAC

This past Monday we had off so we took the boat out of the South Shore - Waikiki/Pearl Harbor. The prior week was RIMPAC. This happens every two years. Ships and submarines from various countries all come here for exercises. They were all docked in Pearl Harbor the prior week so that they could have shore leave and the exercises started on Monday. The countries here are Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Japan, Korea, Singapore, .. that's all I can think of. Well we saw three ships come out but didn't take pictures as they were quite a way from us. Then we looked up and a submarine was very close so I took some shuts. This was a Australian sub which is the first picture. Steve found out at work the next day that it was the HMAS Waller. When we were by Waikiki another sub was coming out and this one was even closer. I was concerned thinking it might hit us but Steve said they were all aware we were there and were tracking us and figuring out what heading to take to avoid us. This was a US sub the Key West. (it used to be one of Steve's boats when he was in Squadron 7). Many F-18s flew over us as did two P3 Sub chasers. It was a very neat day!

Here is the picture of me cat scratch...it feels and looks a lot worse in person.

School Video

My mom said you guys might be interested in seeing some of my large animal videos that I had to do for school. This one is of me giving a cow an injection in the jugular vein, it freaked out a little bit and kind of fell on the floor. (It might take a couple min. to upload)

Green Bay packers

Well, I guess I was wrong when I told Bobbi and Steve that Brett said that the news of him coming back was a "rumor". I have seen several things that say that he wants back now. I have a link to the latest article on yahoo sports which reports he want to play again. I will be ,as most Packers fans would be, sickened by the thought of him playing for another team, especially the Vikings. He would go from being the adopted son of Green Bay, and most beloved packer player to just another player who is out for the money. I really thought Favre was different, that's why it was sad when he retired.. it always seems like he played for the love of the game..now I question that...
Here's the link...

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ms-trippintuesday070808&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

Oh, those skinny days!

One of my favorite pictures!

Pictures of dad

I found these on my computer when I was looking for Taylor's graduation pictures. I had scanned them quite awhile ago. They are pictures of dad when he was young.

Allison's dog Oliver

This is Allison's dog Oliver

Taylor's graduation

Here are a few pictures from Taylor's graduation and graduation party.