Dinner time

Erin offering some peas and carrots to Carli but she didn't care much for them. She did eat some peaches and oranges.   Not much appetite.  She can only eat with her right hand. The other one is taped to a type of board to hold it still for the iv's.

Bridgeport

Dad decided to install some wainscotting in the livingroom and hallway.  It just needs to be painted now. 

New Kitchen at Bridgeport

The Big Track

Cory and Beka have been involved in scouting for 10 years - holding several positions.  This is the Derby track that Cory made and the ward has used every year.  It comes apart into pieces and fits together nicely for storage.   It has been a great investment for the ward.
Last night was their last Derby race - kind of bittersweet memories there.  We attended and enjoyed the fun race.    Grant didn't place but sure had a fun time racing.  They have really been a great example of scouting in their ward.  Each boy got to race his car about 32 times so just running back and forth for each race made them plenty tired and ready for sleep.

The Last One

Grant with his "flame" car.  This is his last Derby.

Racing the Rocket

Carli at my house riding the rocket.  She likes to sit on it and push all of the music buttons.

New Cabinets

We are redoing the cabinets at Bridgeport.  The kitchen will look so new and nice when

it is done.  Jeff is doing the work for us while his work is a little slow right now.  When it is
completed I will post another picture.

DAD'S NEW TRUCK

Now you ask - how did you get that truck chassis on that trailer? 
Dad is remaking an older truck and needed a front end part from this chassis.  Found an
ad on Craigslist and we went to pick it up last night up in the CDa mountain area.  It was
a beautiful drive around the lake and then turning left up on top of a mountain called the
Mullan Trail. ( Many large homes up there)  He has an electric type wench that does the
trick and pulls it right up onto the trailer.   Pretty smooth job.  My job was to push the button
to make the wench work.   (I felt very useful).   Well, we hauled it home just fine and
stopped at IHOP for a "breakfast" dinner.   Today it goes down to the shop for further
over-haulin'.  This man always has a job or two in the back to keep him busy.

GREEN DAY

Oh, yea.  To be over the Green Day.  I never liked Greeeeeen anyway.   Never liked my blog
being green either.  Not even Irish - Just scotish and English  - that's probably why i don't
like Green.

Happy Day!!
Onto Spring!!

Liberty

"We must learn to understand the cost that accompanies the blessings we enjoy in life. Otherwise we cannot be fully appreciative of these blessings, or fully responsible in how we use them."



http://www.defense-of-liberty.blogspot.com/

One of my Favorites

http://www.windatmy-back.com/
This is such a great movie.  It comes in different "seasons" and has been on BYU tv

The same writer as Anne of Green Gables which makes it  a wonderful story.

Anniversary trip to Seattle/Leavenworth

Well, we are home and here are a few pictures.  We stayed at the Fairfield Inn in Bellevue which was a super nice motel.  It will be a favorite to return to next time I think.
A lot of nice ammenities.  Saturday morning we drove to the Piers and took  a ferry to
Bainbridge Island.   There we drove a loop around the island and stopped at Poulsbo and
had lunch at Azteca.  They have a section of town that is down by the water with tons of
cute little quaint shops, a nice park to relax in and marina with tons of sailboats.  The
weather was like summer.  We felt very fortunate to have blue sky and sunshine in Seattle.
We drove that evening to mukilteo and happened to hit the traffic heading for the ferry.ugh!
Ivars is right by the dock.  Mindy and Andy will remember eating at Ivars there on our
trip to a band competition.  Stayed the night in Everett which is only about 10 minutes away.
We attended  Church in Everett this morning and then headed for Leavenworth.  We
spent the afternoon there just walking around, eating lunch and taking a carriage ride.
Arrived home about 7 pm and that was our weekend.   It was great.

Dining Room of motel

Lounge and Swimming/hot pool

Front of Fairfield Motel in Bellevue.  I took this to show the flowers in bloom.  Seattle is
about a month ahead of Spokane.  Blossoms and flowers everywhere.

Ivar's at Mukilteo

Wooden carp fish.  In 2003 the waves were so big it destroyed the ocean side of the restaurant and this fish got lost.  Now he is inside Ivars and the place has been
restored and inlarged.  We had a wonderful meal and fun time there.

Ferry trip to Bainbridge Island

The sky was beautiful blue and the temperature was about 55.  We took the ferry to Bainbridge Island, drove a loop on the Island and stopped at Poulsbo for lunch at Azteca.
There are lots of cute little shops and a nice marina and park.  Look at the mountains
in the background with snow on.  Those are the Olympic Mountains

Leavenworth Carriage Ride

On our way home we drove to Leavenworth to spend the afternoon.  We had lunch at a little cafe, a gingerbread cookie at the Gingerbread Bakery and then took a carriage ride.  It was
very nice weather and parking was hard to come by even in March.

Carriage driver, Buddy the horse and Oliver the dog