Neil Young (aka Jimmy Fallon) and the Double Rainbow

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Wrights Lake 2010

Kirk, Wesley and I only stayed at Wrights Lake for one night but it was so much fun.  Here are a few of the pictures Kirk took...

Way back by the tree line Carissa is on the paddle board with Ben.

The First of Many

We were able to take the first of many "Wes and Ella" pictures at the Summer Spectacular Fireworks party last Saturday. 

Aren't these two adorable?!? (You too, Kirk and Melissa!)

More Kinder Stuff

Good Bye Mrs. Navajas (full time assistant)! "I joost lub Dedek. He ees soo cute!"
Good bye Mrs. Blakley, best kindergarten teacher in the entire world!!Derek's Young Author presentation in front of a 2nd grade class. He was trying not to smile in front of everyone.

The amazing scrapbooks put painstakingly together by Mrs. Navajas and other parents. What an amazing year he had!

Adios Kindergarten(that's irish for Good-bye)

Derek's end of the year program was last week and totally cute!! Their theme was "Be Our Guest", hence the chef attire. They sang some songs, did some dances, and allowed the parents a moment of adoration and picture/video taking. I'm really, really, really glad they didn't don caps and gowns for and call it "graduation".
Then it was back to the kinder yard for a feast of finger foods! Here is Derek and Jimmy (don't call him Ho), Alex and Eric.

Great Day for a Hike

On Memorial Day, we met up with the Baileys and went on a beautiful hike along Gerle Loop Trail.

We stopped at a picnic table and ate lunch while Ben explored the area.

The kids did a great job.  Wesley was a little champ and slept in the Moby wrap the whole hike (except lunch).

Ben was the ever enthusiastic explorer.

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Paige enjoyed the hike up until about lunch time.

Before lunch:

After lunch (notice her feather bouquet):

It was so much fun to get out on the trail and enjoy the beautiful scenery.  Afterward, we all headed to Mom and Dad's house for a delicious rib dinner.  Yum!  It was a perfect Memorial Day!

Remodel Done!

Not bad, eh? Mom did a great job making new cusions out of the old ones. We kept most of our seating and gained a good deal of floorspace.

The other need was counter top prep area. The raised cabinet at left gives us a good prep area and added shelf and storage space as you can see below.

We also added storage in the tomb bedroom.

Last but not least - more storage. This is for CD's and DVD's.

We are ready to go and try out all of this new stuff.

Dad