Tommy's adventure continues

During this "hitch"he planted trees for the Disney corporation near Durango.

Camping at over 10,000 feet elevation

This last week he was in Telluride Colorado and  they got snow.

Two more weeks in Durango and then it's on to a ski lodge.

Durango

This is Tommy's new home while in Colorado. The group can park  at this farm and store their stuff here when they are not out on the trail.

This is his view while on the trail.

Sometimes on his days off he gets to go to cool places like the San Juan National park.  It's elevation is 12,000 feet.

During his last time off he stayed at a hostel in Silverton.  A super cool, old small town in Colorado.

I can't wait to hear where he goes and what he does next.

On August 25, 2016 Thomas said goodbye to Bellingham Washington with these last beautiful pictures.  He had a great year working for Washington Conservation Corps. 

Now he is packing up and heading to Durango Colorado for a new adventure.

He is off...
His trip was a bit stressful because he car had a couple of problems but the bright spot

In-n-Out burger.
Good Luck Tommy!

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day. Here are our wonderful dads. We had a great day. We started with cinnamon rolls and church.

Our beautiful girls sang a lovely song accompanied by Matt.
We had ribs and pie for lunch.
Then a game. WHICH DAD ......
We had questions where dad and kids would guess which dad the question applied to and there could be more then one dad for a question.
Here are examples of our questions.
Which dad...
     Speaks Spanish
     Has no cavities
     Organized a blood drive
     Wears contacts
     Loves panera bread
     Played on a team with a future pro baseball player.
     Has owned 7 cars in 5 years.
     Been to Europe
     Built a bridge
     Swims for exercise
     Completed a marathon

On and on.  It was lots of fun. We love you dads!

Weekly Menu

School starts this week and the weather will still be summer like.  Here is our menu for the week.

Monday
Hot dogs
Baked Beans
Corn on the cob

Tuesday
 Ribs
Corn salsa

Wednesday
Flank steak sandwiches
potato salad

from bon appetit
June 1990 pg 54

Thursday
Breakfast for dinner






This is from Bon Appetit July 2005


 

King Tut

We had a great day in Seattle last week.

We started at this restaurant for breakfast.

These are banana foster pancakes, Joey loved them

This is my creme brulee french toast with carmel sauce.  It was divine.

Then on to the Seattle center and King Tut

The artifacts were incredible

This is King Tuts bed made of wood which is very impressive because our deck didn't even last 25 years

This was a really fun day....

Lake Easton

We got to go to Lake Easton.  This is Thomas, Joey and Sarah canoeing.

Grandpa, David and Calvin.

Sharing.

Cassie and Calvin

Madison and Grandma

Emma

Thomas and Sarah

Susan and Bradley

Dad and Joseph

David and Calvin

Emma

Emma, Grandma and Madison with her peace sign swimming suit.  She really likes peace signs.

Joey and Calvin

Joey did great canoeing around the lake

Dad, Emma and I had a harder time.  Dad rocked the boat.  Don't rock the boat baby, don't tip  the boat  over.

Matt, Susan and Bradley

Bradley

Checking out the water and soaking up the sun

We had a great time at Lake Easton