Dinner with my aunt and uncle

My mom's brother Jim

Aunt Thora

the kids were the best behaved that I have ever seen.

Don't they look sweet, it was before they started smoking the olives.

These boots were made for walking...

I was on a white fluffy boot kick for the family photos...and then I cropped them out, so here they are! Bill taught them the Nancy sinatra boot song last week...don't get Jade started or you will be sorry!

Thanksgiving gang

We had dogs and missing at least 12 from the pic.

Braeden worked hard at keeping his eyes shut....I did get one of them with
eyes open!

Thanksgiving boys

Uncle steve and Oliver have a special bond

The girl sneaks in...

A bunch of boys ....

Halloween party

Tending the fire, such a gorgeous night!

What a party!

Ivy as the mouse

The scandalous Heather and Kevin, a great preggo costume.

Part of the kids...the cooperating ones.

The Jellyfish

Uncle Doug and girls

A fall day at Elitches

The girls and Drew had earned their tickets through the library's

summer reading program. Drew opted to hangout with a friend instead of joining us.

The Pancake breakfast and fall festival

Ella, Alex, Asia, Laney and Leyton in the front. Jade and Ali in the back

Picking out pumpkins

New School

The girls first day of charter school. I am so loving the uniforms. No difficulties on

what to wear. They are now well adjusted and learning alot. I am now very impressed with

the curriculum, it is much more challenging.

Starting with Seattle

TJ, Gavin her husband and her nephew who had just flown in to help her with
her busiest wedding week-end.

TJ now has her studio at her house in Bainbridge. Her website is http://www.gardenpartyflowers.com/ . She does beautiful work.

On the Ferry heading over to Bainbridge.

Too many tech difficulties have kept me off, so we will just skip to August. I headed to Seattle a day a head to get a lay of the land and visit TJ whom I knew from Jr High and we were room-mates our first year at CU. She has a flower Studio in Seattle and I was there for the busiest wedding week-end of the year, so we squeezed in a night before Pizza party.

Father's day

The girls spent a whole day shopping, wrapping gifts and making cards.

Making cedar smoked trout. Must have saw to cut cedar boards.

Lee Irish, Maria and Ron joined the gang.

The whole gang on Father's day.

Summer daze

Eating honeysuckle on top of the gazebo

The Burchills on Father's day

The girls with Lydia

Cotton Candy at the CCAI carnival

Neinei and Jade at the Greek Festival

I have always wanted to go to the Greek Festival, but it is usually

during convention. For only $1 you can enjoy all the festivities, and the

food was good and reasonably priced. Much better than the $15 Scottish

festival !

Waiting to take Drew to the United flight simulator they play in

the fountain at Stapleton.

Mom's night off in vail

Not too many places provide you with sunscreen.

I should have put my hand in here, this was a giant cup, about 4x bigger than a

usual teacup. The breakfast buffet was lovely, the view of the river and the sun on us...ahhhh

View from our breakfast table.

The view from our balcony. We ate breakfast under one of the umbrellas.

The spa at the Sonnenalp

Only place I have seen this, pretty cool a swimsuit water extracter.

A yummy dinner at Terra Bistro

It was fun to say that we had 9 kids between the 2 of us! It was a great time to go to Vail(May 21) totally deserted had the whole town to ourselves. The drawback, Blu's was closed and since I forgot my swimsuit there was no where to buy one!