11.27.2005

Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving was so much fun! Brad, Arica, Ille, Mikaela, Aurora, and my Mom came down from WA for the week.

We cooked some scrumptious food and played lots of games...and went on a few excersions around town. The first couple of days were pretty warm, still in the low 70's, high 60's. The day after Thanksgiving was stormy, but it passed quickly and the sun is back out. Ahh!

Yesterday we did Chico all day... the boys going golfing while us girls/kids went downtown to the farmer's market and perused lots of fun shops. Here are a few pictures of the last few days.

Mikaela with baby kitty on our front porch.

Peyton walking -- I love the look on his face... pure happiness at having his freedom.

An iris by our house... all our flowers started to bloom again this past week. They think we skipped over winter and went straight to spring!

A Peyton kiss!

Lina and Unc Brad on our walk

Peyton helping collect leaves for our centerpiece

The centerpiece we made out of scavenged weeds, limbs and leaves from our "nature walk"

Sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner

Turkey going in!

Cute pic of Ille holding the three munchkins

Arica reading a story to Rora, Lina, and Peyton

Uncle Brad reading a story to Selina and Aurora

Tea party

Ring around the Rosey in the guest house

Mom in Vietnam

Here are a couple of pictures of Mom in Vietnam with grandpa.

Houses and shops along the street

Selina laughing

10.12.2005

Grandpa

I heard from Vietnam today, my mom sent an email telling me that Grandpa Gene had a small stroke while he and mom were at a store yesterday. He's doing okay so far, but there is a big possibility of a larger stroke to come soon if he doesn't take it easy and get medical attention. So he and mom are travelling to Honoi (sp?) today to see Mike Thorstensein, then will be heading back home prematurely. I'm glad this happened while mom was visiting, because she can help him on the long flight back, and take care of him should anything happen.

In other, much smaller news, we may be getting an offer on our house today or tomorrow. I'll keep you updated!

That's all from this edge of the continent. Hope you are all doing really well!

Running from Selina
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Oops!
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The Dads: (l to r) Lee holding Peyton, Todd Humphrey and Ben Liabraaten
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Our princess telling Lee which piece she wanted. ("The Cinderella piece")
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Lee decorated this Cinderella cake for the birthday party. Didn't he do an amazing job?!
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The Moms: (l to r) Heather Humphrey, Jenny Cruz, Tamara Liabraaten (on the ground are Ethan and Ella Humphrey)
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present time
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9.27.2005

Afternoon, ya'll...

how is everyone? I'll imagine that everyone's saying "fine" since that is always our response, no matter how we are really doing. Anyway, not much to report this afternoon.. these pictures of the kids are from the last couple of days. I know.. not an exciting post for everyone, but it is tremendously exciting for the grandma's! Our days are beautiful... high 70's, low 80's.. perfect in my opinion. Just for a footnote, the photos where Selina is trying to blow a bubble, that gum flew out of her mouth a few times while she was attempting a bubble. That same gum showed up in her hair later today, and had to be cut out. So no more gum play for her! Lucky that she doesn't care yet what her hair looks like! :)
Have a great one, everybody. I'll post again when something happens!
Caio!

Selina hanging out in the back yard
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Selina and Peyton dancing the Hokey Pokey
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Ready for meeting
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Selina trying to blow a bubble with her gum this morning... I couldn't resist taking pictures!
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smiles after her bubble attempts
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more bubble blowing
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Playing in the living rm
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A sweet daddy snuggle
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Peyton with "Brother Kitty" in the backyard
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9.15.2005

Good morning!

Happy Thursday everyone! One more day to go till the weekend!
Well, things are slowing down a bit here. We dropped the house on Boquest that we had an offer on. The "issues" that came up were more than we wanted to deal with. Starters, the third room and second bathroom were only accessible by walking outside, so it couldn't be used for a child's room or bonus room. The other bedrm (kids) was small, no room for toys and they'd be sharing it. Etc. etc. And then add to that septic issues, electrical, plumbing, roofing, mold, not pretty. Our house is still on the market, though, so we'll see how things go!
Anyway, we have Thurs night gospel meetings now instead of Weds studies, so we're enjoying
that.
Not much else to report on, so I'll just add that we miss you all and think about you often!

Peekaboo!
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I wanted to post this lovey look I got yesterday
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Hi ya'll!

I forgot about the pictures from the CA state fair. We went to the fair in late August with Lee's cousins Todd, Heather, Ethan and Ella Humphrey. We had a great time, braved the heat and got outta there by 1:00. We had a fun weekend at the Humphrey's house.. our kids are the same ages (roughly) so they get along great, except when they're fighting. Of course! Three year olds tend to only want what the other one has, and etc. So it was lively to say the least.

Us at the CA. state fair in front of the sand sculptures.
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Selina in the petting zoo area
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Selina and Ethan on a race car ride
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Selina and Ethan watching the cows get milked
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9.09.2005

Peyton's 1!

Peyton had his first birthday on Tuesday! We had a dinner for all the ridge friends and his uncle Jared. We had a good time! Happy birthday, Peytonroo!

Look at him go!!
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Being silly
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Mmmm!
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Uncle Jared with Selina and Peyton at Peyton's birthday party
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our other worker Pam Conrad with Peyton
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