Another house my mom lived in.
The 2 girls are my cousins kids. Kara and Jessica
This is Caroline , she is due in Jan, Charlie , sophie and Emily my cousin Janet and marks daughter.
This mail box is outside Arthurs house. My grandpa Emery welded it for them.
This is at a cool candy shoppe. With lots of different Australian candy.

One of the million floats in the parade.
Koala at the Zoo, the hottest day like 43. I was the one of 5 people at the zoo that day.
Driving back to the house there was a grass and bush fire on the hills close to home.
this is my cousin Charlie and their daughter Sophie

This is the drive up to Uncle arthurs house, this is what the vegetation looks like there.
A cemetary in Adelaide where our Uncle John, moms baby brother was buried. It was crazy hot that day. Like 40 degrees
The Adelaide Temple
Colonel Light. He designed the city of Adelaide
Lots of these trees around Adelaide. I don't know what they are.

This is my moms old house they grew up in. We went for a drive around Adelaide and this was a cute house.
Uncle Arthur and Aunt Margaret and Bill
One of the peirs in Adelaide , the temp that days was 38 degrees
They feel so soft and fluffy
A little albino one.

PORTLAND

Yeah, Target. we shopped there today. Picked up a couple of stocking stuffers. Bill and I are in portland for a couple of days and then off to Australia tom.

I love this house I want to change mine to look like this. Do you think its possible? Its here in Portland. close to matt and caseys place.

More Halloween

Taite and her friends just before trick or treating. Yes in Magrath all the
old kids still go. Taite is a pumpkin tonight.

Melias cute pumpkin she carved. Tonight for Halloween

we had over the Harkers and Roberts and Williams for

Dinner. After dinner the kids went out trick or treating.

I'm so glad that my kids are old , we had about 40 kids

tonight and it was a beautiful night.

Halloween 2009

Seth dresed as a guy from "The night of the Roxyburry" No idea what that is

Taites a mermaid.

Taite got High Honors again. Seth also got Honors but was at

a Volleyball tourneyment and never received his yet.

LUKE is 5 months old

Taite and Melia in our field on Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving with our good friends the Harkers. Families
are getting smaller. We sure missed our kids away from home.
Melias mean choc, peanut butter delicious cake
Taites Hazelnut cupcakes. From her
new Martha Stewart Cookbook.

LUKE AT FOUR MONTHS

Friends popped over with a bundle of feathers

from their peacock farm. Beautiful!

COOL CRISP MORNING

October 1st

in my back yard

Summer is Setting

Sitting on the gravel road with a sunflower on the edge. I thought it was pretty


Looking over to the west sky was a beautiful sight. The windmills are not my favorite.


The Last saturday before school started. It felt like we were getting summer finally. We have had some beautiful warm days but cool nights though. I took taite and a couple of friends out to the canal to bridge jump and took a few photos while I waited.

Look how Luke has grown. These are his 2 months and 3months photos.