Dave's 40th Birthday celebration

Our son David turned 40 this past October. He thought it would be fun if the family and some friends went to Whidbey Island for a week end to celebrate. His wife found this lovely house on the water which housed all twelve of us. We had a great time walking the beach, eating, resting, eating, playing games, eating, etc. etc. etc. Kaylene especially loved the sand and sea shells. She kept saying more sea shells, while Dalene and I went looking for more for her. We had fires on the patio at night with smores and our meals were delicious. Big breakfasts, great sandwiches for lunch, and tacos with all the fixings on night one and then salmon and flank steak for the birthday dinner on night two. Not to mention red velvet cake for the birthday cake. Was a great way to celebrate his birthday and a good time was had by all. Dad and I just don't know where the last 40 years went!

Dave's trip across England.

It's hard to tell how beautiful this scenery really is from the photos. Dave say's you really have to be there to take it all in. This was the second part of his hike across England, he did the first half last year. He did this in early Sept. and didn't have the best of weather, but good enough. The hike was over a 100 miles and he did it in about 9 days.

Dave's trip to England

Relaxing after a day of hiking with some new found friends

Augie's Birthday

The first picture is of Augie after his haircut and riding on the bee. He was getting all spiffed up for his birthday party which was to occur the next day. His mom, dad, and grandfather spent a lot of time getting the backyard all ready for his little friends and their parents. We made a bunch of those red and blue poofs out of tissue paper and hung them in trees, decorated tables and just got everything together. Every one had a wonderful time and all the kiddos where just great. For dinner we had salad, and pizza. The pizza was 36 inches round. Dave and I had never seen anything that big and most of the folks there hadn't either. You can get some sort of a sense of what it looked like in the photo. After most went home, the family sat around and watched Augie open some of his gifts. Such a happy little face!

Beach at Santa Monica

We spent the last of Sept and beginning of Oct in Pasadena with Martha, Zach and Augie. We went for the purpose of celebrating Augie's birthday. More photos on that later. We did a couple of other fun things, one of which was going to Train Town. Augie loves this place. He is really into trains and their are lots of BIG ones to look at, as well as the one to ride. Much joy as you can see. The other thing was going to Santa Monica beach for breakfast. What a beautiful place. The beach is very wide, the water blue and as you can see, the sand is fun! We sat and talked after we ate, while Augie just sat and played in the sand. Place is really kid friendly and the food was great!