Mother's Day, Baby Blessing andSoggy Northwest trip

These two got cut out of the middle for some reason. You'll know where they fit when you get there.

This is just an after-thought, of course it pops up at the beginning... These lovely Rhododendron were in bloom everywhere in Oregon in a riot of different colors. Almost like dogwoods in the south everyone had several in their front yards. I love them, even in the rain.



Part of the group that participated in little Grace's blessing. We did it at Alysia and Topher's Poolhouse, which was thoroughly lysoled beforehand and everybody had to desinfect their hands first and was not allowed to breathe on her. Grace was such a darling little doll that evening. She was wide awake and looked around and never said a peep. We had a little birthday celebration for Jared afterwards with authentic mexican piniata and all. Here is little Aaron, longingly eyeing the birthday cake.

Alysia with adorable Grace, dressed in a dream of a blessing dress made by her grandma Andersen. Emily and her birthday boy Jared.

We had a girls (and 2 boys) lunch special , Topher was kind enough to babysit his daughter and Buggy and I went and met Emily and Dacia in Am. Fork. Caden was a doll and Gavin was his usual self (very cute and silly). Somehow the stupid thing cut out a whole bunch of pictures, so now, of course they will end up at the beginning, oh well, you should be used to my very unprofessional blogging by now.

I Iwas invited to a Mother's day dinner at Jen's... by Emily. They all collaborated and fixed a super fantastic dinner with virgin Margaritas and the whole works. The kids misunderstood and ran thru the house proudly announcing: we're drinking alcohol !!!

Here is a majority of my cute kids and great cooks

Grandpa Sam is always very popular for reading books.

Here are the cute producers of this marvellous fruit torte. It didn't just look good, it also tasted amazing.

Aren't they all just adorable! Eat your hear out, they are all mine, and I even have several more, just as amazing and cute!










Now you know where they got it from......Baby Grace, of course!

Last week we visited Sheila for a big birthday bash . First we saw them all in Portland, then we played in the rain on the coast for a while, and finally we met up by Bend for more partying. Lots of fun, not very warm and rather wet. We actually didn't have to go that far, we could have had cold and wet right here in IF.
Here Sheila is unwrapping her birthday gift from Sam... some books, what did you expect.














This is a little Volcano in the Sunriver/Bend area. The day we got there, the weather was pretty good, so we got to go to the top of it, enjoy the super view and wander thru the lava fields.

Christi said this stuff is called Scottish Broom. I know it from Europe as Ginster. It was in bloom all along the Oregon coast and rather pretty.

We admired some rather noisy sealions in Newport by the harbour.

A spectacular view of the Oregon coast. Sam and I never get tired of it.

This one is for Emily, and she knows why.