Colorado Reunion

In July we went to Estes Park Colorado for Julie's family reunion on her dad's side. We rented a Class C RV to do the trip in, it was a lot of fun but the fuel mileage was not the greatest. While we where there we went down to Golden to take the Coors Factory tour. It was cool to see how the beer was made and all the history of it. The best part of the tour was the free beer at the end, ICE COLD COORS LIGHT. It was amazing................ Before we left for the trip Mike's girlfriend Janna came back from Afghanistan. She is there on a missions trip for a year. So she came back to surprise Mike and to go with us.
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Tubs of BEEEERRR!!!

The Beginning of Summer / Fresno Trip

Julie and I went down to Fresno to start the summer off with Paul and Daniel Graduating from Fresno State. It was a great trip to see everybody and to be with the Fam.

The YACS in black are back

Solfball season has begun!!!! This is the teams 7th season playing together. It is a coed team that is made up of all of are friends. Some faces have come and gone over the years but we still have the core group that plays every year. This picture is at are first game of the year. The temp I think is around the low 40's, it was a bit cold at first but we got use to it as the night went on. We won the game 9 to 7!!!! It was a great time getting back to the swing of things.

A long time coming

Well, it has been over two months since I have even looked at our blog. I gave the Vigers a bad time about not doing theirs for so long and then I do the same thing. Since the last time I did anything to the blog, a lot has happened. Julie threw me a 30th birthday party - I think we had about forty people or so at the house. All I know is that we had no leftovers and Julie cooked for an army that night. It was a great time. Pete, Kristin and Piper came up from Sacramento for the party and to have some Central Oregon fun. My Dad also came up from Fresno. We had a great time hanging out and getting to know Piper in between the hospital visits. Pete and I skied a couple days - one day we had some fresh, deep powder and the next we had spring snow conditions.

Last week my mom and I went up to Seattle to see some family that we have not seen in a long time. We saw Aunt Rita, her son Tom, his girlfriend Debbie and her daughter Ann and her husband Rob. We had a great time - I think we ate every type of international food. We had German, Dutch, Italian, Russian, and I think Mexican food. It was a fun seeing the sites with them and just hanging out.













Pete and I skiing on a BIG POWDER DAY

Lil Piper

My birthday cake. Julie and Emily made them - they are penguin cupcakes!

Not sure what they are showing but I thought it was funny. These are some of are good friends (top left to right: Lindsey and Brian Crosby, Aaron and Ryan)

Watch out for the flying fish!!!

I can not find all the birthday party pictures. I will look harder and post them when I find them.

Sugarbeet Fun.....

So, here it is. I made this video from pics and video from the Sugarbeet Harvest Matt and I went to Minnesota to help with. Randy what do you think?

Christmas 2008

Well, you all might have been wondering where our Christmas post was. You can say that I slept through it. I worked a ton of hours leading up to Christmas and then after. We gotten some 50+ inches in a couple of days of each other. So Christmas day was a day of long naps and time with the family. Julie and I spent it with Jim, Sandy, Mike and Janna, Mike's girlfriend. We had ham and all the fixins. It was a fun time hanging with them and opening the gift that they got us.

This year Julie and I are hosting a small group from our church. It is a diverse group of people, married couples, single girls and old people. Haha..... We had a white elephant gift party. The theme was anything that you had that you do not want anymore. It was quite interesting to see what people brought to the party. I gave my white elephant gift I got last year, a belt buckle and a trucker hat. Julie gave lotions that she did not want anymore. Did I tell you that they were half used? It was fun, they are good group of people!

Merry Christmas!!!

The Boys with the Christmas tree.