Festival of the River

Diane, Scott and family have come over for Scott to have a check up with his doctor at Swedish Hospital. Whitney, a friend of the family, has come over with them and we meaning the family with out Diane and Scott are going to go play at the Festival of the River. It is the Indian Stilligau

mish Tribes pow-wow and tribute to the rivers here. I went to one several years ago when it first started and we decided that it would be a fun thing to do again. We started out with watching a dance that was a benefit for a family who had lost a family member.

We were enjoying all the different colors in there native wear, especially the use of feathers.

This is a good picture of the different designs in the women's dress.

From there it was over to the the lumber jack show. Wormboy is usually a very sociable little guy but he was not sure about going up and talking to the lumberjack. Suz was the good aunt and went up to give him the support he needed.

Wormboy just could not bring himself to talk with him and started to cry. Cobster stepped up in place of wormboy to talk with the lumberjack.

After a little discussion about what he would be making for cobster such as a cat or a rabbit we came out with a chair. The silly little chair sits in my living room.

This year has been an unusually warm/hot summer for Washington. We felt we were going to melt away. We needed a little refreshment and snow cones were right in order for cooling off.

By the time we ended the afternoon we were all very worn out from the heat and ready to relax at home.

Coster's Seattle Birthday part 3 Space Needle

At the Space Needle there was a crowd and we had a good line to wait through. It began to get hot but this was not going to detour Cobster he was ready to get to the to of this. He and Tan the Man had no problems walking around and were feeling very comfortable with the height of things. Where Corky, Grandma Tempie and Nana just as soon stay as close to the interior as we could. The fog did burn off but it wasn't as clear as I would have liked to seen it. When i took the two pictures I could see Mt. Rainier in the back ground but in the picture the haze seems to have eaten it up. We left Seattle in time to mingle with the rush hour making the drive home a little longer that usually. The kids just leaned back and enjoyed the ride several fell asleep. Cobster thinks he had a pretty nice birthday present but wanted to know where the gift was to unwrap. Next time I'll wrap the tickets.

Cobster's Birthday in Seattle -part 2 Science Center

After pictures we picked up Grandma Tempie and headed for Seattle. The first stop had to be the Science Center for Seattle was under a layer of fog and would burning off by the afternoon.

We visited the dinosaur exhibit and were able to stand, lay or sit in the footprints.

Cobster trying the dinosaur growl.

We played a little chess.

Then off to see the insects. That morning Corky saw a spider waltzing (more like scurrying)across the floor. She promptly went into hysteria over the thing until I killed it. Then she ran into a fly and again the hysteria. My what is wrong with this girl? Simple everyday insects are just to much for her. Yet, when we go to the really big ugly African cockroach she will hold the thing and pet on it like it was a pet dog or cat. Ugh! to much for me.

We also saw some really beautiful butterflies and Corky didn't want to come in the butterfly house because she was afraid one might land on her. We did get her in for a quick walk through. Wormboy was very fascinated with them.

Tan the Man and Cobster sitting in a space capsule.

The mirrors were fun to play with. I couldn't get them to lift the leg off the floor where it looked like they were suspended in the air.

Trying out the sound projection. Now we are headed out to the Space Needle and Cobster is thoroughly excited.

Birthday in Seattle-part 1 pictures

Each weekend as Cobster and Cora were coming over to Seattle to see their Dad in Swedish Hospital, Cobster was fascinated with going up to the top of the Space Needle. He was always making comments about the Space Needle so I decided for his birthday I would take him up the needle. The day actually turned into a really long day and lots of fun. We started with picking up the cousins Tan the Man and Wormboy the super hero, for grandkid pictures.

Tan the Man and Wormboy had a really good time working it for Rachelle.

Cobster was of another opinion. He did not care, he was not going to be touching his sister or her touching him, thus we have bunny separating them.

Here we had to trade up brother and sister. Still Cobster did not want her touching him.

This picture is just fun. I hope Tan the Man realizes that his cousins may be looking up to him because he is the oldest cousin.

Corky

Wormboy the superhero.

Cobster

Tan the Man

Coby's Baptism

Cobster invited us to attended his baptism and with it came a very busy weekend, so we choose to drive over to Wenatchee on Saturday and then back home. Made for a very fast Saturday.

We started off with dinner at an old country restaurant. Which served some good ole country cornbread. Yumm to all of us Texans and those we include by adoption.

This picture is out of sequence(still haven't conquered moving pictures around)

Rich is always clowning around with my Mom and dinner was no exception.

The kids wanted to get pictures made with the older couple that just seemed to be hanging around the place,

Waiting for the food to come. Can you tell what kind of a glass/cup/ jar we are drinking from?

We went over to the Wenatchee Stake Center for Cobster's baptism. This is the family after the baptism actually, Diane, Scott, Corky and Cobster.

This is most of my family waiting for the baptism to begin.

Cobster, Suzanne, who is holding Wormboy, Diane, Corky, my Mom Tempie
and Richard, my husband. Staging her picture posing.Scott waiting for the time to pass for the baptism. And what a real miracle happened that day. To know that he spent 77 days in the hospital and was in the hospital rehab center just a month before this, what a true miracle happened where he could go down into the waters of baptism with his son and baptize him. Scott is our miracle! We love him dearly and everyday thank our Heavenly Father for saving his life and allowing him to remain in ours.

Scott and Coby getting ready to enter the waters of baptism.

Cobster doing his picture posing.

Relief Society Campout

A camp out is never complete without a bonfire, food and lots of good times.
But first I want to start with my 2nd councilor over activities. Sherilynn Dickson Woodson, she is fantastic and I love all that she does with our activities. She is great and always dependable. I just love the young woman and all her talents. She works with our committees and makes sure we have spiritually inspiring, enriching, fun activities. She is with her little side kick who is always full of smiles.

This is Janice Dickson Stuer, she is Sherilynn's sister and a real joy to have included in our activites. I think she should move back to our ward.

Camp outs always need to start off with some good food and we started off with a pot luck supper. I was all prepared to see that our sisters would have a really nice and relaxing time at our camp out. I had arrived early that afternoon and began cleaning tables, laying out plastic table cloths, wish I would have brought our tin flower pots for table decoration (and hold down the cloths from the wind, used rocks instead) and sweeping the cement floor here. The park missionaries said they knew this was a Relief Society camp out because no one else would be trying to beautify the area like we did.

There were about 40 of us at one time. Arlington 2nd, my ward, was the host ward to Arlington 1st and 3rd. The year before 1st and 2nd were split to make 3rd so it was lots of fun to get us all together again. I wish i would have taken a picture of the circling of the wagons. That is statement is not quite true for we didn't circle but we had more RV's there than we did tents. What can I say we are creatures of comfort.

With being three wards and a year of changing be decided to start the evening off with a get to know you Bingo game. We first went around with our bingo cards getting names of people that we did not know to place in the squares. As names were called we then asked a question such as, "Name the three most important things that have happened in your life? What is your most embarrassing moment? What is your favorite movie? Who is your favorite actor or actress?" With a why after each question. This was lots of fun because even if you knew someone you usually learned something new about them.

Of course at a campfire you always need to have a sing along time and Mary Leveque lead is on. This one is always fun and everyone likes to get into it and if you don't it is fun to watch and laugh with them. I don't remember the name of it but just a couple of lines....Thumbs up, elbows back, knees together, tongue out. After the fun we then had a few inspirational songs to lead into our guest speaker with her inspirational thoughts.

Our thoughts that evening came from Angela Gaskin, another one of those wonderful women who have touched my life. She was my 2nd councilor before the ward split and she went into the newly created 3rd ward. She is a gem, thanks Angela for bringing inspiring thoughts of how we quietly go about sustaining, supporting and giving new ideas to our sisters around us.

Afterwards we all headed off to our own wagons(RVs) or tents for a good nights sleep. Well, there is always that one wagon/tent who stays up all night. So, the night owls stayed in the same RV my secretary, Debbie Chase's RV. She is another person I could not do without. She keeps me organized and going. Helps me keep track of me. She has been a life time friend, her children and mine grew up together and she stayed by me during all my trails serving on the school board and loosing the last bit of hearing I had all those years ago. Now back to the all niter. We stayed up playing the game Golf. Didn't turn in until 4AM and I guess that is not something to do when you are the host of the camp. I just figured that Sherilynn and the Chairman of our committee would handle things that morning. It was 7:30 AM and they came knocking on the door. Even Bishop hassled me the next day at church about sleeping in. Guess next year I'll either make sure I pull all the way through the night or try going to bed earlier.

After everyone had breakfast, they began to pack up and leave. Then there again there is the last one out. I seem to always take that position when I'm in charge. Dear Debbie and I stayed several more hours after the slow drizzle started and some game playing and finally pulled out at 2PM.

What a wonderful time already looking forward to next year.

For Caroline

Your Calla Lillies came up beautifully this year. I hope you can enjoy them through these pictures. They are the only things that look beautiful this year. JJ did get me a fushia plant and it is beautiful also I just need to water it better.