Wennie Roast in the high desert

The yard of a family with a 3 year old!

Julie and Alex Roasting hot dogs

The boys got ahold of mommys swim goggles!

Winter of 08-09

Alex and daddy in the snow......seems kinds of strange now with all the dry weather we have had

Julie and Alex look pretty small at this table at the science center

Alex and Shaun in the Apollo Space Capsule

Alex and his new boats from Santa!

We had a few days of freezing fog leaving its touch on the high desert

Alex really likes finger painting!!!!!!!!!!!!

kicking around in santa cruz

Here I am with my new airplane (that lasted about 4 hours)
Boy, I sure could use a piece of grandpa's pie!

Alex and the slide park

Hmmm did my parents look a little nervous here???

I survived and had a blast!!!!

At the Monterey Bay Aquarium

Alex and the fishies

Julie, Alex, and Shaun

Getting Tired

Grandpa, Daddy, and Alex with a toy helicopter

Alex preparing to fly solo for the first time!

Alex on his first carnival rides alone at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk

A fall day in Redmond

Alex finds a new use for the toy oven

Alex crawling in

Will the door close?

Yes!

Alex helping mom and dad pick apples

Alex at the museum of flight

Alex and his cousin Bobby at the Puyallup Fair

Alex with his first night without the crib rail

Alex trying out his halloween costume

We visited Daddy at Fire Camp

We were able to visit Daddy at Fire Camp today. It is located in a gravel pit and snowpark area. In the trees are personal sleeping tents. In center photo are the yurts and long mess tent. In the background is Walton Lake. Luckily for all of us, Daddy hasn't gone further than 1oo miles from home this summer for fires so we have been able to get a fix of each other mid assignment. Alex wore his own little fire shirt that Daddy got for him on his last assignment in Northern California. He fit right in and people were asking to recruit him, but I'm not ready for him to sleep in a tent or dig line with out me. This picture is on the inside of one of the many yurts that are set up at fire camp for people to work in. Each yurt has a specific "task", such as operations, planning, communications, medical, etc. As you can see, out in the middle of now where, they bring in generators and set up electricity...see the computers in the tents?

Diamond Lake 2008

One of the many baby in a bowl baths
















My dad and horseshoe games
















How'd he do that?















Mom's Birthday. Did I mention I'm 23?!














Anxious Helper. Check out the tongue on Helper. Wonder what he's thinkin'?












Mmmmmmmmmmm!




















Getting ready to cast















Another much needed bowl bath













Beer tasting and Seaside appetizers. Fortunate for me, this was the contest that I planned on giving away our "delightful" Bigmouth Billy Bass singing fish on a wall that was given to me at a White Elephant party this winter. Unfortunate for me, my husband won the beer tasting...by a landslide. He got all, every single one, 100% of the beers right. He distinguished the subtle nuiances between Bud, Miller and Pabst. Luckily our little guy was afraid of "scarry fish" as he called it. Big Hubby being the awesome man that he is, selflessly gave up "scarry fish" to my Cousin. Sorry there Cous....and thanks for taking the Fish!!!
























The Boy's new two Loves











Ready for a boat ride with Grandpa












Grandpa and Little Guy rowing. Mom's got it easy

Another Baby in a bowl ...are you seeing the frequency of dirt...?

FISHING!!














Mom, Dad and little boy with his new buds, the box of night crawlers.













I wish I could say He dressed himself. Or that his Daddy did. But alas, it was I, Mom who put his clothes on backwards today. Pay no mind son, this way they can't tell if you're coming or going!