Christmas photo's

Susan, Payton, Mark's mom Karen and Mark

Payton and Emily

Mom and Dad

David and his soon to be bride Mara

Mike and Amy-

-I'm so disappointed in my Christmas pictures, The picture of Mike and Amy and the kids in front of the tree didn't turn out....Amy's eyes were closed. Tucker I only got 2 pictures of him and neither are very good. Okay the are awful. I tried, to get good pictures, but I ended up with the back of heads, or they would put up a hand.
Maybe I should just post the bad pictures....that'll teach em.

Exploring with Kelly

On Christmas Eve we go exploring with Gary's daughter Kelly, (last year I fell in a creek) the picture above has nothing to do with the outing, but how cool is it to see this going down the freeway.

Gary and one of his daughters

This year we took a drive to Hagerman to see the frozen water falls. There are thousands of them....maybe not, but that is the name of the area.

Have a Merry Christmas

Sunday, Gary needed to get away. He was tired of dealing with plumbing problems (the plumber comes tomorrow) he was tired of the fog. So we went in search of the sun. We headed out highway 95 and 7 miles from Oregon we left the fog.

So we took the ATV's for a winter drive. I wasn't sure I was up for the cold, but it wasn't so bad. It was a short ride only 16 miles round trip but it was worth the effort.

Time to go home, back to the fog.

Payton's 1st Birthday

Yesterday was Payton's first Birthday. Her mommy made her a cake. I think Susan did a great job. Payton had her first piece of cake last night...I forgot my memory card so I didn't get a picture of that.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY--CUTIE

She's not so sure about the hat.

RAINING IN THE GARAGE

Yep, it was raining in the garage, well sort of. We have a hose hooked up to the water system, the water system that keeps everything it touches from turning orange, and smelling like sulfer. Gary uses the hose to wash the Land Cruiser and the ATV's. He rolled it up and brought in the garage...he left it hooked up. I'm thinking the hose and squirter nozzel might have been frozen in the on postion, because last night we heard water running and finally figured out it was coming from the garage, water was everywhere, that squirter works just fine. Then this morning, more water problems, this time, it was the lack of water. Something froze up (maybe due to the soaking it got last night). Gary used his heat gun and we got our water back. Which is a good thing, right? Maybe not. Because tonight our kitchen sink over flowed. Water running everywhere. The water system, does some sort of cleaning action and runs water thru the kitchen sink drain, unless the drain has a clog, then it just fills the sink and runs all over the floor. It took pretty much every towel we have to clean it up. But it could be worse. Yep a lot worse.

Christmas at the Orchard House

The Orchard House decorates the garden

They Invite Clyde the Camel

Then they invite everyone to come and share the fun. I Love the camel and I'm pretty sure he loves me too. However, the camel licked Tucker, so Tucker thinks the camel likes him the best.

Mrs. Santa takes pictures and then e-mails them to you----grandma takes pictures too!

Payton didn't like Santa, she refused to sit on his lap, she liked the camel better than santa. I had a lot of fun and I'm going back on Sunday and taking my parents. And this time the batteries in my camera won't die.

Oh Great!

Do you like my Fall Layout?..............you better, because I can't figure out how to change it to a Christmas layout. You'd think if I could change my layout to Fall I could put on a Christmas or winter scene, but no. I was clicking on buttons the other day, and now I notice I have ads on my blog.......I guess they (whoever they are) don't realize that I have about 4 people that read my blog.
It's really cold in Idaho, it is expected to reach 18 degrees tomorrow. BRRRR. Oh did I mention we are going to a neighborhood ---Diner, Drive in, or Dive. I can say that because that guy...Guy from the TV show came to visit the restaurant. Anyway they go all out for Christmas, they put up lots of lights in their garden and bring in a Santa, and they have a camel and a bon-fire.... but still...brrr. Well anyway I guess we are going to go and check it out, Amy and Mike and the kids and Mark and Susan and Payton, and Gary and I. Brrr.

THE BLUES

I have been feeling sad, depressed, blah, blue. When Gary feels like this he says he feels DULL. I thought I was coming down with something. I figured it out, not sure why it took so long, but I pretty much start feeling this way every November and I don't start feeling better until spring. I'm Sun deprived. Going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark, I guess that means I need to spend my lunch hour outside whenever the sun shines brrrrrr.
Dear God: how about a fog/inversion free winter, please.