Disneyland March 2008

This past Saturday evening I spent some time scrapbooking with friends. Worked on our vacation we took last spring break to Disneyland. This is going to be the front page of the photo album. I used some 2008 Disney paper that I bought while in California for the back ground.

The pictures of the letters were taken at the front entrance of Disney California Adventures (DCA). The only time we could get photos without a ton of people around was late at night.

Parts of the electric light parade has not changed since I saw it in 7th grade. Other parts have. They now have a float celebrating the USA.

Mom took out to a Character breakfast at the Grand California Lodge. We had a great time. Lots of good food. The biggest strawberries you ever saw and of course lots of time with the characters. All the characters loved playing with ADK's helicopter hat he got at Disneyland.

Rick and I had so much fun watching Captain Jack while he was talking with people. Captain Jack was a arrogate pirate. He would not poise for pictures but did give signatures. Evan got his signature and when he was done signing he tossed it over his shoulder because he was not sure what one would do with his signature. It was a blast watching him interact with people.

If you look closely you will see Rick in the back ground hiding in the shade. He did not want to get his picture take with the boys but I managed to get him anyway.

Stay tune for more Disney pages to come.

Life changes

As a kid growing up I did not play organized sports that I can remember. I really don't know the reason except that I wore a back brace starting in 6th grade for scoliosis. I got out of doing most the PE classes because of the back brace. Now I wish they would have made me do a modified PE class.
As an adult I wish I had done more sports as a kid and encourage my boys to play every sport they want. Well that is everything but wrestling. Every spring my boys have played baseball since they were old enough to. In the fall they played soccer until they were old enough to play football. In the winter we ski as a family. ADK was 4 years old when we first taught him how to ski. ELK was 2 years old when he started skiing between our legs. We finally let the boys try wrestling last year. ADK loved the workout but did not like the dirt wrestling that would occur during practices. He only wrestled one year. ELK loves it and wrestled again this year.


I hope this will help them have an active healthy life as an adult.


I don't really remember what sports I did. I do know that I was active in riding bikes and skied in the winter but that is about it. I have a hard time setting time aside to exercise because it has never been a priority in my life. Really needs to be. I have been working hard at making a life style change to get more physically fit. I know what it takes but doing it is much harder.
I joined the Biggest Loser competition that is happening at work. All I have done since then is gain 5 pounds. UGH... I am working out twice a day. Have been changing out eating habits and still gained weight. I lost more before I started the competition. Guess it is time to quite the competition.
I have set a new goal for myself. I am going to compete in a mini Triathlon here in Milton-Freewater. I know it is doable and hope that this will help with the life changes and weight loss I am working on.

Fresh Juice

We love winter time when Grandma sends up grapefruits and lemons fresh picked from her trees. Nothing is better that fresh fruit picked from the trees when they are ripe. The grapefruit and lemons are so sweet. This is the time of year the boys will drink grapefruit juice. Partially because they get to squeeze it but mostly because it is so sweet. I love making fresh squeeze lemonade but looking for other recipes that use fresh lemons.

Survivor Tocantins - The Brazilian Highlands

This past Thursday was the first episode of Survivor Tocantins. Thursday night is family night of watching Survivor.

Right now we don't CBS on the house TV because we have Dish Network as our satellite provider and they have suspended the local CBS provider. That means for us to watch CBS we have to go out to the shop and watch TV. Rick has spliced into his brothers cable service. Guess that is one good reason to live next door to your brother-in-law. The shops only heat source is a wood stove. We did not get the wood stove started before we left to the wrestling banquet. We returned just 15 minutes before survivor was to start. Andrew ran out and got a fire going while Evan and I got the sleep bags and moved the couch so that is was in front of the TV.

Here we are all cozy on the couch in front of the BIG 12" screen TV. While the 42" TV in the house is sitting idle. Every Thursday and Sunday evening this is where we will be. In the shop with the wood stove going cuddled up on the couch under the sleeping bags watching Surviror and Amazing Race.

Wrestling Banquet

The MinuteMen Banquet starts with potluck deserts. Evan came back to the table with his plate overloaded and wanting more. He tried taking one of everything but the plate was to small. Glad they only had 6 inch plates.
The MinuteMen Club only have 40 wrestlers this. Down from 80 wrestlers last year. The ones that did come out this year had a great time working out together and learning new moves. Evan Did really well at all the tournament he participated in. Can't wait for wrestling to start next year.

Saturday Skiing at Bluewood

Today ADK and I went skiing while Rick and ELK stayed home with the healing collar bone. It was a sunny day of skiing downfall was the slopes were very icy. They got a few new inches of snow on Friday but it must have been a wet snow because it was so icy.

Our fifth run of the day we skied the run Scorpio. The snow was not that bad so we skied the rest of the day there. Here are some videos of ADK jumping.

Here is AK waiting for Mom to get to the car at the end of the day. He climbed up the bank so that he could see up to the lodge.

On our drive home I spotted this snow clump hang in the tree. Looks a lot like a bird house. It was hanging about 25 feet up in a big tall fir tree about 50 yards off the edge of the road.

Elks Regional Hoop Shoot Contest

Andrew won the local Elk's Hoop Shoot Contest so he moved on to the Regional Competition that was held in Hermiston, OR. It was not Andrew's day on the court. The kid who won got 20 out of 25 baskets.