Haunted Walk

 All the neighborhood kids have fun raking leaves to fill bags up. Then they built a haunted walk to the house for Halloween. The kids would hide behind the bags and scare kids as they came up for candy.

 ADK was on the roof of the house scaring kids from there.

 Stephanie and myself at the start of the Grand Fondo ride in Walla Walla, Wa. We chose the mid crush ride which was advertised at 30 miles but turned out to be 37 miles.

 ADK rode the ride with me.

 Riding along keeping ahead of the the Whitman cycling team. Turns out we stayed ahead of the them because there job was to ride behind the people on the ride. Guess who that was???? Me! But I rode the whole ride. The farthest I have every rode a bike. YEAH!

 We made it!

Steph and Steve at the end of the ride.

ADK Cross Country

 ADK ran cross country for Mac High this year. It was his first time every running and did well.

 JV running at the district meet.

 ADK is the 3rd runner coming down the hill at the start of the district meet in Baker City.

Award Ceremony.

Scrapbooking in Bellevue

 Gina and I went on our annual weekend scrapbook retreat to Bellevue, WA. As usual we had lots of fun and got little scrapbooking done. Did get lots of new ideas.

 This is our table at the Friday Night crop. There was around 400 women at the crop. It was the largest one that Creative Keepsakes had had all year long.

Gina and I scrapping away at the crop.

Lefse

The Saturday after Thanksgiving was the annual Lefse making at church. Lefse is a traditional soft Norwegian flatbread. Lefse is made out of potato, milk or cream and flour, and cooked on a griddle. Special tools are used for lefse baking, including long wooden turning sticks and special rolling pins with deep grooves.

ELK turn the Lefse with the flat wooden turning stick.

 Here I am getting ready to turn the lefse on the griddle.

 GB is helping her granddaughter roll out the dough.

It was a snow day so there was a low turn out for lefse making. Those that showed had a great time and lots of lefse to take home to eat.

Kayaking on Timothy Lake on Mt Hood

ELK and I got up early one morning to go kayaking. It was really cool paddling out into the fog that was lifting off the lake.

We did not catch any fish on this trip. But then again we really weren't trying to hard.

Gran Fondo

 My Friend Steph was telling me about riding the Gran Fondo and I thought it sounded like fun. So I talked ADK into riding with me. This was the first ride that I have ever done. We signed up for the 20 mile ride but Steph was riding the 40 miler. I did not think I could do the 40 miler. The day of the ride I found out that the 40 had changed to 30 so ADK and I changed to the 30 so we could ride with Steph and Steve.

Steph and myself at the start of the ride.

  ADK and myself at the start of the ride.

The ride started at Walla Walla Community College and headed south out through the wheat fields. It was a bit chilly but warmed right up after about 4 miles. Was a beautiful day. We started out ahead of most and was passed by the pack around mile 5. The was a rest stop at mile 17 in Milton-Freewater at Blue Mountain Cider. That was a nice rest and food break.

Cruising along Hood Rd east of Milton-Freewater,

ADK, Steve, Steph riding along Old Milton HWY.

Steph and myself at the end of the ride. WE MADE IT! 34.8 miles total. I was still able to walk and headed off to ELK's football game.