On the road again

How about those darn Steelers!!! If we could just take back the last 40 seconds the Cardinals would have won!!! I was rooting for the under dog! Boy what a second half. Maybe next year. It has felt like spring the last 2 days in the upper 50's. We could get spoiled. Our snow is pretty much gone now except where it doesn't get any sun.

Lee and I are off on Tue to go to Clint and Tanya's in Montana for a week. We hope the weather holds till we get there. The kids purchased a new house and we will be painting, cleaning and ripping up carpet. I will also get in some Nana time.

Both Porter and Dane are crawling and pulling themselves up on everything. Sam and Shannon were over here a week ago and Porter was in 7th heaven with all the new places to crawl and things to see.

This tax preparation weekend!!! Lee and I could think of many other things we would rather do, but it is time!!!!

My Mom and Dad are doing good. Dad is 1/2 way thru his radiation treatments and doing pretty good. Mom misses him, but talks to him everyday. That's about all for now. Here are a couple of recent pictures of my wildlife family and Porter . Sam is hiding behind Porter

Kitty is enjoying a little sun.The deer are checking out the grass below the snow and the bird seed.

Back to reality

Hi,
Well, we are back to the reality of winter in Central Oregon after a great time of sunshine and warm sand. We were lucky to have great weather while we were there and lots of great food and fun. Lee was out fishing every morning off the bank. Fishing was great catching was slow. He did go out in the ocean and catch dinner for us and others on the boat one day. We saw lots of whales the day we went snorkeling. I did a little bargaining on the beach for a few trinkets. Lee and I did kayaked and enjoyed being out on the water. Puerto Vallarta is really growing, more hotels every time we come. We were suppose to get home on Friday evening at midnight but when we got to Seattle the Redmond airport was closed due to freezing fog so we spent the night in Seattle expecting to get up in the morning and catch the afternoon or evening flight to Redmond but again, the airport was closed due to weather. We were fortunate enough to get the plane to Portland on Sat late afternoon and there along with 4 other people we rented a car and drove home. Needless to say it was nice to finally get home. We are very lucky I guess because this is the first time this has every happened to us due to weather. We went from 82 degree weather to about 18 degrees burrrrr!
Below are a few pictures from the trip and our winter weather.

Lee and myself on our way to snorkel

The view from the boat of Pueto Vallarta

Young girls bargining with me for bracelets

Sailboat coming into the harbor

This is the deer picture that I lost from the last post. Deer in Sam's backyard.

This is one of our resident deer on the morning we got home looking for something to eat after the silver thaw.

Sunshine and Blue Sky!!!

Hi Everyone,
Sunshine and blue sky says it all!!! We are in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and taking a break from the weather up north. Saturday morning when we left Prineville it was 22 degrees and I was wearing summer clothes. Needless to say, I about froze my buns off. I have been in shorts since we arrived and it is wonderful. Lee has hardly moved his buns off the warm sand need I say more. Our friend Dan Ball is down here also and he and Lee may go out fishing later this week. The fishing has been a little slow but yesterday they came in with lots of sierra. Later next week Lee and I are going to go out snorkeling and kayaking for the day on a tour boat. That will be my big trip down here except for shopping.
We went out to eat at PiPis on Sunday and I am still full. I just love the food down here and my
waist will probably show it by next week when we return home.
Porter, Sam and Shannon's son is now crawling. We will be keeping Shannon busy from now on.
I don't know if I mentioned it but Sam and Shannon are expecting in June. Of course we can hardly wait.!!
Dane, Clint and Tanya's son is also crawling like mad and just had tubes put in both ears. We hope this will help him with his ear infections.
Well, that's about all for now. I will post some pictures when we get back home (providing that we take any)
Sheri and Lee

Almost Happy New Year!!!!!

Hi again,

Here it is the 27th of December. Lee and I are celebrating 34 yrs of marriage today!! Seems like only yesterday we stood in front of my Mom and Dads Christmas tree and said our I Do's. Life has been good to us both and we are looking forward to many more years of sharing with family and friends.

Christmas was truly white this year. It snowed all day on Christmas eve into Christmas morning. I will add a couple of pictures taken at Sam and Shannon's. We thought we were the only ones to have the deer visit our house but, we had 7 in the kids backyard eating leftover apples on Christmas morning.
We had a great time with Porter. Grand kids are wonderful maybe we should have had them first! Porter is just about to crawl and when he starts talking Look Out!! He and Nana will never be without something to say.

We missed Clint,Tanya and Dane, but they in our thoughts and we enjoy checking out what is going on with them on their blog.

We are getting ready to go south for two weeks in Jan. Lee has his shorts out and packed already! Needless to say I'm a little behind, but Santa brought be a new suitcase for Christmas and I am going to fill it!!

My Dad and Mom were pretty much snowed in for the Holidays and are hanging in there. Dad

starts his radiation on the 6th of Jan for 6 weeks. He will be staying at the VA hospital in Vancouver for that time and they will take him back and forth to the hospital at OHSU for his treatments. Hang in there Dad were all pulling for you!!!! Mom will be having her CT on the 30th of Jan and we are expecting a good report.

That's about all for now. More in a couple of weeks. Wishing everyone the best in 2009 Christmas morning at Sam and Shannon'sPorter giving us his newest pose

Dane and Clint in the ice fishing tent

Dane helping out mom while she is baking cookiesNeedless to say somehow I got an extra picture of Porter. I can move them around but can't seem to delete it. I also lost the picture of the deer in Sam and Shannon's back yard so goes the the world of the beginning computer wizard!

Merry Christmas

Well, winter came in like a lion!!!! We have about 12 plus inches of snow on the ground. We are off to Sam,Shannon and Porters house for the holiday. We hope to leave this afternoon before we get too much snow. They are predicting about 8 inches of new white stuff. I love this weather, but Lee is getting pretty tired of shoveling the snow off the driveway. Riley is having the time of his life playing in white stuff. Kitty has decided that the garage is a great place to be right now!

We want to wish all our family and friends a very Merry Christmas and thank you to all the servicemen and women that are away from their families keeping us safe.

That is as far as the car made it up the driveway.

Good thing Lee packed in the wood for winter!

Riley just loves the snow!

Kitty isn't too sure about all the white stuff

Winter has arrived!!!

There has been so much going on since the last post. Lee and I went to Montana for Thanksgiving with Clint,Tanya and Dane. Dane is such a cutie. He is crawling and Clint says that he has to keep a watch on the dogs water dish as Dane has discovered it!!! While we were there Lee and Clint went hunting and Lee got a nice doe. We now have meat for the winter and thanks to the help from Clint and Tanya we also have 20lbs of sausage. We had some the other day and it was wonderful. That means that we will have to go back next year and give it another try. We just missed the snow on our way home, thank goodness

I have been spending time in Portland with my Dad and Mom. Dad was diagnosed with melanoma of the nose in Nov. and had surgery to remove the tumor. He also had to have all his top teeth pulled last week for the radiation that they will start in Jan. He is a real trooper!!!

Today we are hunkered down, keeping the wood stove going as it was -3 degrees this morning. Lee is outside shoveling snow. It has been snowing lightly all morning maybe 3 inches on the ground now. We are suppose to get snow all day and several days this week also. I am suppose to drive back to Portland on Wednesday, but the mountain is a mess and Portland is suppose to get 3 to 6 inches of new snow on Wed. I am hoping that my dad can change his appt for Thur as I don't look forward to that drive!!!!

Porter is now saying DaDa much to Sam's delight!!! Sam and Shannon are expecting another baby in June and we are pretty excited. I can get used to this Nana and Grandpa stage of our lives!

That's all for now. I am going to post a couple of pics. Happy Holidays Everyone

Lee and his doe from MontanaPorter getting ready to go outside.Tanya and Dane in Nov. Look at those two teeth!

Sorry it has been so long since the last post!!!

Here we are in the middle of Nov. and it all seem like a blur. Where does the time go??. The grand babies are growing in leaps and bounds. Porter and Shannon just got home from a trip to

Phoenix. They had a great time and Porter didn't mind the air flight at all. Dane has been hunting with his parents this fall and he is going to be crawling any day. I will post a few pics of

them.

I spent a week with my mom and dad in Portland. My dad has a cancer in his nasal passage that is melanoma. Dad had been suffering from what he thought was a cold or sinus infection for the

last 4 or 5 months. That wasn't what he had. Hopefully dad will be scheduled for surgery the first of Dec. Dad will be 88 in February and has always been very active. This has slowed him down some but we are hoping for good outcome.

Lee,Riley and I are off to see Clint,Tanya and Dane for the Thanksgiving holiday and some hunting for Lee. Nana will be babysitting and I can't wait!! We will post pictures on our return.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone,
Sheri, Lee and Riley, kitty t00

The two top pictures are of Porter. He was a puppy for Halloween and the bottom two pictures are of Dane. He was a little horse for Halloween. Bones just loves Danes shoes even with Dane in them.