Happy Valentines Day!!!!

6 weeks since the last post, still no pictures, but we have been pretty busy.  Eric and Sondra visited for a couple of days.  We went to a party for the bcs title game with Oregon and had lots of fun.   To bad Oregon didn't win, better luck next year.  We spent two weeks in Quartzite in the desert camping with friends Hal and Ellie from California.  We had a good time. No rain this year but it did get down to freezing several nights and pretty windy for a couple of days.  Lee and I rode our bikes most days and did a little rock hunting.  I did find a very nice piece of Crystal.   We came back in time to watch the super bowl game.  What a game!!! Our team won so it was even better.  We spent a day watching the Parker 425 auto race and ate our share of dust.  There were over 200 cars entered this year.  Last week I went with friends Dorothy and Ruth and we took the kayak's out for about 2 hrs. You can't believe some of the houses on the water.  Yesterday Lee and I went out in the desert and hiked with friends for a few hrs.  There is really some pretty country out there.  Today it is house cleaning day and tomorrow it is Valentines Day.  We hope you all have a great day.  They are having a pancake breakfast here in the club house so I am taking my valentine to breakfast.
That's about it for now.  I will try to post pictures soon.

Happy New 2011

Here it is a brand new year, full of new experiences, life, love and friends.  We are so blessed and thank the lord everyday. 
We left home in the snow and headed to Sam and Shannon's for Christmas.  There snow on the ground and lots of goodies for our waist lines and fun with the little boys.  We were able to talk to Clint,Tanya and Dane. Clint was home for Christmas and all was good.
We had a good quick trip down to Parker. Leaving on the 26th of Dec. from Bend we arrived in Parker the evening of 27th of Dec.  2 long twelve hour days of driving and we arrived to the sun and warm weather!
Well, maybe Lee spent the first afternoon here in his shorts getting caught up on his tan.  Needless to say that
was the last time he has had his shorts on.  We have had freezing mornings and winds in the afternoon.  We are lucky though no snow and highs in the 50's. It is suppose to get warmer later this week.  Riley is settling in well. I have been playing card bingo and what a hoot! I won have of the first pot on my first game and
never came close again.  I will try to better the average tonight.  Lee and I were off to the casino for $10
of free play when you sign up for the players club. I won $9 and Lee won $5. We are the last of the big spenders so we left while we were ahead. 
Our friends from Oregon, Eric and Sondra Moroney are suppose to arrive here later tonight. They are on their way down for the Oregon Ducks game on the 10th of Jan. in Phoenix.  It will be good to see them and go to the China Buffet in Lake Havasu.
Well, that's about it for now. I will have to post pictures later.
Hugs, Sheri

Can you believe that it is already December!!!!!

 Well, here we go again.  The rest of the story is below. I am still having trouble with the picture placement. Better luck next time.

Lee and Riley shoveling snow off the driveway.



The snow is beautiful but we tired of it after a few days.



Boy have I been behind the eight ball. We had a great trip to Montana to visit with the kids and Lee went deer hunting. Lee and the kids all got their deer and Nana did what she loves best, staying with the little ones. We had nice weather while we were there and went with Dane and Tonya  trick or treating on Halloween. Even we adults enjoyed some of Dane's candy

We had our first snow in the early part of Nov. and have continued to have it off and on for the last few weeks. It is suppose to be a heatwave tomorrow of 50 degrees. Lee is ready to head south anytime. We are now in the process of getting ready for Christmas and packing the trailer.

Friday we went with Shannon and the boys to the Eagle Crest tour of lights.
Porter couldn't get enough of the lights and loved the horses pulling the wagon loads of people. Santa wasn't bad either because he had candy canes.

Porter says he had been a good boy. I will try to post some pictures on to this page. That's about all for now. I am off to Portland Monday to help my mom and dad for a few days. I am praying that the snow in the mountains give me a break coming home the middle of the week.

Merry Christmas to everyone.


Wyatt wasn't to sure about this Santa business.



Wyatt went for the candy cane



Dane the little duck hunter.



Clint,Dane and Bones



Tonya and Kimber duck hunting.

Pictures that didn't get posted from the last post.

Clints Goat

Tanys Antelope

My Potatoes

Lees tomatoes. More pictues to come next month of the deer hunt and the grandkids.

What A Beautiful Fall!!!

Hi All,

Almost 2 months since the last post.  We have been soooo busy with fishing and not too much catching. The picture below is the only good day the guys had on the Sandy River.  They all got their two fish that morning.

I spent time with Clint and Tanya in  September while they were out hunting the Rocky Mountain Goat.  I did Nana sitting with the kids and really enjoyed it.  I had forgotten how much work they are.  Little Kimber is still nursing and gets up at least 2 times a night and needless to say doesn't have much patience while Nana heats up the bottle. But boy was she happy when the milk started flowing. Dane had grown so much and was such a good boy!  We read lots of books and went to the park a few times.   I will try to add a picture of the Goat and the Antalope that Tanya shot last week.  They are busy filling the freezer for this winter.  Lee and I are heading up there for about a week .

I was going to try to add extra pictures from the hunting trip but their seems to be some operator error. I will try to add them after I finish or just by themselves on another post.  We had a wonderful crop of Tomatoes, flowers and potatoes.  I planted 6 little fingerling potatoes and dug up about 18lbs of potatoes.  They taste just wonderful. We are going to have a few green tomatoes so I am going to try fried green tomatoes.  I will let you all know how they taste next month. That's about all for now.

Home Sweet Home

Almost September and I am finally home for a few weeks.  Lee has been busy fishing down at my brotherand sister inlaws in Astoria.  Fishing was wonderful, catching not so good.  In one week of fishing they only got 3 keepers. I guess the catching has been pretty spotty.  I did catch a silver coho, but had to put it back because it was a native.  Lee did get a nice silver on his last day fishing and it weighed in at 15lbs.

Lee is off again to go to the sandy river for fishing at the mouth of the sandy for a week. He left this morning in the rain. I hope that isn't a promise of the weather to come in the valley.

I will be working in that jungle we call a tomatoe garden for the next few days.  I got the biggest green catapiler that I have ever seen yesterday. I was wondering what was eating all the leaves off the tomatoes. I have had several zucchini from the garden. When I returned home from Astoria I discovered that some little rodent liked my basil !  I was expecting to do a batch of pesto.  Maybe next year.  Below are a few pictures of Porter and Wyatt at the Prineville resevrvior playing in the water and sand. We had a great time!

That's about it for now. The sun is out and so I guess I have to go to the garden before the next rain shower.

IS IT AUGUST ALREADY!!!!!!!

I know I have said it before, but where has our summer gone??? Since the last post we have been on the fast track, no time to down load pictures or do updates.  We had a wonderful visit with Clint, Tanya and the kids in Montana.  We arrived home on the 10th of July and I was on my way to LA the  12th of July. My sis, Debbie had herniated her L 5 disc and was having surgery on the 13th.  I was there for almost 3 weeks helping her thru two surgeries and on epidural to the L 4 and L 5 disc. This happen when she was flying home from Japan (she is a flight attendant) and we hope that workers comp will accept the claim since it happened on the job.  I was home from LA on the 1st of Aug and then off to the Crook county fair on the 2nd and 3rd.  Lee had cataract surgery on his left eye on the 5th. We had appts with the doc for a couple of days and then spent the 7th with Sam and Shannon at the fair.  We had such a great time the little boys really

Porter and Wyatt on the ponies

Playing in the sandbox at the fair.

enjoyed the animals and even rode the ponies!!!!  I entered herbs, tomatoes and flowers at the fair and came home with 6 blue ribbons and a 1 red ribbon.  I am all excited for next year now.  We have tomatoes coming out our ears and plenty of beans, peppers and zucchini.  Well, that is about all for now. It is suppose to heat up to the 90's for the next 4 days.  We may try to get to the lake for some water time.  Hope all is well with everyone out there.  Have a great weekend !  Enjoy!!!!!

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Porter sharing his cookie with Nana

Well, I did it again there are two pictures of Lee and Clint and the nice trout we caught up at Holter Reservoir and two pictures of Dane playing with the worms. I am quitting while I am ahead.