Isaac and his Buzz Lightyear birthday party. (Owen is in the foreground.)

Isaac and Owen blowing up balloons!!

Our little Katin, or is he a bunny rabbit? Too cute!!!

After the pinata has been busted by Geno. The last blow is below!!!

Dad, Katin and Paige. Jeff and Erin were here for a few days a week ago, and we had a blast. The cousins really have a fun time together.

Jeffrey and Paige at Disneyland!! Too cute!!!

Jeff and Erin, Dad, Jeffrey, Gail (Erin's Mom) and Owen at Disney's California Adventure.

Jeffrey, Geno and Malia at Wahoo's Fish Taco Restaurant. Theses kids have so much fun together!!!

Here I am looking over Roche Harbor, one of the islands off of Seattle, Washington, and Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. A friend of mine from Brazil, Rayanna Abreu, (she was about 9 at the time) was doing an intercambio where she worked up here (housekeeping) and learned English. (I'm not sure how much English she learned because they put her in a house with 2 other Brazilians! And their boss was Colombian!) We spoke in Portuguese those 3 days! Yeah!!)

Here we are looking back at the hotels and cafe etc. It's a really small resort/town on the north side of the island with Friday Harbor. It was in such a picturesque spot!! It was truly beautiful and peaceful. The island population swells to about 4 times the amount in the summer, so that would definitely be something to see!! That is to say that there were not a whole lot of people there when I was there. Getting there from Seattle I took a puddle jumper plane to the island, which was definitely an experience, but it was wonderful to get that aerial view of the islands etc.. On the way back to Seattle, I took the ferry from Friday Harbor to Anacortes, WA, and then a shuttle (bus) down to the airport. It's beautiful country up there!!

Little Katin Alexander Blackmun, was blessed the first Sunday in March by his Dad and various family members. (The poor little thing cried the whole way through it!) Yes, HE is wearing a dress that my Mom wanted purchased for her grandchildren to be blessed in. (I showed the picture to some friends at work and they said SHE's cute!! How soon they forget!) He's still our little blondie and so far his eyes have remained blue. He's soooooo cute!!!

Here's a picture of the family members that were there for the blessing. Aunt Sharon is taking the picture for us. There's me, Isaac, Bill and Espie Stone (Ericka's parents), Geno, Gene, Katin, Ericka, Aunt Jan, Uncle Gary, Dad, Malia, Laura Stone (Ericka's sister) and Anthony (Laura's boyfriend.)

I had more photos I wanted to add but a week ago this site wouldn't take them, so I downsized my photo postings. I'll post more later. Jeff and Erin are here now and we went to Disneyland yesterday, and then had Isaac's 4th birthday party this morning.

Some more pictures from the past couple of months

This was at a last minute "Mitt Romney for President" rally at the Long Beach airport, the night before Super tuesday. My favorite poster was "FHE w/ Romney". I am sure if the media, that was there, saw it, they wouldn't know what to think of it. Ha Ha!

This is a picture of my friend Clay, his daughter Jessica and I, at the rally. He worked on the campaign and told me about the rally that morning. Clay and I go back 18 years (ouch!!) when he, his sister Nicole, brother Darren and I (Gene was there too at the time) were really good friends at the Cerritos College Institute of Religion. I didn't know if Clay would be there that night and I was turning to leave when I saw him across the "hanger". I made a bee-line for him and when I got his attention it took a second for him to recognize me. :o) It must've been the highlighted and straight hair!! Sorry, Clay. It was good to see him and meet his daughter, who I'd only seen as a toddler. She's now about 14 or 15. She's beautiful too, with those gorgeous, light green eyes! (In case you didn't know, I am an eye person!)

This was Geno's Cub Scout's pinewood derby this last month. He won a few of the heats. Given a couple of more match-ups, his Dad says that he would've won the night. (His is the yellow one.)

This was one of the times that he won 1st place!

Dad and I took a quick trip to Utah for 2 days over Christmas break. It was a blast! Here's Jeff's family in their family room. We, along with Erin's parents, had a hoot New Year's Eve playing games and setting off fireworks at midnight with it being 9 degrees outside!! Fun, fun! I'll post more pictures later.

Ok. Here are the pictures that I talked about in my last blog. Isn't he adorable? Mr. Luke Shearer, too pretty to be a boy!!! Anyway, yes, I am not sure how to turn the bottom picture, you'll just have to turn your head. Sorry! The bottom one has his parents, Autumn and Keith Shearer.

I got back Sunday from a quick trip to Chandler, AZ for a photography class that I attended. It was great! She is my friend's sister-in-law, and takes gorgeous, natural light photos. Her website is sarahgoodmanphotography.com and she does it all in the manual mode of her digital SLR camera. It was challenging, but I think that I will be able to practice and get the technique down. She has such creative and contemporary angles etc., that they actually may be displeasing for real traditionalists. Anyway, it was a good trip. I stayed with my friend Autumn and her family (Thank you, thank you!!!) . I took a gorgeous picture of her little boy Luke (who is too pretty to be a boy :o)), if I do say so myself. I will try and post soome other pictures from the last couple of months in the next couple of weeks. I am going to see a friend from Brasil, who is working on an island off of Seattle, this next week for a couple of days, so I should have more pictures!! Yeah!

I've been neglectful!!

Ooh, it's been too long since I wrote anything here. Since I last wrote, I've been to Utah twice, had Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. I will have to write more later and add a bunch of pictures. I am still learning how to use this site, and it can be confusing. (And like all computers, it won't do exactly what I want it to do!!!! :o)) Ha Ha! All is well here!