Triplets

What are the odds of the three of us matching? Silly!

Me, Roseanne and Ronda (And Mr. Ronan Alt)

Shed Moving Day

Finally, after having the cement pad poured many months ago, the long awaited shed moving day was here. At one point we thought we would be moving the shed with our brute strength. Not a feat I was looking forward too. My brute strength has been downgraded to impish strength at best. We had no need to worry as our neighbor and friend, Ray Myer came over with his bobcat and moved it singlehandedly.







Jackson decided that it would be a good time to prune the tree above the shed.  Thank you Jackson!

Brotherly summer feats!

The perfectly balanced Price brothers. Spencer, Chandler and Hunter were pretty amazing with this three story wonder.


The Jefferson and Jackson duo had their own fun building a tower.

Miss Kennedy

Aunt Micah came down to visit and she came and took photos for us. Here are a few of Kennedy in the pool wearing this pink swim cap I made for her. Sweet!

Thank you Micah for sharing your talent. You are awesome!

Family Photos

Here are a few of our family photos. Do you have a favorite?

Summertime

Queen Amidala

You too can get this look if you sleep in your ponytail!

Captured glory from the land of the Rising Sun

Just a few more pictures, this is me giving the west linn farewell address to the whole school, it was very intimidating to see 1000 identical faces in perfect rows staring at me. 
They had lots of funny signs in bad english, but we got their message and applaud them for knowing more english then we did japanese.
One more reason to choose yamaha.
This is big buddha, he was very big. I'm sure he still is.
At the park in nara, the city of big buddha, these deer were everywhere and would attack people for food. I thought it was funny, until I tried it. 

 This is the golden pavilion in kyoto, it is very old and beautiful. The japanese people believe that everything needs to be balanced, so they built it next to water so the reflection could be mirrored to the observer.

In this picture I am taking part in the local town's matsuri, (That means festival to you Americans) One thing we did was drink ramune, which is a soda but there is a little glass ball inside a compartment that will stop the drink from flowing if you try to drink it to fast, so I lost.
One bizarre story that happened was one night my "uncle" showed up and said he was going to take me fishing (in Japanese of course) so later that day, after doing karaoke for 7, that's right 7 hours we went down to the ocean and started to fish for squid and it got late and I was wondering when we would go home, but the uncle just said we would sleep here. I had not known this was the plan, so I pulled out my handkerchief and that was my pillow on the itchy concrete wharf next to the ocean.
There were a lot of rock gardens, they looked cool but just seemed like a lot of effort to rake rocks everyday. 
This is the family I stayed with for two weeks, from left to right: yohei, likes baseball, risa, my sister who took me to school, tall blonde American Jefferson, Uncle fisherman, dad, watches bad Japanese soap operas, Nao, plays handball very funny, and finally mom who works as a nurse and drives her kids everywhere.

I had a blast!!!