What a fun Christmas!

Christmas was so much fun this year! Brinley
and Logan are around 18 months old and they
had such a great time tearing the wrapping paper
and playing in the boxes. They really didn't need
any toys!
We had fun with our families and also with Massimo,
Roberta and Elisabetta who joined us for Christmas.















Before the fun and mess began.














Steph, Chad & Brinley coming in from the snow.














Brinley looking for the "meow, meow".














Color coordinated: like father, like son.



















Brinley trying to hide behind the snowmen.














Brinley & Logan weren't sure what to think
about the Cookie Monster in the box.














Paul sporting a new BSU hat.














Chad sporting a bow on his head.














Brinley got a new blanket from Paul & Sharee
and she thought it was for tumbling in.














After her tumble.














Logan got excited when Brinley did her tumble!














Some people are real camera hams!



















Logan crawled into a Chex box all
by himself and sat there for awhile.
I guess you can put some people in a box.














MaryDell, Roberta and Massimo opening their
gifts.



















Logan in his dinosaur P.J.'s














Logan & Brinley compete for the bigger box.














Logan crawled in the box of bows and would throw
them out as Brinley would put them back in the
box. They make a great team.

Friends from Italy

Our Italian friends, Massimo, Roberta and their
9 month old baby, Elisabetta, came to visit us the
week of Christmas.
They were interested in trying many American
foods such as: hamburgers, pancakes and Krispy
Creme donuts and going shopping at the mall.
We took them to Red Robin where they had their
choice of many burgers. They loved it!
Massimo thought we have better food in America
then they have in Italy.
They stayed with Don's Mom in Boise, but we all
saw them most everyday while they were here.
It was fun to see how they interact with their baby
and hear the cute Italian words they used with her.
We had a nice time with them!

Family Pictures

We did family pictures on the greenbelt in October.
Brinley and Logan were more interested in the ducks
and geese than they were taking pictures that day.

Our Blog

Several people have said they wanted to see pictures of our grandbabies and our Europe trip and my trip to Israel, so I began a blog recently to let everyone know what we've doing this past year. You can click on the year and month under "Blog Archive" to look at all the posts, I went back as far as June 1st, 2007. If you would like to zoom in on a picture just double click on the image. You're welcome to leave comments by clicking on "comments" at the bottom of a post. I hope you enjoy the pictures. --Sue

Recent pictures with the grand-toddlers

Papa and Logan.

Logan's truckin' now
Going down.

Say "cheese", Brinley.

Hard to believe she was crawling just a few months ago. She looks so big now.

Brinley at a store trying to hear the "Bow Wow" speak.

Logan playing at Papa and Nana's home.


Logan a new "toddler"

Brinley doing some serious cooking at the kitchen in the playroom.

Arthur's visit in September

Arthur came to visit in September and we took him, MaryDell, MaryAnn and Larry fishing at Owhyee reservoir.

MaryDell enjoyed the boat ride. She told us more about the Owyhee Reservoir

then any of us knew.

We caught enough crappie that our kids and Tosha joined us that night for a fish fry.

Labor Day weekend camping trip

Camping at Last Chance Campground above McCall in September

Taking a break during our hike.

Another baby break.

The bridge on Goose Creek.

Everyone gets a picture on the bridge.

Papa was trying to keep the babies under control, they had different ideas.

This was Don's favorite way to spend his birthday weekend.

This is what you get when you try to take a photo on the "timer". Double click to see us better.

Rafting the Lower Salmon river

In August we rafted the Lower Salmon River and the Snake River with a group of 13 friends from Oregon. We covered 65 miles in 4 days.

Race for the river.

River Plunge.

One night a big dry lightening storm came through and caught the mountain straight across from us on fire. It rained later that night and kept the fire at bay. In the morning we watched as helicopters drew water from the river by us and put out the fire. It was quite a show!

The weather was hot, near 100 degrees. We were jumping in the river and floating down to keep cool.

River Capt. Don.

Don with 5 year old Kale on Darnell's kayak.

Sue in the kayak.

We had 2 rafts, 2 big catarafts, 3 mini catarafts and 1 kayak in our group. When we reached the Snake River the head winds were so great we had to motor out to our take out point.

It was a beautifully scenic trip and a lot of fun!