July Calendar

This is the July calendar that I made. Jenny took the "fireworks" picture that I used as the background. Love how it turned out. She is quite the photographer. Here is also a picture of the newest additions to her family...Jazzi had 6 puppies and Sally had 3.



Sally the Dachshund had 3 males-all purebred, and Jazzi the Boston terrier had 6 puppies...3 boys and 3 girls. The father is a dachshund, and the puppies are "designer dogs" called Bo dachs (sounds like bow doc's).
They are starting to move around and have their eyes open now.

Til later...

Summer at the beach...

Mel and I have spent 2 of the last 4 weekends in Lincoln City enjoying our home, and we are going back down again this next weekend. LOVE that place!

We enjoyed some cool weather down there over the 4th of July. It was 103 degrees when we left Hermiston, so the misty rain was a nice change.

Here are some updated pictures of things we've done.

The top of the bar: Jenny & Steven gave us some of the floats and Mom and Dad gave us some of them. They went perfectly up there.

The back of the bar:



The Foosball game we bought at a yard sale for $60:


Picture of Jared, Tammy & Quintin on the master bedroom dresser:

Picture of Jennifer, Steven, Kaeden and Kailer on the master bedroom dresser:

The dresser:

My new laundry sign:

And after I put some words on it:

The windsurfers in Hood River that we watched on our way home:

The kite room after I hung the valance up:

When we were at the ocean over the 4th of July, we went into a consignment shop and I found the largest picture that is hanging here on the bathroom wall. I fell in love with it, and knew it would go perfect in here, so I bought it:

Here are 2 pictures that are in the bathroom...Jen and Kai in the one on the wall, and Tammy & Q sitting by the sink:


These are the shelves in the master bathroom:


This is a picture Mel bought for me, and it is in the "friendship" bedroom:

Mel's brother, Ronald made Mr. Sailor for us when we first started building the house, so it was nice that I actually got a picture of him with Mr. Sailor:

Mel & I with Mr. Sailor:


Til later...

Summertime fun...

We have been having a busy summer. A friend of mine, Pam Martin, and I took Quintin and Nathan to Hood River to ride "Thomas the Train" on June 28th. It happened to be the first HOT weekend in Hood River this summer. It was 103 degrees that day, so was a little hard to enjoy. Thy boys did like playing at Great Grandpa Curt and Great Grandma Marcelle's house before the ride, and the shaved ice we got them at the train station was a big hit. Here are some pictures from the trip:


Thomas the Train, Quintin's favorite thing at this time in his life:



Mr Q watching out of the train:


Nathan on the train:


Gramma Vicki & Quintin riding on Thomas the Train:


Pam & Nathan riding on Thomas the Train: