Reed and I spent between conference sessions laying sod. 

Reed did a water color plan of where all the plants would go. 

Reed, Blake, Erin, Mickayla and I worked hard planting plants for two days. 

Even Will got into the project. 

When ever William gets fussy this is what he wants. He loves being upside down!!!!  

We moved everyone around when Erin and Brett moved in. Blake moved back to the "cold" room, Reed moved upstairs to his old room and Erin and Brett took the downstairs room. The room Reed was taking needed to be painted badly. He took the "blue room". Dad took down the dolphin border and then Erin and Reed painted it. They painted the room light tan with a dark green accent wall. As you can see they had a lot of fun doing it. Erin looked rather funny. She had a pair of my jeans on. I don't know how she kept them up. Brett and I finished up the job by putting on the second coat. The room looks rather nice. 

The family at Grandma's after the wedding. We sure filled the house, but it was sure fun. 

This is the family at the Wrestling awards banquet. Everyone close by came to support the boys. It was great. It was a very long evening, but nice. 

Blake received an award at the wrestling banquet. He was one or two wrestlers to receive an acedemic award. Good for Blake, bad for our wrestling team. Blake also received a certificate so he could letter in wrestling. (Of course he already had the letterman jacket with his letter sewn on. It is good he really did letter. He was excited to wear the jacket the next day!) 

Reed recieving one of his many awards at the Wrestling Awards night. 

Reed is receiving one of his awards at the Wrestling Banquet. He received four awards. 1. The Most Major Decisions. 2. The Most Technical Falls. 3. The Most take downs 4. This was the Most impressive. He got the coaches award for being a great wrestler in both character and wrestling. We were very proud of him. He got this award in both Wrestling and Football. 

On Monday Dad and I took Maike, Scott, Candice and Mickayla to the San Juan Islands. We took a ferry to Orcas Island. Here we are waiting for the ferry. The wind is cold but it isn't to bad. We had no idea what was coming. When we got to Orcas Island the road was closed going up to Mt Constitution. Usually we enjoy a nice drive up to a gorgeous view. When we got there we found the road was closed. Little did we know that it was beause of deep snow. We were soon to find out. We were dressed for a drive not a long hike through the snow but we decided to hike up the mountain. We made it though, with a little trouble and a very worn out little girl. She got carried down the mountain by every one but me. I gave her a sled ride on my coat for a little ways and then I left the group to hike down a little faster to go get the car and drive it closer to the the gate so they wouldn't have to go as far. (It only shortened the hike a little.)Each of the rest of them had to carry Mickayla down the mountain. We used the road not the trail for the down hill hike. It made it easier for Kim and I where we didn't have hiking shoes on. We were all very tired at the end. It was an event we will NEVER forget!! 

We stopped for some fun on the way. We didn't know that further up the mountain we would have all the snow we wanted. We thought this was going to be as deep as it came.  

Scott was funny in our snowball fight. Just like any smart married man he used his wife as a shield. 

Dad was a good shot. He hit Candice right in the forhead 

This was the group of us pretty fresh. We had just hiked a 1.3 miles. We felt great. We had 2 plus miles to go to the top of Mt. Contitution. Little did we know that we had 6 inches of snow to climb through at a straight up incline. 

There was a tower to climb up in to look over the San Jaun Islands at the top of the hike. Maike, Scott and Mickayla were already at the top of the tower when I got there. I was not thrilled to see I would have to climb some more. But I did. The view was beautiful. 

This is what we found after our hike up. It was beautiful. We couldn't stay long because we needed to catch the ferry home. It was to darn cold to want to stay any longer anyhow. 

We were all shot after such a long hard day. Candice and Scott slept on the ferry. The rest of us sat back and enjoyed the ride. We were to tired to play games. 

Maike and I went to Seattle on Tuesday. We went to the Seattle center, Pike place market and then on to the water front where we found the Argasy cruise of the bay for half price. So we went. We had a great time! The weather was great. I liked the idea we were seeing a lot and learning the history and we were seating on our bottoms and not on our feet, especially after the day we had the day before. 

Maike and I met Candice in Bellevue after a fun day in Seattle. We went to resturaunt after resturaunt but every one was full. We were getting hungry. It was a Tuesday night. We didn't expect trouble find a place to eat. As you can see Candice and Maike were pretty hungry by the time we found a resturaunt that didn't have a hour wait. 

Kim and I took Maike to Levenworth. We had a great time. She seemed to enjoy it. The weather was great. She had never been to Levenworth before. She didn't get to go when she lived here with us. Hopefully she didn't mind going with two old people.  

Erin took all the pictures for the guest book. While she wasn't looking I got one of her. I like how Will hung out at the open house. I would have liked to be carried around and looked so relaxed. 

Candice and Scott at the open house. They are so cute together 

Here is a wierd happening! I was looking at the pictures I just had developed from my camera. This a my large camera I use all the time. I had pictures on Reed and Blake's wrestling banquet awards (I thought), Candice's open house and a few other things. When I looked at the pictures this is all I had on the banquet (the rest is on another roll so I know I do have some pictures of this event). I couldn't figure it out. Then I saw the two pictures before it. What a shock.