High School Reunion

Recently I met some girlfriends from high school for a reunion. From the left:

Cally, Raylene, Jan, Nancy, Linda, Joyce and Maxine. It started out to be a bigger group but for one reason or another several were unable to attend. We've been out of high school for almost 38 years now!!! We still look 18 though don't we??

I'm Almost Ready!!

Gigi is going to skip the crawling stage and go straight to walking. This is the game she plays with her mom. She will alternate between standing in front of the couch and leaning on the couch. Next step . . . taking a step!!

Happy Valentine's Day

Chloe and Audrey had a great time frosting Valentine Cookies at Grandma's house. Audrey loved the sprinkles and piled them high with candy on top! (she, however, doesn't like cookies with frosting or sprinkles on them - she insists on plain cookies to eat) Chloe loves the frosting and candy though, so she made sure that the cookie she was going to eat had wall to wall frosting AND candy! They had a ball!!

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!

We took some time this year to See the Lights - First in Ogden . . . This is the group - minus me . . . even Wedge came and it was SOOO cold!!! We went back to Emily's house for Hot Chocolate when we were thoroughly frozen!!

Kaleena and Chloe - the picture I took of Chloe with her mom was blurry, but this one turned out cute!

Next we went to Temple Square - Randy has a blanket wrapped around his neck. I told him he couldn't make fun of me anymore for the towel wrapped around my neck when we toured the Grand Canyon in a snowstorm!!

Gigi was the warmest of us all!
She was quite cozy in her warm little "sleeping bag" in her stroller.

Chloe and Audrey LOVE each other - Bethany says they are frenemies - They love each other to death but don't he sitate to fight over toys, etc.!

Here are my beautiful girls. Interesting that the daughters are not standing by their mothers!!

Grandma and her sweeties!!

The Hendricks Head for Portland

About 2 or 3 months ago, Randy said he was going to take off a few days of work and wanted to know what I wanted to do. I told him I wanted to go on a road trip - my favorite kind of vacation!! He thought Portland would be fun so that was the PLAN!!

This is our stop at Twin Falls, Idaho. Randy had always wanted to see Shoshone Falls and so it was the first stop on our trip to Portland.

Our first night on the trip we stayed in a Rodeway Inn in Pendleton, Oregon. Whatever you do DO NOT STAY THERE!! It was a dive! The room was small and the bathroom was really weird!! It had a tiled shower from the 1960's with a floor that severely sloped to the drain. Made it hard to balance as you were taking a shower. There was no tub - the refrigerator did not work . . . just don't go there!

As we were driving through Hood River - Randy mentioned that his printing company had done work for a pizza place there, as we turned off the road to find a place to get lunch, there was Pietro's Pizza, the place he had done printing for. We stopped and had a great lunch for a VERY good price!! The food was excellent too. Hood River is a very pretty place. This is a picture of Multnomah Falls - it was the biggest and best of the waterfalls we saw. They said that a few years ago a boulder the size of a bus fell out of the wall behind the falls and crashed down to the lower falls. We also saw Horsetail Falls and Wakeenah Falls.
We spent Saturday at Seaside the furthest point west of the Lewis and Clark trail. Here is Randy with Lewis and Clark!! There is a boardwalk area with shops behind the statue where we spent some time and had crab at the local restaurant.

We visited the Japanese Gardens in Portland on Sunday - it was very beautiful, peaceful and green. They insisted you not have your cell phones on and to quietly view the gardens.

I took lots of pictures of roses from the Portland Rose Garden. It is in the same area as the Japanese Gardens. There were lots of beautiful roses there. I think they create new breeds of roses in this garden. There was one they developed named after Julia Roberts. (Not this one)

No trip would be complete without visiting at least one shopping center. This is The Lloyd Center in downtown Portland. Lots of great stores and and ice skating rink as well!! This was our last Portland adventure - except the outlet malls on the way out of town!! It was so great to be with Randy for a few days and just be together. We listened to a book on tape on the way home and the trip just flew by . . . it was hard to come home. Except we missed all of you!!!

Thanksgiving Point

We recently went to Thanksgiving Point for their $2 Tuesday. Audrey and Chloe had a great time at the Farm Animals area. Here they are waiting to go on a ride on the horse drawn wagon.

Chloe loves this little house . . .

Audrey is very brave feeding the bunnies!

Happy Birthday Grandma

I had a great birthday - two of my favorite people are in the picture with me!! Thanks to all of my family for a great celebration!!!