Thursday, August 28, 2008

Great News

We learned last night that Rohn and Marylynn and Christopher are coming for the Wedding! We are very excited to see them - it has been way too long.

Grant and Ronda


Congratulations to our eldest son, Grant and Ronda, his fiance, who are getting married Sept 20th. We are all very excited!

We are looking forward to that day, which will be another reunion of our family.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Curran Reunion Slide Show

What a wonderful visit we had at the Curran Reunion this year - held at our home/campground. We enjoyed so much visiting with family members and appreciate everyone's assistance and how much they wanted to help. When the family comes, they take over and do nearly all the work. It was especially nice because I was not feeling very well this year. Thank you so much!

Annual Army Ball

I was privileged to take care of the 'Awesome Six' Thursday night while Garth and Julie attended the annual 'Army Ball' dressed in their finest attire.
Here are a few pictures

Here is Garth in his full dress uniform wearing all his decorative medals etc.

Garth and Julie - What a wonderful couple they are and awesome parents

You may be wondering about this picture. I wanted to take a picture of Garth's feet because he is actually wearing stirrups - he is in a calvary unit.

Monday, August 18, 2008

Denise, Crystal & Baby Noah Visit

What a wonderful time we had visiting with our family. Our wonderful daughter Denise and her daughter, Crystal and her son, Noah who is almost 9 months old came from Oregon. Then there was our granddaughter, Nicole and her two children, Camdin and Logan from Utah and then Anthon and Jennie surprised us (at least me) and came up also from Utah. It was great fun.
Here is a slide show. I wrote captions for each one and none of them showed up. I am not sure what I did wrong.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

What a good feeling!





Here it is - ready for the freezer. (Those freezer bags I ordered by the case from Aaron & emmylou's store sure are wonderful and a great price also). What a good feeling it is to be somewhat self sufficient and to know we have enough food to make it through the winter. The Lord has truly blessed us.

I am adding a couple more garden pictures. I spent some time today getting the cauliflower ready (there is still lots more not quite full grown) to put in the freezer.
This pan belonged to my grandmother Pearl Harris. I think of her every time I use it, which is quite often.





Here are the latest garden pictures and greenhouse pictures. I don't know what happened to my camera but these pictures are not good. The settings must be wrong but I am not sure what to do about it. Any suggestions anyone? Would the resolution setting have anything to do with it?
I love digging potatoes out of the garden. It is such fun and they taste so great.



Keeping the weeds out!









Ellsworth is still working away on the greenhouse and it is nearly complete now. This picture does not do it justice as it is beautiful

Uncle Ralph

June 25th - As most of you know, Ralph had a complete hip replacement over a week ago and is mending pretty well we think. The first surgery was not healing right - it was crooked so they decided to finally do this surgery. He should be much better off once it is completely healed.
It was quite an ordeal for him
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As most of you know, my brother Ralph was in a horrible car accident yesterday morning (Sat Apr 19th) Actually it was about 1 o'clock in the morning. He was on his paper route and driving along about 60 miles an hour he said when a car came over the hill and was in his lane. He had no time to do anything; the car just hit him head on.
We are all feeling fortunate that Ralph is still with us. He was hurt quite badly with several broken bones. However, he didn't lose consciousness, which means a lot and he is trying to keep his spirits up which means a lot.
Neil kindly drove mom and I to the hospital in Tacoma yesterday and we stayed there and visited with his family until he was out of surgery and then out of the recovery room. We did get to visit with him for a while in his room. He is in a lot of pain but they have changed his pain medication now and it is helping him.

Here is his address if you would like to send him a card which I know he would enjoy receiving.
Ralph R. Dahlberg Room 516 J Wing
Tacoma General Hospital
315 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
PO BX 5299
Tacoma, WA . 98415

Time Goes by

This past Friday night I rode with Neil and Maddy to the Elma Football Field to watch two of our grandsons play soccer.
Jesse Burbidge (Cindy & Arlin's) played for the Elma soccer team and did a great job. Dalton Newell (Eldon & Candy's) played for Tumwater. He did a great job also but was limited on the time he could play as he was plagued with a nosebleed.
It brought back a lot of memories of past football games. Eldon, Gordon, Garth, Aaron, Josh and Dan all played football for Elma. They loved it with a passion. I loved going to the games and rooting for the boys.
How quickly time passes. It seemed so strange to be there at the football field watching my children's children play. I don't get to go very often but enjoy it when I do.
Jesse is Captain of his team and will graduate from high school this year so he doesn't have too many games left to play.
It was good to sit with the family and enjoy their company.

Favorite Memory from Childhood