Tuesday, August 25, 2009
First Day of School
Evan is a senior! ready to go back to bed. Claire is a sophomore ready to take on the world.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Half Dome Hike
A beautiful day for a hike in Yosemite. The hikers left San Jose at 3am, Mark at the wheel but he and Jeff spent the day fishing. I think, they started hiking around 6:30am
Evan and Andy
The adventurous hikers -
Eric, friend Kyle, Claudia, Joslyn, Andy, Evan
Vernal Falls
See the people? They're tiny, walking the path on the left
"Yikes!"
Half Dome - you can see the line of people going up and down the cables - it looks like a trail of ants
A zoom of the above picture
Some of what you can see while hiking up
The cables...
Evan and Andy ready to go up
Jos and Andy
"See - we're smiling. It's fun..."
Claudia with her big "I love a challenge!" smile
It helps to wear gloves - there is often a pile of them for anyone to use.
Hand over hand...
Evan acting too scared to move - but that really happens to people.
The top!
They made it!
Views of the valley.
Someone yelled "wave" so Eric snapped a picture too.
That's Eric out there.
"Stay away from the edge..."
"Evan! Stay Away..."
"Oh Man..."
Why do people do stuff like this?
We hear it is called "King's Chair" Yeah - for an unpopular king.(don't know him)
Waiting to go back down the cables.
Still waiting. What's that guy doing outside the cables?! (don't know him)
Down, down, down...
Evan strayed from the path and decided he'd slide part of the way down.
He should have stayed on the path.
The hikers got back to San Jose around 11pm. Sounds like they did the hike in 12 hours but that is including a couple hours wait at the cables...
Everyone still walks and talks so guess they all survived.
Who wants to go next time?
(Not Evan or Eric...at least not yet. It's probably a little like child birth...)
Evan and Andy
The adventurous hikers -
Eric, friend Kyle, Claudia, Joslyn, Andy, EvanVernal Falls
See the people? They're tiny, walking the path on the left
"Yikes!"
Half Dome - you can see the line of people going up and down the cables - it looks like a trail of ants
A zoom of the above picture
Some of what you can see while hiking up
The cables...
Evan and Andy ready to go up
Jos and Andy
"See - we're smiling. It's fun..."
Claudia with her big "I love a challenge!" smile
It helps to wear gloves - there is often a pile of them for anyone to use.
Hand over hand...
Evan acting too scared to move - but that really happens to people.
The top!
They made it!
Views of the valley.
Someone yelled "wave" so Eric snapped a picture too.
That's Eric out there.
"Stay away from the edge..."
"Evan! Stay Away..."
"Oh Man..."
Why do people do stuff like this?
We hear it is called "King's Chair" Yeah - for an unpopular king.(don't know him)
Waiting to go back down the cables.
Still waiting. What's that guy doing outside the cables?! (don't know him)
Down, down, down...
Evan strayed from the path and decided he'd slide part of the way down.
He should have stayed on the path.
The hikers got back to San Jose around 11pm. Sounds like they did the hike in 12 hours but that is including a couple hours wait at the cables...Everyone still walks and talks so guess they all survived.
Who wants to go next time?
(Not Evan or Eric...at least not yet. It's probably a little like child birth...)
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Jeep Update
First day of deer season and the jeep is headed up to the mountains...to the mechanic's to have more work done.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Eric's Back!
What does a newly returned missionary do first thing in the morning? Iron his white shirt of course. Eric was up and at 'em early - getting ready to be released by Pres. Green.
Was very fun to have family stop by to say hello.
Chillin' by the pool.
Eric's gift to Evan - a tourist shirt - perfect - Eric knows his brother well.
Was very fun to have family stop by to say hello.
Chillin' by the pool.
Eric's gift to Evan - a tourist shirt - perfect - Eric knows his brother well.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
What a Great Day!
8:30ish Ryan's breakfast request, scones with buttermilk syrup. Thank you Grandma Judy!
Footprint and heart shaped scone for our soon to be hardworking missionary.
Claudia delivered these cookies to Ryan just before we left San Jose Tuesday morning. We were good - we saved some Hello Mate ones for Eric.
11:40ish Elder Eric Hardester lands in Salt Lake.
Elder Loertscher was Eric's MTC companion, and they served in Adelaide together, and they came home together.
12:30ish Headed to lunch and exchanging gifts.
A kangaroo skin scripture bag. (we all got one!)
The perfect gift for an outgoing missionary from his returning from an Australia mission brother - a tie with kangaroos!
Ryan's gift to Eric - a picture of his missionary self. The frame, purchased at Walmart of course. Grandma Judy printed the picture for him. Thank you Judy!
12:45ishLunch at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building
2:00ish Last Goodbyes
3:00 MTC
4:15ish A visit with Tom Carlisle and Grandma Elaine
5:30ish to 7:00ish Outback Steak House - to spend more time with family.
It's great to have friends on the "inside". Gregg came into dinner and without saying a word placed a paper down in front of Greg and me. It was a copy of Ryan's district! There was Ryan smiling big as can be - among 11 other missionaries, their names and homes listed under their pictures - and we saw who Ryan's companion is! Thank you, thank you Gregg!
A free Sundae for Eric. Isn't that nice? The waitstaff did that on their own accord - to welcome home the Australian missionary.
Off to the airport - Greg's still driving.
9:30ish Salt Lake Airport
Unfortunately, we arrived to the airport to find out our flight had been delayed an hour.
We think Eric had been up nearly 40 hours by now.
10:30ish Oakland Airport
Greeters from San Jose - what a great surprise!
It was a great day.
Footprint and heart shaped scone for our soon to be hardworking missionary.
Claudia delivered these cookies to Ryan just before we left San Jose Tuesday morning. We were good - we saved some Hello Mate ones for Eric.
11:40ish Elder Eric Hardester lands in Salt Lake.
Elder Loertscher was Eric's MTC companion, and they served in Adelaide together, and they came home together.
12:30ish Headed to lunch and exchanging gifts.
A kangaroo skin scripture bag. (we all got one!)
The perfect gift for an outgoing missionary from his returning from an Australia mission brother - a tie with kangaroos!
Ryan's gift to Eric - a picture of his missionary self. The frame, purchased at Walmart of course. Grandma Judy printed the picture for him. Thank you Judy! 
12:45ishLunch at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building
2:00ish Last Goodbyes
3:00 MTC
4:15ish A visit with Tom Carlisle and Grandma Elaine
5:30ish to 7:00ish Outback Steak House - to spend more time with family.
It's great to have friends on the "inside". Gregg came into dinner and without saying a word placed a paper down in front of Greg and me. It was a copy of Ryan's district! There was Ryan smiling big as can be - among 11 other missionaries, their names and homes listed under their pictures - and we saw who Ryan's companion is! Thank you, thank you Gregg! 
A free Sundae for Eric. Isn't that nice? The waitstaff did that on their own accord - to welcome home the Australian missionary.
Off to the airport - Greg's still driving.9:30ish Salt Lake Airport
Unfortunately, we arrived to the airport to find out our flight had been delayed an hour.
We think Eric had been up nearly 40 hours by now.
10:30ish Oakland Airport
Greeters from San Jose - what a great surprise!
It was a great day.
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