Guess Who?

OK - so it isn't hard to guess
I scanned this for an RS event we're having tomorrow night. One of those, "find a picture of yourself - we're going to play a game with the pictures" type deal. I think this is a cute one. This is written on the back.
"Eddie in his first jacket and Kathy just keeping him company. Oh - how they are growing.
10 Hiltingbury, Chandlersford England 1968"

Why Not?

In the spirit of Why Not?

Why would two teenage girls, on a Friday afternoon, dress up like nerds and play ping pong?




Why Not?


They actually were psyching up for an end of summer dance in Santa Cruz Saturday night. Several of their friends went dressed in similar costume. One addition - they all wore suspenders.

Claire reports it was a very fun dance.

9/9/09 9:09

Claire came home from the Youngmen Youngwomen activity and saw on the microwave that it was 9:09. So of course, we had to grab the camera. What were you doing at 9:09 on 9/9/09?


Claire was having a sip of chocolate milk.

First Day of School

Evan is a senior! ready to go back to bed. Claire is a sophomore ready to take on the world.

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...)

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.

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.