swimming at the sand bar
love, Val
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June 2015
a kids fishing trip
It took a good long amount of time to get all the fishing poles ready. But it was time well spent. The whole operation was smooth once we were out on the lake in a sunny cove. Julia wakes up so slowly in the morning. She could use a pot of coffee to get going,
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happy birthday, buddy
Today’s the day John turns 36. Every time I wrote a check today I wanted to write 6-11-79. That’s the day we first met, kind of like this: John, thank you for all these many years of friendship and love, for being such a dedicated brother, and for being such a fine, responsible citizen of
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first boat ride
First boat ride of the summer–it was pretty nice. There are quite a few eagles up here. Hey Tim, thanks for not hiding your face for once. love, MOM
more pictures from last weekend
There was plenty of baby hugging going on. That’s Kirby, a baby-hugger from way back. And we had one-card poker every night. This is that old card game from Dannell’s family. Her grandpa, Bud Houfer was the man who started all this. It’s a great game because kids can play it just as well as
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graduation!
Yes, here’s the band. James has played in it for numerous graduations and froze his little behind. Tonight he was a graduate, and the temperature was 72 degrees of perfection, light breeze, could not be any better. Here are the graduates marching in: And they took their seats. The speeches were actually quite lovely, kind
jet ski and who is the photographer?
Renee’s daughter was excited to go for a ride. When R heard the child was off on a jet ski ride, she ran to the dock, trusting that John knew what he was doing, but also unsure what a jet ski ride involved. It’s not dangerous. Here are a few pictures I took of
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a sweet picture and a photo bomb
So sweet. Not all that sweet: It was a great weekend. love you all, MOM aka GRANDMA
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a few quick pictures from the weekend
Here they are, with all of us, waiting for our food at the chinese take-out place. “It will be 30 minutes. We have to make more rice.” Okay. Well, all those containers of plain white rice went in the wastebasket today as we were packing the coolers to leave the lake. Nevermind. It was a
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