Sailing Sailing over the Deep Blue Sea or Come On Baby Take Me On a Sea Cruise

You are all waiting to hear how the big sailing adventure went.  Well let me just say it was a once in a life time experience.  I felt like the jennie in Aladin in a little bitty space.  But we had terrific weather and saw some beautiful places.  Here are a few pictures that tell it all.  The flower and garden pictures come from visiting Butchart Garden's in Victoria Canada.  They were so beautiful and the pictures do not do them justice.  Enjoy!

This is the boat we were on it is called the Double Eagle and is a 52 foot sail boat remember we had 12 people on this boat for 6 days.

the cords by me were how we got power when we moored at night

on the deck of the boat

coming up from the hull of the boat where we had eating and sleeping quarters you had to walk side ways to get from one place to another. Bottom picture is our captain Uncle Norm and my Aunt Cathy grandpa Baker's sister.  He has sailed to Hawaii before and been in sail boat races.  Very experienced sailor.

A new Grandson and a visit to New York

It has been a busy summer and I have a few minutes to write and show some of the special things that have made this summer memorable.
As spring came we welcomed a new grandson on May 1st.  He is a joy and miracle as he joined the Gilchrist family who have waited and prayed for a baby to come to their family .  It is hard to tell the feelings that have come as a result of this special gift.  Everyone has felt inspired and acknowledge the confirmation of his coming to this family.  We love and welcome Finden our 17th grandchild.

Letting this little one go home so far away was pretty hard but a trip at the end of June for Grandma made it easier.  It was fun to be with Susan and her boys for a week.  We did a lot of sewing as we redecorated Susan's bedroom with a new bedspread curtains pillows and everything else that goes with bedding.  I didn't want to see a sewing machine for a few weeks after that marathon.  Here are a few pictures of some fun in New York.

The Cabin in February

Jon on the rented snowmobile with Prescott and Emma

Audrey and Lizzy resting from going up and down the hill

patty cake is a little hard with gloves

I think my face is frozen

porter at the bottom of the hill

Sam ready to take the jump or is that Dan

Mike loves being cold

Just a couple of inserts from our visit in Georgia just before Disney world

I made this dress for Maddie for Christmas and it was the first I had seen her in it. Cute

all clean and ready for bed

Disney World Continues

The Birthday Party

Disney World and the Kids On the East side of the country

This was everyone's birthday present this year for the Rob Christensen family the Whiting family and the Gilchrist family.  Happy Birthday Everyone!!!!!

Our first stop was to get lunch while on the way to Orlando from Georgia
Eloise and Maddie with Grandpa

Cheese

Another cheese

Sarah Jane and Bea in the pool

Eva sweet Eva

We stayed in a vacation house that had a small swimming pool and a covered patio.  It was great to have a kitchen and 7 bedrooms and 3 baths for that many people.  We rented a van 16 passenger and drove to Disney World from the house just 10 minutes away.

Pictures from the past activities of G.G. Idaho

Jon and Melinda let us tend their children when they went somewhere which I don't recall where maybe they just stayed home and pretended they went somewhere.  We however had a blast playing in the snow.

Spring is in the air!

It's spring and so we start to clean out the flower beds and garden to get it ready for planting. Dad and I decided we needed to beef up the soil in the grow boxes so we had a ton of dirt dumped in the driveway. We wondered how long it would take us to get it moved one wheel barrow at a time.
I was a little concerned. Well about that time Amy came up with her children for spring break and one day she and the three oldest helped move that dirt one wheel barrow at a time and even went the second mile and rotatilled the garden boxes for us. They worked most of the day and when they were done we had only a small mound of dirt left. It was so great and dad was so happy that he took everyone to I Jump a trampoline place that is new in Idaho Falls. I took a few pictures of the kids so I will try and post them latter. I have to get the camera from off the tripod because we are trying to put our slides on disk so we have it set up so we take pictures of the picture if you know what I mean. I just want Sam Dan and Ana to know how much we appreciate them and their mom . They worked hard because their mom worked right along side them. We wish the children would not grow up so fast but then it is great to have such good helpers as grandchildren.
It helps us because as they get stronger we get weaker.