Flying up side up

Flying up side up
All wobbly like
An old biplane crashes
Like a chick takes flight
Not at all like the phoenix.





Monday, October 24, 2011

Ice rinks, skate parks, pumpkins and ponies :)

This weekend was a pretty full weekend for us!  We started at the library on Friday and picked up books and a movie and for dinner Elizabeth made some rockin' spaghetti sauce for us, got up Saturday morning and got started!

First, we went to a wet and deserted skatepark

Megan kicking her board

home for lunch and then off to the ice rink

 Elizabeth and Dad

 Megan and Dad

 William and Dad

 The four of us on skates

 Future figure skater?!

Future hockey player?!

And on Saturday night we carved pumkins!    


 Bat Cat Pumpkins by E and M, Grave Yard by W, the supposed to be a scary face (the one with all the holes in it) by myself, and the Ghosts by Sandy


Sunday we chilled at home playing Uno and Scrabble, went to a harvest-festival-type-thing for bouncy houses, pony rides, and bobbing for apples. and before you knew it, the weekend was over :( 



Ping Pong Wizard there on the left!

 Sandy and Snowflake


A hat someone got a steal on!


This was my latest hat almost done.  I got it done and blocked out without taking a full picture of it, but you get the idea I hope.  It went to the charity auction and someone got it for next to nothing.  I bid on it too, I liked it!  

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Climbing in the Wallowas

Last weekend, Woody, Mark, and I went climbing in the Wallowas in Eastern Oregon.  We met up in Portland and drove my rig out to Two Pan trail head up the Lostine River with our sights set on climbing Glacier Mountain.


Glacier Mountain is about 6 miles and 4,000 ft above the trail head.


Mark coming across the river.


A swimming hole.


Me, just below the summit, getting ready for some 3rd/4th class terrain.


Is that Roasty on the summit?!


Mark filling up water bottles in the meadow after the climb, only 5 miles left to camp.

It was really cool to climb with Woody again, after so long, and I am kind of proud of myself for sticking with it to the summit.