Pumpkins

Our pumpkins on the porch
My spray painted pumpkin

Bethany's sunflower pumpkin

Nate's classic face pumpkin

Halloween 2009

Cam and Amanda (our neighbors) dressed as inmate and prison guardThey are getting married next year so cam added some "accessories" to his inmate costume :-)Cam and his friend casey....They even rolled casey in on a dolly to get the full Hannibal effect...it was creeeeeeepy!! Nate went as the famous Saturday night live skit with Justin timberlake "Dick in a box"

I think the facial hair almost looks real!Can you guess what I was???
A piece of bubblegum stuck to your shoe :-)

Bethany was "partly cloudy with a chance of rain" She would squirt you with her spray bottle :-)

The three of us in our costumes on Friday

My brother Haidan's Boat

Haidan in his dingy...you should have seen both of us try to fit in it and have room to actually row the oars!! His legs are even WAY longer than mine! Haidan rowing back from his sailboat. His is he one with the dark bottom. I am so impressed that he built a 36 foot sailboat himself!

Comox Glacier. The view that I grew up with.
Comox Harbour
Me checking out the boat first hand

Haidan on his pride and joy house on the water

Haidan's boat with Comox glacier in the background

Molly the beach bum

Molly LOVES her sticks! She would play with sticks all day and after playing she sits down and chews them apart.

It was really foggy during our camping trip to Cape Lookout a few weekends ago.

Molly and Nate playing

When we first adopted Molly, the family that had her before us had written on the humane society sheet that she hated water. Well, when we take her to the beach, she runs straight for the water....she seems to like it as far as we can see!

Molly, wet and tired from playing in the ocean

Our plum tree is out of control yet again this year. I have been dropping bags off at neighbours and friends for weeks! I also pitted and froze a ton of them for cooking later on. This batch was from a big branch that broke off in the windstorm we had here. I filled twice this much when I picked the rest of the tree! I have made plum sauce, upside down plum cake, plum muffins...what else is there to make with plums??

Kelowna, B.C.

Driving through the Coquihala Hwy. You will have to excuse the pictures...I was by myself and just randomly pointing the camera as I drove.

still driving...

Bailey, My Nanna's dog/most spoiled rotten pet alive :-)

Nanna and Bailey on our walk around Okanagan lake. For you who don't know, that is Ogopogo next to her. He is said to have been spotted in the lake (much like the loch ness monster).

Nanna and I on our way out for a movie and dinner.

Funny story: At the border on the way home, the US border guy had me pull over and open up the car etc... Everything was fine until he pulled a baseball bat from under the seat that Nate keeps stored there. He held it up and asked what I had that in the car for... My reply: "protection?" He laughed and said, well I guess you gotta do what you gotta do.

Mt Saint Helens Hike

The boys getting ready to hike down into the crater...you can tell how foggy it was It was so foggy on the way back you could barely see the trail
Down in the crater. Spirit Lake still has a lot of dead trees left over from the blast, but after almost 30 years, it is hard to tell this was all wiped out after the eruption

Ash and mud in the blast zone

Hiking on the way down....Mt Saint Helens is behind the clouds there somewhere

Nick and the mountain...but you can't see it through the clouds

Part of the trail was a little STEEP and along the side of a drop off

Our billy goat trail :-)

Checking out the blast zone

Crater trails

At the memorial for those who died in the eruption May 1980

The river where all the mud and ash had desecrated has come back a lot, trees have replanted and re-grown. You can still see some sediment there though