July 2015

We went to the Fourth of July Parade in LaPine. 
It was a good old fashioned celebration! 
Lots of fun!

We also had a picnic with Pat, Rollie, John and Sheri.

The mama deer and their babies are here most every day.

Pat, Sheri and I made greeting cards…..Don’t you love them?

Mike and I celebrated our 48^th anniversary at my favorite restaurant –
Anthony’s in the Old Mill District

Sheri and I went to the Sisters Quilt Show!

Hundreds of beautiful quilts hung outside!

One of our many nights out with Pat, Rollie, John, Sheri, Mike and I –
this time at the Basecamp Grill

Mike does all our maintenance on the motor home while we are in Sunriver.

The Gilchrist car show was great…..over 80 beautiful cars!

The drought has hit Oregon……  This river is normally up at the tree line.
There is barely a trickle of water coming through.

This summer was our 50^th High School Reunion…  50 years – can you believe it?

My step sister Jeri (both of us graduated the same year) and a dear friend Butch,
who was like a brother to us.

Some of us girls!......We had about 150 people at the reunion…… 
What a great time visiting with wonderful old friends!

July 2015

We are all set up in Sunriver…… Let the summer begin!

Mike’s cousin Gloria and her friend Len came for a visit.  We had dinner together
and a great time catching up.  I really enjoyed the time together.

The Iris’ are in bloom. 
These are the few flowers that the deer don’t seem to care for.

Spark Lake kayaking…… it doesn’t get much better than this.
 A great day – just the two of us.

Mike, Marc and Brandon spent a night on Neil Peterson’s
houseboat on Lake Union near Seattle. 
According to their reports…….  It is over the top gorgeous!

The next day, all four of them went to the US Open at
Chambers Bay just south of Seattle. 
An outstanding day!

We made two trips to the Portland area in June.  One weekend with
 Brandon and Karen, Ben and Anna……. And another weekend
with Marc and Maria, Camryn and Colby. 
We had so much fun with both of them.  Busy and so much fun!

This picture was taken as we crossed over Detroit Lake
on the Santiam Pass.  Normally the water is up to the tree line. 
Wow – the water is LOW!

Mike’s two sisters are also up here in Sunriver.  Pat and Rollie are
on their lot….getting everything ready for a huge second hand tool sale. 
Their lot is for sale.  Sheri and John live just outside of Hillsboro, OR
and are up here for 3 weeks – to enjoy the outdoors.
We are spending some of each day together and having a great time!

We went to a Bend Elks baseball game.  The Elks won that night…..
It was a beautiful day!

A day on the water……. A beautiful day on the water (even better)
John, Sheri, Mike and I floated the Deschutes….. with Mt Batchelor
in the background!

Most mornings we have some visitors.....
This little fawn didn't seem afraid of us at all.

It seems as if time is flying by.  July is just around the corner!

Oh my!   

May 2015

May found us in Moab Utah at an FMCA Jeep Rally.

This picture was taken on Klondike Bluffs Trail Run.It is part of an old mining site.

This picture was taken from my favorite run…. Hidden Canyon.

I never tire of the beauty in Utah.

 

 Mike was part of a skit at the rally.  It was hilarious!

This picture was taken on Long Canyon (another outstanding run)

This was taken from Kane Creek….. the storm coming in made this beautiful.

The rock formations in Moab don’t even look real  (but they are)

After 11 days, we headed west…….stopped in Wells Nevada and found this gorgeous owl in the tree at the RV park.

Next stop…..Reno NV….  Great to see my nephew Brett. He is doing well and loving his job at the Harley Davidson Dealership.  So good to see him!

Still heading west – Spent a week in the Sacramento area.  Got to spend a fun afternoon with Mike’s brother, Chuck and his wife Eva.  We went to the local casino 

and had an awesome crab dinner! 

While in Sacramento – Mike and two of his buddies, navigated the Rubicon Trail (a difficult, famous Jeep trail- near Lake Tahoe).  Sharon O’Connor and I set out shopping, going to the movies and eating out!  At the mall, we saw Dr. Oz.  He was promoting healthy diet and exercise.

After the Rubicon trail expedition, we headed north toward Sunriver, OR.  

This picture is of Shasta Lake.  California is suffering an extreme drought 

and the lake was very low as we expected.

One day after arriving in Sunriver, we spent three days in Redmond with Marc and Maria.  We were able to see 5 of Colby’s baseball games.Great weather……lots of fun.  It was an awesome Memorial Day weekend.

April 2015

Mike started April with a two night camping/jeeping trip on the Mojave Road….
from Barstow California to Needles.  Seven Jeeps in total.  He had a great time!

We had a wonderful visit from our friend LeAnn Biggerstaff. 
LeAnn has been having health problems this winter but she is now on the mend. 
It was so good to see her smiling. 

We were so excited to have a visit from Camryn (our 15 year old granddaughter)

She is so grown up…… traveled by herself.

We spent two days in Disneyland….and we were the
happiest people in the happiest place on earth!

Such a great time with Camryn!

Camryn loves Disneyland…… and we had so much fun there
(even though all the walking almost did my knee in)

Camryn got a hug from Pluto!

On the way home from Disneyland, we went past a wildfire in the mountains…
California is very dry this year!  Traffic was terrible!

The next day we went driving.  Top down and Camryn is ready to drive.
She did a fantastic job….like I said “so grown up”

What a beautiful cactus bloom at ORI….. almost as big as a dinner plate.

Always sad…… It’s time to leave our winter home site.

First stop….St. George Utah.  Beautiful red rock country. 
We will be here for two nights.

Dinner with our dear friends…Denny and Kay Struss. 
We miss Denny and Kay and is was great seeing them.

And Denny’s ribs were out of this world!

Next we moved on to a Jeep rally in Moab Utah.  Utah is so beautiful.

We will be in Moab attending a Jeep rally for 10 days in May.

March 2015

Spring is here and I love it!

For the past several years, in March, Outdoor Resorts has it’s “Sunshine Invitational”  During this time, the resort holds several fund raising events to help fund the Coachella Valley Cancer Society.  This year, we raised $60,000. 
There are so many generous folks here.

Our ORI “Topless Cruiser Club”  had it’s first overnighter.  We had over 20
convertibles and we all went to San Diego for a really fun couple of days.   
We stayed a a great hotel.  Several of us went to a brewery for lunch.

Old Town in San Diego was colorful and very busy. 

We toured the USS Midway, docked in the San Diego harbor. 

What an interesting tour.  So much history and so much to learn. 

Mike went out with a few of the Jeepers on an overnight camping trip in the desert.  When they woke up in the morning, one of the fellas found this guy in his ball cap.  Glad he looked before putting it on his head.

The weekly Jeep trips show us the beauty in the desert.

We took the motorhome over to Phoenix for a week of

Spring Training Baseball games. 
We enjoyed the week with 3 other couples and had a wonderful time.

Spring Training Baseball.  Mike is a Dodger fan and I am an Oakland A’s Fan….
We are ready for a great week!

We saw 6 games at 5 different stadiums.  We had such great seats and we saw some amazing players….all getting ready for the 2015 season.

We saw the Kansas City Royals, The San Francisco Giants, the LA Dodgers, the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Oakland A’s, the Milwaukee Brewers, The Chicago Cubs, the Seattle Mariners and the Chicago White Sox’s.

One last “Topless Cruiser” trip.  We took a day trip up into the mountains toward Big Bear.  The weather in the valley has been hovering around 100 and a convertible ride to the mountains where the temperature was around 69 degrees was a welcome relief.  The mountains just a few miles north of Beaumont, CA are beautiful.