Brian visits his mother for a few days

Dad had a good time with his mom for a few days and he also got a much needed haircut. :) His mom Millie was in the newsletter for the month!! She turned 97 in October and is doing great!!

Let's build some trucks

11-12-12

We went to the church senior group Thanksgiving luncheon in the multipurpose room at church.  My sister was in charge of the event, so Ken and I went in early so we could help set up tables, chairs and put on plates, silverware and napkins.  The food part was catered. 

                              Nancy - Ken

             Pastor Don (retired), Pastor Robin,

                            Vicki and Laila










Then after a wonderful lunch, we went to a church member’s house (Bob Johnson) to help work on some small cars for young kids.  We worked for about 4 hours.  These cars are less than a foot in length, but are made up of about 10 unique  parts.  These parts are hand made out of unique wood.  Ken worked hard on cutting out the small complex pieces and I worked on gluing pieces together before going to the sanding station.  Everyone worked hard and worked well together.  Great group of people.

 

Bob Johnson

 

 

Mike Carlson

 

Ken

Let's have a Thanksgiving celebration

11-11-12  Went to church with Nancy and Ken.   Their pastor is amazing.  As I said he plays a guitar, is the lead singer and gives the sermon.  Following church, we went to Brad and Shelley’s for dinner.    

  

          Ken, Nancy, Shelley and Brad

Take A Hike!

Ken knows I love to go hiking, so he suggested I go for a walk while he and Nancy did some errands. So I went outside and took off for a hike. It was a nice day and I walked with my coat unzipped. I had a good pace and did some running to mix it up. I had gone for about an hour + and then decided it was time to come back. I was heading back and got a little confused with the numbering system. I was looking for 95th and the numbers were climbing, so I stopped to talk to a lady. She was waiting for her children to come back from school. We had a nice talk. She had just recently moved out here because her husband worked for Boeing. She didn't know her way around yet, but her neighbor was due at the bus stop imminently, so we were waiting. By then, I had been walking for about 2 hours. Just then Ken and Nancy pulled up out front because they were headed home and saw me chatting. I was off just a little and that was because the East/West and North/South streets were at an angle to each other so I was off a little.  Because as it turns out, 95th was not very far away at all. So all and all, I had a great walk. Did I say that I had a great walk too. See you on the trail.

 

Brian

Hawaii with my Hiking Group

During my healing process, I heard from my hiking group that we had hiked around several of the islands in Hawaii in January. Wow! All news to me!! So out of curiosity, I asked Mr Burch to send me a couple of pictures. So after he sent me some, I was looking for a place on my hard drive to save them to and guess what? You guessed it, I found a folder named "Hawaii". Surprise, surprise. And inside the folder were, not tens, but hundreds of pictures of our trip. There were several folders with pictures from all hikers. Wow!  People who like to take pictures as much as I do.  Wow!  Just like my old phone, my computer is full of stuff. Important stuff, but full. Lol. So thank you to our hiking group for a great trip and thanks for the memories? I look forward to another wonderful trip in the future to build new memories.

 

See you on the trail!!!

 

Brian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wow! We are as high as Mt. Baker!! Amazing!!!

 

Family Schmatz

 

 

OMG!!! Tough day. Can't find my phone! I love my sister and her husband, but really, their house ate her I-Phone and now my Droid! Haha. So I thought I would go thru my computer and see if I can remember my organization. Do you know what I found. I was so fornunate to be able to travel with the awesome family Schmatz about a year ago to visit places like Arches Natl Park, Bryce Canyon, Devils Tower, Grand Canyon, Mt Rushmore, Yosemite and Zion Canyon. The pictures were incredible. I am so glad I found these. I remember the family Schmatz, but do not remember this trip. We have to go again. Lol. Thank you to you all for an amazing trip. And then Nancy shows me the 2013 calendar the Schmatz's gave me with pictures of the trip.  Wow!  Wow!!  Wow!!!  I send my love. So here are a couple of my favorite pictures. I really liked them all, so was tough to pick a few. See you on the trail.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                   The Schmatz Famly is awesome.

                      And they are fantastic hikers!

               Is there anything better than hiking!!

                   Luisa is an amazing young lady!!!

 

                                         Hercules