Day 181

Entering Arizona


Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

~Robert Service

Day 180

Somewhere in Idaho...heading to Arizona

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

~William R. Alger

Day 179

Chance relaxing at Silverwood!

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

~W.C. Fields

Day 178

John even had a hoopfest team.


I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

~Dave Barry

Day 177

Hoopfest 2010
Foul Coby?

Definition of Foul: Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement. To entangle, so as to impede motion.

In various games or sports, an act done contrary to the rules; a foul stroke, hit, play, or the like.

Day 176

On our way to Spokane...

And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in (the scar tissue of) your mind.

~Dave Berry

Day 175

I loved the colors of this fire hydrant.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

~Robert Fulghum

Day 174

Lucas, Gunnar, and Isaiah at Salt Water State Park.


Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers .

~Loren Eiseley

Day 173

On the way home from another birthday party for me...I have the best friends...I realized, once again, I forgot to get a picture. I had to snap a quick sef portrait.


The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

~Lucille Ball

Day 172

Happy 12th Birthday Sophie!

A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown

Day 171

Happy Father's Day!


Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!

~Lydia M. Child, 1836

Day 170

Coby makes the All-Stars!

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an Old-Timer's game.

~Vin Scully

Day 169

Gunnar and Lucas playing at Chuck E. Cheese.

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.

~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

Day 168

I can't believe this but I did not take a picture this day. This photo was taken with my camera on this day but I didn't take it. I'm so bummed. I'm sure this will happen again. UGH!

My birthday party!
Stacy, Me, Analisa, and Heather


Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.

~Larry Lorenzoni

Day 167

Sophie's birthday party

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

~George Harrison

Day 166

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky.

~Morihei Ueshiba

Day 165

Chance's band performed at his school.


Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

~Victor Hugo

*and*

Coby graduates from 5th grade.

Day 164

1-2-3-JUMP!

Sometimes God calms the storm. At other times, he calms the sailor. And sometimes he makes us swim.

~Author Unknown

Day 163

Rose City Showcase


A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

~John Wooden

Day 162

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while you could miss it.

~From the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Day 161

Hmmmm


Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

~Albert Einstein

Day 160

We found this little guy in our front yard.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

~J.G. Holland

Day 159

Dash Point


I am not young enough to know everything.

~Oscar Wilde

Day 158

John's Tattoo


Women, don't get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you're twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor.

~Billy Elmer

Day 157

Grumpy Gunnar


Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.

~Francesca Reigler

Day 156

Coby warming up


Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

~Vince Lombardi

Day 155

Society's Voice

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
~Michael Jackson

Day 154

Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

~Plato

Day 153

It was nice growing up with someone like you - someone to lean on, someone to count on... someone to tell on!

~Author Unknown

Day 152

Chopped my hair off...

They say time takes it toll on a body

Makes a young girl's brown hair turn gray

But, honey, I don't care, I ain't in love with your hair

And if it all fell out, well, I'd love you anyway.

~Randy Travis, Forever and Ever, Amen Lyrics