I Finally did it! Yippee a new blog posting!

As you notice my background still says Merry Christmas.... That is because I don't deserve to have it changed yet. One of my daughters usually sees that it needs changed and does it without my even asking (last time it was Erin) but I went through the whole season and never blogged even once!!! So it showed Thanksgiving all thru the Christmas season!!! So here is Christmas!!!.... but wait first is Dave's birthday November 18.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE

I took Dave on an all day Seattle City tour! We started at Pikes Place Market where we found a handmade journal as a birthday gift and we ate a goodie (breakfast) at a wonderful quaint bakery. Then we went on a wonderful tour at the Seattle aquarium (That is where Janice and Matt volunteer dive but this wasn't their day darn it.). Later we went on a boat trip out in the bay to see the cityscape and hear all about Seattle. After that we had a fish and chips lunch out on the Pier at Ivars Acres of Clams.
Next we went up in the Space Needle and enjoyed the cityscape from above! Afterwards in the City center science museum we saw "A Christmas Carol " in 3D at the IMAX theater! We loved it so much... It started our Christmas season for us. After another trip up the Space Needle for a night cityscape view we headed home.
Of course on the way we had to stop at Applebees for Dave's favorite dessert... Chocolate Volcano birthday cake!!!

CHRISTMAS!!
We had a wonderful Christmas this year. Janice and Matt and Matts mother came and spent the night. It was so fun to have people here on Christmas morning.

I didn't do good with taking pictures but Sheri and Joel and the kids also came over to open presents and enjoy the day with us.
After opening presents we all went over to Dorell and Stephanie's house for a Christmas breakfast they plan for the whole family. We had a fun relaxing day. We invited everyone and the missionaries to dinner that evening. Yep it was a good day.

Lee and Trisha coming!
We knew we had company coming but didn't worry about having enough room. Janice proved that we had plenty of space for everyone to have their own private rooms if they want.

Who needs leg room anyway? That is way over rated. She had a little too much fun with Seth and Ellie's toys I think!
Lee and Tricia left SLC at 4 in the morning and got here in the afternoon the day after Christmas. They probably think we were staying up nights thinking of jobes they could do!!!
Mom and Pops got new flooring from Jack and Deloers for Christmas and we were all excited to have the experts put it in. Tricia was in charge and was so good at figuring it all out.

Dave cut where he was told...

Mom kept a close eye on things and OOHed and AAHed and loved what she had picked out. I don't have a finished picture but it looks so good and washes up so nice and doesn't have any holes to drive us crazy. It totally changed the look even though you can't tell in the picture.
The kids and Randy and Lisa's kids all love Grandma Wrights bed and on demand cartoons! They had a ball together!
We took a little time out to do a bit of sight seeing. They went to Darrington and also we went on a ferry ride to Friday Harbor. But mostly they WORKED!!!
Lee had to show his kids what logging was all about so he and Randy cut a couple of trees down for us. It was work but Lee was having fun anyway.
We appreciated it so much. They cut the trees down and sawed them up so the could be split into firewood.
The kids helped fill the shed with firewood plus fill and stack wood in the barn.

As the guys were falling the trees they had a good audience.

This is the best place to be.... watching where it is warm! After tackling the trees the guys started a new project. Remember the problems we had with the septic system in the downstairs bathroom? Well they set out to remedy that! Right by the house Randy and Lee dug the dirt and moved huge rocks and finally found the old sewer pipe. Lee and Dave worked for a couple of days uncovering it and digging a big hole and putting in a pump to pump the sewer stuff up to the other big septic tank. Lee had to go home but didn't leave until he had the new pump in and ready to just add the pipes.

Dave decided to add another rock that was in the pasture to the rock wall by the new pump. It was so heavy it is a wonder he didn't break the tailgate.
Here he is leaning against the new rock by the pump talking to Lee on the phone. It is all ready to be buried and was at that point already working perfectly.

Since this picture was taken he brought in new topsoil and made it look so good! I'll take a final picture of all the finished projects for a new blog.
Here is where he hooked the new system to the old one. We had the old one cleaned out so it is all just like new!!! Whew!!! Okay company you can come and you can now FLUSH TO YOUR HEARTS CONTENT!!!