On May 17th we went to Richland to celebrate my dads 75th birthday. It is hard to believe my parents are 75 years old. I feel so blessed to have them with me, I can't even begin to imagine not picking up the phone and hearing my moms voice. We had a fun time even though it was short. I love spending time with my family.

These are a few pictures taken when Leigh and Kari went to Stockshow to enjoy the "famous" stockshow hamburger. The rest of the pictures (no explanation necessary) it's Leigh and Kari (yes) and even good old mom being silly.

This is our sweet(?) little Amy being mean to my Sophie!!! Actually she is Kari's Sophie.

The Easter Lilly represents to me a sign spring will be coming, along with the more important part of what Easter is. I am so grateful to our creator for everything in my life. Lately life has been handing me lemons and I know I need to trust in the Lord and the love of my family to get me through this. I read Mel's blog and some of her friends blogs and they are going through much more difficult things, so I try to keep that in prespective. I know if my heart life is good, I guess I'm just really missing my brother this week. On February 11th it was two years since he passed away. I love him so much.

Randy and I don't take very good pictures very often, I thought this one wasn't to bad. I'm finally digging out from two huge elections. In February I had over 60 hours of overtime, March is better with only 30 hours. I had a super day with my daughter Kari on Saturday. We went to Spokane to pick up her "replacement" engagement ring. It is beautiful. Thank goodness she had her grandma's diamonds. Nothing to exciting her report, I hope you all have a fantastic Easter with family and friends. Kari is cooking (with a little help from mom). My future little granddaugher will be there so I'll post some pictures later.

Leigh do you remember where this was taken? I'll leave you guessing.

I'm attempting to get a picture on here, wish me luck, this is a test 1 2 3. I'm so excited it worked!!!! Five points for me, thanks Leigh for your help. These two little sweeties live in California and we met their mom through work. Their names are Liberty and Eve. We are their Aunties from Washington (my co-worker and i). They started ice skating lessons when they were 2 1/2 and I just know someday they will be in the Olympics - I told their mother Annie to be sure to get us tickets. Wouldn't that we awesome.

I feel like 2008 has just begun this week. Kari is back in college, the Christmas season and New Year is over and the official sausage making weekend is over. We had between five and 10 people staying in our house from Thursday night until Sunday. Now mind you I only have a 2 bedroom home. Thankfully we have a basement and a travel trailer.

It was a fun four days. Lots of laughing and how can you not with Kari, LeighAnna and Amy visiting. The men were very helpful with the cooking but what they seemed best at was tracking tons of wet snow and mud into the house. (Yuck).

Kari, Nathan and I went to Spokane Saturday and they picked out her 2nd engagement ring. I think we'd better weld this one to her finger. (chuckle)

We set up the new computer last night, so I'll soon be posting pictures. Remember Leigh you said you would send me directions.