Leavenworth, WA!

We spent a wonderful weekend (Thursday-Saturday) in Leavenworth, WA about 3 hours from Lacey. It's a small Bavarian-themed town in the moutains of central Washington. They have an outdoor theatre where we saw Singing in the Rain and we thoroughly enjoyed it - unfortunately they won't let you take pictures so you can't see the beautiful environment where the theatre stands.



Dinner at our favorite place in town - Jager Schnitzel and Rheinischer Saurbraten and German Black Forest cake for dessert! YUM












Hanging baskets are not only on every street corner but above nearly every shop in town.















It took us an hour to walk through this store called Kris Kringl - hundreds of thousands of Christmas oranments.













Crazy hat store - this one's for you Havalah!!

Marcie getting ready to enter the Nutcracker Museum - over 5,000 varieties of nutcracker's from Roman times through now - unbelievable.

Scott with the Great Mouse King at the museum.

Typical corner flower display

Our hotel room had a balcony overlooking the city park and the busiest street in town - here's one view.

Trip East - Erie and Pittsburgh PA

The third leg of our trip included a visit to Lake Erie. We were surprised at how warm the water was - especially considering what it looked like last New Year's Eve when we were there!

Brigg brought shade.














Has Havalah grown taller or is Megan buried to her knees in sand?



















Pa with Hunter and Hyrum in Lake Erie.














Zac's new digs at the beautiful new children's hospital in Pittsburgh.















Mini golf, Joy showing us how it's done.














Anne giving her Dad a few tips, it must have come in handy!














The pitch.................



















The swing!















Thanks to our family for a wonderful trip!!

East Trip 2009 - Kirtland, Ohio

We stopped in Kirtland, Ohio on our way to Erie, PA. We took a tour of the restored city.

The Kirtland Temple

This room in the Newell Whitney store is where the Prophet Joseph received many revelations.

This small room is the School of the Prophets - we had a marvelous experience here as the 2 sister missionaries bore testimony of what took place here.

A blonde-wood chair, made by Newell Whitney, that traveled with them to Missouri, Illinois, and finally Salt Lake. Later his family sent it back to be part of the restored store.

Jeremy and Brigg discussing the inner workings of the Kirtland sawmill.

Brigg in the ashery "tasting" the chemical by-products - a new found career?

Hunter-bug.

Brigg and Havalah

The Shakespeare's at the Isaac Morley farm.

Early 1900 photograph on the wall of the Visitor's Center.

Trip back East - part 1

From August 6th through August 15th we spent time in Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania with our darling family. Here are some highlights of the first part of our trip:

6:30 a.m. on our way to the airport we blew a tire! We were so glad we left early.

Our 3-hour layover in Salt Lake City allowed us to have lunch with Grandma Turner.

The "mushroom park" was our first stop on Friday morning with the Shakespeare's. When the rest of the crew arrived Friday, we had a wonderful dinner together at Olive Garden (thankfully they had a corner room to give us!)

On Saturday morning it rained hard - fortunately we were able to spend some time at Jump City, a great place for kids in Ann Arbor.

We were so glad that the weather cleared up by Saturday evening becasue we had tickets to a Detroit Tigers game. They lost but we enjoyed the antics of the fans, especially the "beach ball bandits" who were in our section. We even stayed until after the game to watch the fireworks!

Commerica Park in Detroit is a beautiful place to watch a baseball game.

Sunday afternoon story time with Uncle Brigg.

Even though Marcie's birthday isn't until August 31st, her kids surprised her with some wonderful singing, home made key lime cheesecake, and some fun gift certificates.