Watercolor of Skyles Drilling Rig

This is a watercolor painting that is 22"x30" that I painted and is now framed to hang in Steven's new office.

Skyles Drilling Project

Here is a picture of our new office building and shop, there is another 6 bay shop in the back. We still haven't gotten moved into the office part but we are hoping that sometime this month the county may let us, but with our luck we probably won't be in until October sometime.
This has been a long project!!

Grandpa Bland's 90th Birthday Party

The family gathered for Grandpa's 90th Birthday at our home in Oregon City. As requested from the family that could not attend he received many cards for his party. We had a nice BBQ dinner which Chris did the BBQing for us, family brought potluck food, we visited, played volleyball, crouqet, and horseshoes. The weather was quite cool so many of us had to wear sweaters or jackets, crazy for August 30th :( Thanks to all the family that lives close by we had 30 total attendance. Happy birthday Grandpa!!!

Temple with Grandkids

I had the grandkids, Denver and Tag over to spend the night while Jon and Julie celebrated their 6th anniversary. I had a great time with them. I pulled them down the street in the little red wagon, which by they way they love. Steven and I took them to see "Wall E" which they loved also, then we let them take a short swim in the pool, which again they loved but the best part that I loved the most was taking them to see the Portland Temple. I told them to be reverent so Denver folded her arms, it didn't last too long but I am sure they felt the spirit there. You can see the other pictures from the day if you click on the link to my web album.. Aren't they adorable?

This our our family at the reunion. How cute are we!

This is a picture from our Bland Family Reuion at Gleneden Beach, Oregon
We were together from June 27th to July 5th.
We had a great time with the extended family as well as with our immediate family.
What a fun week!

Spring Break 2008

We had a wonderful "Spring Break" with Jon and Julies family at the beach. We stayed at
Whales Rest in South Beach, Oregon. We had nothing but fun times! The grandkids had
a blast as well as the old folks! We did lots of fun stuff like Playing Games (Milne Bornes) which
Jon and Julie won by tons of points, Bowling in theTrailer, Site Seeing at three different Light Houses, visiting the Science Museum, Mini Golfing, Playing in the Hail, Walking on the Beach, Seeing Starfish, and other creatures, Laughing,
Crying, Eating, Sleeping, having Potty Accidents, and lots of other good stuff.
What a fun time with the family, the best in the whole world!
Thanks for Julie, Jon, Denver, Tag, and Tatelin for sharing their lives with us.