Some pics

We had a wonderful dinner at Pickled Fish on the Long Beach peninsula for our 20th wedding anniversary tomorrow Sept. 17!!

It's been forever...

I am finally making a post since summer ended and school started.  Laura: beyond tired but very well.  We are at her last chemo for a while in Portland right now.  I'm going to go through the family in absolutely no order of significance:

Mia- so so happy she has a play mate!  Mia and Louis spend a lot of time making noise and playing!  Their favorite game is chase.  Or as Louis thinks "run like hell."

Ani: Occidental College is amazing!  Lots of work; lots of fun; new people and really stepping out!  Loves the wicked hot weather!

Tim: cross country is amazing!  He did great in the first meet- the Ultimook Challenge and finished a couple of minutes faster than he did last year. Good classes including welding at our local community college.

Jon:  while I love my summer. I am suprised by how much I love my job!  Wonderful crop of seniors to work with and so good to see all my teacher friends.  Camped in Knappa and have had some great bike rides!  Oh and my garden is doing super as long as I water it!  No rain in Astoria in about for ever!

Louis: the shit eating puppy. He is evil and we love him so so much!  House broke you might ask? No!  Does he poop in the house and then eat some of it?  Yes. He is horrid. He humps anything. He bites and pees once let inside again. However the word soft is derived from him. He loves us and we love him!

Laura: see her blog!  She is good yet tired...  Doing yoga and walking most days. The pool is open again after 2 weeks  annual cleaning so she is swimming too.  She is also working on an article for
our local paper on metastatic breast cancer for October.  

Pics coming 

Tim's Cross Country Race

Tim ran a hard 5 K race in 22 min and 12 sec!  third on the AHS xcountry team!!!

It was a beautiful course in tillamook a couple hours south of use on the coast.

Laura's support group

Laura's blog

Laura is starting to use her blog again.  It is better than mine!!!  I will continue to muddle along but check out Laura's if you don't already!

Laurasnyderupdates.blogspot.com

All is well

Thing are moving along.  Laura had her 5th chemo last Monday.  Our friend Joey took her to Portland since I started back at work last week.  I worked half time to ease myself back!  We had Lars, his father from Sweden and his deck hand Matias for dinner on Tuesday night.  Tuna and salmon.  Lars also gave us a small blue fin tuna maybe 10 pounds.   I thawed it and we ate it Thursday and Friday nights out on our Knappa property and it was probably the best thing I have ever eaten in my life!!!!   I spent Thursday and Friday nights camped in Knappa and fished for salmon in the stream.  Good fun! Amazing food and friends came out too!

Tim finished up his summer job at Fort Clatsop National Park ( yes I know it has a much longer name) Friday with a camp out of his own with the people he worked with all summer Thursday night.  He is loving cross country and his first meet is next weekend down in Tillamook.  

Laura had a tiring and hard week with the effects of chemo.  She did come out to Kanppa with the dogs both nights though which was great.  She is spent but it seems to be helping so she moves on. 

Louis had his first hair cut and looks smaller and cuter!  

Sarah and huck

Big creek on our Knappa land

Bye bye Ani

We are in LAX waiting to fly back home...  Poor Tim and the dogs have been home this weekend!

We are so so impressed with Occidental! Ani will have an amazing time there.  Here are a few pics:

The roommates in their room!