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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Fishing Trip and Waterfall

This is the story of a serendipitous event. While intending to spend the afternoon fishing, we ended up finding a beautiful waterfall instead. First, the waterfall story.
When we pulled off the highway, we could hear the roar of the waterfall, but the trail was covered with shrubbery. Intrepid adventurers that we are, the search continued until the path was found.
Devin and Keith found the way across the raging river.
They even made a rock pathway across the water for the rest of us to follow.

Once across the river, we found a rope to assist the climb up to the lookout area.
What a gorgeous sight! Well worth the work to get to it!
Devin made his way up near the falls.


Now the story of the intended fishing trip.

So Katie & Josh came up for a few days, with the specific goal of doing a little fishing. Keith had heard of a place called Gee Lake up in the mountains where you can always catch a lot of fish. Perfect! We loaded up the kayaks for their maiden voyage, fishing poles and picnic food. As we wound our way up the logging roads, THIS is what we found! No chance of four wheeling our way over this log jam!


The next best thing is to climb around on the logs and have a little fun!

The view on the way down was sure nice.
Luckily we had a map that pointed out a waterful as a place of interest on the way back home.
So, Diana had this cool picture mosaic on her blog and I wanted to make one about me.
Here's how it works:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker.
Choose 3 columns with 4 rows.
The Questions & (my answers):
1. What is your first name? Lisa
2. What is your favorite food? Chocolate
3. What high school did you go to? Lake Washington
4. What is your favorite color? Green
5. Who is your celebrity crush? Mel Gibson
6. Favorite drink? Cranberry Juice.
7. Dream vacation? Hawaii
8. Favorite dessert? Crepes
9. What you want to be when you grow up? Young at Heart
10. What do you love most in life? Music
11. One Word to describe you. Cheerful
12. Your flickr name. (yahoo name) (kid version: favorite animal?) The Singing Mom.
Basically, as you enter your answer into the search box, a selection of pictures will show up. Choose the one that you like the best and enter the URL into the Mosaic maker. After you have all the questions answered, a mosaic will be created that is all about you. (sorta.) Sometimes the pictures were completely random and weird. This was fun and I like the way it turned out!

Monday, June 16, 2008

Friday, June 13, 2008

Eric's 8th Grade Promotion

These guys clean up pretty well! Mitchell Kahns, Jansen Vandermullen, Andre Stegner, Eric & Eric Stubben.
Hi, my name is Eric Schenk, and I've gone to BayView for 9 years.
Grandma Schenk and Grandma Hart were on hand for the big occasion.
Mom & Dad are certainly proud of the young'un.
OK, I know it looks like he's almost as tall as me, but it's really just the angle of the camera.Monkeying around in the gym for the last time!
Enjoying a treat at Red Robin before the big dance.
While we were there, Andre got a text from Jansen, "Where are you and the other Mormon?"
Then Kyle wrote, "Stop eating and get over here!"
The dance was fun, the boys have recovered their hearing and voices after the excessively loud music, and are now enjoying Summer vacation.

Lady in Red...car, that is.


So here it is! Diane's much awaited, much longed for, much dreamed about, new(ish) car! A 2002 Honda Accord. She liiiikes it!