The rants, rambles, and otherwise uninteresting happenings in the life of...well, ME, you might say. You mean you wanna know more? Ok ok, you have my warning! (For you who want to know lots more about me, go here.)
Here's a bunch of recent pictures!
I'll start from Sunday of last week, and work towards today. Last Sunday was Rase's birthday party at Grammoo's. Here is Grammoo's house:
And Rase eating his cake:
Now, of COURSE at the party somebody got a picture of my backside. Every time somebody takes pictures of all of us doing whatever, they ALWAYS get my backside. I shan't show you that one, sorry. (No, I'm not really sorry... :D )
Mom's dad (Grandpa), step-mom (Grandma Kathy) and half-brothers John and Paul came to the party:
(Left-to-right it's Paul, Mom, Grandpa, Grandma Kathy, John, and Aunt Laurie is behind in the yellow shirt)
Mom's sister Aunt Laurie came, with her daughter (Amanda) and husband (Nick, her son, was at work).
(Left-to-right: Aunt Laurie, Grandpa, Grandma Kathy, Amanda, Uncle Pat)
Here is the shop when it was halfway cleaned:
(That's Eric shoveling; Tess in the foreground with the long blonde hair; me wearing the pink shirt and overalls, and Grammoo in the red shirt)
We loaded the trailer with garbage, then everybody (well, not EVERYBODY) rode on the stuff in the trailer while somebody drove the lawn mower to the burn pile (by the way, the burn pile ended up being about twice this size). Here is Eric driving. Katie's in the front of the trailer with the blue coat; Emily has the striped pants and purple coat; Tess has the light blue coat, and I'm the one in the back with the dark blue jacket.
Here is another picture of Eric, and I like this one:
Me waiting for a ride to the burn pile (and Joe helping Mom get the lawn mower to work):
Mom returning from a burn-pile trip with Abby on her lap. In the trailer, from left to right, is Rase, Jay, and Tess.
Rase pulling the wagon with Jay and Abby in:
Jay pulling the wagon with Abby in:
On the way to Uncle Steve's house, Mom got Dad to take a picture of a Christmas tree farm:
I know these next two aren't in order of where they came in the week, but I couldn't remember. Mom took a couple pictures out the windshield of how the trees overhang the road. I thought the focus on this one was cool:
No, in Montana a windshield like this isn't against the law:
We met our first double-decker Safeway. We went down the stairs; downstairs was the parking garage. A cart boy was down there, and he must have thought we were from the sticks or something, because Mom was taking pictures of the elevator to show our friends back home. Joe grabbed a nearby cart and posed (that's the cart boy's carts to the right...he was coming in from the parking garage):
Once back upstairs, Joe and Dad posed in front of the doors (Tess is in the foreground; Jay's holding Dad's hand; Katie's the twin in blue and Emily's the twin in red):
At Grandpa's house, we talked to Paul, who is very interested in golf. He has a little mock-hole, that he and the kids were playing with. Here's Joe (at the table, you can see Ben, and Dad's behind him...Emily's the twin in red):
And Paul (Jay's on the couch to the left with his foot on a ball; Tess is on the couch with him; Emily's in the chair to the right, and Dad's at the table):
On Saturday, we went to our friends the Yoder's house with Uncle David, Aunt Fran, Steven, and Cody. Here's the Yoders (by the way, all their boys were named in alphabetical order, the oldest beginning with Aa and the youngest with D). Left to right, front row: Brian, Mrs. Yoder, Andrew, Aaron (the twins...their twins' birthday is the same as our twins'...Mrs. Yoder took a picture of our twins and their twins, but it's on her camera), Chris. Back row, left to right: Daniel, Mr. Yoder.
While there, we got a picture of Uncle David & co. Left to right: Cody (who isn't looking happy because he was recovering from a bee sting AND bite), Steven, Aunt Fran, and Uncle David.
That's the end of the Oregon pictures; now a few pictures of...well, me, from home. Monday, Dad recorded some bass tracks, so here's me playing the bass:
Beth got a twin to take a picture of her, and since I happened to be sitting behind her, I just HAD to make a face or do SOMETHING. I made a face.
Last night I wanted Beth to take a picture of the cat on my lap, because she was so cute. Instead she came out looking...weird. :|
Well that's all!
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Anne-the-cat 
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