2017 School Photos
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Ellery |
Heath |
Sydney |
Brooks |
Bowen |
December 25, 2017
Christmas
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Christmas day family celebration
followed by a visit from Ellery and Sydney for a few days which
included ice skating, cinnamon roll baking and an upscale Diner Theater
showing of Wonder Woman!
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December 9, 2017 - December 13, 2017
Stephany Makes a Pre-Christmas Visit to Eagle
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| Stephany has a beautiful flight for a pre-Christmas visit to Eagle (Dennis had to stay home to care for Max and Zoey) Highlights included watching Heath perform as Schwartz in the Boise Little Theater performance of A Christmas Story; a special Gram's Christmas celebration with dinner and opening gifts from Gram and Pa which Dennis participated in via Facetime; a band performance by Heath's sixth grade class at North Star Charter School where Heath used his acting abilities and kept his cool to totally look like he was still playing when his saxophone broke midway through the performance! It was a nice visit to start off the Christmas season. |
November 23, 2017
Thanksgiving
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Ellery and Sydney helped make this Thanksgiving special with their awesome baking and decorating skills
and Sydney's after dinner entertainment. A good time was had by all except for the squirrel
who thought he ought to be invited to dinner too!
November 5, 2017
Ellery is Thirteen!
She is now officially a teenager! Scary!
Fall 2017
This fall Kim had a new bonus room built onto the end of house by Ellery and
Sydney's bedrooms.
That way they can have play and have friends over and not drive Kim crazy
with their noise! That's the plan anyway!
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October 31, 2017
Halloween
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October 19, 2017
Bowen is Nine!
Bowen had some specific requests for his
birthday this year. He wanted to go to the Texas Roadhouse for dinner
and he wanted A Secret Life of Pets birthday party with
pink cupcakes with star sprinkles so that is what he got!
September 23,2017
Brooks is Nine!
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A Harry Potter themed birthday this year complete with a Monster Book of Monster cake!
September 13, 2017 - September 26, 2017
Eagle/Reno Trip
| Dennis and Stephany travel to Eagle to stay and do an early birthday "special day" celebration with Brooks while Devon and Jeremy and Heath take Bowen to Shriners Hospital in Salt Lake City to pick up his new manual wheelchair. Brooks had a great time eating wherever and whatever he wanted for the his special day! The grand finale was going to Toys R Us and picking up a new Lego set for his birthday present! |
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After Eagle they continued on to Reno for their usual pursuits!
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Back to School!
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Ellery Grade 7 |
Heath Grade 6 |
Sydney Grade 5 |
Brooks
Grade 3 |
Bowen
Grade 3 |
August 21, 2017
Eclipse!
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What a wonderful experience we had viewing the total
eclipse of the sun this morning! Colin, Aden, Kim and |
July 23, 2017 - July 27, 2017
The South Coast and Redwoods At Last!
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Jedediah
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Humbug Mountain |
Bullards Beach |
Coquille Lighthouse |
Valley of
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We made it! This year we finally completed our Redwoods camping trip with Ellery and Sydney. We had started last year but had to end the trip abruptly on the second day when I broke my ankle. This year all went well and we had a great time camping along the southern Oregon coast and in the Redwoods. |
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July 23, 2017
Noble Alexei Vasilchenko
Seren Desdier and Pavel
Vasilchenko welcome their new baby boy! July 9, 2017 - July 13, 2017 Joseph Stewart SP Joseph Stewart SP Max gets a new windy Crater Lake Lost Lake Reservoir McGregor Park Mt Thielson July 2017 Alan Libin is sad to report his beloved mastiff Bossy
lost her battle with cancer this month. June 19, 2017 - June 23, 2017 June 6, 2017 May 28, 2017 - June 3, 2017
Stephany took Heath and Brooks on a camping
adventure to Fort Stevens State Park in Astoria, Oregon. Being from Idaho
they loved playing in the ocean almost as much as they did exploring the
forts. We did explore all the forts though: Battery Russell at Fort
Stevens, Fort Columbia on the Washington side of the Columbia and the
replica of Fort Clatsop where Lewis and Clark wintered from
December 1805 to March 1806. We also climbed the Astoria Column and explored
the wreck of the Peter Iredale. May 25, 2017
May 25, 2017
May 14, 2017
KTVB Channel 7 News in Boise Airs New Story about
Bowen and his meeting with internationally-renowned April 27, 2017
April 17, 2017 - April 24,
2017 A visit for Devon's Birthday, Grandparents Day at Ambrose
and hanging out with the boys and dogs. Then an March 31, 2017 Stephany decides she and Dennis
don't need two cars and a truck so she sells her 2013 Subaru Outback back to
March 7, 2017 Snow in March?
Winter is definitely hanging around this year. March 6, 2017 Dennis had a dental procedure
today. Since his heart valve repair in 2009 he has to take three
amoxicillin as a February 9, 2017 - February
28, 2017 In and
Out Burger
Santee Lakes
Saguaro NP Gilbert
Ray Laughlin Redwoods On February 9 I flew down to
southern California to pick up the RV. It had been down at
the Lazy Daze factory in Pomona for months after Dennis and his
friend Scott drove it down in September to get a roof reseal and
some repairs. I had to wait for my broken ankle to heal and the
weather to clear before I could fly down and pick it up. The
original plan was to head home after I picked it up - after getting
an In and Out burger of course! - but the weather called for pouring
rain in northern California and Oregon and the Siskiyou mountains
were under winter snow warnings so I decided to be a snowbird! I
headed south to San Diego. When the rains headed into southern
California I decided to go to Arizona and Yuma and then head to
Tucson and Saguaro National Park which I had never visited.
Eventually I had to turn northwest and head home but first I stopped
at Laughlin, Nevada for a few more days of sun. It was a slog home
with lots of potholes on the roads and more rain but I swung up the
coast to visit the redwoods and that made for a wonderful conclusion
to this spontaneous snowbird adventure. February 16, 2017 - February
20, 2017 The girls had never skied before and after a
day of lessons they were ready for the mountain! January 26, 2017 This time it was his right eye
but still the same quick surgery and recovery as last April when he had
his left eye done. We are still amazed at how easy that surgery has
become compared to what it was in the past! January 23 - January 27, 2017
Bowen has his appointments at
Shriners in Salt Lake City this week for a new wheelchair - or wheels as he
calls it! Snowy Start to 2017!
Jan 3
Jan 3
Jan 7
Jan 11
Jan 11
(Aden)
Jan 11 (Colin)
Camping with Ellery and Sydney at Joseph Stewart State Park with a side trip
to Crater Lake
Campsite
Marina
hairdo!
Joseph Stewart SP
Visitor Center
Hwy 62
Bossy Libin
Family Gathering In Eagle, Idaho!
This year we had a wonderful family get together at Devon and
Jeremy's home in Eagle, Idaho. Lots of sunshine, a large yard, a
beautiful new swimming pool, a three bedroom guest house, plenty
of games and Devon's delicious meals kept both kids and adults
busy and happy. It was like being at a 5 star resort!
Heath Is
Eleven!
A fun Lord of the Rings birthday swim party
with friends and an awesome Hobbit cake made by Devon!
Fort Stevens Adventure with Heath and Brooks
Beach time!
Battery Russel
Fort Columbia
Fort Clatsop
Astoria Column
Peter Iredale
It was a great trip and we had a lot of
fun!
Sydney Is Ten!
Audra and
Takenori Justice welcome a new baby girl!
Bellamy Sayuri Justice
Bowen Meets Nick!
inspirational speaker, Nick Vujicic. Until that meeting Bowen had never met another person like
himself
who had no arms and legs. He was so excited!
Bridge from Riverfront Park to Minto Brown Finally Opens!
Stephany Visits Eagle
exciting trip in the RV to the Meridian Sanitary Station to dump the tanks!
A bonus was Brooks finding a
mysterious Susan Anthony gold dollar in the RV and then having the great
visit end with a
rainbow!
Bye Bye Subaru Outback!
Capitol Subaru and puts the money in the RV fund.
More Snow!
The Start Of Dennis's Three Month Ordeal!
preventive before any dental procedure. This time the antibiotic gave
him chronic diarrhea which lasted for three months.
He was very sick and lost almost twenty pounds. Needless to say he
refuses to take any preventive antibiotics again.
Stephany's Snowbird Adventure!
Ontario, CA
San Diego
Tucson
Tucson
Nevada
California
The Toomeys Invite Aden, Ellery and Sydney to Tamarack for President's Day
Weekend!
Aden was happy to be back on skis and everyone had a good time skiing
and playing together.
Thanks Toomeys!
Dennis Has Second Cataract Surgery
Bowen Gets New Wheels!
The Shriners team also brainstormed various prosthetic options for his legs
and a way to adapt his arm for writing.
The week was filled with special adventures for him including skiing at both
Park City and Snowbird Mountain.
Best of all he got Jeremy and Devon all to himself all week!
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