EVERY YEAR WE GET ANOTHER YEAR OLDER!
So, here I am at age three , back in
the small town of Baker OR. third of seven children, third girl in the family. Cute???
I must have had a very happy childhood, because I don't remember most of it.
Just always lots of cousin (41) around to play with. No one moved away in those days, just stayed close.
That was better than now, when we're all so far apart, and only get together for reunions
THIS IS MY DAUGHTER-IN-LAW KEIKO TESHIMA FULLER
FROM OSAKA JAPAN 
75th BIRTHDAY!!!!
75th BIRTHDAY!!!!June 26th 1933
WE CELEBRATED AT LINN'S IN KENNEWICK, WA.
BIG BIRTHDAY CAKE
Four of us managed to eat the whole darn thing in three days
It was super yummy
I don't feel a bit older, just wiser and mostly happier
DO NOT FEED THE SEAGULLS?
SHALL WE GIVE THEM CARMEL POPCORN
OR SALT WATER TAFFY? 
And just who says we have to obey the rules?
Seagulls need to eat too
That little bird at the bottom waiting for a treat is happy
TERI'S BIG DAY!
This was Teri's third marriage, and three times happier than the others.
Her three sons were there, and Ben sang a great song to the couple.Her sister Gaynel and daughter and brother Dennis and wife Carol.
It was in Camas, WA. in the home of Teri and Mel's bishop high on a hilll overlooking the city. As you can tell, everyone was really happy for them, and happy to be there. I love happy days. As usual, I have a poem:
Stay close, but not so close I cannot breathe
I need fresh air
I need to feel the sunshine as it settles on my hair
and please don't hold me down
support me
I must go a little higher before I hear the angels
or can see the heavenly choir
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Just hold me often, love, because when I can feel you
every day I remember
God is near and listens when we pray
I know that
Marriage isn't ever simple
growth comes not with ease
but easier if we're striving
each other and God to please
GREAT GRAND # 11
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Baby hiding underground
do you hear our ultra-sound?
Are you big? or are you small?
and are you, really, there at all
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Safely in your mother's womb
Deep inside your darkened tomb
When will you depart this gloom
and see our earthly sun-filled room?
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NOVEMBER 9th 2008------that's when!
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Congratulations to Senta and Daniel Hill, my oldest grand-son, expecting baby # 5
and
IT'S ANOTHER BOY!!!
They have 3 boys and one girl now, and I think Daniel is working towards his own team of some kind. Too bad they live in a foreign country (MICHIGAN) so we don't get to see them too often.
But we love all of them
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Travel would be somehow
wasted, if, while away
we never tasted change
it would be strange to travel far away
and then come back
and follow that same beaten track
and never know
we were there to grow
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It was fun to be with Marge, since it had been a year since she had the stroke. Three days in a coma, and now she's back from the edge of the veil, still struggling, but with lots of help from husband Pete and the kids, she's doing good. She looks so much like my Mom, but then Dee says Beth and I do also. I got to be with all my siblings. Two sisters have already died, so it's just us five left.
In case you don't know, you can tap on the pictures and they magically enlarge themselves. Modern science!!!
HOME FROM THE TRIP Here is a photo of me, Beth, Allen, and Stephen, one of the few times we've been together without a reunion going on. We had stopped in at Pasco for lunch with Steve and Joyce. 
Our next stop was in Everett WA. to visit my older sis Marge and family.
Our next stop was in Everett WA. to visit my older sis Marge and family. She was well enough from the stroke last year to go with us to Camas, WA. for the wedding of our niece, Teri Meng.So fun to visit with everyone.
Then we were off to a couple of days on the Oregon coast, at Lincoln City. We were gone a total of 7 days, and all in all, we had a great time, but I'm always glad to get back home again. It takes me another 3 days to get rested up. But getting away is worth it.
A couple of new blogs added on you may want to check out : lorinsteve.blogspot.com
drpepper.blogspot.com . They are both my nieces, young and fun
SUMMER'S HERE!
The aim of every poet? to see beauty in the ordinary
To follow after butterflies and find a gold canary
who is singing
How will mountains draped in snowbanks know it's so
if we down on the ground, who see,
don't rejoice so they will know
that spring is just around the corner
I can feel it in the air
A robin in my neighbor's field is flitting everywhere
to say get ready!
soon the tulips will be here in wondrous bloom
and then we know that summer days will
follow very soon!
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You might THINK summer is here, but this week, on June 10th, we got snow here in eastern Oregon. Several inches fell about 20 miles up the road, and we got a heavy dusting in our back yard. First time we've had snow here in June in 43 years. Weather this year is amazing. But what's a little snow compared to the awful flooding they have back in Iowa. We need to remember them in our prayers and count our blessings.
*RUNNING AWAY !
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I am heading off to have some fun. My sister Beth and brother Allen are picking me up on Thursday and we'll head off to Seattle to visit my other sister. She had a stroke last year, be good to visit with them. Then we hit the wedding of my niece Teri in Portland, and then spending 2 days at the Oregon coast. I'm looking forward to it, I haven't traveled with Allen ever, he'll drive in his big double truck. Haven't been to the Oregon coast in a couple of years.
It's always fun to get away, but I'll miss Dee. Don't look for any posts til next Thursday.
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BLOSSOMS
I feel a wild delight inside
when apple blossoms I see
I stand beneath and looking up
blue sky beyond the tree
seems just to pull me in and I begin
to try to remember what I'm feeling
as if I'd known them in a former world
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Now I am kneeling
in the columbine and blue-bells
They transport me from the HERE
and I recall I've seen them once
before in another sphere
and when I hear a certain sound
I can remember angels singing
Oh music! and the blossoms
seem to send my spirit reeling
past earth's ceiling
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Well, the apple blossoms in the orchard have come and gone, and they have escaped all the frost we had. Dee has done the first spraying, a thing he'll do every three or four weeks. Almost time to thin, then we just sit and wait for heaven to do its part. But I think the best thing is blossom time. Such beauty and a promise of good things to come.
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