Surfing Lessons 101

Val & Mer's

it's always good times at val & mer's. this particular time we were celebrating the amazingly beautiful finished porch and the very beautiful karin visiting. we didn't even miss dave- craig or jon- well val and adam probably did

Hannah & Zoe Visit

hannah and zoe's collection of ugly dolls- a few of them are home made

the childrens museum




hannah and zoe visit every summer & every summer we have tons of fun

Mrs. Holley

25 Years
one of my closest friends from my dancing days is robbin holley- elowe. we have being friends for over 10 years and her family lives in utah, so i am close to them as well. tonight robbin and her siblings surprised their mom lynnea with a retirement party. robbins sister amber wrote up a beautiful speech about how wonderful her mom has been throughout their lives. it was a tear jerker and then to top it off there was a slide show that really put me under. thank you lynn for loving and caring for those kids for so many years. kaleb could have used a teacher like you.

What A Bab-y

i've traveled out of the country to quite a few places but always for work (ballet) this was the first time for complete leisure and the first time with a baby. elsa was fabulous. there where times we had to pull over after hours of driving to let her stretch her little body out, but other that she really did quite well. we even camped a couple of days.

walking around day after day i kept thinking this is so great my jeans, (well adam jeans, he was nice enough to let me take his levis with me while i'm still a few pounds from fitting into my own) are getting really baggy and all while eating tons of chocolate- maybe this is the diet i should have been trying in the states-of course denying the fact that this was about the 5th or 6th day i've worn them.
if only that was possible...

europe was so amazing. from the beautiful weather and scenery in sweden to the really cool architecture & canals in amsterdam. we couldn't have asked for a better time. hanging with your spouse & 4 1/2 month old 24/10 you would think would really test your marriage- we got really lucky this time.

gotland


amsterdam


somewhere in denmark

this saved us hours from getting lost- and is probably why we got along so well

Tony & Anna's Wedding& BBQ

they were married in this church that was built in the 16th century

tony & anna- anna's neices
me & tony's dad
the reception was in this old summer house that had this crazy story
tony's mom- amy- enoch

at the wedding dinner- it's tradition to sit everyone next to people they don't know. these where the men i was lucky enough to sit next to. lasse (in the picture next to me) is married to a long time friend of anna's and johan is a childhood friend as well.

JULY 3rd Nygards BBQ
tony and anna had a bbq the evening before the wedding on this sheep farm. it was fabulous. such a beautiful night. and such good food. more europe pics

Viking Games

we went to a viking village the morning of the wedding. we never imagined it would be so fun


adam didn't have much luck with the ax throwing. amy made it her first try.






mike (tony's brother in law)kicking amy's trash





amy taking her revenge on an 8 year old

What a Trip!

we went to europe to go to our friends tony and anna's wedding over the 4th of july. we started in germany picked up a car and did a road trip across germany- denmark-holland and finally to sweden. so much fun. road trips are always really fun to me, so being able to take one in europe was really cool. even elsa had a good time. here we are taking a ferry over to the swedish island gotland where the wedding took place. we took the car with us. such a huge boat.











this is the little town of visby. a pretty fun little place. a stone wall surrounds the town and inside are tons of houses- resturants- shops- and old church ruins. we walked around here the first day and came back with amy- enoch- travis & scout