and now for Alyssa........

Pics lifted from her mom's MySpace page. Isn't she bee-yoo-tee-full?????

birthday party from the past........

Guess who?!!!

updated Anthony

This is my oldest grandchild....with his younger sister, Alyssa, who is my second oldest grand daughter. He is with a friend in the middle pic & he is on "my" beach in the top pic. He's grown up quite a bit from that day in 1993! Isn't he handsome?

Four generations

This is a picture taken when my mother was visiting my family in Richland in 1993. She passed away before any more of my grandchildren were born. Just for the record this is a photo of my mother, Janet Cralle' Harrison Robinson (her name at the time), me Brenda Cralle' Harrison Somdahl (my name at the time), my oldest daughter Jenna Cralle' Henderson Harris (her name at the time), and Anthony James Harris (which continues to be his name to this day).

Hmmmm, one might think that the women in my family have a few aliases.......but that could potentially be a topic of yet another post on another day. A very slow news day.

By the way, can you believe what a chunk Anthony is? I will find a recent photo of him that I "lifted" from his MySpace page.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOPE!

I already called and sang Happy Birthday. Birthday presents are in the mail. As of yesterday. Really.

Really, it's in the mail, no really

The package is in the mail! I am so proud of myself! Actually, I also sent off Hope's birthday present, and a book to my friend Sharon in Seattle. Chatted with a couple of friends. It is only 8:00 (thereabouts) and I am sleepy. So good night ...........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Pictures from Sunday

This is Patriarch Quinn and me after I received my Blessing. He and his wife were very gracious and kind, and their home was lovely. They took this photo Sunday afternoon. I received this pic & the next one along with a copy of my Blessing today. I was so excited--everyone told me it would be a couple of weeks.


This is my friend Sherry and her very handsome son, who took me to St. Helens for the Blessing.
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OK, I have a confession to make. I didn't get the tape finished and the box isn't sent yet. I am so ashamed. Every time I would try to read one of the books with animal sounds, the dogs would bark. I decided to go to Astoria to pick up my new glasses (yay, everything is sharp and in focus again). Then I spent almost 4 hours kickin it with the missionaries at the church this afternoon (I am indeed a fun old woman). I might still be there with them if they hadn't been invited to dinner somewhere else. We started off talking about--wait, what did we start off talking about? It was good, and the Young Elders even brought out their scriptures, but I am having a senior moment, or a menopausal moment and I am having a hard time remembering. It was a great conversation, and I learned a lot, both about doctrine and about the life of a missionary. Anyway, what was I saying? Oh, yeah, I was confessing my incompleted promise and about to beg for forgiveness. I will stay up tonight until the tape is done, and put the dog (Tucker of course) in the car if I have to. I might try tying him up with duct tape.