Raymon and Kyle at the Coast

This is my grandson Raymon and his brother Kyle. These two high energy 10 year olds were the reason for my coast trip over the weekend. The two boys, my daughter, Christy, and I all had a lot of fun.

Raymon was an only child for a lot of years but when his dad remarried a few years ago he gained 2 sisters and 3 brothers. He loves being a part of this large family and especially loves his brother Kyle. They are best buddies as well as brothers.
They don't like to be called step-brothers. They are BROTHERS!

These two are such good kids and can be soooo funny at times. We laughed a lot. It was a good weekend.

Grandson Raymon and Watermelon

I'm headed up to Salem for a couple days. I have a meeting on Wednesday so decided to go up a day early and visit the Oregon Gardens in Silverton and Silver Falls State Park just out of Silverton.

I've never been to Silverton or the Oregon Gardens so this should be fun. I hear Silverton has lots of murals around the town so I'm looking forward to that too.

This is my grandson sticky from watermelon juice :)



See you Wednesday night

Young Eagles

This is another multiphoto post but I need them all to tell the whole story here.

The Young Eagles Program is a nationwide program that provides free airplane rides for children. Over a million kids have "experienced the thrill of flight" because of generous local pilots who donate their planes and their time.

Today my grandson, Raymon, got to experience this thrill. Three children get to go up on each flight and today 45 kids were scheduled.

This is Raymon (looking only a little nervous)and the pilot, Larry Durst.


After everyone was registered and accounted for, the kids were loaded on to the plane...


...and buckled in and ready to go...


After a short taxi down the runway...


...they lifted off


This lovely lady is Maxine Durst, wife of the pilot. While the kids were in the air, Maxine explained the program to the parents, talked about the flight and answered questions.


The flight was exactly 20 minutes and part of the flight was over Wildlife Safari where they could view the larger animals.

The plane returned right on time...


...and the children returned happily displaying their flight certificates.


Thanks so much for your kindness and generousity Larry and Maxine.


Larry and Maxine and any of the other parents who come to look at the photos, please feel free to download any pictures you would like.

A Champion Moment

My grandson got in a great head butt shot at his soccer game yesterday and of course grammy was snapping away. I like the look on the refs face. Raymon is 7 and in 2nd grade soccer.

Lexie With Crackers

Sorry for the gloom and doom in yesterday's post. This one is much brighter.

This little beauty with the crackers on her face is Lexie. She is the grandaughter of a co-worker.

I'm headed up to Portland for a conference so this will be my last post until Wed evening Oct 11.