Crae's Owie!

As most of you know, our son, Crae, got his hand caught in an industrial crane at work at Kennecot Copper mine. Here are a few pics of his hand with pins sticking out from all the broken bones. He's healing slowly and we're not sure about another surgery. Timely for Halloween, kinda looks like Frankenstein don't ya think?!

Great Times at Lake Powell

Well, we had another week at Lake Powell and had a great time. Weather was great, no rain, and there was hardly anyone there, so we had smooth water most of the time. We ended up with only 6 on our trip due to a last minute cancel, so we had more water time than we could handle. The best thing was that I was able to wakeboard and surf again, Yea. Oh I love Lake Powell!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gayle doing a bit of wakeboarding.

Surf's up!

Fishing was great around the houseboat this year. Dave caught quite a few fish. Bass, catfish.

Janice Bagley, me and Laurene Hutchings enjoying the sun

The Allens at their best

We arrived in Spokane in August. What a beautiful place it is, with all the pine trees. One Sunday, we went to Riverside State Park, which is about 1/2 mile from Noelle's house. Here we are on an overlook with Brynnley.


Here's one of the few times we got Brynn to sit still enough for a fun picture. We were so close to the cliffs, that Noelle didn't dare let her out of our grasp.

Of course, what kid doesn't love to eat rocks and sticks?!

The Allen family atop Riverside State Park.

We went camping of the Pend Oreille River. Brynnley LOVES to camp and eat plastic. We had a great time, but we seem to bring the rain wherever we go, so we had to leave earlier than planned. But it was still a blast.

Brynnley and Daddy

A little fun at Bennedito's. We went out to dinner one night and here we are entertaining Brynnley with our lips. Oh what a kid she is!!!

Our Trip to Washington State

Since I hadn't been out of the house much since May, we wanted to go to Spokane to see Noelle. We traveled the long way around and went to the Seattle area first. What a pretty place, but didn't like the weather much. Here's a few pics of the area.

Snoqualmie Falls outside of Seattle



The Lochs on the Sound

Us in front of the gardens at the Space Needle

Pike's Market...what a fun place.

Just a small sampling of fish at Pike's Market

The imported flowers at the market place were beautiful and cheap. $10 a bundle.

We drove through Mt. Ranier National Park and on one side of the park all we saw was fog. So needless to say, we never saw Mt. Ranier.

On the other side of the mountain, it was clear and looked like this with all the wild flowers.

Boardin' in Spokane

This week we went up to Spokane to visit Noelle and her little family. We went camping on the Pend Oreille River north about 2 hours and everyone but me went wakeboarding. Here's a few pics of our fun time.

Brynnley is learning to be a good observer already!

Adam in a rare moment of concentration.

Since I couldn't wakeboard yet, I spent most of my time playing with Brynnley...she loves books.

We helped them adjust their boat for a good surfing wake, so here's Noelle trying it out.

Adam doing a backroll (I think that's the trick)

Dave getting some air, too.

And Brynn learning to surf already?

Give Brynnley a wakeboard handle, and you'll give her the world !

Dave and the Lambert Line

On our way home from Mirror Lake in July, we stopped in Kamas, Utah. This is where Dave's ancestors settled after leaving Nauvoo. Here is a headstone of John Lambert, the first English immigrant in Dave's line. John was a polygamist and Dave descended from John's wife May Young, who is a daughter of Brigham Young.
Here's Dave standing in front of the street sign in Kamas, Utah. This Lambert Lane was named after Dave's ancestors who settled here.

I'm Out of My Cage and Off Exploring Again

Well, I'm finally healed from both breaks, and Dave and I had to get out of Dodge. We ventured up to the Uintas to do some camping overnight. We stopped at Mirror Lake and enjoyed fishing, hiking and foil dinners. We just about froze during the night. I guess we forgot how cold it gets at dark in the high mountains, we were at about 10,000 feet. The next morning we packed up and started back home. We stopped at Provo River Falls and were amazed at how pretty it was. Here's a few pics of us at the falls.