Some more from our trip to Portland.  On our way down there we drove through Cascade Locks, where we lived when I went to high school.  Here's the school sign "now" and a picture of the school.  They gym is on the right end with the cafeteria under it.

My junior and senior years I worked in this little drive-in.  It was called Wanda's at the time.

 Working here was how I made enough money to go to business school when I graduated.  I started as a waitress and ended up as part time cook along with being a waitress.  There was a truck driver that drove for Hyster that came through ever week.  He would tell us that if it was raining anywhere in the state of Oregon, it was raining in Cascade Locks!  He was probably right. 

 One day he gave me a $50 tip and my boss was sure he made a mistake so she put it in the till, so she could ask him about it the next time he came through.  Next trip she asked, and he told her it was no mistake.  I don't know what I did but that was the biggest tip I ever got and I made sure he always got the best service after that.  

We got to Portland early enough that Dad took us on a tour of his childhood memories in north Portland.  Here's a picture of the house he grew up in.  His room was in the basement.

I should have taken a picture of the street.  Cars park on the right side and there is just enough room on the left for another car to go down the road.



He also got to visit for a few minutes with his best friend growing up.  He was known as "Fuz"

He's been sick for a couple of weeks and wouldn't have let me take a picture but Dad was really happy to get to talk to him and exchange numbers.  Maybe if we go back again we'll be able to get together for an evening.

 

After the wedding Saturday morning and on our way to Sandy for the lunch and reception we drove by our house in Beavercreek.  It has been added on to - A garage was added and the old one was made into another bedroom.  The front door was moved and is on the what was our garage.  We were driving by and Dad started to take a picture and a young mother came out the door and I told him we better go talk to her because she'd want to know why we were taking pictures of her house.  So he drove into the driveway and told her we built that house.  We lived in a single wide mobile home before we built the house.  She had some questions for us and it was really fun talking to her.  She had a little one in her arms, probably about 6 to 8 months old I'd say, and then there was a little boy I'd say was about 3.  Everything looks great and I thanked her for taking such good care of the place.  Our home in Aloha we don't even go see anymore because it's depressing how run down it is.

On Wed., January 22nd I took Mae to the Dr. and in the process of putting her wheelchair in the back of the car I threw my back out.  It didn't seem to be too bad and I did some adjustments and didn't think about it to much.  Then I woke up Thurs. morning and had a pain in my stomach so didn't go to the temple.  About noonish I boiled some eggs and ate a couple.  I was putting the others in the bottom drawer of the fridge and as I leaned over it felt like I had been hit in the back / right hip by a bolt of lightning.  I had to hang on to the handles of the fridge to keep from going down on the floor.  I made my way to a chair and then eventually to the couch.  I don't think I ever experienced so much pain, even in childbirth.  I think it was about 1:30 I called Jim and asked if her could come home because I needed help.  Then I called the chiropractor and got a 3:00 appointment.
  There was an inch difference in the length of my legs.  I didn't feel like the treatment relieved much of the pain and it was a very miserable night.  Friday morning I called my doctor and she prescribed a muscle relaxer for me.  I had another chiropractic treatment too.  I couldn't sleep on the bed so I set up on the couch. 
  Jodi had planned on being home for the weekend and it was a real blessing to have her here for a few days to help.
  Jim borrowed a wheelchair and that helped a lot.  We had been using a chair that had wheels on it but the wheelchair was much easier.
  I called Ann Bingham and she came over Sat. evening to do some massage and energy work on me.  She said I looked like I was going to give it all up. 
  The plan was while Jodi was here she was going to color my hair and give me a hair cut.  Well, there was no way I could do the color. 
  So here's me getting a haircut.  I could sit but that was about it.

  We took Don & Ellen to Portland for their granddaughter's wedding this last weekend (Gordon's daughter Chalyn). I'm posting our trip, getting in practice for our Nauvoo trip.
  
  So at this time of the of the year there still should be snow up on the blues.  So where's the snow?

 

Oh, wait, there is some snow way off in the distance!!!

So little you can't really see it but it's there.

 

We couldn't have had a better day for travel.  Sunny, no wind and a really nice day.

 

Then we get into Portland and spring has sprung,  Trees and flowers are all a bloom.

 

 

 

This was the sunset in the Willamette Valley Friday night

 

So here are pictures from the temple Saturday morning.

 

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Purpose of being at the temple was for the wedding of Don & Ellen's granddaughter,

Chalynn. Here's the happy couple.

 

We could not have asked for a nicer weekend weather wise.  It was beautiful and sunny and in the upper 60's,

 

 

It's late but I want to finish up out trip to Wyoming.  When we left for Utah we took another route and saw some very awesome country.  OMG the mountains!
And yes, there was a lot of snow still up there.

This was at a rest area at the border of WY and UT.

On the 4th of July before we left for Utah we had breakfast with the family at their ward 4th of July breakfast.  Mason participated in the color guard before breakfast started.

One day while we were in Laramie we went up to Rob Roy Reservoir.  It's way up in the top of the mountains.  On the way we were held up by a real cattle drive crossing the road.

There were A LOT of people on horses.  We decided more than there really needed to be because all the younger ones were just standing around on their horses watching while the older ones were doing all the work!

It was fun to watch.

It seemed like it took forever to get up to Rob Roy but we had a fun time -

Ate lunch, let the kids play in the water and I found a whole bunch of rocks.

I forgot to take pictures of my stack of rocks but they sure look nice in my flower beds.  I'll take some pictures of them there!

The beetles have destroyed a lot of the trees up in that area.  The trees across the lake from where we had a picnic lunch were mostly dead. You can see that there was still snow up there too.

This tree was just below where we ate lunch

This was a tree that was blown over and the part sticking up just came up out of the middle of the tree.  It was kind of unique, I thought.

This is what the beetles do to the trees

Paige sitting on the log where we sat to eat lunch

After lunch the kids played in the water

Jodi was trying to teach the kids how to skip rocks.

Here's Paige trying to do it.

Up a ways from the log we sat on to eat lunch I found this cross.

I couldn't read the name that was written down the center but the death year was 2002 on the right side of the cross.  The birth year was on the left but I can't remember what it was.  I just thought it odd to had a grave way up there in the middle of no where.  Probably a logging accident was my thought. 

Trying to catch up - almost don't know where to begin!
  The last of June, first of July we took a trip to Laramie to take Cheyenne to live with Shawn & Heather.  We were a little worried about how she would do in the car since she hasn't been accustom to riding in the car so Shawn sent us some sedative for her.  Instructions were to give her one an hour before leaving and if it didn't do much give her another one.  After an hour she wasn't very calm and so when we were filling up with gas we gave her another one.  When we had the window rolled down a little she had her nose out smelling and enjoying the ride!
We were actually past Mountain Home before she really started settling down then she was pretty good.
   It seemed that she was a little too calm though and we decided two pills might have been a little bit too much.  By the time we got to Neil & Shirley's she was still pretty passive.  We took her to a park and threw the ball for her for a while.  She would run to get it then just walk back with it for a while.
Here's pictures of her on the trip.

This is was taken on the first day.
She kept wanting to put her head
up between Jim & I.

Second day.  We only gave her one pill and she did much better.  She got to where when we stopped she would jump right back up in the car when we were ready to go.

This is my favorite picture of her.

So this is Cheyenne's new home.

 Driveway going up to the house. Shop on the left

This is the house.  Could have taken a closer picture but didn't!

 This is the horse arena that is on the other side of the driveway from the house.  I took the picture from the driveway of the house.  

 This is the back yard, of course.

This is the field beyond the back yard.  Down where the grass is greener is a water area.  Just recently I was talking with Heather and she said Cheyenne goes down to the water three or more times a day and plays in the water.

She also roams around out in the field and hunts the little creatures living out there.  She has caught prairie dogs and brought one up to the house and left as a peace offering!!  She use to do that with mice when we lived on Pit.