Petra, contd.

1. The story
2. The tombs
3. The theater
4. Their homes??

Petra, our first stop...

Our first day after arriving in Amman, Jordan and spending the night at a wonderful hotel built around ancient ruins, was spent trekking one and a half miles down The Siq which is the canyon to get to The Treasury.
The canyon has an uneven floor with an old Roman road in places. It's unbelievable to think that this has been there for so many years. "The Treasury" as the carving into the side of the canyon, is called, was done between 60 B.C. to 50 A.D. It has weathered over the years but is still magnificent to see. There are other tombs carved into the sides of the hills there and a theater also carved by the Romans. Interestingly, the people lived in caves and made wonderful tombs for their dead. Seems a little turned around!!!

Some cousins, etc

Sister lunch at Missy's

We're having fun (?) working at each other's homes and having a fun lunch together. Want to join???

Dina's Wedding...

We went up to Dina and Greg's wedding at Grouse Mountain. It was a beautiful setting but it was a rainy, cloudy day so we didn't see the beautiful view that would have been there as we went up in the gondola that took us up to the venue. We're very happy for them.






Sara and Nicole are the flower girls, Jenna and Jade, Dina, Greg, Greg's friend and Alan, Vicky's husband.

More of Dad's Birthday

We went to Anthony's in Bellingham for his birthday dinner and Jamie, Billy and Avery met us there. They have the most wonderful food and the company and view were also wonderful!!!

Dad's on the phone taking one of his "birthday" calls!

"75"

We were at the storehouse on Dad's 75th birthday (9/29/09) and he got some visitors who brought cake and balloons!!! And also helped him eat it!!

Vancouver Temple

We went up to the Vancouver Temple open house to take family through and it is beautiful. It's a small temple but absolutely amazing in its' beauty. We are about the same distance away from this and the Seattle temple but the border makes a big difference. It's Bellingham's temple now so we've lost a lot of workers in the Seattle Temple both from Canada and from Bellingham. I think the family were impressed - the temple committee did a beautiful job of everything there.

Random blogs....

As you can see, I'm jumping all over the place with this blog. No real time line but just some fun pictures that we've taken since September last year when I blogged last.
We went to Roozengard with the Johannesen family, they came down and spent the night and we did a whirlwind tour of the valley, Kiwanis salmon barbecue, Mount Vernon Street Fair and we had a great time and as you can see we actually had fairly good weather. It's been really cold since.

The Tanner, P.K. Celebration

We had a fun celebration of Tanner's and Parker's birthdays. Look at the fun cake Missy put together!!!

My "ill" fated trip to Austin

I was lucky enough to go to Austin right after Hadley was born and immediately got sick and had to stay away from her the whole time. Not only that I was running a fever, had a bad cough and wasn't any help. Talk about the guest from "wherever" I was it!!! Sorry Hiltons!!! But I did get to spend time with these adorable little ones.

"Wish you were here..."

This is our "wish you were here" picture taken on Christmas Adam when we are "not supposed to have any fun without you"!!! How did we do???

The Christmas Nativity

We put on a nativity at Christmas and all of our wonderful little ones participated and it was very special. Tait was the "reader of the Christmas story" and all the rest involved did a very memorable job!!!

Police Citizen Patrol

Dad is now one of the Citizen Patrol and goes each Wednesday morning with Ken Thompson in a police car to check out homes where people are out of town and want their homes checked daily to see if they are untouched! He got this hat and jacket to make him official!! As I recall he must have started on St Patrick's Day, that's why he's wearing a green necklace!!! They gave it to him down at the police station so he wouldn't get "pinched".