Must Be An Idaho Potato

Riley and I were quite surprised when we pulled this gigantic red potato out of our garden this afternoon. Our first garden was definitely a learning experience, but I can say our carrots, beans, pumpkins, potatoes and tomatoes were a success. We are already looking forward to next year's crop.

SuiSlide

This slide video is from the Hinchcliff Reunion (Valerie's grandma's side of the family) this weekend at the West Piney Lodge near Swan Valley, ID. (I tried uploading a different video, but it died before it finished). The slide was definitely the highlight of the reunion for Riley. Macie was a little less enthusiastic about going down with Valerie and me. We went up Friday night and came back this morning. There was lots of food and lots of people I didn't know, but the food made it all worth it. I also caught an 11-inch Brook Trout in the stream running through the property.

These pictures of Riley are from her first day of Preschool.

Bummer!

I've tried eleventy-twelve times to add photos. With Todd and Keith's expert help, I've still been unsuccessful. I have the pictures on the desktop, but when I think I've added them to the blog, I'm sorely mistaken.

I just took Keith and Amy to the airport for the San Francisco Middle Singles' Experience. I should have had him walk me through the process. Technology makes me feel stupid!

I'm off to have my roots dyed, but will never give up!

Riley and her cousin Kade at the annual Mud Run for the local high school cross country runners. Valerie's sister Morgan ran in the race and Riley and Kade didn't have a problem staying entertained.


Macie enjoying her swing.

Here's a video of Riley and Macie doing their swing set routine. It's kind of long and not too exciting, but I figured the blog needed a new post.

Posting Photos

Maggie,

I'm not exactly sure how to upload pictures from Picasa to the blog, but I think I can walk you through uploading pictures from your desktop to the blog...Log into the blog by clicking on the Blogger.com icon in the top left corner of the screen. Once you log in you should have the option to create a new post - you have obviously been able to get this far. Anyway, then you want to click on the Add Image icon on the tool bar. This will allow you to browse for the images you saved to your desktop. You usually have the option to add five or six photos. Let me know if you try this and it still doesn't work. I think the key is to save your photos to a different location.

We haven't taken any pictures of Riley and Macie lately so I thought I would post some pcitures of Macie from when we took her to JC Penney a few months ago.

Pictures to share.....somewhere!

Because of my low-tech abilities, I have some wonderful pictures from the reunion, but don't seem to be able to share them! I downloaded them in Picasa2, but can't get them from there to here. Help!!

Anyway, I love looking at the pictures. I had such a great time with all of you. The time just passed too quickly!

Testing: 1, 2, 3

Testing: 1, 2, 3.

Just making sure this fancy new blog format we've been hearing so much about actually works, since all activity came to a screeching halt the day we switched over.

Is everyone alive and well?

In our news, I'm home alone with the boys for a couple days while Margie attends her brother Brett's wedding in Utah.

And, as you can tell, the boys are already keeping me very busy: Tourists Flee as Felix Nears, and Central America Braces for Felix.

Apparently, Felix's reputation is spreading. I had no idea!