Holidays

On New Years Eve we had a Pirate Cootie Party with the Allen family. It was lots of fun to have everyone join in on this "high adventure." The championship round came down to Rolayne and Paul. Yes, Rolayne was the champion (embarrasing to win at your own party.)


This is Patsy Castor--a friend that I spend a lot of time with. She made bracelets for us for Christmas. This is Dalene Settle (Patsy's former care taker) and Rolayne and Lindsey showing off our bracelets.



Brian and Nicole came over in the late morning on Christmas. It was fun to have some time with them. We also went to see their house later in the week. Brian has just put in wood floors and it looked great!

Kent enjoyed Christmas--especially because he didn't ever catch the flu bug. It made him have a few more responsibilities, but he did it cheerfully.

It was wonderful to have Lindsey home for Christmas. It was a quiet Christmas morning with just the three of us. But we enjoyed it a lot. We also spend a lot of time with extended Allen family over the next few days.

Utah trip

I had fun on a recent trip to Utah (for Lindsey's show). It was fun to have time with Dave and Sarah's family. I always like to do a project with the kids. This is Bryce and Kobe fingerpainting.


Solena was my shadow. I loved playing with her--singing, talking, playing with kitty, cleaning, organizing, etc. I went with her to her nursery class on Sunday. She was fun to play with.

I found the old books that Dave wrote when he was little. I had fun reading them to Kobe and his friend (McKay), Solena and Bryce. Then Kobe and I made books for him.

This is Lindsey with her cast while they were posing for pictures after the show. These kids love her. She is amazing with them. She has earned their respect so now she can have fun with them.

We have always given something to Lindsey after her shows that will represent the show. This is a Barbie decked out like Thoroughly Modern Millie. It was a ton of fun to see the show and watch the amazing production Lindsey was responsible for.

Office in the digital world

These are pictures of an overhead monitor and a computer and monitor as they now are in every operatory in the office. We also take digital xrays which show immediately on the monitor. We have a new digital panoramic xray machine. We can put the xray images and intraoral camera images on the overhead monitor for patients to see. Pretty cool stuff.

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Nicole's Birthday

We went to dinner with Brian and Nicole to celebrate her birthday. It was a hibachi style restaurant and Nicole loved it. She has a new job this year. She works at an elementary with handicapped children. It is emotionally demanding, but she likes it. Check with her to find out more about it. Happy Birthday Nicole!

Colorful Fall

We have had an absolutely beautiful and colorful fall. This barberry in the front yard has never been so red.



The cotoneaster hedge in the backyard is more colorful that it has ever been. This was on Halloween.

See the red amur maple in the Japanese garden. We are loving it. We still haven't had any snow yet this year.

Cootie!

This is the poster that Brian drew for the Cootie Party. He took the materials home and drew it there. He said Matthew didn't know he could draw! He is so creative. Look at the details of these little cooties on the ship and on the land. We are so grateful that he will draw this poster for us every year!

Cap'n Kent and Rascal Rolayne were the host and hostess for this 24th Annual Cootie Invitational Tourney. We had a lot of fun dressing up and planning the activities for the night.

We had full wall decorations (thanks to Suzie for suggesting we look up Oriental Trading Catalog for pirate ideas). This is a picture of the group playing games in the basement. Kent is rolling "eyeballs" into a treasure chest. We played "pin the eyepatch on the captain". You can see the big captain on the wall in the background. We also "bowled" with skulls and shot at skulls.

These lovely ladies are some of the "wenches" that their husbands had to catch by identifying their bare feet while the rest of their bodies were hidden.

We have some fun friends that are nearly as crazy as we are. It is a fun evening for us to laugh and laugh, eat, and play and laugh some more.