New Zealand

This is a waterfall by Milford Sound. It is a fjiord
on the South Island. We took a boat ride out and saw
many beautiful scenes.

This is near Champagne Lake in Rotorua. It is like Yellowstone with natural geysers, fumaroles, hot pots, etc. It smelled like sulphur. It was a nice hike all around the site.

This is the Franz Josef Glacier. It's amazing to see all the different forms of nature.

Of course we had to take time to smell the roses. We saw quite a few beautiful gardens. These were in Christchurch.

Kye took his nap most days while we continued on our activities. He was a very good sport considering all the things we were doing. This is also in Rotorua.

Samoan Adventure

Kent took some dental supplies down to Apia to a dental clinic. He got to spend half a day working there with Ralph Downey. The people come in and the first ones get the services for the day.

We went to the market. This is where Nathan got his weapon. It was very cool!

We played at some beautiful beaches. Nathan and Suzie went out snorkeling for awhile and we got to play with Kye. He loved to be thrown in the air.

This is Rolayne on sliding rock in Papaseea. I did some cliff jumping and rock sliding--my first time! It was so beautiful. We looked at all Nathan and Suzie's blog pictures and we recognized many of the places. It was so fun to be there.

Like father, like son. This is at Papaseea when Kent and Nathan climbed up some rocks after diving from the cliffs.

Visit to Brian and Nicole's home

Rolayne and her Curves friends on the occasion of her 600th visit to the workout studio!

Rolayne made Matthew a beautiful, manly quilt for Christmas. He really thinks it's cool!

Rolayne, Kent and Lindsey made a visit to Brian and Nicole's over the Holidays. This is their very cool kitchen table. (Bar stools to come.) Note in these two pictures the new oak flooring Brian is installing. The varied grains, colors and widths of planking make for a rustic and beautiful effect. They should be proud.

A view toward the fireplace family room area with their new black chairs. Their home is looking very classy.

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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