Spring 2011

Whew, what a crazy spring/summer this has been!  Obviously we've struggled to find time to blog but hopefully we'll get everyone caught up soon enough.  Since ample time has passed, our memories will likely not be as detailed as we'd like but the pictures speak for themselves!

Trent spent his junior-year spring break with us and had a fun week.  He spent some time shadowing me and some co-workers both in the office and out on the forest to explore his interest in a possible engineering future. 

With a co-worker's recent survival story following his personal aircraft accident fresh on my mind, I thought it would be fun to take Trent up in the mountains  to build a snow cave and camp out for the night.  Well, we accomplished the cave construction and it kept us warm enough I suppose.  Lets just say that building a snow cave was much more fun than sleeping in one, but it got the job done!

In May we got to travel back home for Lauri's graduation from WSU.  We were able to tie in a visit to the Seattle area to see some friends, a stop in Tonasket to see Ian's family, some time in Spokane to see more friends and family all in a week's time prior to heading to Pullman for graduation.  While there we stayed with Jacob & Ky and it was great to see them.  Finally, we wrapped the trip up with a couple days in Hunters with Cara's family prior to flying back home.

Later in May Ian had the opportunity to go on an overnight halibut fishing trip with other men from Cornerstone Church.  The seas were pretty rough and of course, he contributed to the fish chumming between catching his 4 halibut!  Lots of great fish in the freezer for the year.  It also happened to be a weekend that Ian's college buddy, Brian was in town for work and was able to join in on the halibut action.  The second day of the trip was much nicer weather and seas leading to a MUCH more enjoyable  time for Ian.