Phyllis and Jim's Family Album for 2007


At the park and with Santa	Sliding at "our" park	Sliding at "our" park	I hit a deer with the Camry	Jamie having fun with shoveling

	On the naughty step and watching his movie	We got a lot of snow!	A lot! (Sunday, the following Friday)	A lot!

A lot!	Playing in the snow	I've infected both boys with a love of ramen!	Jamie's 3rd birthday in March	3rd birthday

3rd birthday	3rd birthday	Fun with Jamie's Brio trains	Enjoying Valentine's Day cookies	Enjoying Valentine's Day cookies

Easter dinner at my Mom and Dad's	Sandhill cranes across the street		Spring hiking at Tamarack	Spring hiking at Tamarack

Playing guitar with Dad	More Tamarack hiking	Gravel for our new beach (forget the driveway for a few days ...	Jamie enjoying the gravel pile	Various shots of the beach before the new gravel

Joe moving gravel	New garden plot (with fence to keep out the rabbits); mist on the swamp	Biking the Gateway Trail near our home	Jamie with his favorite pillow that Anne gave him	At the Minnesota Zoo

Minnesota Zoo, including the butterfly garden	Getting a "camel ride" and a sleepy head	Joe and Phyllis and Jeff and Nannette's	Fun with driveway chalk	Donut holes are a favorite

Fun with Hotwheels	In May, we had a nice but short trip to White Salmon. This one: ON the airplane from MSP to PDX	On his special chair	Hike from our place to the viewpoint at the top of Catherine Creek	Lots of friends visited including the Wetzels, the Smith/McNutts, Jeanne and Steve, Kevin and Anna

A short hike to "the Penninsula" near our place with Cara Smith	Mt. Hood at sunset	At sunset with Ben, Gaye, and Cara	Jamie and his Mom	Cara and her Dad

3-Corner Rock hike	From the top of 3-Corner Rock	Jamie at the trailhead	Jamie at the trailhead	Jamie, Phyllis and Mt. Adams

Jamie's favorite activity: Throwing rocks into a body of water (E Fork of the Hood River in this case)	Throwing rocks	Throwing rocks	Throwing rocks	Throwing rocks

A new (to us) hike to Wahclella Falls in the Gorge, now a favorite hike	Wahclella Falls hike	Wahclella Falls hike	Wahclella Falls hike	Wahclella Falls hike

Wahclella devolves to rock throwing of course	Wahclella Falls hike			Final supper with Jeanne and Steve

Phyllis's colleague Kim and her grandson Marvin	Wisteria in bloom	Willow River State Park	Willow River State Park	St. Paul Saints baseball game in August

We got to spend a fun week at my brothers Jon and Charlie's cabin near Mitchell Lake, near Emily, MN		We paddled up Crooked Creek from the boat launch on Mitchell Lake	Rock-throwing at the boat launch

We paddled around Eagle Lake	Rock-throwing at the launch	Going to the headwaters of the Mississippi River at Itasca State Park	The Shingobee Trail near Brainerd	Walking on River Lane

Hiking in the Pillsbury St Forest, near Brainerd		With Phyllis's colleague Maya	Jamie the builder and movie-watching	Grandpa Pete's place in Gresham, WI, October

Phyllis, her Mom Kay, and sister Polly, Shawano, October	Fall colors near Shawano, October	I took a fall trip to White Salmon to plant trees and winterize. Eric and Jeanne were there too.	Our White Salmon neighbor and her daughter	Steve on his tractor

Inside the new home of Thomas Nicolai and his wife Jin Hee (just down the hill from our place), who we met in 2009	Jamie in his Power Ranger Halloween costume		New snow in White Salmon, 4-Dec-2007 Steve took these	Falling snow and geese on the pond in Shoreview; crazy ice-breaking neighbors

Thanksgiving dinner at my Mom and Dad's	Thanksgiving dinner at my Mom and Dad's	December sunset and snow		Jamie home sick from school

No more diapers!	Our 5th anniversary at Tria	Loony's birthday	Joe and his tail	More snow

	Fun in the snow	Fun in the snow