Thursday, July 30, 2009

CATCHING UP... SORT OF

Just an update of summer fun! Carol and Ron came in May with the kiddos.



My mom had a luau!

One of my best friends, Holly, had a baby 8 weeks ago and we had lunch with them a month ago. I am so behind on blogging....ha!
A series of self photos!



A day at the park with the Lewis girls.





Autumn
The many faces of Olivia!










Olivia loves Emma the most!


I went to see Bryce and Shane play at Burt's Tiki Lounge! Brought back memories of high school!

I'm way behind on my blog! I haven't been in the mood!

Thursday, July 9, 2009

THE LITTLE GINGERBREAD HOUSE

Once upon a time there was a good looking, funny, young man, (Mark Marvin White). He liked to draw palm trees and say "Ha" a lot!

One sunny day, just outside of Coeur d' Alene, he caught a glimpse of Veronica Elenore Hruska and was smitten!
So he asked her out.
Eventually he convinced her to marry him. Then he left for the war, came back, and they moved to Calofornia.
They had 6 kids.
TONI, Mark, Cindy, John, Julie, and Monica. (That's the order of the picture it actually goes: Monica, Toni, Cindy, Mark, John, and Julie).

Since they loved Coeur d' Alene so much he decided to build her a cabin there.
They called it The Little Gingerbread House!
The Little Gingerbread House is a magical place where all their grandkids love to visit.
Little Rosanna loves to walk around porch in the early morning!
The 5 Moncrief kids pose for a picture.
The tree swing is one of the favorite attractions. Lots of fighting goes on over whose turn it is!
(Little Robert and Little Cookie)
All the grandkids love to swim at the lake!
Little Cookie, Rosanna, and Roy
and Uncle Mark loves helping Rosanna build the best sand castle ever!
I think this is when Rosanna started to get her freckles!
Taking a cruise around the lake is always fun! (Aunt Patrice, Carol, and Roy).
Uncle Mark always has his video camera going!
Uncle John is such a funny guy! I'm sure this was provoked by Uncle Steve, ha! (that picture was taken in a hotel in CDA, not the cabin)
Everyones favorite person is, of course, GRAMMIE! (Chris, Scott, and Matt)

It's nice that Uncle John and Aunt Bebes live just across the lake so we can visit them as well.

Rosanna and Katie were always spinning around on the dock. It's amazing that they never fell in!
Best Friends
The view from the cabin is amazing! (Aunt Patrice)
Uncle Mark being silly!
Well, what can I say? It's the 80's! (Chris, Matt, Scott, Kenny, and Roy on the ground)
Grammie is the best!
Top Models in action!

I had a chance to visit The Little Gingerbread House on my vacation to Spokane! It looks pretty much the same. Older of course! And the tree swing is gone. It just needs some fixing up is all!
But it has a new and shiny deck!


The view is still the same
Even though it's really small and it's not very glamorous. It's my favorite places in the world!