The More Things Change...

The above photo was taken in 1973 when Amy was a year old. The photo below was taken last week when Rostam had his first birthday. Bill has added 36 years to his age but the baby looks the same.



Rostam had a tiramasu birthday cake. Now there is a baby with impeccable taste.

Congratulations Laurie and Mike

Here are the two oldest Oliver brothers "Irish twins" being less than a year apart in age.

On our first night in Halfway Dennie and Jan treated us to a Dutch oven dinner at the family cabin. The ovens contained pork chops, a potato dish, and a peach cobbler.

The back yard at the Gulick ranch was all set up for the wedding reception. There was also an area for guests who wanted to camp out.

Mike and Laurie Boomer whose wedding we celebrated.

Charlie is always ready for a celebration of any kind.

On our last night Sean added to the celebration with this gallon of "yucca juice" which would more appropriately be labeled "blue agave juice".

Familial Memories

In addition to taking several scenic drives in and around Boulder and celebrating Charlie's birthday and his and Linda's 8th wedding anniversary (church in above photo is where they were married), we were able to spend a couple of days with my cousin Margaret and her husband Fred.

Margaret plays cello for the Colorado Symphony and was featured on their poster. We were priviveledged to attend a concert in which she played. She and Fred also treated us to a visit to the Denver Art Museum.

This is a photo of Pine Valley, the area where Bill grew up and where his sister Frances and brother Denny and their spouses live. It was the next stop in our adventures.

Wildlife?

We happened to hit the weekend of Elk Festival in Estes Park and there were certainly elk everywhere. We took a couple of nice drives in Rocky Mountain National Park, one with my high school friend, Lynn, and one with Charlie and Linda.

We spent a night with Lynn and Gail and were joined for breakfast by Patti and Rich, soon to be married. Photo is taken on Lynn's deck and is l to r: Lynn Nelson, Patti Thompson, Rich Moore, Gail Gish, Susan Cook (maiden names used)

Colorado Celebrations

We arrived in Colorado on the birthday of Bill's brother, Charlie. After an amazing dinner we arrived at his house to find four pumpkins carved by Charlie's son Sean and his girl friend Katja. Charlie is a big fan of the Colorado University Buffalos. The SWAT stands for "skip work and tailgate". Two pumpkins on the ends are of Charlie and Linda's dogs.

This is a photo of Long's Peak, the mountain that my father climbed 93 times.

I was delighted to find that the old taffy shop in Estes Park still made taffy and still had the taffy machine in the window.

Travels Continued

Our next stop was Spearfish, South Dakota, to visit with Margaret Wengert with whom I taught in Ketchikan in the 60's and early 70's. Our principal was Mr. Stekl and he drove in from eastern SD to join us.

We saw hundreds of pronghorn antelope in Wyoming and SD.

We took a detour on the return drive to Billings so that we could see Devil's Tower.