And He's Off

Just now, my dad came over with his truck, camper, and car. He is on his way to the sunny south for 7 months. His dream is becoming a reality...getting away from the snow and joining the other snowbirds in California/Arizona. Lets just say, Bentley and I will thoroughly miss him...especially Bentley. It has become a routine were dad comes every morning to pick up Bentley for the day while I am at work. He comes at 8 am every morning, walking in the same direction. Bentley knows this is coming, and wakes me up to let him outside. Sometimes at 6 am, and sometimes not till right at 8 am. Bentley sits on the front porch, sometimes for hours, and just watches in the direction dad always comes. I am afraid that tomorrow morning is going to come as a shock for him, when dad does not come around that corner at 8 am. We will have some adjustments to make. Good Luck Dad!

Weekend In Leavenworth

This past weekend I went with the Cocks Family to Leavenworth for the Fall Leaf Festival. It is a tradition that this family has been doing for over 20 years. I had the privilege of going two years ago, and again this year. As always...it is a blast! There was lots of laughing, parade watching, wine tasting, shopping and hanging out. It was a nice weekend get away. Most of the pictures I took was on a little walk around the Leavenworth Park. I got really into these bamboo shoots that were a yellowish green color and just kept trying to get a good picture of how cool they really looked in real life. Also, I saw the first leaves turn color...fall really is coming...even though we had 85 degree weather all weekend! All the others have all the crazy goofy people pictures...I will have to steal copies from them.



Then as a surprise...and some lies from Louie...I found, when I came home, that more dry wall and the hall closet door was put in. He wasn't just a couch potato all weekend like he had me led on the believe. His parents had come in for the weekend and helped him with the house. This is what is now looks like.

What was Before Is No Longer

This past weekend, Louie's parents were in town, yet again to help us with the house. They also had an excuse to visit because of a concert in Spokane they went to see on Saturday evening. Lots was accomplished this weekend...the biggest is that the furnace is back up and running! Which is good because the new thermostat reads 54 degrees this morning. brrr. We also got the home theater outlets to have a new breaker and power to them. Also...I came up with a new idea. The running joke is that I am not allowed to watch the DIY network anymore. I come up with new grand ideas and the old projects just seem to get bigger and bigger. With this new imac though...i decided it needed a new home sweet home. I found this on their website...

http://www.diynetwork.com/how-to/how-to-build-an-office-under-the-stairs/index.html

so the project began to build a office under the stairs. It should be pretty cool. I guess while Louie was demolishing...he cut right into the water line for upstairs and water went everywhere. Lydia and I were sad we missed that one. (we were out shopping). So this is what is new with the house...

Also it was my dad's birthday this weekend. We celebrated by going out to Azteca for dinner and had icecream in mom and erin's new house. It was fun. Mom and Erin moved into their new house this weekend...so we now have them three blocks away. Watch out...the Dvoraceks are all within a 7 block radius!

New Addition to the Family

Do I need to say anything else? Can we say Happiness?

Thank you Louie! :) Now picture editing will be so much

sweeter!

Fleming Family Video

Back in August, I got the priviledge of taking pictures of the Fleming Family on their farm in Reardan, WA. Louie came with me...and I stuck him with a video camera. I love the idea of making a short film of the photoshoot (an idea I stole from Tara Whitney). So...after many trails and tribulations, of broken down computers, and dvd burners not working, and internet crashing...I think I have finally been able to burn it and upload it. Here's hoping! The quality of the short film is grainy because I had to shrink the file way down to upload it on the internet. I have the final pictures and copies of this video in the mail to the family. I hope they like it.