Violette went on her first airplane ride to visit her Greatgrandparents, Grandparents, Aunt and friends in Seattle and Portland. She was a great traveler!
Portland
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Dec 10
Getting Home
It took us 2 days, 5 airports, a rental car, and 3 bus systems to get home after Christmas.
One surprise was a lovely hotel connected to the Hartford airport, that let us use their business center and print for free without being guests. Without them, we wouldn’t have been able to use the bus tickets we had bought and would have had to buy new ones at the station, for a much later bus! Thank you Sheraton, you rock our world!
Josh printing our tickets!
27
Dec 10
Christmas-ing on the Oregon Coast
We missed photographing some of the fun memories of making cookies and putting together puzzles with Grandpa (we were too busy making cookies and putting together puzzles) but here are some of our pictures. You can check out more photos of the fun on Thadd’s blog, or on Shannon and John’s, or on Mr. Allen’s.
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- 1st Seaside Exploration
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- 1st Seaside Exploration
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- Between Seaside & Gearhart
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- Josh
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- Gearhart House
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- Jeannette
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- End of the Oregon Trail
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- 2nd Seaside Exploration
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- Shan & John’s Ritual
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- Shan
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- Seaside Aquarium
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- Wind Sculpted Tree
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- Stacks at Cannon Beach?
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- Stacks at Cannon Beach?
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- Shan & John’s Ritual
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- A bit windy
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- A tad windy
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- A nice lunch spot
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- Brew list
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- Beach Venture
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- Beach Venture
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- Beach Venture
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- Josh on the Beach
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- Josh on the Beach
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- John on the Beach
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- Warming up
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- Astoria
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- View from Astoria Column
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- View from Astoria Column
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- View from Astoria Column
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- View from Astoria Column
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- Astoria Column
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- Astoria Column
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- Goonie’s House
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- Astoria
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- Astoria
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- Astoria
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- Astoria
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- Gearhart Beach
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- Gearhart Beach
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- Gearhart Beach
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- Josh headed to the beach
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- Mitzi headed to the beach
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- Josh & the beach
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- Gearhart Beach
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- John & the Vuvuzela
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- Mitzi on the beach
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- Gearhart Beach
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- Baxter on the beach
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- Mitzi on the beach
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- Horn Blowing
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- Baxter Exploring
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- Baxter Exploring
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- Baxter & Beck
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- Gifts
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- Gifts
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- Gifts
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- Organizing the Yankee Swap
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- Gifts
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- Allens
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- Fialas
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- Woohoo!
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- Grandparents Allen & Allen Girls
03
Aug 08
Grandma Brown’s Celebration of Life
A family (and friends) reunion to celebrate the life of our amazing Doris Brown, my grandmother-extraordinaire.
This is my grandparent’s beautiful yard and the site of the celebration. The flower gardens are “Doris’ Memory Garden”.
