Jason & Julie in Cancun February 2008

Olivia turned 2 on February 5th. On the 6th Jason & Julie left for 5 days in Cancun.
They stayed at the brand new Iberostar Hotel Grand Paraiso!

A gorgeous place they say!
And it was wonderful to be in 80 degree weather!

Grandma Mary babysat Olivia!

Now we are all anxiously waiting for Baby Christensen number 2 on June 1st!!

Sunday 2/17/08 Ann & Noel Petersen visit WA

Ann & Noel arrived for the weekend and once again God gave us sun for our company. It is the first sun we have seen in many weeks!! So the mountains were out and were awesome! We took a whirlwind tour from Seatac to the pass, back to the falls, to Pike's Market and to Salty's for dinner.
The 4 of us at Snoqualmie Falls

Ann & Noel at the Snoqualmie Ridge Golf Course

Ann & Noel with the pig at Pike's Market

Time for Dungeness Crab at Salty's

Off to the airport!

We are so happy the Petersen's had a wedding in Seattle!

What a great time we had with friends we haven't seen for 22 years. It was like old times....nothing has changed except the color of our hair!!

Thank you for coming to see us Ann & Noel!

More great memories!!

Picture taken from our bathroom window Sunday morning. The Northern Cascades are loaded with snow and the valley is fogged in. Gorgeous!

Backes Family in Jamaica...December 2007

Karen, Nick, Jodi, Larry

Christen, Connor
LaVerne & Gary (Larry's parents) took the whole family to Jamaica in honnor
of their 50th Wedding Anniversary!!

LaVerne, Jodi, Karen (Larry's sister), Ana (Larry's sister-in-law), Karen (Larry's daughter)
Renee (Larry's sister is missing!)

Cousins!

Rebecca, Kayla, Christina, Christen, Connor

I hope I got that right.........don't they all look like siblings!?!

Christen & Connor with the donkey

Jodi and Christen on the beach!

Christen doing a craft with the Nanny!

Connor drinking milk from a coconut!

They all made their hats from banana and palm leaves!

They loved the hats and then customs had the nerve to keep them. ) :

It was a great trip!

Thank you Grandpa and Grandma!!

Olivia's Kitchen

At last the parts came to replace the defective ones and Olivia got her 'Kitchen' from Bestefar and Bestemor.

It is like Christmas all over again!!
It even has a microwave!

Olivia likes lounging in her new chair......just like Daddy!!