Gorgeous Day March 10th, 2017

Here is a video of us enjoying the

 day on the deck..
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Anniversary trip to Monterey/Carmel/Seaside

Ev and I decided to go to Monterey/Carmel/Seaside for our anniversary. Our 12th anniversary..
We stayed with a delightful couple that we rented a room from them via AIRBNB.. The house was 2 bedroom, 1 bath (we shared) worked out great. We had Kitchen privileges.. So we had breakfast in and had dinners out. They are pet friendly, so we brought our dogs Ripley and Kaylee. We had a nice time..
We visited Monterey wharf.. We took a sailboat ride for a couple of hours one day.. We had a Mom and 4 kids with us.. Oldest was 9 then 7 then 3 and then 1.. That's a long time to keep kids confined!! Trip was ok.. Kids were pretty good overall..
On Tuesday we walked the beach at Carmel by the sea... Took some photos of Pebble Beach.. :)
We walked up to a Aw Shucks that serve a great bloody mary!! They also serve some oysters.. 
We did dinners out.. First night was Phil's Fish Market at Moss Landing..Oh Yum!! We shared a plate of Halibut Fish & Chips!! It was wonderful!! The atmosphere is very casual.. They had a country music band that was incredible! They were amazing.. Loved it!
We had dinner at Monterey Fish House.. What a wonderful dinner we both had!! Incredibly wonderful! A must if you are ever in this area!!
Wednesday we did the sail boat ride. Ev and I got to be the "crew" taking in the sails and letting them out! Fun..
After sailing went back to our room and freshen up.. We then went to the Monterey Elks Lodge .. Beautiful lodge.. There is RV parking a swimming pool. The lodge is very nice.. Tables had white table cloths on them.. :)
Then went to the Mission Ranch where we had a couple of drinks and some very good shrimp cocktail.. The grounds were beautiful..
From here we went to the Moose lodge in Del Rey Oaks Had a drink and a couple bits of pizza that they shared with us..
From here we were tired.. stopped at Mickey "D's" for dinner and then back to our room.. Early night..
We took off for home Thursday morning.. fun time..

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Ev & Ricks' Ski Trip to Idaho January 28-February 9th 2017

Ev Rick's Idaho Ski Trip January 28-February 9th 2017
The ski trip was planned just before Christmas 2016.
Rick & Lynn bought Ev's plane ticket for his xmas present..
Ev was thrilled as you might imagine..
They had a place at Tamarack Ski Resort in Idaho.
The 12 million mansion was no charge!! woo hoo!!
The house was incredible! All guys for 6 days!! hehe
We had some amazing skiing! We went snow shoeing, Ev had never done that before.. His whole time with Rick and the boys was to say the least incredible.. Be sure to check out photos below..
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Eureka Crab Feed Jan 2017

Crab feed in Eureka Jan 2017
We had quite a group as always, Phil Toni, Mike, Maryann, Jim, Shirley, Jim, Jan, Lee, Laura, Rudy and Faith.
This year again rained and stormed most of the 5 days we were there.. So we did a lot of trailer hopping.. hopping from one trailer to another stay dry.. Also spent time in the lodge..
I got that nasty cold second day we were there.. YUCK!
Followed by Shirley and Everett. They got it the last day we were there.. Every years seems like I am sick.. Not sure why?
In spite of the sickness we all managed to enjoy each others company..
Got caught up in a traffic jam on the way home.. 101 was shut down in both directions for about 2 1/2 hours!  Long drive home..
Good time by one and all.. click on the link below to view all the pics..

Eureka Crab Feed 2017

New Years in Reno with Mohoffs

Another wonderful year with GREAT friends! Always good times with the Mohoffs.. Again this year the Mohoff's we stayed with the M&M b&b.. :) Served us breakfast, dinner.. yummy..  4 lovely nights.. great people..
New Years
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New Years in Reno with Mohoffs

 

2016 Swesey Christmas Party

What a fantastic party!! OMG you missed one of the best parties ever! Lots of singing and dancing and excellent food! Excellent group!! Love you all and thank you for making this Christmas Party the BEST EVER!!
Thank you Dave Mallow & Terry for your wonderful Karaoke and just plain good music!! <3



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E & S HALLOWEEN PARTY 2016

Ernie and Shirley's Halloween

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Visit Family/Friends in Stockton area

We had a great week visiting Family/Friends
Started out at Rick & Marianne.. We spent 2 great days with them.
We camped at Woodward Res.. $15 a night full hookups.
Then we went over to Stockton and stayed at Buckley Cove/Riverpoint RV..very nice park
My cousin Mike Fox hosted a wonderful bbq with family! It was a great reunion!! Most all the cuz'z were there! Great seeing everyone!!
Love you all so much!
Sunday, Celina came for a nice afternoon visit! :)
Friends Steve & Raine came for bbq and lots of catching up..
Final destination was a great visit with Bette & John... Thanks guys it was great seeing and spending time..

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Full with the "Walsh" family and Friends

Jim & Shirley's daughter Kelley from NC came out to visit.. What a great visit! Fun time was had by all..
Summit Lake Winery in Angwin, Gretchen who is one of the owners is a good friend of Kelley's. Gretchen hosted us a private wine tasting and lots of fun stories.
Later in the day we met with Rudy & Faith for pizza at Middletown..
Sunday we met over at Steele Winery for the Harvest Festival.. Great fun!

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Mary Potter B-day!

Fun day with friends celebrating Mary's bday!

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Laura's 80th Birthday Party

Happy 80th Birthday Laura!!

 

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Boyd Family Reunion August 2016

Boyd/Reardon Family Reunion August 2016
We started the reunion on Friday the 5th of August going through Sunday August 7th..
Grand time had by all..  :) I will have two different links on this page.. The first being all the candid shots.. Second is all the photo booth photos<<Lots of them!

 

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A big Thank you to Rick & Lynn for hosting the blessed event!!! Thank you soooooooooo much!
Thank you to Lindsy for getting the invitation and food lists together along with many other things as well..
Thank you to Janelle for putting together the photo booth!
Thank you Phil, Toni, Kim, John and Jody for your cooking!
Thank you everyone for coming and help make our reunion a truly big success!!



Cline-Devlin Wedding July 16th 2016

Samantha Cline married Ryan Devlin

Beautiful Day at Cline Winery in Sonoma, CA

Sammy Cline Wedding 7-16-2016

Our Grandson Colin's 10th Birthday

What a great day Colin had celebrating his 10th Birthday.. :)

Colin 10th Birthday July 2016

Music in the Park (Library Park, Lakeport, CA)

Great times with Great Friends!!

Music in the Park 7-2016

St Louis, MO., Moose Convention 2016

Pam and I went to St Louis to receive some awards for our hard work for the Moose.
Pam received her "Star" for doing a great job as Recorder (bookkepper). Previous year Pam received her "College of Regents" in Nashville, TN.
I got my "College of Regents" degree. One of the highest awards given.
We had a 3rd muskateer Cheri Burgi from the Sonoma lodge..
Had a nice week..

St Louis Jun-July 2016

July 4th Festivities At Clearlake, CA

Another fun time with Friends at the Lake.
Boat Parade at Fred & Pam's
Fireworks and party at Ben & Julie's

4th of July 2016

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner. June 25, 2016

OMG!! Ev won $10K on a lottery ticket!
So we went out with Jim & Shirley to celebate at Twin Pines!!

winner winner chicken dinner

Bodega Bay w/Phil and Toni June 2016

Great time was had by all.. Phil & Toni.. Thanks so much! :)
Kim my sister came out and spent the night with us..
Weather was delightful.. a bit windy and clear skies!

Bodega Bay with Phil-Toni June 2016

Quad Ride with friends June 15 2016

Great day for a ride.. Very cool and a little rain..

 

Quad ride with friends 6-15-2016

Ernie & Shirley's Memorial Day Party

Another great party with the Vasheresse's!!
Ernie and Shirley always go the extra mile! They have live music, this time was the "Tattoed Cherries". This time there was the "wing cookoff".. For which "Fred & Pam" won first place!! YIPEEEEEEEE!!
Barbara Stella won a lovely HUGE bird house Ernie designed and built! Fantastic!
I won the "shots' contest.. :) The shots consisted of Kulua and Baileys and some whipped cream.. These shots have a name..
"Slippery Nipple" if a man was to drink it. A "blow job" for a women shooting them. :)
What a great way to kick off the summer season!!
Had a GREAT time!! Thanks again!

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Ride with Doc & Pam 5/25/2016

We headed out to Indian Valley Res.. to check it out on the quads today.. Fun day.. We did get a little rain while we ate lunch.
We got back home about 5pm.. Then a big black cloud came over us and poured down rain for about 20 minutes or so.. Fun time!

quad-ride-5-25-2016

 

Candi & Mike 40th wedding anniversary, Candi's 60th birtday

We had a GRAND time at Candi & Mike's Saturday night May 21st!Thank you guys it was fantastic..
Good time was had by all.. At least I know Ev and I had a great time!
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Candi-Mike-May-2016

The perfect ending to a wonderful vacation..
Mother's Day with my girls and all my favorite grandchildren!!
We had alovely brunch at the Villa in Santa Rosa..
Love you all bunches and bunches!

 

Kauai April 14th-May 5th 2016

We arrived at Lindsy's the day before we left. We needed to be at the airport at like 6pm or so..
Yes we had to get up in the middle of the night.. :(  Suffering for a few hours was a small sacrifce for what was upcoming.
We landed early before noon in Kauai at Lihue! :)
Click on the photos below to view all photos in that group... Then below that you can read what I had to say at the bottom.. However a picture is worth a "1000" words.. :)

Hawaii April-May-2016

Snorkel Trip

Waimea Canyon Hike

Michelle Visit

Luau

Golf

Thursday, April 14, 2016
We arrived early that morning at the Lihue airport.
There is Lindsy, Chris, Jeff, Cesar, Maryellen ( Jeff's Mom) We all hustled to get our luggage then off to get our rent a cars!!
Then off to Costco , Kmart Walmart etc. got groceries. 
Checked in kind of early to our room. Got situated. Of course we are all exhausted from no sleep and now dealing with 3 hour time change.
Jeff was the chef of the day. Teriyaki chicken while Lindsy did rice and we did salad.
I didn't quite make dinner. Fell asleep.
Of course falling a sleep early on Thursday night, I was awake at 2:30am. And up for the day 😅.
Friday, April 15, 2016
Making the best of it we were both up and waiting for the sun to come up so we could go for a walk. 6:15 we left the condo for a lovely walk along the beach on a blacktop surface. The sun was rising and many people enjoying the same beautiful colors and clouds and sea. Breath taking  
We walked about 2 miles returned to our "home" here on Kauai ..
We enjoyed a nice home cooked breakfast of bacon & eggs.
We drove over to the western part of the island poipu, where spent a few hours sun bathing and just enjoying the ocean and swimming. We got to see a monk seal and a couple very large sea turtles. 
We then drove up to spouting horn to view the spouting of ocean waves coming up under the rocks. Making the noise of a "horn" ..
Jeff again was the chef again for dinner. Tonight he finished the chicken he did not cook last night along with some very delicious scallops!!
We all met at Lindsy & Chris condo across the pool from us for "Happy Hour" .
Great dinner with great friends an family. 
Saturday, April 16, 2016
This morning we did a bicycle ride of 10 miles!!!!
There were Lindsy, Chris, Ev and me. Our ride was all along the coast along Kapa'a Town up the coast north. It was so fun. A little rain a little sun. Perfect for riding bikes.  We stopped had light lunch at a road side wagon. Yummy! So good tacos!!!
We returned the bikes..
Did an afternoon rest.
Lindsy & Chris cooked a great dinner. Tri-tip.  Jeff & Cesar provided sides. Had cocktails.
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Today is storm, warm and windy.
We took a ride to Hanalei and beyond.
The day was relaxing and adventuresome. Great Day.
We also did "Date Night" at Mariachi's. For some tacos and margaritas.
We walked on the beach before dinner in front of the Marriott.  Lindsy & Chris were having dinner at "Dukes" for their date night.
Monday, April 18, 2016
Today we hung out at the condo.  We did the usual timeshare presentation.  Got the $100 free dinner gift certificate. Then just hung out on the beach on a chair with a Ebook.  Dinner again provided by Jeff.  Cooking delicious special recipe hamburgers   .
Too much fun after dinner. Sat up at the bar at the pool for a couple hours. 
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Today we spent the day at Poipu in the sun on the beach!!
Then we cooked a great dinner tonight with Italian sausage, veggies, bow tie pasta, Alfredo sauce.  So yummy!!
We all had a nice time again.
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Shopping day. Got some good deals at Macy's. Getting ready for my trip to Honolulu tomorrow to see my niece Michelle who is going to have a baby soon!!! :) We are going to Tree's tonight for celebration on Jeff's birthday. 
Thursday, April 21,2016
Surprisingly waking up this morning feeling pretty good after last nights party for Jeffs birthday. Neither Ev or I slept well. I am sure due to the alcohol consumption.  Uuummm?? Whatever, still thankful that I am feeling good for my trip over to Honolulu to see Michelle.
Lindsy & Chris were headed home today..
Michelle picked me up at the airport blessed me with a lovely lei. 😍 she had some baby shower invites to drop off down by the Waikiki Marina. She visited and introduced me to some of her friends and past co-workers . Soon we were on our way to her home. Their home is on the southwest side of island. Their home is a work in progress! Remodel. And still had time for me..
Met the family. Zach, Michelle's boyfriend, so very nice! Zach's father John, his girlfriend Donna, all so welcoming. Wanted take them all home with me!
Zach and Michelle had a nice evening planned aboard the 26' sailing boat moored at the yacht club near where they live.
On our way to go sailing we stopped got some wine, beer and munchies.
It was a beautiful evening in the Kaneohe Bay with Captain Zach and first mate Michelle! Loved it!!
We retuned to their home before 9. Where we met John & Donna having a late dinner. Visited with them for a few minutes before retiring to bed.. What a great day. 😉
Friday, April 22, 2016
I arrive back in Lihue about noon. Ev picked me up. We went back to the condo. We gathered up our laundry and off we went to do laundry.
Soon we were back at the condo. Ate some lunch and went out and kicked back on the beach for the afternoon.
We had dinner plans at the Bull Shed with Jeff, Cesar and Maryellen.
Cocktails at 5 at the tiki bar here at islander on the beach.
We had a very nice dinner. Delicious and the view was lovely.
Saturday , April 23, 2016
Took our morning 3 mile walk. Had breakfast and off Ev and I were out for the day.
We started out driving toward the the south side of the island.
We stopped at Captain Andy's sailing and snorkel where we will sail early Thursday morning April 28th to get time in place etc. from there we travel a little further south to salt/sand beach, where we settled for few hours.
About 230 we headed for Costco to pick up steaks/tri tip for dinner. Our turn to cook for the final night for Jeff's crew, as they were due to fly home Sunday.
Sunday, April 24, 2016

I need to add more commentary to this trip.. will try and get this done too..
On April 26th, 2016 My brothers joined us for a fabulous 9 days! We were busy! :) and I loved every minute! This vacation was the BEST ever.. Had so many of the people I love most in this world with us!! Ok.. better quit now or I will start crying..