birthday pics take 2

One of the fun things with the balloons was putting them in the kitchen with all the long strings hanging down around the kitchen table.

We thought this was pretty cool

CJ, Curtis, Mary with the birthday people

My new family (minus CJ)

Mary with her grandkids.

Clayton's And Crista's birthday

This Sunday is Clayton and Crista's birthday, however we are having the Killpack family party that day, so last friday we celebrated their birthdays. We had cake, ice cream, presents and balloons. I ordered a balloon for each year they are. (Clayton 41, Crista 18) and attachted to each balloon was a reason we loved them. It turned out pretty cute.

The yellow and pink balloons were for Crista.

Red and blue for Clayton

The birthday father and daughter with their balloons.

A close-up.

Lama temple 2

The front of the temple

Walking into the temple

The davis group

Just covering his ass. Just incase Budhism is right.

Luke covering his ass to make sure he is respecting this higher power.

In front of the biggest building wiith the biggest budda. Each building Budda got bigger.

Monks...we snuck a picture.

This is me saying ,"I want the knife"---anyone know the movie?

Kandi and I

Patty and Kandi---our Hanban guide.

Lama Temple

Front of the Lama Temple

This is be pretty sight as you walk into the temple

The davis group again!

Jon covering all his bases with whatever high power that is going to judge us.

In front of the biggest building. There were about 5 or 6 buildings and each one budda got bigger and bigger. The last one was huge.

more of the great wall

This is my partner in crime at the Great Wall.

Patty and I at the beginning of the journey. If you see the highest point in this picture...there are about two or three command posts that take you higher. This was deceiving on how far you needed to go.

This is us climbing. Behind us is the non-heart attach side. We went up the steep side.

This is about half way.

The Very top!!! We made it!

This is the nice man that helped us down. (We only had 20 mins to get back) He is the superintentdent in a district in New York. He was great and invited us for a drink later.

The Great Wall of China

While in China we had a very short time on the Great Wall. We had two hours to climb to the top. It was a major accomplishment for me to reach the top. It was amazing. The steps were uneven and breaking, the railing was down around my knees and it was as steep as hell. Best leg workout I had done in awhile.

a view from one post.

a view going up. That command post isn't the top. There were about 3 other posts higher than that one.

People walking down.

Forbidden City

In November I was able to go to China for and educational trip. Though I missed Clayton, I had a great time with positive poeple. What a great experience.

This is Patty Norman (davis) Piper (Canyon's) and I in the Forbidden City.

The Davis Group in the forbidden City. Jed Johansen, Patty, Luke Rassmussen, John Hanney, TJ Barker.

The Provo School District school board with patty, piper, Doug, and Carla.

Steps leading up to one of the buildings

This is Patty Norman. She works in Davis School district. One of the sweetest, most non judgemental person I have ever met.

In the forbidden city!

random pictures

We are finishing the back yard. This is our natural gas firepit. It looks awesome!

The house with all the colorful trees!

The covered patio. It will have fans, lights and water misters.

The pretty sunset this morning!

Clayton and I at Jared's Party. I'm not that drunk...just blinked.

I put this picture in to show the difference from my last years picture to this year. so many changes....for the better. The top one was from last year.