Friends Ragan Parkinson and family were on vacation this past week too... and coming home.. he ....

saw the thunderhead coming home... arrived to see the tree messed up across the street from them and then the mess in their backyard.. they live in Guthrie... and then they learned their home just missed getting hit by tornado... his caption with the thunderhead was... "hello mr. thunderhead".

from Phil about 12:30 this afternoon

Austyn is very excited to be at Sonic! No sonic in Estes Park. He also can't wait to see Wynn Dixie, he has a few hours to wait on that one.

from Phil at 8:22 AM this morning...

On I25 north of Denver, headed to Stillwater, OK.

Austyn at the alluvial fan. We just got back to our cottage. Enjoying out last day in estes & rmnp.

Dancing Isabella...

Jerry Lee made an appearance... via Tyler.. who put on quite a show

3 Generations of Blankinship men

Isabella, can you say cheese...

then time for traditional birthday spanking...

Like father, like son...

he is getting ready... to blow them out... wishes made... and ...

Andrew getting serious... notice the tongue!!

Missy and Reese having good time...

Can't seperate a man and his pitchfork, especially at a winnie roast!

Note to self: need to find out who was running the camera...

kiddos in pool having fun...

Andrew 'diving' in ....

more videos on youtube... as of this am... link on the right

little late.. but better than not at all... right?

Karen Murphy, who works with Grandma Ann, recently celebrated her big 50 birthday... and it was a 50's party.... Grandma and Missy attended and had a great time. Karen has been a life long family friend, even helping with our kiddos, etc... Thanks Karen for the friendship and we wish you another 50 great and happy years.... plus 50!

Quiet before storm

But we are ready to party - thanks to Trisha and Jake the yard was mowed & it looks great to these old eyes. Thank you Jake and Trisha.
And now the party starts for Mr. Andrew Paul Blankinship who turns 8 on July 20th, but first we are gonna eat some great grub... via a winnie roast, with lots of different kinds of links. Let's see, the folks coming are Andrew's parents Paul and Heather and sis Madison; Grandpa and Grandma Blankinship; Uncle Chris and Aunt Jennifer and Hanna and Tyler; Uncle Jake and Aunt Trisha and Isabella; Missy Hannan and Reese; Great Grandma Moffat, and Grandpa and Grandma Moffat.

got a cool postcard from Phil

and family on vacation... nice to be thought of - thank you guys very much!

AWESOME CAKE!!!

Andrew's cake was very unusual... It had his photo on it... how cool is that? and it was edible, too!!! chocolate and white both too... with homemade ice cream.. ummmmmmmm good....

from Phil... on morning walk in RNFP in

Estes Park, near there, said its cool..we are too FINALLY

From Missy... I so agree...

Interesting concept. I think our government would wake up if they had to pass legislation that actually impacted them too.
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John Fleming, Rep. from Louisiana, is sponsoring house resolution 615.
Basically, it is saying that if Obama's health care plan is good enough for us, it is good enough for all members of congress.
He was on Fox News this morning.
He said, and here's a shocker, not one Democrat has backed the resolution or returned his phone call, not even Nancy Pelosi.
You can go to his website and vote for his resolution.
You can also see who is supporting his resolution.

His website is:
http://fleming.house.gov

and away she goes....