Patty & Tom

I have reactivated our first blog because most of the reasons I started the 07 blog have been resolved, and I didn't feel 07 worked in 0...

The map below is of our travels for 2007. We covered a lot of ground but most of that was done in the spring and fall. We spent most of th...

Tom scraped almost 5 feet of snow off of the car and the parking lot has been scraped 4 times since Friday. Compare the pictures below to w...

We shopped in Bishop and made it to the Condo before the storm actually began. We are inside for the duration, enjoying watching the storm....

As we neared Bishop the steady stream of cars leaving Mammoth was something to behold. We were just ahead of the storm and Tom had to talk ...

I have no pictures but want to tell our story. We are camped for the night at Kramer Junction off the road in a big dirt lot. We started t...

We went to the VFW with the WINs and had a great time. We even got Tom to dance. The WINs were almost the only people there with lots of f...

We drove from Yuma to Metre Lake which is a wildlife preserve. Beautiful weather and great company. Below we are launching, our car is far...

Our neighbor to the north sent us a picture of our dock covered in snow. It looks like the river is freezing near the edges. We hear that ...

Tom's sisters and families were also spending Christmas in So Cal so we got together for lunch in Dana Point. Back to front on the rig...

I was so busy with Avalon and Waylon and having fun I forgot to take very many pictures but here are a few special ones.

A beautiful winter day for Avalon to come home.

We drove Waylon to the hospital and he seemed less than excited about a new sister, but he was really glad to see his parents. We were reli...

This picture was taken when Avalon was less than 2 hours old. Anna makes it look like it was sooo easy. All of us in the room. A beautiful...

There were so many great pictures of my two favorite boys that I couldn't decide. I actually only added a few of the many pictures I to...

The man who appears to be walking on water was actually standing on what looked like a surf board and used a long paddle to go across the ba...

Waylon loved the beach, filling buckets with sand then dumping them. Waylon was a joy to spend the day with, always a smile and went down fo...

When we left San Diego we went to the Oceanside Elks which was nice but no ocean views and too far away from San Clemente. Anna drove me ar...

We spent the last few days in rain and wind so it was easy to move on. The birds sitting on the sand behind Tom were hopeful we would have ...