Easter Eggs-April 2011

Meltdown! 

Look Mom! 

5 Dozen Eggs!

Playdate for Little People and for Big! April

Phinneas and Gramma play activity center!

He has beautiful BIG eyes!

Amie, Isaac and Sophie

Travis mounted the skeet puller to the back of his pickup.  Nothing rednecked here!

Home on the Range

Tyler

Grandpa gives Levi his first lesson in shooting!

A really big deal!

Click on picture.  

These 4 deer on the embankment behind the shooting range are REALLY scared!

Travis tries the western shoot-out way... 2 at once. 

Travis puller set-up works pretty well!

Lindsey is practicing for deer season!

Bang, Bang!  The end!

Home Again!

Jon and Levi drove up to Portland to pick us up.  

Back to cell phone use! 

We hit Panda Express in Albany to catch a quick glimpse of Tyler, Ana, Isaac and Phinneas.

Food tasted good, but seeing family was BEST!

Chocolate from the Ukraine

Hats from the Ukraine

Levi is liking his!

Dresses from Italy

My little models....NOT!

Italy- April 4th

On this day, we trekked over to the Vatican City.

The Line for St. Peter's Basilica.  

We were there early.  

Uh-oh...Jordan's in trouble.  What to do with his knife!  Under protest, 

he slid it under a railing with hopes it would still be there when we got out.  

The top is statues of the 12 apostles, and Jesus in the middle.

The huge courtyard in front of St. Peter's is where the Pope addresses the crowds.

The mosaics of Bible scenes were quite awesome.

This statue of Mary with Jesus is now behind glass because some guy attacked it (1970's or '80's) and broke a finger off of one of them.  

This huge marble piece is over a doorway.  It wasn't really interesting until Jordan pointed out the skeleton holding up the opening.  

Click to enlarge picture.  

Painting...with dead preserved pope below!

Another dead pope!

OK...this is their "We've seen enough!" pose!

The shaft of light...walk this way...

It's the exit!

Standing IN the ray of light!  

We must be getting closer!

Jordan is glad to see his knife!

This was a constant!  Checking the map.  In fact, it was a popular thing to do, as on most street corners, you could find other people doing the same thing!

These 2 battled it out!  

Gelato!  

Yummy!

Italian pizza...yummy too!

Which one would I like?

Aw...nuts!  Don't know what these were, but they looked good!

In the Jewish Ghetto....a giant Menorah

Our last supper...at Nona Betta's

Fried Artichoke....it was wonderful!  

G'night Roma....it's been memorable!