1 year old Edwin!

I can't believe it! Edwin is one, time flies. It has been an amazing year and Edwin has developed so many loves, one of those loves is filmed below. Edwin loves music, and he has taken a special interest in drumming. The video below is from Saturday's Market in Portland, we were watching these street performers and Edwin (without any resistance) went straight to the drummer and started drumming and dancing with him. The crowd loved watching Edwin, and they shouted "go Edwin, go Edwin, go Edwin." When I took Edwin away from the drums, he acted as if I took him from his only happiness, he was so broken hearted and he sobbed. The crowd was so compassionate and said "ahh, ohh" when he was crying, they wanted him to stay too. It was such a cool experience to see Edwin love something so much.
Edwin also has a huge love for dogs and gets excited whenever he sees one, his birthday cake in Washington was a dog, thanks to his Grandma for buying it. Lastly, and a great blessing to Grant and I, Edwin loves his family. When we were in the airport arriving home from our travels to Washington, going down the hallway, Edwin started saying dada dada, like he knew what was coming. Once we saw Grant, Edwin got a huge smile on his face and started laughing. It was great to see that Edwin remembered his dad after that month trip to Washington, and was really excited to see his dad.


Edwin got a dog book for his birthday from his mommy and daddy, and he loves the book. Yeah!

Edwin being all grown up and lazy.

Hair Cut

This post kind of explains itself.

Picture with Grants family and my short hair.

I usually have short hair this is the first time I've had long hair, and I grew it out to donate it to locks of love (spelling?) and the goal was accomplished seven years later (my hair grows slowly).

Big Companies that don't care!

I feel we all probably at one time or another in our lives have run into issues with a big company, that have in one way or another done us wrong. There are probably many words we would like to say to them, or a novel we could write about the wrong they've done to us. I know for me I've was wrongly charged over 100 dollars from an airline, and they would not refund me; I've also had several, several, several issues with Verizon and their sneaky charges they stick on your bill. Urck! I feel you all may have similar stories. Well, one guy had a sticky situation with United Airlines so he wrote a song about it, I thought it was fun and relieved me of some of my frustrations with big companies, so click on the link below and be relieved from some of your frustrations.

http://singingcicada.blogspot.com/2009/07/united-breaks-guitars.html

Washington Fun

I have been in Washington for the past couple of weeks and it has been excellent. I came for several reasons, but the biggest reasons being, for my nieces baptism, an Allred Family Reunion, and my youngest sister's graduation.

I will attach some pictures of all the fun we've been having!

These below are from Mary's graduation which was incredible, the BEST graduation I've ever gone to, it was fun, unlike so many graduations I've gone to.

Pictures from the reunion, the reunion was so great! It's so nice to be with my family I miss not being near them.

This is an awesome picture because that's my bro-in-law, my youngest sister, and me, swimming in the ice cold Oregon ocean and having a blast!

These pictures are from Summer's baptism, and I made the scripture case for Summer.