Dr. Jack Leslie McPherson PhD

Johns Dad, Dr. Jack Leslie McPherson, went home to be with the Lord at 5:30 this morning.
He was an amazing, wonderful person and gave his best in every area of his life! We love you Dad!! You will be greatly missed, but we are comforted that we WILL see you again some day in heaven!
Gramma Noras birthday celebration March 2009

Scottie, Dad and Scott at the beach on Whidbey Island May 2008

Please keep our family in your prayers, especially Johns step-mom, she is in the hospital also.

Haircuts

The boys had haircuts recently and Michael decided to be goofy with his hats. The joke around the house when we have "extra" money is to go blow it on hats!
Scott decied he was tired of taking care of his longer hair and asked for a haircut.

Then Emily decided she wanted her hair trimmed. I think I cut off about 5 inches. It sure is easier to brush!

Good thing they waited until after our family/sr. pictures were taken!

Anniversary Getaway

We had a wonderful weekend getaway, in Idaho and Montana, to celebrate our upcoming 20th anniversary! It was beautiful and relaxing!! We sure would love to move back up there someday!! This is me in front of the church where we were married. It is in Hope ID, across the road from Lake Pend Oreille.

John in front of the church.

This is the house we stayed in on the property of a future Bible camp and retreat that is located in Montana.

This is the lake down behinsd the house. This was taken looking back across at the house.

This is the barn on our former ranch in Idaho where John proposed to me!

This was our family home. We built this in 1979.

Our house again. We had 40 acers. I really miss this place!! It was so wonderful getting back up there again and just exploring!! Enjoy!

Buds since birth!

The ferry ride picture I put up in my last post was taken when we were crossing over to Seattle on the way to Ellensburg WA, the weekend before last. Ellensburg is where we lived when we were first married and two of our kids were born there. We went to go to a going away party for our friend Logan. He left for the Army. Logans mom Kim was my babysitter for the boys when I was working. She is like their second mom in some ways. Anyway we have been friends with this awesome family since before John and I were married. We all had abaies around the same time! At the party we were able to see many people we have not seen in a long time! This is Kevin, Scott ,and Logan! Logan is the oldest of the three and they have know each other since birth.

Scott , Logan, and Logans girlfriend.

Scott and Kevin jammin in Logans room!

More jammin!!!!

It was a fun visit! Sunday we went to our old church and saw MORE people we had not seen in many years. Most were amazed by the change in Scott!! Some had not seen him since he was four!

Visitors!

We have had visitors since the first day we moved in here! It has been wonderful seeing family and friends! One of our visitors was Michaels best friend Aaron. He came to visit for about 8 days from North Carolina. He loved our non-humid weather and when the heat started before he left he said it was nothing compared to his summer weather in NC! Here they are on the ferry to Seattle.

Of course we HAD to take him back to the island to see "our" lambs!!! That is Vicky standing by Michael and our old house is in the background. It is very brown there right now!

Here they are in front of our new house. It is green here!!! Our most recent visitors from last weekend were my brother Monty and his wife Jackie and their girls. Katee, my brother Chips daughter, was here also!! Jackie came to help me paint- her birthday present!! Yes, she wanted to paint and see us for her birthday!! Katee was here for some driving lessons from Uncle John. Here are all the kids at dinner one night!

Here is a picture of the on a "finished" part of the deck! Great group of kids!! Katee and Scott will both be seniors this year!! I can't believe it!

Family is awesome!!!

deck

Here are some recent pictures of the deck project! I "love " how these load in reverse order! The two bottom pictures are of the sides that were "finished". How ever when they got to the main part of the deck it was worse than they thought so I think some of this may have to be redone. Especially on the west end of the deck. They had to tear the railing off that side and as you can see there is not much left of the main part. When I open my door it is a long drop down!!
Enjoy!

Catch Up!!

Hi all!! It has been way too long since my last post. Life has been busy! We are now moved, yet again, to our new place!

I wish I knew how to post pictures on here better!

We have had some drama with the move but things are calming down!! The very first day we were here the refridgerator died and the a few days later the washer died also. THEN right after that we started having some flooding in the laundry room and part of Michaels room. It got his new carpet wet. To make a long story short, there is a drain in the floor that is under Michaels carpet. We found out after a search that this drain was backing up when we showered or ran the dishwasher, basically when we were using alot of water at once. The septic was WAY over full and there was no where for the water to go!! SO after all that, we have a new fridge, new washer, pumped out septic, and clean and disinfected carpet!!!

The other project going on is replacement of the deck. It was supposed to be done before we moved in and they have finally started! It will be really nice when it is done!

The pictures show a shot of the front of the house, some young deer that have visited us already, (they were enjoying my apples, roses and wild strawberries) James showing Grandpa how to play the Wii, ( my parents came to help with moving in) and a picture of the dismanteling of the deck. Anyway enjoy! I will try and post more often!!

March Happenings

I ment for this to post before the St. Pattys post, opps!! The first weekend of this month we went to Elizabeths and helped celebrate Destinees 14th birthday. We had a good time! She had us play a few fun games!

Sorry about the order of the photos! I have not mastered this!

Happy St. Patricks Day !

Happy St. Patricks Day!! We had a nice time this past weekend ! We celebrated Johns Grammas birthday. She turned 96!! Since there are several March birthdays and our family has an Irish heritage we celebrated St. Patricks Day also. Here is a family shot of Gramma , Dad , Joyce, Sean, Jackie, Johns other sister Susan, and our family. There were more family present that are not in the picture, but we wanted a picture with Dad since we are not all together very often. Susan lives in Indiana. Johns Dad is still battling cancer.


Here are pictures of twin lambs that were born Saturday while we were gone. They are so cute and tiny!! Spring may really be coming!

Tonight I am making corned beef and cabbage for dinner! I am really loking forward to it and my family even likes it!!

Happenings

I have been enjoying some beautiful sunrises in the mornings when I go out to feed the lambs!

We have had a nice day around here today! John talked Emily into trying to ride her bike again and she had success!! She had crashed on her bike back in Florida, over a year ago, and has not wanted to try again. Daddy was able to talk her into it. At first she would only ride on the grass but after awhile she was riding up and down the driveway and we have a pretty long driveway. She was having so much fun that she did not want to stop. I think she probably rode for about an hour total. John got his bike out and they went out on our road too. It is a very quiet road.
See how long the driveway is?

Here are a couple of shots of the lambs. I was out playing with them for awhile. We are trying to get them to learn to eat grass. They need to get off the bottle soon. Vince was trying to nibble on my vest insted of grass but it looks like Vinny was eating some grass. It is really hard to get a good picture of them!
They are 5 weeks old now and have really grown alot!
The boys were out shooting their BB guns also but I did not get a picture of that. They had fun shooting plastic bottles. It was just really nice having everyone enjoy the outdoors and not vegging with the TV or Wii!