They don't have mines in Pennsylvania?

Ha! Tracy, Daniela wants to come to Montana now and pan for gems. When can we go? When can we go Mommy?

Yes. I have a 9 year old. So im allowed to do it.

Did you reaaly just omg?

Omg daniela would love that. She just discovered the birth stones and wants to collect all of them.

It was a fun day of panning at the mine. Probably not something you heard the miners say much.

Oh, today actually.

esSO: I knew that would happen. I mailed three on the same day so everybody would get one. Guess the other two will be happy tomorrow.

Mom, Thomas got your package and was very excited.

TX Ohlers, Daniela got her birthday present and just Looooves the mood necklace. She wrote a thank-you note and then lost it. We will send one eventually.

Watched the shooting stars with mom and merel and Tracy. It was fun

Painted fabric with Tracy, Sandy, and Merel today. Merel added a new level of interest by stamping a painted design on a dress of hers. It turned out cute. Much more fun being here than sitting in the airports and airplanes getting here.

I also set up a forum for discussing those dates if you have comments or suggestions.

Speaking of family functions. I just flipped through the messages again to check out if we ever determined a date for the family reunion. My conclusion was no.

So I set up a poll on triporama.com. This is the website that erico had set up for us. Please go vote on your preferred dates.

If you don't want to bother with the website, you can also just email me. These dates to consider are:
June 23rd - 30th
July 14th - 21st
July 28th - Aug 2nd

Again, we don't expect you to be there the whole time, but at least the weekend would be great.

Last night was Wed. Fun Night at the Frisbee House. We played Telephone Pictionary. I highly recommend this game for the next family function. My abs got a work-out from laughing so much.

Tired, but the Camp Rock/Jonas concert was fun. Thomas fell asleep at 10:00. Concert ended at 10:30. We got home at midnight. Nobody wanted to get up this morning.

Took 14 hours of travel, but I've made it to Bozeman.

esSO: I finished "The Help" at four a.m. yesterday. Good book. It was a library book so I wanted to finish it before I left for Montana. I'm taking the one Merel got you on the plane with me.

We have AmEx, but haven't had much problem with places not accepting it. And my company card is AmEx too. So, I guess I have two.

OK, no concert...but this should be better anyway:
Excellent Perseid Meteor Shower Expected Aug. 11-13

Definitely don't want to see it that badly.

nevermind on the concert mom...cheapest tickets left are $163 each!

Yeah RO2!

I don't know anything about their premium programs, but I know less places take AmEx then Discover.

looking for advice on credit cards...particularly American Express...anyone using their premium programs? Thanks.

that sounds awesome

big win tonight, last game of the season. still reeling off it. diving catch, y'all woulda been proud.

fall ball starts next week.

Back in Horseheads

Dairy Bar

Those are two sweet pics. What is DB?

Saw Clint at the DB tonight. His second second son was born last week.

who did you beat at cribbage in vienna?

got back yesterday from a week in Vienna... unfortunately that was not the one in Austria. Played Poker with 3 Frank Doughers last night.

Yes, ty note was put into snail mail last week. Thank You.

So did 2 books get delivered to Houston the other week or did I get an address wrong?