A Day on the Ocean in the Sherl K.

We could not have asked for better weather on Thursday.

Thursday we headed out to do some fishing and cabbing in the Nahalem Bay. We Boarded the Sheryl K about 11:30.

For those of you that know my parents, yes Sheryl K is my Mom's name. My dad is that smooth. Ryan asked me after he herd about my Dad's new boat if he could get a new boat if he promised to name it the Heather A. I told him it was too late. It had already been done.

Here is my Mom driving the Sherly K. She had no idea how good my Dad really was until we were talking about all the fancy equipment that he had installed and he said "Nothing is too good for the Sheryl K." Ryan turned to him and said man you really are good. Could you teach me some of that.

My Dad just smiled and told him it took years to perfect it but he would do what he could to help. I told them that it was too late. I was on to them now.

We dropped 3 crab pots in the Bay and and were fortunate to catch 4 crab. That may not seam like much, but this time of year that is pretty good.

Coast Trip

Tuesday morning after Ryan got off work we headed to Salem and spent the night with my Grandma "B". We had tuns of fun. We of course ate way to much food and stayed up late playing a fun domino's game called chicken feet. Wednesday morning we got up and headed to my parents house down on the Oregon Coast in Rockaway Beach. Mom and Dad were there for 10 days, so we thought it would be fun to catch up with them.

Wednesday on the beach was pretty ugly. It wasn't until after 4:00 some time that the weather broke and we could take a walk down to the beach. That's OK though. We had great company back at the house. We enjoyed spending time visiting with my parents and Grandpa and Grandma "B" came up for the day.

We made a good size sand castle. It is allot harder than it looks. We will be appreciating the ones we see down on the beach from now on. Mom and Dad came down to watch the masterpiece under construction.

The Class of 1988

The Class of 1988

Lanna, Becky, Eric, Heather, Ila, Lindy, Travis, Kevin, Brent & Blain.

The class of 1988 and our families.

Ila and I at Nookies

Well I can't believe it. It has been 20 years. The class of 1988 graduated 20 years ago. I feel way to young to say things like this.

It was so much fun. We had 22 in our graduating class and 2 have passed away. We had 10 show up to the reunion. That is 50%. Not to bad. We started off on Friday evening with a little get together in Hermiston at Nookies. It would have been a quiet little gathering if the Hermiston graduating class of 1988 had not decided to gather at the same place at the same time. (crazy) It was still cool though because those Hermiston kids were the kids I went to school with before moving to Stanfield my freshman year. Saturday afternoon we had a BBQ at the school. We invited a few teachers and enjoyed a fabulous BBQ.

We are only going to wait 5 years next time. Hopefully we will get more of us to show.

Happy Birthday to my friend Teresa !!!!!

Happy Birthday Teresa. We won't mention how old you are. My friend Teresa had her birthday today and a bunch of us girls got together to help her celebrate. You can always count on this crowd, especially if there is some form of food involved. he he!!!!

That's a great look for you Teresa !!!!

Do we know how to party or what???

Football AHHHHH!!!!!

Holly Smokes it's that time again. Football season has begun for the Savage Family. Cameron and Ryno both started practicing today(dad's helping to coach). I don't think it gets much more grooling than football conditioning. 100 deg. temperatures in full gear. That's right even Cameron at 9 yrs old is playing in fool gear. These Prosser people don't mess around when it comes to football. I will be sure to keep the football pics coming.

Coach Kelly Bowen and Ryan trying to sort through the Kayos.

Handing out the plays...

I think maybe we need more coaches...................

Ribs with the Giles Gang

MMMMM..... I want my baby back baby back baby back Ribs.....

Paul Giles on the BBQ. I don't know about you, but there is nothing better than BBQ Ribs. Especially when you don't have to do the cooking.. Thanks Giles family for the great food and awesome company..

Kamille wasted no time digging in.

Kamille is still eating?????

White Water Rafting!!!!!

What a great Time. Cameron and Ryno loved every minute of it. Colby was more content just to hang out at camp with all the other kids and jump off the cliffs into the water.

These next two pictures are in sequence. I don't know how well you can see our facial expressions, but we are all about to have heart attacks. It always takes a couple of trips down the river to get your sea legs.

This picture is taken just after we had gone through devils hole. And it is as bad as it sounds. It did not seam to phase Cameron, but his little buddy Carson is not sure he is ready to look out yet.

This is part of the crew. Ryno and the Brodericks had already left by the time we remembered to take the picture. So 8 of the crew had already left. We are a rough looking bunch, but thats what you get when you live on the river for 5 days. It was all worth it.

The guys here cooking breakfast for us. You got to love that.

The kids playing on the rafts after the sun had gone down.

Well we lived to tell the tail. Another year of White water rafting the Dechutes River under our belts. We had so much fun with all our friend from Hermiston. The Wrathalls, Royers, Brodericks and Petersons were all there. We would start each day with a large breakfast made by all the men before hitting the river. We had 2 rafts and 3 kayaks. I think the kids had more fun in the rafts at night when they were strapped to the trailer, then they did during the day. Ryno was up for a couple of days of the fun, but had to leave on Thursday. The video is short, but as you can tell this is us hitting the hole(Oak Springs) just right. The boat just about fills up with water. It takes a minute to get your bearings after a drop like that.