What is this?

It is a noise maker for Jayden. I bet it breaks very soon.

Jo, Joanna and Bob watching the flame go out on our dessert

Christmas is a great time for family and kids!

Friends at the Coolidge Municipal Airport.

Fly in at the Coolidge ariport

The Coolidge Municipal Airport was originally constructed in the early 1940’s by the U.S. Department of the Army. Originally constructed as an air transport command base, Coolidge Army Airfield served as an auxiliary operating base for Williams Field during World War II. The original airfield was constructed with three runways in a triangular configuration. Of these three runways, two remain: Runway 17-35 and Runway 5-23.

Phil and Lynne at the Christmas lights parade

The Christmas lights parade

Phil and Lynne did a great job of decorating their golf cart for the parade.

That is Phil and Charley Bear in the picture with us.

Dinner at our house we had pozole soup

Thanksgiving dinner at Palm Creek.

Veterans Day’s dinner at Palm Creek.

They had 6 of the Code talker at the dinner and they told stories about their time as code talkers. It was a very good dinner and we all had a good time.

Philip Johnston proposed the use of Navajo to the United States Marine Corps at the beginning of World War II. Johnston, a World War I veteran, was raised on the Navajo reservation as the son of amissionary to the Navajos, and was one of the few non-Navajos who spoke their language fluently. Because Navajo has a complex grammar, it is not nearly mutually intelligible enough with even its closest relatives within the Na-Dene family to provide meaningful information, and was an unwritten language, Johnston saw Navajo as answering the military requirement for an undecipherable code. Navajo was spoken only on the Navajo lands of the American Southwest, and its syntax and tonal qualities, not to mention dialects, make it unintelligible to anyone without extensive exposure and training. One estimate indicates that at the outbreak of World War II fewer than 30 non-Navajos, none of them Japanese, could understand the language.^{[citation needed]}

Early in 1942, Johnston met with Major General Clayton B. Vogel, the commanding general of Amphibious Corps, Pacific Fleet, and his staff. Johnston staged tests under simulated combat conditions which demonstrated that Navajos could encode, transmit, and decode a three-line English message in 20 seconds, versus the 30 minutes required by machines at that time. The idea was accepted, with Vogel recommending that the Marines recruit 200 Navajos. The first 29 Navajo recruits attended boot camp in May 1942

Spaghetti factory

Jayden likes the ice cream at Spaghetti factory

Jayden and Jo

When the bill came Jayden quickly grabbed the pen

Ken & Nancy Nelson

Karen & Steve Rea, Sue Brye

Nancy Morris and Jason her grandson at Spaghetti factory

Sue Brye, Jo and Jayden at Spaghetti factory

North field

Ken Nelson with his new helicopter

Jerry at our north flying field

Jerry Ready to fly his rebuilt 500 size helicopter.

Jo and Jayden at Point Defiance zoo

We had a good time at the zoo. When Jayden saw he elephants she had this shocked look on her face. She looked like she was thinking “%$#% they sure are enormous”. She learned the word enormous on Sesame Street.

90 cake blow out

Jayden

She is now big enough to ride the wooden horse

90th

John 90th birthday

Jayden and Jo feeding the seagulls

We went down town Seattle to Ivars restaurant and ate out side so we could feed the seagulls.

24 ft 5th wheel trailer

. We purchased a 10 year old 24 ft 5^th wheel trailer. It is small but comfy and has everything we need there. We do not have our motor home up in Washington and we have rented year round the spot on Lake Roosevelt. We needed some thing to put there.

If we planned using it.

I had to rebuild our entrance to the deck. The door is in the back on the 5^th wheel as apposed to the motor home being in the front. One good thing is the deck height worked out good. It is only a small step up into the trailer.

I have some work to do on the water heater. The electric heating element is burned out and when you us the gas to heat it get to hot. I bought a new element and tried to get the old one out but it is stuck pretty good. Other than that every thing else seams to work okay.

Remington Indiana

Here is a link to a video of my childhood home town. There are also a few pictures of their 2010 Sesquicentennial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiPjOy_XsrM&feature=player_embedded

Dew

As I was going out to fly I saw the dew on my grape leaves.

Boogie Woogie Jayden

Merle & Lynnette Hoosier and Dave & Alice Wilson at their place in Entiat

We went over and stayed with Merle & Lynnette Hoosier and Dave & Alice Wilson at their place in Entiat. We arrived Friday evening. Saturday we drove to our place on Lake Roosevelt to check it out. Jo was not sure she wanted to keep the Roosevelt place. After seeing it again we decided we wanted to keep it. We returned to Entiat for Saturday night and returned to Lake Tapps on Sunday.

Alice, Sam, Jayden & Jo

In for a swim on Lake Tapps

Jayden on the phone

Mount Rainier

Mount Rainier

This was taken at the end of our drive way. I had to airbrush out the power lines.

Jayden

Our first day over 75 F this year. That is a new record for how late in the year it took to get to 75 degrees.

Jayden

Sammy is working on her BA and needs a baby sitter Monday thru Thursday 8 to 10 am. So we get Jayden then. Jayden has more energy than both of us put together but we have fun most days.

Train to Faibanks

We took the train to Fairbanks for the night. We then fly home the next morning.

We saw these from the train. The United States Air Force Ballistic Missile Early Warning System was the first operational ballistic missile detection radar. The original system was built in 1959 and could provide long-range warning of a ballistic missile attack over the polar region of the Northern Hemisphere. The facilities operated their original 1950s vintage radars for more than four decades. The fence antennas each 165 feet (50 m) tall and 400 feet (120 m) wide,but all have been upgraded with more modern phased array radars.

We took the train to Denali National Park

Holland America Line Inc. is running ten new bi-level dome dining-lounge cars for its Fairbanks-Anchorage rail service on the Alaska Railroad's passenger trains.

I was told that less than 20% of the people who visit here see the mountain. We were lucky.

Denali (The High One) is the Native (Athabascan) American word for North America's highest peak, Mount McKinley in the mountain chain called the Alaska Range. Denali was renamed Mount McKinley for William McKinley,

In 1980, the name Mount McKinley National Park was officially changed to Denali National Park and Preserve. The State of Alaska Board of Geographic Names has also officially changed the mountain's name back to Denali. Negotiations continue today to officially return the original native name to this magnificent mountain

We than went to Anchorage

Anchorage(officially called the Municipality of Anchorage [MOA]) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Alaska. With an estimated 279,243 municipal residents in 2008

We rode a Horse-Drawn Carriage.

It was cold and the day was long.

Lake Hood Seaplane Base off International Airport Road in Anchorage Alaska is the largest and busiest floatplane bases in the world. Daily flights depart to fishing lodges and remote fishing and hunting trips

Portage Lake

Portage Glacier is a glacier on the Kenai Peninsula It is located south of Portage Lake

Length	6 miles (9.6 km)

Jo wanted to see an Iceberg. These were in Portage Lake.

Alyeska Resort

For our 40th wedding aneversy we ate at the top of Mount Alyeska.

Alyeska Resort is a ski resort that is located in Girdwood, Alaska, approximately50 miles (80 km) from the city of Anchorage. Mount Alyeska is part of the Chugach mountain range. It is the biggest ski mountain in the state of Alaska.

Seward

Seward is a city in Kenai Peninsula of Alaska. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 3,016.

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Is where mushers and teams of typically 16 dogs cover 1,161 miles (1,868 km) in around fifteen day. The race starts on the first Saturday in March

College Fjord

College Fjord is a fjord located in the northern sector of Prince William Sound in Alaska. The fjord contains five tidewater glaciers (glaciers that terminate in water), five large valley glaciers, and dozens of smaller glaciers, most named after renowned East Coast colleges (women's colleges for the NW side, and men's colleges for the SE side). College Fjord was discovered in 1899 during the Harriman Expedition, at which time the glaciers were named.

Of course there was always the Ship’s buffet.

The Margerie Glacier in Glacier bay.

The Margerie Glacier's height is 250 feet. The glacier also extends another 100 feet below the water line.