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.