Funny pictures

Olivia & her bristle block mask.

Olivia eating her first apple...and loving it!

Nina being Nina

We put this great big ribbon on Nina....she looked so cute!

Just Nina!!

Easter with Olivia

Olivia's first Easter egg.

The egg was thrown on the ground shortly after this...

Olivia's first swing...wwhheeeeeeee

Totally uninterested

What dat, dada?

PARENT - Job Description

This is hysterical. If it had been presented this way, I don't believe any of us would have done it!!!!

POSITION: Mom, Mommy, Mama, Ma

Dad, Daddy, Dada, Pa, Pop

JOB DESCRIPTION: Long term, team players needed, for challenging, permanent work in an often chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work variable hours, which will include evenings and weekends and frequent 24 hour shifts on call. Some overnight travel required, including trips to primitive camping sites on rainy weekends and endless sports tournaments in far away cities! Travel expenses not reimbursed. Extensive courier duties also required.

RESPONSIBILITIES: The rest of your life. Must be willing to be hated, at least temporarily, until someone needs $5. Must be willing to bite tongue repeatedly. Also, must possess the physical stamina of a pack mule and be able to go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds flat in case, this time, the screams from the backyard are not someone just crying wolf. Must be willing to face stimulating technical challenges, such as small gadget repair, mysteriously sluggish toilets and stuck zippers. Must screen phone calls, maintain calendars and coordinate production of multiple homework projects. Must have ability to plan and organize social gatherings for clients of all ages and mental outlooks. Must be willing to be indispensable one minute, an embarrassment the next. Must handle assembly and product safety testing of a half million cheap, plastic toys, and battery operated devices. Must always hope for the best but be prepared for the worst. Responsibilities also include floor maintenance and janitorial work throughout the facility.

POSSIBILITY FOR ADVANCEMENT & PROMOTION: None. Your job is to remain in the same position for years, without complaining, constantly retraining and updating your skills, so that those in your charge can ultimately surpass you.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE: None required unfortunately. On-the-job training offered on a continually exhausting basis.

WAGES AND COMPENSATION: Get this! You pay them! Offering frequent raises and bonuses.. A balloon payment is due when they turn 18 because of the assumption that college will help them become financially independent. When you die, you give them whatever is left. The oddest thing about this reverse-salary scheme is that you actually enjoy it and wish you could only do more.

BENEFITS: While no health or dental insurance, no pension, no tuition reimbursement, no paid holidays and no stock options are offered; this job supplies limitless opportunities for personal growth, unconditional love, and free hugs and kisses for life if you play your cards right.

AND A FOOTNOTE

THERE IS NO RETIREMENT -- EVER!!!

More funny Nina

Do these need words?

Nina out for a walk

Olivia kisses

Olivia gives the best kisses!

Olivia kissing Nina.

Olivia kissing Dada.

Olivia kissing Mama.

Mary Mohr 1906-2009

Mary Mohr was a close family friend of Frank's. She passed away last week at the age of 102. It's been so hard to mourn her death since she lived such an amazing and long life...we should all be so lucky. I told Frank that I'm sure the Lord was standing there to greet her and while looking at his watch said, "It's about time you show up!" :) We miss her dearly.

Mary was the fourth of eleven children and the last living one. Her parents both died when she was fairly young.

She graduated from nurse's training in 1927 and worked as a nurse in and around South Dakota for many years. In 1952, she moved to Alaska where she lived for 20 years. This is where she became roommates with Frank's mom, Genevieve.

In 1971, at the age of 65, she retired from nursing and moved to Honolulu, Hawaii and did volunteer work in a hospital 2 days a week for the next 13 years. In 1988, she moved to Renton where she has lived in an apartment, by herself, ever since.

She was able to do some extensive traveling in her life. She had been to China, Japan, Europe and New Zealand. She once bought a 30-day Greyhound bus ticket and traveled the US. For her 90th birthday, she flew the Concord from New York to Paris. Five days later, she returned to the US on the Queen Mary II, which took 6 days. On her 95th birthday, she flew to Hawaii (alone) to visit friends.

Mary never married or had children but was very close to some nieces whom she talked to everyday.

Here are a couple of pictures taken in November of 2007. One is of Mary with Haley and Maddy and the other is of Mary, Haley, Maddy and Frank.

Our love and prayers go to Mary's family.