Caleb's Birthday

We all want to wish Caleb a happy Birthday on the 3rd of May!!!!
We love you Caleb. He will be 7 years old.

Birthdays

we want to wish a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to all the family APRIL birthdays:
Little Mia turned 1 year old on the 16th
Joshua got older on the 18th
and Eli turns 9 years on the 21st
We love you all!!!!!

Just Me

OK, so I thought I would join the gang and write a few things about me:

I hate writting... so you see very few things from me that require writting, like letters, e-mails, journals ect.

I can't spell!!! ...so you see very few things from me that require writting, like letters, e-mails, journals ect.

I love the seasons of the year, and can find beauty in them all (thanks to snowshoeing)

I love snowshoeing ( thanks to my kids)

I love Von! He is the best, and puts up with a lot of crape (from me)

I love a beautiful yard

I don't know how to make a beautiful yard

I love to do crafty projects and will sometimes give them away.

I love to go camping

I don't like to travel

My dream trip is to be someplace with family and no traffic!

My favorite place to visit is So. Utah and the red rock canyons. I feel a sense of piece there more than anywhere else.

I don't want to move

I don't need to have lots of friends.

I am gratful for the Snoasis

I am very tired of the Snoasis

I love my children!!!!!

I am blessed to love dearly my sons and daughters-law. I can enjoy one on one time with each one of them.

My children all married up :) And that is hard to do!

My grandchildren are the cutest, and the smartest, and the best of any on this earth.

I like to go for a hike in the mountains

I don't enjoy shopping

I wear old clothes, and love hand-me-downs.

I love to go to thrift stores and garage sells (especially in Eugene)

I don't wear much jewlery

my hair is gray and I like it

I always want to loose 5-10lbs

I love candy and chocolate (dark)

I accept church callings even when I don't want to

I avoid going to the dentist

I chew lots of gum

I love old books...and collect them

I love to read, but don't as much as I used to????

I like historical novels and non-fiction as well

I love to watch movies and documetries from the library

I don't clean my house like I should

I like to do puzzles...but do them on the internet now

I check my e-mail everyday I am home

My favorite foods are breads and veggies

I am afraid of dogs

I try to walk every day (if I write that then maybe it will happen)

I will never be able to keep up with Von...he says he will slow down for me.

My fantasy world is to have all my children live around me.

My real world is that I travel and see the sights of the world to visit them.

I am terrified to drive on the freeway with Von. (Jacob is a bit scary too)

I do not like to drive

I don't like to go out to eat. (I know that is weird)

I don't remember people's names....really bad at that

I am a small town girl by nature. But have always lived in a big city.

I love scary movies...not horror ones

I love happy endings

I love limes in my water

I don't mind eating on paper plates

I could never use any body else's toothbrush!!!!!

I wish I had home schooled my kids at least a few years

I believe that wisdom is more important than knowledge...but not many people care.

I believe that the most important thing you can teach your children is that they matter... to God, to you, to themselves. Everything else will just work out.

I could go on for a long time....but won't


Maureen

Oregon Bound....

Not to put any undo pressure on the prospective Callister clan pioneers heading to the Oregon Country in mid-may (prospectively) by making it public knowledge..... but I thought I would provide some insights on those who have paved the way for you in decades and centuries past.

Lewis and Clark: 1804-1806

Jedediah Smith: 1820's

Oregon Trail Pioneers: 1839-1860's

Logger's: Mid 1800's to mid 1980's

many have struggled to make their way to this country. This trail is long, and fraught with danger, but you have chosen a favorable season and they who have marked the trail with their blood, sacrifice and loved ones, have made your journey more pleasant... Make ready pioneers!!!

Jake

Dan in Real Life

So, Derid and I really loved this movie. It was funny and charming- touching and quirky. It was pretty darn clean too ( a couple sexual references). Check it out! and if you have seen it- comment your thoughts

There was an old woman

I almost cried when i opened the package that contained this book "There Was An Old Woman" retold by Steven Kellogg. I have been casually looking for this book for a long time. I found it for a steal on amazon. I have seen other versions of this story but the Steven Kellogg one is the one that i adored as a child. Reading through it again i remembered why. It is so funny. There is something endlessly hilarious about a crazy old woman who is giddy one moment and filled with wriggles the next. I think there will be a reprint of this book in the next few years- but i couldn't wait. Enjoy the pictures and the memories.-rach

Italy

We have returned from Italy and we sure had a great time and sure do appreciate Becky and David for taking such good care of us. We saw some amazing things, and did not travel far from their home. I am fasinated by history and Midevil times, and that kind of stuff is all over the area that Becky lives. Dan and Angie traveled a little further to Rome and Venice, and they will show pictures on their blog I am sure. We went to the oldest public library in Italy (maybe all of Europe) 1400's right in Cesena. The books were all chained to the reading benches. Sounds weird, but it was way cool!!. We also went to the Republic of San Marino which is a very small country on a mountain within Italy. You can see it from the Mosses home. I am very impressed with Eli and Adam's ability to speak Italian. Gabriel is mister friendly, and little Isaac is sooo cute and doing well. We would love to tell you all more about our trip and share more pictures with you anytime.

CHeck it out

I have been playing in photoshop. I think these type of simple images are cool. i think this one of dan and angie would look really cool on a stretched canvas huge on the wall. I am trying to find a way to copy an image onto clear plastic and then project the image onto a solid color canvas. i then could draw in the areas that i needed to paint. ( i got this idea from something the elementary teachers did for some of us. they projected a black and white picture of us onto butcher paper and used a marker to create a huge portrait.) if you want me to try one of you and your honey then take some pictures and send them along. it works best with a simple background and your heads close together. i have seen kissing shots like this and it's cool. 

fun in snow

we have had some good snow fall in the last couple of days. The kids are having fun with the snow plow piled up snow that we always get each winter in the circle. Dad and kids have made a slide, and caleb is busy making a cave. Sound familier? Great fun. We got 15 inches in one day (Monday).

Random

Three random pictures----- one is us with our new addition, finally!!! one is of the little Callisters and the box castle they built. We have them here with us for the next week while Josh and Deena are on their cruise. And one is of an old map (replica of) that I found in the storage room a long with so much other stuff that has been buried for years. Does it belong to some one? It is a 1673 map of the world.