Nate and Hannah at Point Reyes Lighthouse, 302 steps down and 302 steps up.

  

Hannah at the Charles Schultz Museum. This picture was created uses small cartoon strips.

  

Roots of a giant Sequioa, WOW

  

Nate impersonating a Brown Bear in Yosemite

  

This shows Melissa's great artistic eye 

So long California

We are outa here. We are back in Phoenix now since California was a blah place for C.O. to work. We have enjoyed our time seeing awesome sites and visiting with our family and meeting some real nice folk. We are kinda glad to be headed back to the east. So We will post some stuff now that the connection is "wicked fast" and will let you see some things that we have seen.
The Wandering Williams

So long exceptional views 

Just how big can these monarches get? 

The description of the tree 

This is the tree described. The Gen Sherman

So long Chocolate fiestas (with Lindsey)

So long goofy friends

So long Snoopy

So long Family

So long San Fransisco

Sorta updated

I hope to have a good connection soon to be able to update more soon. Fresno has been somewhat of a disappointment but the area around in great. C.O. has fallen in love with the Sierra Mountains and will take a any opportunity to go there. We have visited Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon which right next to it. There are awesome sites which we hope to share with you soon. We may be soon leaving the area and could be headed to San Diego or L.A..
We are not sure at this point and it has been frustrating the way these Californian hospitals are acting. We have had several incidences of incredible rudness from people here in CA and we have such a "bitter taste" of CA now. So if we leave the state entirely for a different contract we won't mind leaving the rudness, but will definately miss the natural beauty.

Pictures

Fianlly I am able to put some new pictures. This one of Sam is great! The arch is from our visit with the Smith's in Moab, UT
More coming

Dateline: Bullhead City, AZ

We arrived here about 8:30 pm yesterday. We made good time from Albuquerque.
The time change is nice, the kids wake up and their bodies think it is 8am and yet local time is 7am, so we will leave rather earlier today than yesterday. We were going to try and stop at Hoover Dam and get some Dam pictures but when we turned on the radio and heard that the high today was going to be 106 degrees, we said "gotta go gotta go gotta go."
Talk later, not sure how much recption for the wireless we will have in Yosemite.
CYA

Update

We are here in Albuquerque and will be leaving on the 26th to go to Santa Rosa, CA, near San Francisco. The computer/internet connection at our current site is blah and I am trying to get more pictures up.
Last weekend we went to Moab, UT to visit Patty and Mike Smith, old old friends from way back. Great time guys, thanks. We will soon have some pictures from there up.
Talk later,
C.O.

Pictures for your enjoyment: It was going to be more pics but the %$#@&^^* connection would not take more.

We enjoyed some games and fun with Great Grandma Gatten. And had alot of fun at Jimmy and Liz's wedding.