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Summer in Mazama 2010

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We love Mazama. Love, love, love it. The different climate from Seattle, the friends we have there, the cabin, the space, the neighbors, the river, the store and the friends we have over. We made a lot of trips over there this summer and had a blast. Some of the fun activities (chronicled in the pictures below) included:

  • Our first trip to the pool in Twisp
  • The Mazama Mom’s Weekend with all of the kids
  • A rafting/tubing trip from the cabin down to the Mazama Country Store
  • Disco party in the garage, under the party lights (new boom box!)
  • Michelle’s birthday dinner
  • Scott and Jackson cutting down their first tree (first two trees that is)
  • Lindsay and Scott doing our first overnight camp out Louis Lake (catching fish in the AM!)
  • Our neighbors Spruce and Mary visiting the Methow Valley for the first time
  • Another dinner and disco party
  • Our annual trip with David, Nancy and Roman Harto to the Winthrop Rodeo
  • Meeting Kim and Steve who just bought the North Cascades Basecamp – Wonderful people and a great spot for lodging in the Methow Valley – Mazama

Enjoy the photos!

Spring in Mazama

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We had a great time in our trips to Mazama in the Spring including over Memorial Day weekend. All of the Memory Lane neighbors were there and the kids had a blast playing together, we went on a great hike up the East Branch of the Methow River – up where the Needles Fire was in 2002. The river is raging and the foliage is returning. We look forward to heading back for Michelle’s birthday weekend.

Enjoy the photos!

Michelle’s Yoga and Ski Retreat

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Michelle spent a relaxing, energizing and restful weekend at Sun Mountain Lodge at an all women’s ski and yoga retreat. She learned a ton about cross country skiing (we’ve been doing it wrong for years!) and spend some great time with our friend Libbey who was teaching the ski lessons. Pictures of the beautiful weekend below.

Photos from Mazama Winter Retreat 2009

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It’s hard to be back at work after such a wonderful 9 days in Mazama. We had 5 dogs, great snow, lots of good food, great downtime and visits with friends. We were able to ice skate (twice), cross country ski (three times), sled (lots – some with the dogs pulling), snowshoe, help light and watch a huge bonfire on New Years Eve (see other post on this), play games (Cribbage and Monopoly being the favorites) and generally lounge around.  Pictures of the week are below – I’ll post a second blog post just for the New Years Eve pictures.

Thanksgiving in Mazama 2009

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We just returned from another wonderful trip to Mazama for Thanksgiving. Michelle and Jackson went out on Monday morning while Lindsay and I came out after school/work on Tuesday. There was about a foot of snow on the ground and Jackson spent the whole day making snowmen. We had a bunch of fun in the snow including snow ball fights, snow men, minor sledding and walks in the crunchie white stuff.

We had Thanksgiving Dinner at Stewart and Phil Dietz’s place (because SHE has a dishwasher not named Scott) and were joined by Bernerd and Evaline Waltham and their two young children. We had a wonderful time and had the opportunity to re-interate how lucky we are and how thankful we are to have health, happiness and love.

We got in some projects around the cabin including re-stocking wood, cleaning up the wood storage area, moving the hot water heater inside and patching up some holes. I was able to get in some fishing on the lower Methow and we spent a fun night in Winthrop for the tree lighting and fireworks – which were amazing!

As Michelle said while we were there “I already can’t wait to come back”.