A littl more climbing, and a lot of letterboxing!

Here I am, at the top of the rock, about 80 feet up!

My climbing buddy that day, JW, who is now at Boot Camp!

Letterboxing in Andover, Monty Python and the Holly Grail!

Our climbing troop!

Some of the wildlife

"He's got fang's, like this big!"

Me, Jess, and Marissa

One of the views.

My little sister, Rachel

Going Plane Crazy, Letterboxing!

Krista and Indigo.

Our troop!

Some of the beautiful sites!

Ford and Indigo

Indigo and Cooper

3 crazy gals!

What are they doing?

Collecting Salimanders!

Tune in and Toon out! Letterboxing Event in North andover, MASS

Golly-Moon

Montana

indie and her new friend

The kids hangout

Ford, Alice and Indigo

Last, but not least.

These are my grandparents,

Ballard (Joe) Mattingly and Shirley Mattingly.

After a long struggle with cancer, my Nana past away this weekend from a long battle with cancer. I know she is in Heaven, looking down on us, we will all miss you Nana.

A Review Oct. 2008 till May 2009 (Holy Crap there's a lot of pictures here!)

   Yes it has been a long time. Since last summer time has flew by. And i keep saying, I have not had time to do anything, but then I start to look through my pictures, and with minimal time on my hands, I still got to do all these wonderful things and have a great time!

Montana is now a Life Scout!

Ford plays the Saxophone

The Pine Wood Derby

A play Date at Happy Daze!

my husband is a looser!

Heather is the winner!

O Christmas tree! The wonderful travelers 4 let us crash at their beautiful home so we could attend there mini-meet!

Me and Kim

Jeremy, Montana and Melanie

Vickie, Sabrina, And Kreepy Kelli

The Pranksters

Jess and Me

The day after the O' Christmas Tree, did you know that Marissa was getting married? Here are pictures from her super fun batchellorette party!

The party girl

Tana and Alex, what did he do?

Jess getting a ride from a handsome stranger

Heather and a piggy back ride

Susan got a naked surprise

Me and the kreepy one!

The bride to be and me, now she is ready!

After all the naughtiness, time for the wedding!

The beautiful Bride

The ceremony

2 of the 3 silly flower girls

the couple!

Marissa, Janicann, and Me

The hot chicks in the wedding party!

The Letterboxing New Year @ Hookset

Ray, Susan, Me, and Tana

Mim and Me

Vickie, Larry, Jen, Jan and Ryan

Meet at the Maine Bean Cafe in Windham, ME

(don't ask ray for a bite!)

Me, Susan and Jiffy

Heather and Me

Ben, Brandie, Jen, Marissa, Heather, and Dave

With the weather finally getting nice we took a brisk spring walk to the beach, with the Simms Clan

The Doctors B came up to Maine for a great visit!

We got Tana her first whoopie pie!

Our mini-meet group

Portland Head Light

Alex carrying Ford and Indigo

Jen and I snuck away for a little letterboxing!

There is a letterbox at the creepy grave stone. Found in the middle of the woods.

Boston Aquarium

Marissa and I ran away for a day of letterboxing, in Durham, NH

The Peaches Concert!

Peaches

Anime-Boston

Kiri, Amanda, Andrew and Montana

Blue-haired Montana and Purple-Haired Andrew

Our troop

Making plushies

Memorial Day Rock Climbing with the Edeman Family.

Montana and dave rapelling down

Dave helping Indigo rapell

Ford

Ford at the top, 80 feet up

Indigo being Indigo

Frog (Emily) and Sean

Look a rock Frog!

Dave belaying Sean

Last but in NO way least!

My new nephew, Lincoln Ryan

Ok, hope you enjoyed, and don't worry, many, many more to come! 

We have Lived and Breathed Letterboxing in Oregon!

  This September, Marissa (Gollygee) and I went to Oregon to go to a HUGE, 3 day letterboxing event called, We All Live and Breathe Letterboxing. It was the 10th anniversary of letterboxing in the U.S.!

This is the event stamp!

We flew into Portland, OR late Wednesday night. And was greeted and picked up by the wonderful Susan (KUKU). She was our gracious host for the week and let Marissa and I stay with her before and after the event.

Early Thursday morning we got up to go to Susan's beautiful church for a Meet and Great the East Coasters event, held and hosted by Susan as well! She made wonderful blueberry waffles and everyone else chipped in and brought goodies and we had a wonderful brunch!

Golly-Moon!

Marissa (gollygee) and Bret (Dragonrider)

Some of us finding a letterbox outside, so Alice took a quick group photo. After this photo was taken we headed out for a local letterbox and munched on many, many, blackberries. & got to meet up with more letterboxers that evening.

Friday we left Susan's house and headed out to Molala, OR for the L&B event, but we stooped in Oregon City and checked out some of the sites.

Here is Marissa and Susan stamping in.

This picture is not too special, but it was taken at 1:30am, yes, we were still letterboxing!

Saturday night there was a BALL at the event, and this is our cabin dressed all up!

Go Waverly!

Being the silly east-coasters that we are, we tried to prank Wassa, by stealing all of his boxers' and wearing them to the Ball, but the joke was on us, he was not there to see us in all of our glory!

The 3 day event was incredible and so very well done! We had a great time and hope to get to go to it again!

That Monday morning, we got up early and headed out to the West Coast.

The "Hay Stack" is the rounded rock in the water to the upper right. This picture was taken from Ecola State Park.

This is our East Coast group at the West Coast!

Golly-Moon!

Downtown Cannon Beach, messing around!

This is my FAVORITE picture of the sunset at Cannon Beach.

Alice and Dave :}

Okay, I am running out of time today, I will have another blog full of more pictures later on!

Mid-Coast Camping LB event and The Butterfly Place

 These last 2 weeks have been busy and fun! Last weekend we got to go to, Letterboxing in Historic Mid-Coast Maine, we camped there for 2 nights, got many amazing letterboxes, and just had a wonderful time!

2 Nights before we left to go camping, Kreppi Kelli, her daughter Sabrina, and her dog, Bonnie came up to Maine and spent a few nights at our house.

And of course we took her letterboxing!

Kelli and Sabrina stamping into the Sunny letterbox in Rochester.

Indigo, Ford and Bonnie found the At Sea, letterbox in Rochester.

Friday night we were able to go to a letterboxing pool party, thee were letterboxes at the bottom of the pool!

The Maine Kokopellian and The Dazzler!

Orbital Mom and her little boxing buddy, Isa Rose.

The group photo of the letterboxers!

Hey, "Where's Ray?"

Part of the totem pole

Littlmoon and Gollygee

friends

We got to do some great night boxing. In the dark we held flash lights and waved them back and forth, and the letterboxes would light up when the light hit them (they had reflective tape on them) Look in Indigo's hand, there is a letterbox in it!

the Enchantress and Carbon

What we did after night boxing!

Even though the weather was damp, we had a wonderful time.

Yesterday 8-8-08

I got to go to the Butterfly Place with Heather and her son's.

An Atlas Moth

Ben waiting for the butterfly to land on his hand.

Heather got a tag along on her shoe. This is a Spice Bush Butterfly,

Spice bush butterfly as a caterpillar

Indie and Zach

Heather and her pet Blue Morpho Butterfly

They have quail that run around on the floor, they are so little and cute!

Indigo

Zach

Montana (yep, still green hair)

Ford, with the atlas moth to the right.

Fourth of July and Portcon

This year to celebrate the fourth of July, we went to Glen, NH with my nephews and parents. We went swimming at Diana's Bath, a gorgeous hike of cascading water falls that you can walk through and swim in.

Ford

Montana

Stephan and Indigo

In

Mom, me and Dad

Dave and Me

At the top of the falls, this sign was there, and with a few hundred other people that were swimming there too with us, no one seem to mind this sign at all!

Chance and Stephan

Not only were the falls amazing, but the .6 mile stroll in was wonderful too.

Portcon, The Portland Anime Convention

This is Cindy, one of the unique anime artist at the convention. She was very helpful on whta we should do to help Montana's art future!

At these conventions, everyone dresses up (except me and Marissa) and I am not sure who these two are, but they had awesome costumes!

Ursula

And this is the motley crew that came with us;

Chance, Mike, Tyler, Montana, & Ford

Montana and Kyrie, she came up with us too.

A long and tirering day of following around preteens and teen's, shopping, a boffing tournament (play sword fights) and entering and art contest.