Where's the Family Picture?

Small Request

I think I've told some of you about this great podcast that I found (I know I've made Lauren listen to it at least once). It's released three times a week and it's about a woman named Roz Savage who is rowing from San Francisco to Australia in a 20 foot rowboat to raise awareness for pollution in the oceans. She's doing this in three legs over three years. This year she's rowing from San Francisco to Hawaii and then next summer she row from Hawaii to Tuvalu and then the summer of 2010 she'll row from Tuvalu to Australia. The podcast is actually a 30 minute satellite phone call from Roz to tech talk show host Leo Laporte. She talks about where she is and how she's dealing with being in the middle of the ocean in a rowboat by herself and her reasons for doing this. I just think it's really interesting.

Anyway, to my request. She is trying to raise money for the second leg of her journey and one of the ways she's trying to get money is to try and get part of a $2.5 million grant that American Express is giving away. To do this she needs to get enough votes to put her in the top 25 of all nominated projects. If you have a minute please go to her web site: http://www.rozsavage.com/ and click on the Members Project link on the right side of the site and vote for her. You have to register but it's free to do so and you won't get any spam mail from it. (I haven't anyway and I registered over a week ago.) Thanks!

Roz's Projected Route

More pics from the Fourth

I don't know if any of you got the e-mail from Robin with her pics the the Fourth of July so I thought I put a few of them here for your viewing pleasure. If you didn't get the e-mail and want it let me know and I'll forward it to you.

College life so far.....

This is my life so nothing to exciting.. I miss home and mom, I only cry when I think about her. Other than I'm ok, my roommates are pretty nice kinda quirky but I'll get use to it. Thanks to all of you for all your help and love and support. I love you all

Love, Laurbie

*Jamie give Noah and Jackson lots of hugs for me I miss them like crazy. Don't let them forget me. I can't believe Jack will be one in a week!!!!!!!

A Real Mountaineer

We hiked to White Pine Lake and camped last weekend, and I decided to go for the retro hiker look since my suspenders, backpack, and camera strap were all circa 1970. Pretty groovy eh?

Summertime and the livin's easy..but not for long

Here's a picture of our home sweet home I took last Saturday. That's my winow in the top left corner with the cool brown blanket hanging in it, and Linzee's is the one to the right of it and also the one we jumped out of into this pool last summer. Oh yeah and that's Linzee swimming; isn't it crazy that no one else takes advantage of our beautiful 9 ft. pool?

For those who were forgotten..

Sorry...

we can thank them for the dining room. But there are two other changes we made but you all will just have to wait to see them until you all come except Jess I'll send you the pictures

The People Behind the Magic

Bud loves the new look!

Home Renovations

The Dining Room