Bryan's Family Comes to Town Day 8

December 5, 2009 Saturday

We all met in the morning at Nancy and Gary's house where Derek Pierson would be taking our family pictures. Words cannot describe the experience, so the pictures will have to! grin.
Nancy and Gary were great, they had hot cocoa, let us change in their house and take over their yard. . .

That afternoon after pictures, it was decided that Darren would go home back to Nebraska with Lauren and Laurel and Carmel; so we all split up again, as some had to go help him pack, and we were all heading out on the road to the Tri-cities to go to special meeting. We didn't get in to Richland to our hotel until around 11pm. The only thing that made it worth it to travel so late in the day was when we stopped in Ellensberg, we ate dinner at the pizza hut, and there was a Nebraska football game on the TV. So we had a great time watching the game.

Our family picture
Keep in mind that Mircea is starting to get a cold, she has a black eye, a huge scratch on her forehead and a bruise on her cheek. She was totally beat up for family pics.

A closeup -- formal family picture

The Appleman Clan:
L-R
Dewey (Cameron), Steve, Candy, Bryan, Porsche, Mircea, Casper, Darren, Laurel, Loren, Karena, Christine, Craig, Clark, Kip, Esther (Polly), Brad, Carmel



L-R
Dewey, Candy, Steve, Karena, Christine, Kip, Craig, Clark, Laurel, Loren, Darren, Porsche, Bryan (holding Casper), Mircea, Esther, Brad, Carmel

Dewey and everyone else

A quick Clothing change into Casual Clothes. . . .

Casual Family Picture

Casual Family picture

The whole group again

Leaping into the air.

(I didn't post the picture of the family doing the wave, but that was done as well.)

A bunch of pictures were taken of everyone running around and doing weird things.
This is one of them.

A dog pile at the end.
(Kip is near the bottom again, and getting squished.
Bryan IS on the bottom, and he just had surgery the day before.)

We all then headed inside for more hot coco and then back to Candy and Steve's house for lunch and to pack up to head to Tri-Cities for Special Meeting.

The following pictures are us at Pizza Hut

Candy is being a backseat Driver while Dude drives

Casper grins while Bryan keeps his eyes on the game!

Casper letting his belly hang out

The pizza is good!--not as good as the pizza hut in Ainsworth, but still good.

Darren has some Taco Pizza

Cea picking off the topping

So, are we watching Dude? or are we watching the game?

Everyone hanging out

Back into the vehicles. Grumpy is stuck in the back

Hooray we are at the hotel! Cea immediately goes to sleep!