luke and kristen's visit - Wednesday, August 17, 2005  
all in the family:

(kristen, luke, carmen, dave, david, annie, joe, salina, sarah, dean, levi, jen)

So, Luke got to take a couple weeks off before he and his platoon ship out to Ramadi, Iraq in September. He and Kristen flew up to washington to hang out with the fam for a week. Luckily, Salina and I got several days off, and Levi and others too, and we all had a great time together. In fact, I'd say it is a contender for best vacation ever!

Luke, we are all so proud of you. We will be thinking of you all the time.

 
salina's new suit. she'll probably be annoyed i put this up but i think she looks pretty damn sharp! she's going back to full time work next month, and got some new clothes for interviews and such.

 
out at lake pleasent on sunday, where dean and sarah shared thier speedboats with us! pretty friggen great

 
deans boat

 
luke designed this shirt himself for his platoon -- 3rd platoon, Lima Company, 7th Marines. he gave some to a fortunate few. semper fi.

 
here's how you play bass girls

 
emma at grandma lindas

 
sarah had a bbq in luke's honor saturday and i swear like 70 people showed up

 
hi

 
grampa daryl and avery

 
for posterity

 
larsons

 
luke and kristen with grandpa and grandma larson (sully and mike in the background)(

 
sad because they are left out of the larson bunch picture

 
the larson bunch

 
princesses

 
sunset at lake crescent

 
mariah, linda, salina

 
what are you looking at?

 
lauren caught a butterfly

 
pretty girls! (jen was still driving to forks at this point. the hood cannal bridge closed which means she had to drive around which is like an extra two or three hours. salina and i just squeaked through about 10 minutes before it closed on Thursday, after having waited all day for the UPS guy to deliver our Wild Waves tickets [btw, we had a great time with everyone at Wild Waves but apparently got no photos], and then our ferry was detained because some divers where underneath it and they had to call in the Coast Gaurd and an INTERPRETER to interview the divers-- pretty creepy. anyway...)

 
cuzns

 
who's that diving?

 
at the site next to Ingrid's there was this deer just hanging out on the shore. it was there for about twenty minutes. i swear salina and i saw about 20 deer on this trip, just driving around different places

 
boating on lake crescent
kristen, lauren, emma, luke

 
hey! mariah, emma, salina

 
joe and luke -
submit your own caption

 
we rented this cool paddle boat at lake crescent

 
check me out!

 
avery wasn't much into swimming-- but sure into grandpa

 
rest time

 
Ingrid and Joe have this great cabin on lake crescent with a dock that is awesome for diving off. we hung out there all day friday, and some of us had hung out a few days before

 
out in dad and mom's back yard-- dad made this real cool rock area where they have thier porch swing, picnic tables, fire pit, etc.

 
i'm having a hard time with a caption for this one:

 
at the new forks pool

 
luke and kristen with lauren and race (i think this was on the way to swim lessons at the new forks pool)

 
annie and her boyfriend dave crippen (sorry dave if thats not the right spelling!) bowling w/ luke and kristen

 
mom at lake crescent

 
lauren and levi at lake crescent

 
kristen and luke at 2nd beach near la push

 
levi, luke, race, lauren

 
luke, mom, race practicing sign language at 2nd beach

 
luke and levi stopped at lake crescent on the way to forks and jumped in!