I got this idea from Ginny's Flickr site. Check it out to see all the beautiful jewelry she makes.

Caricatures

Over the past couple weeks some of my students, who are in a graphic design class here at school, chose to draw a caricature of me as their assignment. They gave me their finished products and I thought they were pretty good.

Flickr site

I decided since I have way more pictures than I want to post on the blog, and because I don't want to take up a ton of disk space on our computer, I have set up a site at flickr. Here is the address: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lesleymontandon/

You should be able to get on there and download anything that you like. The quality is sized at enough mp to make a small print out of it but for those of you who want to make posters out of my pictures :) you'll need to get one resized from me probably.

Are you getting tired of pictures yet?

Rebekah with all her former campers who were there (we were all counselors too)
The 2003 counselors who were at the reunion
Ten out of 16 2002 counselors came! We had a great time catching up and hiking.
Sweet little Josey.
Big Mouth Frog as read by Vance Crowe: a modern classic.
This is what the dining hall looks like now. Very different, but very nice!
The classic sign. Notice the fire danger sign says moderate. It rained every day we were there, praise God!
This wasn't BST either. The group of hikers.

A cool forest service sign. The Blue Canyon is where our little piece of haven (yes I meant to spell it like that) is located.
I love this picture of John and Jessica. John was the honorary CBH staff member for the weekend.
Sara and me.
Jessica, Mirm, Sara and me at the dining hall. Look how nice they all look. I had already changed into my hiking clothes and they were all still in their church clothes. Boy do I look like a scrub.
Another group shot.

Okay, I think that is it for the pictures. I have more but you get a good idea from these. We had such an awesome time at the Blue Haven 50th reunion and were so excited to see so many old friends. It was like being a camper again. We stayed in the campers' cabins and took showers in the shower house, which is one thing I don't really miss. We had a great time and can't wait to go back and teach 4th session later this summer. Enjoy all the pictures!

Family at CBH

This is Josey running to me when we first saw them
We found it was best to just take the picture without trying to get both girls to look and smile.
Riley loves her Uncle Chad. I think she is showing him that she is three.
All of us with Uncle Doug. The Myerses stayed at the Bent Nail with him.

Right before Emily and Joey had to leave. We were so glad we got to see them this weekend.
I love this picture of Riley.
Right after we got there I took this picture with Josey.
We took this picture with Vance and Aimee on Friday right after we got there. We figured they'd be busy the rest of the weekend (they know a lot of people after directing the camp for 17 years) so I wanted to get a picture with them while they had some time. Aimee ran the kitchen while Vance directed camp, and I was one of her cooks in '01.
Another waterfall shot. There were about 8 or 9 of us that hiked on Sunday afternoon to one of my favorite hikes called BST. It had been a while since any of us had been there and we did a lot of consulting on whether or not the waterfall we arrived at was BST. I didn't think it was and I am going to find it when we go back in July. We had a lot of fun anyway.

Pictures, part 3

This was not my idea. I had a hard time sticking my head through this hole. Me, Sara, and Jessica at the sign.
Sara, Miriam, Rebekah, and me in the barn.

Mirm and me.
Another waterfall picture. This is NOT BST.
Everyone consulting: "Is this BST?"

People at CBH...the Challenge course

Sara swings stupendously while smiling superbly

This is after Chad said "Can you actually look at the camera?" I was holding on for dear life and holding down my lunch.

Waving on the zipline.

They are "acting" like it is hard to pull me up in the swing.

A closer view of Sara swinging.

Nature at CBH

Here are some nature pictures we took at Blue Haven. For some reason I am attracted to taking pictures of water. Chad likes to take upclose pictures of flowers and fungus. We had fun using the plant life to experiment with our new camera this weekend. I thought I would divide the posts into humans and non-humans. Enjoy!

Some pictures that are long overdue

Here are some more pictures from Chad's graduation weekend. The formatting has been somewhat messing up so we'll see if I can actually get from this page to publishing the post successfully. If you're reading this then it worked.

I thought this picture of Josey was very cute and showcases her personality well.



Here's a picture of dad and me just before dad left for the airport. Lady at church: "You look just like your dad."
Me: "Thanks, I hear that a lot."
Lady at church: "Yeah, I can tell where you get your skin from."
(That was a random story that I thought was funny...I had never been told I look like dad because our skin is the same.)



Here are Chad and me by a fountain in "Old Town" (read: lots of tourist shops packed really closely together) Sedona.







Here is Chad showcasing the new Bible I gave him.











Here is Chad's new toy: an electric drumset.






















Here we are at Rich & Joyce's house the night before Chad's graduation. They threw a little potluck for Chad and it was really nice. They have really taken care of us since we moved here over two years ago...such nice Christian people.










Sister abuse.





















The theme of the party was Mexican type food (it was a fiesta!), so Rich got the idea to buy these little Mexican cookies and make them into an "M." He was very proud of himself, so I took this picture before people started eating the cookies.












Sister attack, part II.

Side trip

We took a little side trip into Sycamore canyon on our way back to Prescott from Flagstaff today. Sycamore canyon is even more beautiful than Sedona. We flew by a cliff dwelling, which I got video of also, but I coudn't zoom in so the ruins aren't very visible. This video is of us flying through a cool little formation. Enjoy.