At the Shannon ranch
My first home. "Leaving doesn't mean you're gone from it. Leaving doesn't mean it's gone from you."
"My great-grandparents left Kansas for the west three days after they married. . . . They had eight children, including my grandfather and my great Aunt Lena."
Dad & Mom out on the town
Pat & Brad & Leanne welcoming me home
That cat was almost as big as me
Me & Dad
Hairdo by Mom
Pretending my sister was my own baby
Pat, me, Cris, Leanne, Brad
Cris & Mom
The calves came every year
Us kids on the front porch.
We were teenagers and sullen, or the sun was in our eyes. And Cris was happy because we were all there, and we had kittens.
Age 18, holding my first niece, Tawna
Leanne's wedding day
Nana holding her first grandchild, Tawna
Mom and I on the day of my first wedding
Dad and I just before we enter the chapel
My brothers Brad & Pat with Mom
Playing horse with Tawna
Falling in love with Annilee
Aunt Lena with J.D.
Leanne and her girls
Leanne and her family
With Annilee at the Oregon coast
With Shannon & Annilee
Home for harvest, and to deliver news to Dad
With my friend, Amy. "This was the terrain under us. I'd seen her at her best and her worst. I thought she'd seen me at mine."
Bill with his little brother. "I look for what's missing, what a staying father could have given. What I see are the features of the man Bill will be."
Bill, on a vacation with his dad
Bill & his brother, Clint
Falling in love with Bill
Amy and me on day I married Bill
A cake with real flowers
Holding my niece Alyson for the first time
At our wedding, the nieces and nephews gathered around
Honeymoon in Mexico
His place of big sunsets (Bryce Canyon)
Hiking the Virgin river, Zion national park
Getting groceries in Greece
Waiting for sunset in Greece
That first trip to Switzerland
Where we became the American in Switzerland
Bill and his mom
With Alyson
Shannon & Annilee come for a visit
Holding Amy's son
I was the cheering on the sidelines (with Jared)
Making each other smile
Holding M'ari
Me with M'ari
Patti & Jeff & Amber
Devin
Yoga pose in the desert
Heavy lifting
Dad & Mom at their 50th anniversary
I loved the wheat before it was cut
Mom preferred the stubble
The "American parents" at a Swiss wedding
Jan & Alan with their babies
Bill and I with Dylan
Bill with Poppy
Bill & I holding Dylan & Poppy
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