Stanley Lambchop's Big Adventure

Here I am with Papa and Mimi's small group in
 Dubuque, Iowa.   We had fun together!

I had fun working out with Papa in the
 gym at the University of Dubuque.

Here I am with Papa driving Mimi and me to
the Dubuque airport for the start of my Big Adventure!

Here I am with Mimi.  We are getting
ready to go through security at the airport.

I got to sit in the cockpit with the captain!
 There were lots of buttons and lights.
 



Here we are flying into Chicago, Illinois.

 

Here I am on the big airplane that flies
from Chicago to Los Angeles, California

 

We're almost to the airport in Los Angeles, California.
It is a HUGE metropolis!

 





Here we are in Sacramento.  There are lots of rabbits
in the Sacramento Valley, so they put a huge sculpture
of a rabbit in the airport.   It looks like it
is going down into a bunny hole!



 

Lots of flowers are already blooming in California.

 

I got to see palm trees.  The one in the middle is artwork :)



There are LOTS of palm trees.







Trees are in bloom, too.


 



I love to smell the beautiful flowers.



 

I had to mail some letters.

 

Can you see me up in the tangelo tree? 
They are ripe and yummy.

Sacramento is the capital of the State of California.
The capitol building has lots of these camellia bushes
around its grounds.

This is a colorful puzzle that I helped Mimi and
Uncle Glenn put together.   It was fun!

St. Patrick's Day!  We had corned beef, cabbage and
potatoes.  Uncle Glenn wore red instead of green!

Now it is time to say, "Good-bye Mimi and Uncle
Glenn."  I will go back into my envelope and fly to
Colorado.  I can't wait to see the Rocky Mountains!

 

Holidays 2012

Papa and Levi taking a rest together during
our  November 2012 visit in Huron.

And now, in no particular order, here are the holiday photos that we had on our camera:
  (we mostly have video of the Christmas festivities)

Grace is preparing to ring the church bell at
 Bellevue, Iowa  First Presbyterian Church.

This is another view of Grace.
 She reminds me a bit of her dad!!

Hannah likes to dress-up, too!

Papa and Hannah

Theo and David, picking up stix!

What is Jonathan thinking??

Caught by the camera!

Shifty eyes Andrew. . .

"Dear" in the headlights, Ramona

 Hey, Whiskers, want to join me for dinner?

Aw, come on it could be tasty!

Papa helps Levi clean the floor!

Our rough and ready sledders!

Joel will grow into that hat!

The Crandall Cowpokes

 Andrew, Alissa, Alan and I played Scrabble on Josh  Colyer's
mega-sized Scrabble "board."  I must confess that we used the
computer  for almost every word on the board,
  to make them nice and long and fill up the board!

Levi's tower!

. . . AND NOW I AM FINALLY CAUGHT UP WITH ALL 2012 BLOGS!  AREN'T YOU ALL PROUD OF ME???  BY THE WAY, I REALLY LIKE THIS NEW BLOGGER PROGRAM.  IT IS SO MUCH EASIER TO DO PHOTOS, ONCE I FINALLY GOT THE HANG OF IT!!!

Apple Fest/Fall 2012

Here's Sadie at the Apple Fest getting her face painted.

Here's Jude's sailboat facial artistry.

Cute little pumpkin.

Cute bigger pumpkin

Pumpkin?

Jude loved the slide!

Sadie took this photo of  Violet by the rooster cage.

Sadie also captured Ezra by the roosters. 

Sadie's photos of  The Roosters

Sadie's photo of The Bunny

Sadie's photo of The Goats

Do they really want to be farmers?

Barefoot boy!

Wild drivers!!

Not too scary with such a BIG SMILE!

Sara, Ramona and I enjoyed the warm day and pleasant surroundings!