NW Girls Cruise

In October myself (Lois) and a number of High School friends cruised the northwest coast up into British Columbia and the Vancouver Island waters. We had a great three day weekend visiting and taking in the sites.

More Baseball - 2009 Mariner's Cup

In August Taylor was selected to play on the Northwest Mariners Cup Team. The team consisted of some of the top MLB High School prospect players from the states of Washington and Oregon. There were two tryouts for the team with each one seeing over a hundred players competing for a spot. The team played in a three day tournament against 3 other MLB High School Prospect teams from the Mid-West, and California. The first game was played in Everett, WA where the Mariners Aqua Sox Single A team play. The following two days, games were hosted at Safeco Field in Seattle (Seattle Mariners Stadium)... Taylor started the second game on the mound at Safeco against the SF Giants team and got the win! What a great experience and thrill it was to see him pitching at Safeco Field on the BIG SCREEN. He'd been throwing 91-92 mph but posted a 94 on the scoreboard to turn a few heads :)

Area Code Baseball 2009 - Long Beach, CA

Taylor was one of 30 top players selected from the Northwest as a pitcher to represent the MLB's Washington Nationals prospect team at the Area Code 2009 Tournament in Long Beach, CA. The first day the team played a practice games at USC's stadium. The team played six games over six days and finished with a record of 2 wins, 2 ties, and 1 loss. Major league and college scouts filled the stands throughout the week. Mom & Dad made the trip and a vacation of it as well and couldn't be more proud of his performance which saw him allowing no runs, no walks, couple of K's, and giving up only three hits... against some of the better high school players from around the country. http://www.areacodebaseball.com

WSU Baseball Scholarship

Taylor commits to Washington State University (WSU) on a Division 1 Baseball scholarship... He was also offered a 50% scholarship to Oregon State University (OSU) but felt the Cougars were a better fit along with a 60% scholarship which is really good in the college baseball ranks! He'll graduate in the spring of 2010 from CHS. Go Cougs!
http://wsucougars.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/wast-m-basebl-body.html

New Puppy...

New addition to the family, yet to be named. 7 weeks old female yellow lab from Goldendale, WA
UPDATE... her name is Jeter, and you can only guess after who. Note: "No Yankee lovers here, just Jeter fans" Click here's for a link to her pictures.

Lindsay Graduates... "University of Washington"

Lindsay graduates from the University of Washington on June 13, 2009. We couldn't be prouder of her... she finished in 4 years and double majored in English and Economics! Lindsay was also was a member of the UW Tri-Delta Sorority. Following graduation we met The Johnston's (Harold and Jann), The Duty Family, and Grandma and Grandpa for dinner over looking lake Union. Taylor was home playing in a baseball tournament in Vancouver, which they won. This summer Lindsay has an internship with the Portland Beavers (Triple A Baseball Team) in Portland and will be working in their Marketing Department. GO HUSKIES!

Jessica's Engaged...

Our oldest Jesscia announced her engagement to Jeff Picken with plans to host the big event next summer in the Portland area... Jeff has been a manager for the Golf Galaxy stores in Boise, ID and Renton, WA the past couple of years and recently was asked to return back to Beaverton, OR to take over the management of the store there. Jessica worked for a company called Balihoo in Boise, and is currently working for AT&T that she started with in Renton and continues now with in Beaverton.

Taylor 2009 Prom

Annual Cattle Roundup in the Gorge

We returned recently to help with the annual cattle roundup at Scott and Wendi Hall's on the Columbia River Gorge near Goldendale, WA. Beautiful day with lots of activity... great food, live music, and lots of cows.

Fish On....

First Salmon of the year by way of captin Beda... Columbia River near the Camas Port. Sunny day but colder than heck. Watched Taylor play ball that afernoon in Portland, he hit a 3 run homerun and a two run double for 5 rbi's. He was 4 for 5 on the day. Guess it was a good day for the boy's in the family.

Camas beats 4A Heritage 3 - 1

Camas beats 4A Heritage 3 - 1 in first game of the school season... Taylor pitches 5 1/3 innings with 9 strikeouts, 4 hits, and gave up no runs for the win!

Jessica's Birthday (25)

Big 25... Jessica and Jeff ventured to Camas for a big dinner in Portland Friday night with friends to celebrate the 25 BDay. On Saturday the girls went shopping and the guys went fishing, no fish to report but lots of purchases from the shopping end of things :)

OSU Baseball Recruiting Visit

On Friday February 13, we ventured down to Corvallis, OR for a baseball recruiting visitation to Oregon State University (OSU). They have a high interest in Taylor for position play and are looking forward to watching him play this year and next. Pretty exciting when you consider they were back to back National Champions only two years ago. We spent a few hours with the coaches and seeing the facilities. Also got to watch the team scrimmage that afternoon.

Christmas 2008

Our Christmas Holiday this year was once again one to remember... lots of snow and a great time spent with family as the pictures will show. We started off the holiday season with a gathering of the Johnston's, Gibson's, and Williams families that was hosted by Jessica and Jeff at their new apartment complex in Renton. As you can see by the pictures we had a terrible time. Hi-lights were the great food and the first annual white elephant gift exchange, lot's of fun... The Duty's hosted the family Christmas eve and day gathering again and the snow was a welcome addition. We hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Years holiday season as well! Here's a link to all our event pictures...
http://picasaweb.google.com/the.williams2/Christmas2008?authkey=GDEcPVVdv8I&feat=directlink