How have I managed to miss posting the 2016 Oregon trip?

This is a compilation of the pictures I cut and am pasting from my "Other" blog"

In the summer of 2016.  My cousin Carl Thompson and his wife, Anne, hosted a wonderful Thompsen/ Thompson family reunion in their home in McMinnville, Oregon

We had a Thompsen/ Thompson reunion in 2006 and again this year, 2016.  After the reunion this year, some of us went to the Oregon Coast, myself included.  I fell into the surf and lost all of my reunion pictures!

Fortunately, a lot of other people were taking pictures too.  I guess, in addition to the ages in the people in 10 years, technology has changed.  Everyone has phones with cameras now and it is easy to take a lot of pictures!

These are the first cousins in 2006

 

First cousins in 2016 - there are fewer present, and one who has died since last reunion

I fell in the Pacific Ocean!

Krumkake

 Krumkake or Krum kaka is a Norwegian waffle cookie made of flour, butter, eggs, sugar, and cream. Like Italian pizzelle, a special decorative two-sided iron griddle, similar to a waffle iron, is traditionally used to bake the thin round cakes

 

Sarah had to give a talk and make a presentation about where her family came from.  She made Krumkake with the help of her Grandma Carol.

 This is how the plate looked before sharing it with her class.


Below is the "after" picture!

Nothing new to report

I was sick for a couple of weeks and low on energy.  Then, Nick got sick.  So I have not written any more here or made any plans.

As soon as I have anything to share, I will!

More family pictures

Molli, Colleen, Carl, Elinor, Courtney, Nancy &Edith July 4, 2004 at Jim and Francelle's house

The three pictures above are of my Uncle Jimmy.  He was my father's youngest brother

Thinking of Family

These pictures were taken almost 10 years ago.  A big group of us Thompsen/ Thompson cousins.

All of us are descended from these two people:

Karen and Nicoli had five sons, Erling, Ralph, Theodore (my dad) , Norris and James (Jimmy).

Karen and Nicolai with Erling standing, Ralph in chair and Ted in lap around 1919

The family picked a color for their family- for example Erling's descendants all wore green shirts, Ralph's family wore white shirts etc.

Erling's son, Carl and his wife Leslie plus their children and grandchildren

Eldon, Carl and Elinore, Erling's children and their children and grandchildren

John, Susan and Jim, Norris's children, and Aunt Alice, their mother

Great-grandchildren of Nicolai and Karen

Ralph's family wore white shirts

Thompsen/Thompson Grandchildren
 Green for Erling, white  for Ralph, blue for Ted, purple for Norris and flowers for Jimmy

Four generations from Karen and Nicolai

Carol in Grandma's kitchen

Grandma's house in McMinneville, Oregon  

My husband and my Norwegian cousin

In Oslo.  This is a picture of Nick, my husband, and Christian, my second cousin.   I think that's right.  Christian's mother and my father were first cousins.

We first met Christian when we were on our honeymoon, in 1972.  He was a cute little boy and has no memory of meeting us than.

We next met Christian in 1984, shortly after we moved to Norway.   I met him again in 1997 when I was on an around the world trip from Perth to Washington to London, to Norway, to Bangkok and back to Perth.

We have had three of Christian's four sons stay with us in  Washington.  The fourth  son will be coming in a year or two



Now for the picture:

This is the way we wash our clothes...

Nick has been striving to understand and use the washing machine and dryer in his apartment building.  I am sure I don't know whar all of the symbols are, but I will see if I can figure them out somehow.  
Meanwhile, I am packing a clothes line and planning to wash my clothes by hand and hang them dry.  We'll see!

This is the new washing machine.  The old one was leaking

Here's what the controls on the old washing machine looked like

And, there's Nick, trying to sneak up on the washer.

 

This is referred to as the "wheels of mystery"!