McDougalls Home http://mcdougallshome.net A Blog and Web Site About The McDougall Family Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:47:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://mcdougallshome.net http://mcdougallshome.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/m-icon3.jpg McDougalls Home Vacation Trip To Seattle http://mcdougallshome.net/2013/06/14/vacation-trip-to-seattle/ http://mcdougallshome.net/2013/06/14/vacation-trip-to-seattle/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:44:27 +0000 John http://mcdougallshome.net/?p=2741

Click the picture to see all our photos from our fun Seattle trip.

As a gift to our graduating seniors (Katie, Desire’ and Terry), we all took a fun trip to Seattle June 1 to June 8, 2013. We attended Terry’s (Desire’s boyfriend) graduation, and soon after the event, we wisked him away for the trip. The trip included: Silverwook Theme Park, Leavenworth Washington, Tour of Boeing, Woodland Zoo, Pacific Science Center, Space Needle in the day and at night, Monorail, Experience Music Center and Sci Fi Museum, Ferry trip to Bremerton, Puget Sound Navy Museum, Tour through USS Turner Joy, Pikes Market, Ballard Locks and fish ladder, Golden Gardens Beach, Argosy Harbor Tour, and Underground Seattle Tour. That is a lot of stuff to cover in a week! We also spent a little time visiting a few relatives. Sorry to all that we didn’t get a chance to visit. We were too busy playing tourists!  Click HERE to see lots of pictures from our trip.

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Click the picture to see more from Katie and Desire’s graduation and party.

Katie and Desire’ graduated from Jefferson High on May 19, 2013. They both did a fantastic job and we are proud of them. We had a fun party afterwards with relatives and friends.  Click HERE to see the pictures.

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Here are the stats:
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Congratulations to the following Jefferson High Students for receiving State Music Superior Ratings:

Womens Ensemble #2:  Aria McFarland, Candace Lanch, Symphoni Lyons, Koti Watkins, and Desire McDougall

Vocal Solo:  Desire McDougall

Vocal Solo:  Mallory Herzog

Violin Solo:  Christian Peterson

Representing JHS with State Excellent Rating:

Vocal Duet:  Kaela Williams & Desire McDougall;  Mallory Herzog & Kaela Williams

Vocal Solo:  Kaela Williams, Mikal Overturf, Koti Watkins

Sax Solo:  Mickela Mann

Percussion Ensemble:  Adam Clemons, Caleb Holmes, Rudy Preskar, Jordon Riggs, Christian Peterson, Braden Rykal, Madelynn Mann

 

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Click the picture to see more from the rugby games

Desire’ plays for the Helena Lady Dragons rugby team. Ana started playing rugby, but was injured during a practice.  Desire’s boy friend Terry plays on the Helena Hooligans team. Both the ladies and guys played Missoula’s teams and won both. Here are some action shots of the games played on April 27, 2013.  Click HERE to see them.

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Click the picture to see many of Katie’s favorite photos she has take in 2012 and 2013

Katie loves to take photographs of interesting things, and she loves to edit them with GIMP (A FREE alternative to Photo Shop). Click HERE to see a  collection of some of her favorites from 2012 and 2013.  Great job Katie!

- John

P.S. I strongly suggest you take a look at GIMP if you like creating and editing photos.  Many of the edited photos and graphics on this web site were tweaked or made with GIMP. If you use a modern operating system like Ubuntu or some Linux flavor, GIMP is probably in  your repository (Software Center on Ubuntu).  If you use an outdated and restricted operating system like Windows, go to the GIMP web site and click “Download” then down the page some, click “Show other downloads”.

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i took these photos for photography and i love them it took a long time to get them to look perfect-Katie

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- John

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He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. (Matthew 28:6)

He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. (Matthew 28:6)

Do YOU believe it?  Do YOU believe what God says? The Bible foretold of our Saviour Jesus way back in Genesis 3:15.

Do YOU believe it… Just as He said?  There is a sad, growing trend, to dismiss Genesis as fact, even in many our our Bible preaching churches.  We have decided to believe fallible man’s opinion rather than infallible God’s Word.  If you don’t believe what He said about our Saviour in Genesis, why would you believe it in Matthew?

So, do YOU believe it?  Just as He said?  He is not here; He has risen!

Happy Resurrection Day.  It happened JUST AS HE SAID, starting from Genesis.

- John

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Click the photo to see pics from Jefferson High’s 2013 Prom.

Jefferson High School’s 2013 Prom was on March 23.  Katie, Desire’, and Ana went and had a great time with their friends.  Click the picture to see the proof.

- John

 

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- Love Forever -

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Cast:
Emma – Taylor Sorheim
Vera – Kaela Williams
Mary – Desire’ McDougall
Francine – Reba Wacker
Jillian Gill – Mikal Overturf
Assistant – Jenna Senecal
Wendall – Gabe Youde
Stage Manager – Kerri Huso
all members of Thespian Troupe 5025

Original Music written by:
Mike Hesford
Connor Lachenbruch
Ai Ishii
Michael McKelligott
Clint Forrette

2013 – All rights reserved by the authors

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