The Year’s (2006) News From Bob and Tuckie Shaver , with Jimmy, Ciera, Laura and Deah
Bob and Tuckie’s jobs are unchanged and continue to keep them busy.
Deah was married last winter to Chris Cooper, and she is also pregnant with our first grandchild, a boy, due in the spring. Chris is still on loan to a site in Thornton, Colorado, where he works in environmental engineering. 
Laura will complete her B.A. degree in Poly Sci, at UCSD in the spring and plans to attend law school. She has been working at a law firm while attending school. Over the Labor Day weekend she joined us on our annual fall backpack.
Ciera made a change this year, leaving Ballet Idaho and joining The Balance Dance company, which focuses more on modern and contemporary dance. She swam on the Boise HS swim team, and qualified for the state meet. She completed a triathalon, with swimming, biking and running sections, and likes to go on runs in the foothills FOR FUN. She easily out-hikes Bob on our backpacks, and she continues to love downhill skiing in the winter.
Jim had another great year playing spring and fall soccer. He is a forward, and his team really came together and played well and had fun. He took third in the Cub Scout pinewood Derby, and is poised to join Boy Scouts in January. He shaved something like 40 seconds off his best swim times at the city meet, and was honored by his team for that achievement. He’s moved on from ski team, and is going to try snowboarding this year. He is an awesome downhill skier, and likes skate cross country skiing as well.
Over the 4th of July, we traveled to Montrose CO, to visit Bob’s Mom and brother Mike and family. Going through Salt Lake City, we also visited with good friends Kathy and Kurt Dudley and kids. The whole family visited the Olympic Coast for a backpack, and after the backpack we visited friends and sites in the Puget Sound area.
Besides the family backpack in the Olympics, the family joined by Laura hiked to one of our favorite lakes in the Pioneer Mtns, Kane Lake. Fishing was good, scenery was incredible, and swimming was COLD!! In the sequence below, Jim jumped in on the Ciera's and laura's assurance that they would jump in simultaneously. One, two, three, and only Jim jumped in! Man was he steamed, and freezing cold at the same time.
Jim was going to push the girls off the rock, but they agreed to keep their promise, and they finally jumped in. Ciera then jumped in a few more times!
Bob covered some trails on his own this year with friends, solo, and with his BSU backpacking class. Those hikes included Coffee Cup Lake, Lk. Imogene, Banner Ridge snow camping, another trip with Jim and friends to Kane Lake, Mt. Borah, and a trip to the Eagle Caps in Oregon.
In late September, Tuckie’s cousin Luise Schmidt, from Munich Germany, visited. We showed her the sights of Idaho and Ciera even took her to a Boise High football game. It was great having her here with us.
Bob had a scary and painful October with back problems in the form of sciatica, pain in the leg. That has subsided, and he is in rehab to get ready for skiing and backpacking.
