Goodbye Uncle Adam

Adam, our "little" brother
The four siblings, Eric, Adam, Cindy, & me

In age it goes me, Eric, Cindy, & Adam)

The cousins Love their Uncles!

Uncle Adam gave Melissa his letterman jacket that she proudly wore to school the next day. My "little" (hes 11 years younger than me, so that term never goes away) brother Adam lost his job this week and called me Monday and said he was moving Thursday to Arizona! We had barely had him here, he moved back to Wa from Oklahoma just a few months ago. I think he really likes the hot weather! (I think hes the only one in my family that does...)

So I gathered everyone (my siblings & mom & thom) together and made our family's favorite dinner - Indian Fry bread. Yum! (I see why we only have it once or twice a year, though, it takes a lot of time to make!) Poor Eric (and Ralph), he was exhausted, he just came from work and had been up very early.

Adam left Thursday morning, made it to Stockton, CA, spent the night in a cheap hotel and made it safely to Tempe AZ Friday evening. He is going to stay w/ a friend and has a job there already. We'll miss you Adam!!!!

Keagans getting tall!

We have our measurements on the hall wall. We just measured Keagan and he has grown around 4 inches in the past year! When Melissa was 10 she passed me up and grew a lot of inches that year. (I'll have to go back and check where I wrote it down... I want to say 6 or 7 inches) Keagan has said for the past couple of years that he can't wait until he is 10 so that he can be taller than me, looks like he might make it..... cause you know I am sooo TALL! (5 foot 1/2 inch!)

Who do my kids look like?

Les & I were just talking and she said she looked at my sister Cindy's blog of a picture of me and my siblings (the middle picture) and thought Melissa looks like me and Keagan looks like my youngest brother Adam. I have always thought Keagan looked like my brothers... When Melissa was younger, I thought she looked more like me, but lately I have thought she looked more like Ray. Here are some pics for you to decide.

This is Ray in 5th grade!
This Ray at age 15.

This is the picture Les was talking about... I was in 7th grade, not too happy about getting my picture taken (hmm, kind of like Melissa now) Eric, Adam(our baby) and Cindy. I do love this picture, you can tell it was really getting old when I scanned it.
Ughh! I really hate this picture, but here I am in 7th grade, I forgot about picture day that day... and forgot about retakes.... if that would of done any good.... Before the really big bang days, my hair never did do that cool feathering thing that others did.
Adam our family baby when he was 3, I think Keagan looks a lot like him.

Seaside Oregon

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Here are some pics from our mini vacation get away. My mom and Thom are members of Trendwest and they called us to come see their presentation. They give you 2 free nights in a "beach view" hotel room and $75 in American Express gift cards if you go to their presentation. The presentation was only an hour or so, so not too bad.

We had a great time. The room was really dated... but it was free! We were laughing at the "beach view" You could see the view from one corner of the room and out on the deck area. Also check out the pic of the hairdryer, it looks like something from my grandma's generation! It was stormy most of the time we were there, but I love the beach when it is stormy! It was nice to have time away by ourselves and not cook or clean for anyone else! Now hopefully we can be nicer parents! :)

Sisterhood

After a General RS broadcast many moons ago, I think this was 1998. Kathy & Les are wearing the silly glasses because we were celebrating their bdays! I was thinking about this when I was at the meeting last night, too. I missed you Sandy!
Sisterhood, Girlfriends, whatever you want to call it, it is all the same. I have been blessed w/ great friends throughout my life! Lately I have been re-connecting w/ some of them and it has been fun. I love when you have a good friend, no matter where you are in life, you can re-connect and pick up right where you left off w/ out missing a beat!

A couple of weeks ago one of my dear friends moved away to Boise and it really hit me hard. She was one of the last in my age group that I had been w/ for a long time that we had kids the same age, etc. She had lived here for 8 years and we were close to everyone in her family. My kids were friends w/ her kids.

Anyways.... I was reminded of how blessed I am w/ good friends and am thankful for all of my blessings!

A Yearly tradition

Every year at the end of September (the weekend before General Conference) we have a General Relief Society broadcast. Every year it really touches me. One thing I love about it, is that whatever you need in your life it seems that is what you hear and get out of it. I was thinking about this today, when at church a couple of different sisters talked about different aspects of the meeting that really touched them. I love that we have a loving Heavenly Father and will let us hear what we need to hear!

Here is what my friend Kathy said about it. Thanks Kathy for looking up those quotes! I was really impressed w/ them, too.

Football & Fans

Kyle is # 77. Katelyn (His sister) does the color guard at half time.

Melissa watching the game w/ her friends.

My brothers were over this weekend and talking about football. Adam was starting to tell me about the North Thurston game Friday, about how exciting it was. (They won in overtime)
I said, "I know I was there."
A- YOU were there
me - Yes, I was there
A- Why?
Me - because my friend's son plays and we went to support him, and it is fun.


I thought it was funny that he was so suprised that I was there. I guess he doesn't know how much I like to people watch. :)


He also told me something that cracked me up. When he lived in Oklahoma, there is a town named Ceiling, so at their football games they are the Ceiling Fans! :)