Yesterday I had a wonderful time with my friend Ximena. We went out for coffee and talked straight for two hours. My Spanish was a little rusty, but she helped me through expressing my thoughts in another language, we were able to relate about more personal issues than just our likes and dislikes, we laughed, [...]

We are still in Spokane, Washington. We have had several times of visiting a RV dealership in town to fix a hydraulic issue. On Monday night we drove and parked overnight to miss the morning traffic. This dealership has a very nice place to park if you need to. So Tuesday morning early we had them look at our problems. After several hours it looked...

In addition to our family visitors, we have been able to catch up with a few of Chrissy’s college roomates/housemates and other friends. It was SO fun to see our kids playing together in the same room and to share this phase of our lives together. My (Chrissy) roommate from my sophmore year at CSU, MEGAN, [...]

Tropical Storm "Dolly" just blew through and I found that ironic. My pet name for all of my girls including Ruth is "Dolly". And so, while hurricanes are not something to joke about, "Dolly" winds are blowing all around our family these days. I just spent a week staying at the home of Dolly #2 (Karissa) during our annual...