Mom, Dad,Grandma and Grandpa

A little different blog today.  We have spent the last several weeks helping our family.  David's move to Denver metro, Kris and Amy needed a shed built and the grand kids needed someone to watch over them and love them to pieces.  That is where we come in -- since we travel a lot, when we are with the family we really like to spend time with them and help them in any way we can, even if it is just sitting around talking about the world's problems and drinking a beer.

After the chemo treatments we were put to work helping David, cleaning his old apartment, packing his things to move, getting rid of some things,  and finally the move.  With David working 10 hour days, and going to school three days a week it was our pleasure to help him out.  We believe David is headed in the right direction  with his life and was so glad we were there for him.  He has picked himself up by his shoestrings after the lowest point in his life, with his wife leaving him.  He has made some really good friends, studying hard and getting great grades in some pretty hard computer courses, working to move up in the company and all the while finding time to be with family and friends; he is forging ahead. The future looks pretty bright and he is hard at work to make it brighter.  Oh, did I mention that we are pretty proud of him.  He has now moved into a one bedroom apartment that is perfect for his life style.  He is within a two minute walk to the light rail (easy access to the downtown nightlife and to his work), a couple blocks from college, a couple blocks to where his friends live, and across the street from some really nice restaurants.  He has a good reliable car and fixed his scooter.  Life is getting better!!!

Kris and Amy celebrated their 10th anniversary with a trip to San Francisco and the wine regions of northern California.  We were able to help them by watching the boys for a few days while they were off to drink a little wine and fall in love all over again.  While they were gone we had to play with the  grand boys all day and cuddle with them at night, such hard work.  Of course, Kris and Amy came back and we lost that job.  If there was a consolation, Amy said it took a week to get the boys back into their routine.  Ha! Ha!  We asked Kris if there was anything else we could do to help out before we started down the road again.  Be very careful of what you ask for, you might get it.    A new shed, work on the car and truck, get rid of some of our stuff and some of their stuff stored in their basement, have a garage sale and just hang around and enjoy their company. 

We want to post a few pictures of our last few weeks just so you know how hard it is to do the things we do...as a friend of ours once said, "What are the rich people doing now...I'll bet they are not having half the fun we are right now".  We keep saying to him, "We are the rich people, we have wonderful friends and family and we love them and our life".

Relaxing in Kris and Amy's driveway

Karsten do you like Cool Whip?

Amy, the stroller is for the boys!!!!

Grandpa's helper, Kasey hammering the stake!

Grandma - It is time for a snack!

Everyone has to help dig our the slope for the shed!

Kris and Dad working together to reinforce the space for the shed

Priceless!

Kris and Pat working on the shed

The shed is done, all the workers are smiling - Amy's taking the pic

Grandpa, Dad , Kasey and Karsten eating watermelon!

Grandpa and Karsten learning how to hit T-Ball

Grandma the better teacher - Karsten hitting the ball

Kasey found a bug -- He really likes to figure things out!

We are traveling without our friends - Bob and Donna!  They have decided to hang it up, this time for real.  They are going to live in Hawaii and are now making plans to

move to the islands.  We wish them all the best --Aloha friends!!!!

We have so many pictures of our last few weeks but we neglected to get pictures of David's new pad and our time with him -- we will make up for that in our next blog!  We get to see him one more time before we post our next blog and we will include some pictures just for our friends and family who have not seen him in a few years.  Sorry David you must let us take a few pictures!

As we get ready to drive to California, we thought we would give you a hint of our upcoming trip.  We will stop in Albuquerque to visit with our friends, Mike and Rita!  Hope they put up with us for a few days.  We plan on staying in Tucson with our friends, Tom and Maryann for a few days before we drive over to San Diego.  In San Diego, David will fly in for a few days to visit with us, why you ask???  We have a court date  to settle a three year old lawsuit we brought against some crooks who defrauded us!   Wish us luck with the Judge!