The Creation

John and Sheri have finally been pushed, shoved, belittled, chastised and lovingly asked to create a blog. The Creation of the Blog can be unnerving because the WORLD can see just how boring we are, but at the same time how much we truly love our children and their spouses, grandchildren and our dear friends. So, I guess we will focus on the latter to shine to the world.

When I asked JD to help me come up with name for the blog here are three of our favorites:

·      Is this heaven? No it's Idaho

·      Gracie's House

·      Is That Thing On? (John’s favorite)

As you all know, John is spending most of his time on a project in Seattle doing an overlay of 105 cell sites (don’t ask unless you are really bored), while Sheri tends to the house making certain Jord makes it to school, seminary, church and there are no parties. We won’t go into parties what occurred when we were living in Redmond, and we were out of town, and JD locked himself in his bedroom, at least that’s what he told us. We are not really certain where Patti was, probably out talking to all the cute boys with baseball caps!

Sheri and Jordan spent a week on Mercer Island with John and we must report that life is not that tough in his beautiful apartment and wonderful location, regardless of what you might hear from him. Shopping is great, the location is great, the weather is great (flowers and no snow) and he is discovering a lot of new restaurants, which indicates he is not cooking much. It is also nice to be living near Janet and Brian, and to go to Josie’s soccer games! She is really good and Brian is giving his heart and soul to youth soccer by coaching two teams!

While we were in Seattle we were able to go to the Seattle Center and visit the Experience Music Project, with Jordan, Janet, Brian, Kathy, Craig and all the grand kids! It was really a lot of fun, especially the music video we produced. None of us could come up with a name (John wanted “Flogging Sheri” but was overruled) and at the last minute John blurted out Charlie Brown’s AllStars. Wow, original! We are trying to figure our how to put the DVD onto this Blog. . . . . but we must find out if it will mean jail time first. All I can tell you right now is that we sang Twist and Shout with Jord on drums, Zack on lead guitar, Ava on shakers, Josie on organ, with John singing lead and Sheri, Kathy, Janet and Lucy singing backup. But watching the “go-go” dancers, Brian and Craig, is worth the price of admission.  A must see, if we can get it on the blog.

Being in the Seattle area allows us to visit Sheri's family much more than we have. We had a wonderful dinner at Fred and Mary's home with Vicki, Bill, Pat and Patty. On April 25th Sara will be competing in the Miss Vikingfest (or Miss Poulsbo) Pageant, which John hopes to attend. Good Luck Sara!

Peace and Love,

John & Sheri