PATTI AND THE KIDS!!! YAHOOO!

Patti, Robbie, Jake, Ellie, Luke and JohnJohn came rolling into McCall and boy did we have fun! The weather was great, the kids were good and we went out on the boat a couple of times, went to a hot springs called Gold Fork, and pretty much vegged on enjoying everything. Robbie and Jake used the three and a half foot grass between the house and the creek to hide and shoot each other with the air guns. We sat on the deck and watched the deer and the elk come down to drink and eat. We laughed, we cried, and we simply had a great time! Oh yeah, and the twins found Sheri's home made pickles in basement and, sure enough, we have one less jar now! Carpet and pickle juice. . . . . nice! We now get ready for Josh and Liz, and then the end of July we will be getting ready for the Griffith 7!

Abby Rose Rinker

6/22/2009

Welcome to the world Abby! Kathy brought Abby into the world at 10:00 pm on Monday, June 22. The neat thing about this is it is also Liz's birthday too! Both Abby and mom are doing fine, and so is Craig. Ava has fully accepted her new sister and she calls Abby her baby. 

A very happy family! Congratulations to Kathy and Craig!

This makes grandchild number 15! 

I HATE MOVING!!!

There's no place like home!

Well, Sheri and I got to spend a nice week in Seattle, going to dinners, lunches, shopping at Bell Square, and visiting Fred and Mary and a quick visit to see Janet and the kids. Then it was MOVING DAY! Yuck! We spent an entire day packing and loading our Uhaul truck; fortunately we had Brian drop by to help with the sofa. Brian had just flown in from Boise, helping out Craig and Kathy at the hospital to help us. We left Bellevue on Thursday, spending the night in the wine country town of Prosser, WA., then on to McCall on Friday. It's so good to be home, there's no place like home. 

I can't believe these people are smiling! I got 8 miles to the gallon and the only thing I could get on the radio was Spanish Speaking stations and Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck (which was an education because I really had no idea how much hate they were spewing until I listened to them for 8 hours!)