Spring Break 2009

We're back from our latest adventure--a whirlwind trip to Disneyland and California Adventure. It's a two-day drive from Sisters, nearly 2,000 miles roundtrip. We stopped half way and stayed overnight at Beale AFB...near Marysville and Yuba City in northern CA. It was a little off track, but we made up for it by visiting the commissary and stocking up on some groceries and sundries we pay almost double for here in Central Oregon. We also took advantage of the inexpensive military haircuts for the boys....Julia went shopping and David gave the instructions to the Barbers. Don't think she'll do that again. In the end, it cost us more, because we had to by hats to protect their newly scalped heads. After picking up our 3-day Park Hopper tickets at the base (including a free one for David as a military retiree) we headed to Anaheim and stayed in the RV at a park about a mile from Disneyland. This gave us a short trip into the park and free fireworks show every night!!! See some of our vacation pictures in our Kodak Gallery at the link below:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/ViewSlideshow.action?&collidparam=8537530603.641649980703.1238516557738

You can also see a video of Max enjoying a roller coaster ride here:

We also dropped in and paid David's brother Dan and his wife Judi a visit in Coalinga. They were pretty surprised as we gave them all of 40 minutes notice...well sort of. We called Dan's cell and got a message and when we called their house, they thought we were a wrong number, so we got hung up on. Anyway, a 15 miles side trip is nothing to take a chance and stop in, so stop in we did and surprised them as they were relaxing from the work week on Saturday afternoon. We stayed about an hour and a half and then headed back north to Beale for our half way stop and rest. Winds were high Sunday, so we delayed our departure until Monday morning. By then we had gone to church, shopped the commissary and refueled for the trip home. We got home around 6 pm and I think the happiest was Pippin who missed all his local dog smelling stops and yard to romp in. We're doing tons of laundry today and just catching up from our week away.

Apologies for Slacking

Hey out there! Sorry about not writing is so long. And apologies to our normal Christmas card recipients too! I guess you could say we've been busy again and just plain preoccupied with local life.

Friday was a big night for us--the 2nd Annual Sisters Parent Teacher Community Green and Gold Gala. This was a fund-raising auction held at Brand 33 restaurant at Aspen Lakes Golf Club. We were heavily involved again this year, from planning, advertising, soliciting donations, helping with a classroom project, updating the blog, writing Tweets, and pulling off the big evening. David was the computer master again, and Julia used her stamping and paper skills to create wonderful displays, signs and just make the place look great. (There's a link to the right if you want to read about it/see stuff).

Anyway, that's over and on to other important business like deciding what to do with the kids 2-week Spring break. We had planned to fly back East, but they've had a horrible Winter and it's not letting go yet...so we're putting that off 'til Summer. So apologies to our relatives too!

Oh, and we're done battling the Tax Man this year (we won, sort of) -- so no more excuses. We will update a little more often.

Hope you're all surviving the world we live in today. Don't know what we'd do if we hadn't made the choices we did to get where we are. It sure seems ugly out there.

Take Care and let us know what your piece of reality is like from time to time.