FINALLY MOVING!!!

Returned from Eileen's mother's funeral on Friday Sept 13th, she did laundry on Sat. and left early Sunday morning for Utah. Spent the next two weeks getting things moving faster at our new home. Returned home Sat. Sept. 29th. We are renting a truck Fri. Oct 5th (yes, Rick's birthday) and loading it. Hopefully we can get it all done on friday and leave for Utah on Sat. When Eileen left, the septic was not in but the guy was scheduled for Mon this coming week and they were digging the trench and hole for the well house. That and a few little things inside was all that were lacking. Carpet was being laid Fri and Sat. These are the pendent lights we bought and mailed to Utah for them to hang in our kitchen. They look terrific.

They were cleaning the whole house, including windows, on Friday. This is the kitchen. Eileen is just thrilled with all the drawers and cupboards, the new frig and her gas stovetop and built in oven with microwave over it. She now has 17 drawers whereas our home in Maple Valley had 4! All this room and cupboards plus a pantry!

The phone rang back in the retreat one afternoon and she was in the family room and she couldn't run back to it fast enough to answer it. Boy! can't wait to have all this room, our furniture out of storage, and our cordless phones in several rooms so we don't have to run from one end of the house to the other to answer it. Scott is driving Eileen's car down with us on Monday, Oct 8th and help us move in and the Cara and the girls are driving down on Friday, Oct 12th. Eileen left her car at Scott's and flew back to Washington.

The Passing of Eileen's Mother

On Aug. 31st Eileen's mother passed away. Since Rick had to be in Arbuckle (just north of Sacramento) the first week of Sept. we cancelled his flight on Monday and drove instead. We rescheduled his rental car for Sunday at Sac. Airport and Eileen dropped Rick off there and continued on to Susan's in Madera for the week to help finish cleaning Mom's apartment and all the little things that needed to be taken care of. Paul flew in the following Sat. morning and Scott drove Sat. arriving about 3:30 pm. We had a viewing in Madera on Wed. Sept. 11th with a graveside service in Vacaville on the 12th. David drove up arriving at Susan's early Wed. morning. The Johnsons and the Rowans came up from Merced and we had a good visit with them.
Aunt Arva flew in with her two daughters, Tammy and Maryanne, Thursday morning for the service in Vacaville. It was really wonderful to see them again. The Relief Society provided and nice meal of the chapel for us after the service.
Ashley flew up from Phoenix Wed. morning and Susan's Melanie picked her up. Rick then drove up from Madera and picked her up to come down to be with us. Reid and Melissa drove all day Wed. to get to Vacaville and were there for the graveside service. This is a picture of Ashley and Melissa.

This is Reid and Joel (Melanie's husband). Reid is going over the finer points of his camera. Be sure to check out his blog spot as he is becoming quite the photographer. Also check out all the wonderful things happening with his postgraduate work. We are really proud of both our children and they accomplishments.

We want to thank all those whose thoughts and prayers have been with Rick and I recently with the loss of both of our mothers.