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I should say that the post below was written a few days ago but I could not get it to post to the website while we were gone over the weekend. I feel bad that so many people have been wondering how I am. To be honest, it’s just been hard to do things. My eyes feel really strained after the sunny weather we’ve been having. I did buy sunglasses on the way home but not sure how much it helped. I slept most of the way home during the 4 hour drive.

We did have fun, though. He’re a little recap of our weekend away.

We always go to the Firemen’s Ham Dinner…fundraiser for the volunteer fire department. My father-in-law is one of the firemen and this past year they named the station in their area after him! Quite the honor.

The ham dinner is held at the local high school. As soon as we walked in, Tyler found the gymnasium. He is really thinking about High School Musical 3 because as he would tell us for weeks, the dvd was coming out on Tuesday, February 17. So of course, the basketball court was a big draw for him.

As soon as we sit down, the food literally is delivered to the table.

The firemen do it all. The dinner isn’t bad.

We also get berry pie coleslaw and raw veggies. (my ham is hiding under the roll)

Tyler got a visit from the fire dog.

So did little Missy. She was sitting in grandpa’s lap and wasn’t too sure about it all.

About this time, we notice that Tyler is gone. It didn’t take long to figure out where he was.

I think one of the older kids saw him head there. Kenny and I went into the gym and we watched him for quite awhile before he ever knew we were there.

Then we went to see the new firetruck. My father-in-law got to pick it up and drive it home and here he is getting ready to show it to us.

He told me to climb in. Then Tyler followed.

Rebecca climbed in front to take Tyler’s picture.

He had fun with Dad.

Then this young firefighter had him climb up on the back and they shot the hose. It’s hard to see, but that’s pretty powerful and Tyler is right there helping.

Can you see him up there? He’s pretty thrilled.

It’s quite a jump down.

Sorry for the bad quality of the pictures. I was feeling really nauseated from the bright sunlight and was just trying to snap some pictures as quickly as I could.

While we went to Starbucks in the morning, one of Kenny’s friends discovered we were in Oregon because I posted my status on Facebook as sitting at Starbucks at the coast. He messaged me and asked if he could come visit. So we had visitors at our little vacation house. Kenny’s mom and sister were there, too. It was a fun afternoon.

That night we spread out over the living area and played games. Tyler and Dad were playing Wii.

The rest of us were playing Monopoly. Rebecca and Chase had already gone home. They came down a day earlier and went home a day before us. It was so much fun to have the family together for the weekend, though. I love that they started planning to take time off months ago because this weekend has always been a tradition for our family. We’ve never rented a house before and were glad it was so roomy….10 of us and enough space to not feel crowded!

As I said, I slept much of the way home….listening to a book on my iPod as much as I could while awake. When the sun was going down, I sat up and watched the sun setting.

I couldn’t get a good shot from this direction but it was so beautiful we stopped the car on the highway to try to get a picture anyway.

Today was back to work followed by a meeting at church so it was 10 before I ever got home. I started the day at the doctor’s office getting my finger pricked and then we went directly to Wal-mart so the little man could get High School Musical 3. He was one happy camper all day!

And now I am off to bed again.

ps I finished my sock and will take a picture soon.

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