Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Back to Colorado




We have done many things and gone many miles since the last update. We spent time at Milton-Freewater OR and did a concert there. Had a wonderful time. Then we went to Kalispell MT for about a week over the 4th of July. We visited friends Roy and Judy there and had lots of fun. We hadn't seen them for several years. Traveling south from there, we went through Yellowstone National Park and enjoyed that. We didn’t see much wildlife, but lots of geysers, etc. Our destination from there was Saratoga WY for a short visit with friends and then we headed for Loveland CO. When we arrived there, we had to move our trailer from our brother-in-law’s back yard out to a farm near Galeton, north of Greeley CO. it involved quite a bit of cleaning and putting away, as we hadn't lived in it for nine months. We also had no food in the house and so had to go to town to stock up some. On Saturday, July 14, our oldest daughter and her husband had a family get-together. If I counted right there were 38 people there, all relatives. We got to see almost all of our great-grandchildren and most of our children and grandchildren, plus many others we hadn’t seen for nearly a year. I took lots of pictures. The smaller children had a blast playing in the water as it was a hot day. The picture is of all the smaller ones. The four bigger ones are grandchildren and all but one (a grandniece) are great-grandchildren. I went back with Mary the next day to her home at Holyoke CO. her husband Jesse was gone for two weeks at Annual Training with the National Guard, so I helped her and we visited and I had a good time with our grandchildren. While there, my brother Charlie and I went to Alliance NE to see my sister and her husband who are in a nursing home there. While there we also visited our granddaughter Kellie, her husband Matt and their daughter Claire. Travis came out to visit and reclaim me the next weekend. Now we are back in our trailer near Galeton for a while.