Thursday ~ September 22, 2011

Well, it's the last leg of our trip. Last night we stayed in Gold Bar, WA. with Dustin and Lani... today we take the ferries home to Bremerton and see if the boat is still afloat! Lani and I have been friends for ever... like Pre-Ben... for 20 yrs???? That's a LOOONG time! We have seen each other at our best and our worst, and we still like one another... weird.

Silly girl even had mints on our pillows in the spare room... see, I said she was weird! They took us out to dinner last night and then to breakfast this morning at the local Hotel, Restaurant and Bar... (reminds me of the Hub in Kamiah). Sad, but even though I live so much closer now to Lani I still do not seem to get over here much to spend time with her???? I will have to work on that! Spending sooo much time with my recently retired hubby.... well, let's just say I seriously need some Girl time. LOL... To much of a good thing I guess!

Tuesday September 20, 2011

  We took a little detour on our drive from Post Falls to Kamiah. From Lewiston we headed up over the hill so we could swing by Cottenwood to check out brother Paul's new house he just bought. It's an oldie.... but it can be fixed up, and the kids, Brandon and Autumn seem to like the smaller town. I sure hope it works out for them! It was kinda bittersweet going through the prairie, greencreek... seeing the fall fields and colors, the farms and animals.

We made it to Kamiah Monday afternoon just in time for school to get out. Destiny has 

a new hobby.... CHICKENS! And a girl and her Chicken is a beautiful thing! (The one thing I miss... well, one of the things I miss about living on a farm, is the chickens) I admit I have Chicken envy..... Oley, Sylvia and the kids all had school and work Tuesday, I spent part of the day with Sylvia down at the Flower shop. I didn't help much... but I DID go next door to the HUB and get us some Smoothies to help the afternoon go by faster! HeHeHe. Later we all drove to Grangeville to watch Brad (aka Big Sexy) #66, play football. I'm not sure if they won or lost... (I don't follow football), but Brad is a POWERHOUSE! It was just just fun to spend a warm fall evening sitting in the bleachers with family watching the kids play. Gosh I miss my Family  :-(   Tomorrow we head back to Washington....

Sunday ~ September 18, 2011

Sunday we continued our weekend in Idaho with a Birthday party and dinner at Mom Acre's. Mom made her famous 'Sisilian Supper'... enough to feed an army! YUM. It was a great turn out. Mom had all 5 of her kids. Barb, Dee, Ben, Karey and Marla plus lots of grand kids and Great grand kids. It was Mom, Marla and Barb's Birthday celebration... I won't say how old..... but they all looked Sooo young! Now that Ben and I live so far away it is even more special when we can all get together! Tonight we stay again at the Jensens then it's off to Kamiah to visit with Oley and Sylvia and the kids.... Can't wait!