Headed to Idaho, May-June 2010

Our plans for the rest of the spring were to go on to Palm Springs, Yosemite National Park, Yuba City, and then on up to Idaho. But, for some reason Terry got this bee in his bonnet that he wanted to go home early. His excuse was that he wanted to plant a garden! So, we headed up through Utah, stayed at my Aunt and Uncle's place for a few days where we got to see quite a few of our my relatives. Then we landed in Rexburg at Jill's and got to watch our granddaughter's recital and our grandson's baseball game. I didn't take many pictures, but we also got to see Sarah and family and Shay and his family. We had a great time with all of them.


Kamber did a great job in her recital and Boe hit a home run!

We did make it home and Terry built his first ever grow box garden. The weather didn't cooperate really well and we had to plant it several times, but it is doing good now. When we knew we were coming home early, I contacted the current Gem County Clerk and asked if she could use any help at the election precincts, since we would be there during Idaho's Primary Election. She said that she actually had a position open in the Courthouse for six weeks to help with the absentee voting and asked if I would be willing to do that. I thought that would be kind fun going back to the Courthouse after serving as the Elected County Clerk for eight years. I also got to work one of the precincts on election day. It was a lot of fun working again after being retired for 3 1/2 years. But, it also let me know that I really would not like having to go back to an 8:00-5:00 job again!

I did take time off from my Courthouse job to go to Charlotte, NC, with my sister, Lorrie, to watch my niece, Megan, run in the Collegiate National Steeplechase race. She has been on the Humbolt State University track team for the last four years. Lorrie and I made these shirts with Megan's name splashed all over it to wear to the competition. Then after the meet, I gave my shirt to Megan.

Megan did so good! She place sixth in the Nation and got All American. She bettered her PR and broke her school record. It was the best race she had run in the last four years! What a way to finish her college track career. She will be pinned as an RN in December. We are so proud of her!

Lorrie and I had a blast running around Charlotte. We used the public transit system and missed our stop a few times. Our adventures actually started on the plane ride from Boise to Chicago when they closed the airport there because of a lightning storm. We had to fly around in the sky waiting for the airport to open, until we almost ran out of fuel and had to land in Madison, Wisconsin. Then by the time we got to Chicago, we had missed our connection to Charlotte. We would have had to spend the night in the airport except we were lucky enough to get stand-by tickets for later that night, even though we were number 21 and 22! We had a great time!

My brother's son, Mike, Jr., got married this summer. We were lucky enough to be in town when it happened and got to go. They actually got married in Filer, ID, which was a 3-hour drive from Emmett. My brother Bill came from Portland and our kids Shay and Jill came. We all rode with my sister Lorrie in her daughter's van. The trip was as much fun as the wedding. Congratulations to Mike and Aimee!