Monday, August 31, 2009

We are home!

Wow, this is hard to believe. We have completed our trip and are sitting in our own home. I will say it was a great sight to see when we walked in the house. I told Gary I forgot how nice our home looked. We were able to get a good night sleep on our new mattress that arrived the day before we left.  My last post was in DC and the next morning on Sunday we headed back home. We arrived early afternoon then  Kim and Tim came by to visit. Glenn and Lisa were on their back from Alabama. We then went over to Kim and Tim's to pick up our boxer from them. I expected her to go crazy when she saw us. Jumping around running back in forth between me and Gary. What we got was "oh look who is home". She was happy to see us but not what we expected.
I haven't talked with Ethan and Payton yet. I don't think they were expecting us back so soon. They have become very close with Bailey.
So now what? 
Friday we plan to have everyone over and take a photo to add to the blog. Then I will try to save it and if possible make a book. Some of the pictures I will try to enlarge and hang in the house. 
We have been asked what was our favorite place and what we liked the most. We can say Colorado was our favorite state. It is very beautiful. Visiting our family took the top of the list of what we enjoyed the most. We drove 15300 miles and never saw an accident. Never felt unsafe and never ran in to bad people. We talked with many a stranger. We discovered  we live in a beautiful, friendly country. We felt at home everywhere we went. 
Will this be the end of my blog? After Friday it will be the end of the trip blog but I am going to take up healthy cooking and we are working on completing our home so I may blog about that. Not sure yet. So thanks for going along with us on our trip, and for the comments and e-mails.

Karen and Gary.


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  1. JenSeptember 1, 2009 at 7:55 AM

    glad you are home safe. If you do a blog on healthy cooking; I'll be your 1st follower, so let me know. I would love to take a class too, but don't have time. Can you add to the blog some of the details of the things Dad showed you he did in the Navy. All i know is the big picture -that he directed the planes. Love ya Jen

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  2. Gary and KarenSeptember 8, 2009 at 8:33 AM

    HI Jen
    Sorry I haven't answered sooner. Ritha hurt her hand at work and we have been spending our time at the hospital. I planned to have the rest of the pictures by Friday but that didn't happen. Sunday we ate at Timmy's but didn't have the camera. As soon as I get the rest of the kids pictures I will add them and end this blog. I found a site that will make a book out of it.
    As for your time your father was in the Navy I knew as much as you. It was when there was a large model that he could point and show me so much. Then there was a movie and he would show me the men doing what he did and how the planes landed.
    I will have him go over all this with you next time we are together. I don't think I could explain as well as he can.
    Love ya!

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  3. JenSeptember 10, 2009 at 8:18 AM

    sounds good Mom. I hope Ritha's hand is better now. when you end the blog will it still be out there to go back and look at?

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