Albuquerque Balloon Festival

 We had a fun time with our friends in Albuqueque!

Arizona Retirement Home - Take 2

 Alas, we are on the move again!  My husband was not pleased with the Midwest.  Arizona, here we come!

We sold our new home in Kansas City within a week for more than the ask and with no seller's agent---again.  Closed on our Washington coastal property and this Arizona home within a week's time.  Whew!

Family Reunion

We siblings attempt to get together each year.  We are a huge lot, so it becomes more and more difficult to accomplish!        

Grandchildren are the Best!

 I love being Grandma to these buggers!

 May 2015 was joyous and sad.  We lost my Dad  in early May.

Our son was married at the end of the month.

 After re-acquainting ourselves with the Kansas City area, and numerous hours, days and weeks, we have found our new home!

Retirement 7 - 7 - 14

My husband and I are two weeks away from retirement.  Our last day on our respective salary-paying jobs is July 7, 2014 or 7/7/14.  Lucky day don't you think?  We are not only finishing our careers, we are also terminating our long, love-hate relationship with Oregon. 

Our children and grand-children are living in the Kansas City area, so we are heading home! We are excited to get back to the Midwest and be Grandpa and Grandma to our 3 grandsons, 3 granddaughters and 1 granddoggie, not to mention our daughter and husband and son and fiance.  And yes! we have a wedding on the horizon, too. 

Lots of changes, lots of packing, lots of home hunting to do.  We are nearly ready to put our home in Oregon on the market, our ocean lot is already on the market, and the celebrations have begun.

Our Portland home sold with one open house, without a seller's agent, for more $$$ than we hoped to net.  

We took a long slow trip from Oregon to Missouri, seeing sights and states we had not had occasion to visit previously:

Boise, Idaho has a picturesque downtown riverside.

Wyoming is vastly uninhabited!  Devil's Tower is a must.

Deadwood and Mt Rushmore are awe-inspiring.

South Dakota has the Black Hills,Wall Drugs and Little House on the Prairie homestead.

Yellowstone was on our list but was having a snowstorm -- in AUGUST!

We carted our wine collection across the country and it was our daily weight-lifting routine, in and out of our motel rooms.

After all the this and that, we arrived at our daughter's home in Kansas City.  Now the fun begins!