Sam And Saundra's Year Long Adventure - Part 179

Sam And Saundra’s Year Long Adventure – Part 179

Oregon

9/5/09 – 9/20/09 - To Portland 

Space Needle From Freeway

We are getting antsy to get home and see the family again.  We have rested about all we can and want to get going – so we do.  The drive to Seattle and home, was uneventful, other than we started to smile a lot and tried to visualize how much our grandsons and granddaughter (still in pre-countdown stage) has grown.  With Samantha (Sami), we will have to guestiimate based on Tauna’s growth. We jabber away and since we know Owen is probably waiting for us, we call him.  Sure enough – he has been waiting in his chair all morning at the curb for us to show.  We assure him we are on our way and give him an ETA so he can eat a little before we get there.  We finally get there – park the trailer at the curb and rush to the front door.  No one home!  Our turn to wait.  We talk to neighbors, Ralph and Ellen and find that our other neighbors, Jim and Sylvia are in Colorado – welcoming their new twin granddaughters into the world, spending a while to secure that gamma/gampa bond.  Then it happens. Owen is home, along with his parents, Kirsten and Nic.  There is no place like family.

Grandsons In Back Yard

We have a baby shower to help with on the 12^th to welcome Sami, church to attend (big hellos!), birthdays to celebrate, overnighter planned with grandson Jaron (his first away from home), night out with Kyra and Korbin to also celebrate Kyra’s 5^th birthday, doctors to visit, family to see - to pray with and for (Jerry and Judi with their ATV accident injuries in the forefront), my mom to contact and confide in, friends to talk to and hug, truck/trailer to get worked on and it all goes so very quickly.  We are happily tired, but.. oops… it’s time to grab Owen and go on our week vacation with him to the coast.