WE ARE STILL ALIVE----- INTERNET, WE HAVE YOU BACK!!!!

Finally, we can get caught up! As of 9PM tonight (May 18th) we have WiFi & I can get on the computer & get caught up with a lot of things! 44 emails were waiting! Did I read them all???? You answer that one!

Gosh, I had to go back & read what I wrote last. I need to share some pictures of our fun times at Otter Creek with the kids!

PaPa & Grandma got to take the youngest, Noah, to the camper to stay for a week. He did great! First time away from Mom. Oh ya, his Daddy was saying Mommy was crying before he even left. It was a good first break, but Mom didn't get much of a break as Nicholas was sick & home from school for the whole week! We tried, Mom!!!

NOAH & PAPA DOING THE ABC'S WITH THE BLOCKSThe weekend with the boys & Renee out at the campground:

NOAH LOVES TO SWING! NICK LOVES TO SLIDE! MOMMY, NOAH & NICK BY THE FIRE
PAPA, NOAH & NICK BY THE FIRE NICK & NOAH LOVED TO GO FOR A WALK TO SEE THE MONKEY IN THE TREE AT OTTER CREEK CAMPGROUND
THE BOYS & GRANDMA WENT FOR A NATURE WALK & GOT VERY CLOSE TO THIS ROBIN GETTING WORMS

Grandma got to walk with Renee to take Nick to the bus stop the day before we left Maryland/PA. Gosh, he was such a big boy, but to Grandma he still was such a little guy getting on that big bus!

NICK IS THE LITTLE BLONDE WITH THE RED & BLACK BACKPACK - Nice Haircut Grandma!!!!NICK GETTING ON BUS #888

The last weekend at Renee's I wanted a picture of the boys together. Ya, Right, Grandma. One doesn't care, one is almost a teenager & doesn't want his picture taken, & the other one is always making faces! This is as good as it gets for a portrait photo!!!! Better luck next time Grandma!

Noah (watching TV), Hunter, the almost teen, & Nick the tongue face-maker!

Now I'll catch up on where we are. Thanks to my daughter's comment as of today, she let you know we were back home. We left southern PA on May 7th & arrived that afternoon to get our trailer inspected in PA & into the campground in western NY by 4:30PM. The campground owner, Randy, said Gee your early aren't you? Yup, & here to spend the summer.

May's travels will be pretty local with diesel prices at $4.69 a gallon! Whose idea was it anyway, to spend our retirement years traveling full-time?????? Oh well, the government always has told us how to live our lives, why should it be any different now!!

The weather has been lousy ever since we arrived in Northwestern PA & Western NY!!! Haven't even been able to sit outside or visit with neighbors! (except at the laundry mat!!!) I'm ready to go back to Arizona!!!! I'm already sick of gray, cloudy skies! Those cloudless blue skies of sunny AZ are calling already! And since we really want to go back at the end of the year we decided we needed to find some kind of jobs while we were home. So......Thanks to our campground owners, Randy & Becky, I am now the Latrine Queen and Bill is a Honey Dipper helper! You could say our jobs are kind of _ _ _ _ _ _, (HA! HA! That's S M E L L Y) but it's a job & for that I'm very thankful. We won't get rich, but I'm only trying to fill up the gas tank! You know what they say, if there's a will there's a way!

It has been pretty quiet here at Hidden Valley Campground. The seasonal people are slowly coming back these past few weeks & with Memorial Day this next weekend, (and I've heard a rumor of sunshine & warmer weather), it will pick up with more campers.

We made it to our old Thursday night hangout, Johnny's Lunch for those great hot dogs with sauce last week, & ran into a couple with two cute kids that camped by us last year (The Allen's). They will be here for Memorial Day again.

We've had a few friends & family stop in to visit & we've gotten to visit family members too.

Girlfriends (& former neighbors), Judy & Sarah

Last weekend my friend's wedding reception gave us a chance to see many of our friends from N. Warren too. Lots of hugs & things to catch up on.

DENISE & DICK, May 10, 2008 - Beautiful Cake with seashell theme, I should have guessed! AND with a lighthouse as the cake top!

FIRST DANCE - OF COURSE I'M GIGGLING - SO VERY HAPPY!!! A BEAUTIFUL BRIDE,

A BEAUTIFUL PERSON!

The pictures previously on my blog of the beautiful carvings done by our nephew, Randy,.......he got 2 blue ribbons at the carving show!!!! One for the turkey & one for one of the other birds! NICE JOB RANDY! Proud of you!

That about catches us up. So now I can honestly say, until next time.......The Traveling Cardinal's