Another Grandchild

Well since Andrea made her announcement I thought to would be safe to add it to our site. We are excited at becoming grandparents again. Andrea and Dave are expecting their first child. They just had their 12 week appt and the pics are at 8 weeks. They grow up so fast, Cody is now 14, Jackson soon to be 9, Kaili is 9 and Erin will be 4 on Christmas day. It is a wonderful thing to be Meme and the more the merrier.

Oklahoma

We headed to Texhoma State Park. My cousin Greg and his wife Susie live in the park and they were on the board of the Striper Festival being held in Kingston. We had a great time. For those of you who know Katie Willis she performed on Friday night. Mom has been working with Katie for some 5 years now and she is soon to move to Nashville. Katie has a voice that is wonderful and we look forward to her getting the big break one day. On Saturday I remembered my camera and were treated to an amazing show put on by an artist friend of my cousins. He did the attached in chalk and finished in the course of 3 songs. It was amazing and the piece sold for $1,000. We then saw a great show put on by Narvel Felts. Narvel is a friend of mom and dads and we have seen him several times. He performed at dad's retirement party and at mom and dad's 50th anniversary party. His voice send chills through you. We had stopped to visit Herb and Mary Joplin in Oklahoma City and talked them in to coming down and my cousin Charlie called and he and his wife Penny came up from TX. We ate too much and had a really great time. Family and Friends what more do you need.

Warrenton, MO

We found a place called Dogwoods Lake and bought a camping lot. It puts us so much closer to St. Charles, about 35 miles. We will stay in the Motorhome on the lot when not traveling, except during the winter. We were very excited to find the lot however it was such a mess and we had a lot of work to do. It is 1 1/2 lots and there was a 20 year old camper on the lot along with an old metal awning, refrigerator, cabinet, bike and lots of junk. We gave the camper away and were able to close just prior to Labor Day. The community was having a major clean up day and we had so many volunteers to haul off the trash and help out that we were able to get the job done in 2 days with no problem. Mom and dad came out on Saturday, dad cut down a tree and took off several low hanging limbs. Mom and I raked and burned all day. I didn't get a pic before the trash was hauled off but did get one prior to the camper being hauled off. We also got the shrubs across the front pulled out and we contracted to have it turned into a pull through lot.