We are Home!

We made it back home from our wonderful adventure in Oregon. We left Oregon Thursday morning at about 5:30 am and drove the 5th wheel straight through, arriving home at 8:00 pm. Not too bad timing pulling a big load. It felt good walking through the doors to our "sprawling mansion". 5 weeks of living in the confined space of our 5th wheel made even our small house feel huge! Even the dogs were excited to run around the yard and reclaim their territory.

The ride home was the most comfortable for Tank who just layed across anybody who was in the back seat.

Waiting for us back home was our new little Will, our first grandbaby. What an absolutely beautiful baby!! I'm not just saying that because he's ours, he really is beautiful! He is 3 weeks old today and a little over 10 pounds. Brandt and Elyse brought him over for a little family welcome home party we had last night. Grandma Garrison was able to be there too. She is here visiting because her mom, Grandma Brinkerhoff isn't doing too well and we don't think she will be with us much longer. Mark and I actually visited her tonight and she has really gone down hill quickly since we saw her last before leaving for Oregon. What an amazing woman she is and what a wonderful life she has lived these past 94 years. She is a wonderful example for our children to look up to. As much as we will be sad to see her leave this life, we look forward to her reuniting with Grandpa Richardson who passed away nearly 30 years ago. What a wonderful reunion in heaven that will be!!



Along with getting to see little Will, we were able to see our other new little one, our grandpuppy Diesel. He is Kortney and Chase's Great Dane. He is 13 weeks old and already huge but will get even bigger.....up to around 180 pounds of love!! It was great seeing Kortney again.....I love that girl!! I am so thankful for her and the relationship that her and I have. (Love you 2 Chase!)


Before our little party Friday evening we were able to go watch Carson in his first football game of the season. It was actually just a scrimage but it was against a team that hasn't lost in 3 years. Carson is the running back and does a fantastic job. His team won 8 touchdowns to 2, with Carson making 4 of the touchdowns. I'm pretty excited for the season and love watching my little Carsy Boy play. It's still hard watching when he gets tackled and boys falling or piling on him. Luckily he's pretty fast and avoids too many of those.....brag brag!!! :) We got to see Daxton and Jett at the game too. I had really missed them and gave them big hugs and kisses. Kristi said that Jett had been pretty fussy with no nap but he sat with us the whole game and smiled and giggled with us. Dax was having fun playing with Diesel. Dax is sleeping over again tonight, along with last night. He has been entertaining us all day! Jett is home with his daddy while Kristi is flying tonight.



Mark has to leave us tomorrow and fly back to Oregon. It will be strange having him away from us again. We got so use to being all together for those 5 weeks. I guess we will have to get ourselves back into our routine. With school starting Monday I'm sure it won't take long. The kids are pretty excited to get back to their friends but I'm not too sure about the homework thing. We've boughten several new outfits and they look darling in them. I'll have to take pictures of the BIG first day back, which is also Kylie's birthday. She's not too excited about her birthday being on the first day of school but oh well, we'll have to make it special for her.