Decade in Review

It's that time of year when people reflect back on the past and after watching the news I realized this has been a BIG decade for us too. The year 2000 brought us the start of a new century and the end of our working careers! We took to the road on Labor Day 2000 and have been there ever since and still loving it. Since then we have added 2 grandchildren and a great-grandchild. One of our grandchildren has become an internationall Miss.. currently living in Germany. We have even seen a few of our children marry and have added a new daughter-in-law.

Cyn lost both of her parents and we have lost so many of our wonderful friends. Our blessings include being able to visit every state in the union including Hawaii twice (however not in the rv) and every Canadian Province and even a few of Mexico's states.

This past year took a scary turn when we learned Earl has to have brain surgery; however we have been so fortunate that the surgery went without incident and Earl ended up in the hospital for blood clots on lung. He is doing fine with regular monitoring so we feel blessed that we caught that in time too.

A big decade looking back and looking forward to another and want to wish All A Very Happy New Year!

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