Election Day

Well, it's the general municipal election today. I was at the office at 6 a.m. (of course I woke up at 3:30 a.m. and couldn't go back to sleep). If things go well we should be done about 11 p.m.

Yay for democracy! We had an 8.1% voter turnout for the primary, and we usually double that for the the general. Pathetic.

Erin's Gone

*sob*

Yesterday we saw Erin and her kids off to join hubby Spencer in Hawaii. It's been a crazy week trying to get the last of her belonging sorted, packed, and house cleaned, but it's done now. Her renters were bringing stuff over as we were pulling the last of her stuff out. Ed's driving the truck (with Sienna for company). They stayed last night in a hotel outside of Las Vegas. They'll drive on to Grampa Hanson's house in Beaumont and spend a few hours with him and sleep. Monday she'll take her stuff to the shipping company and turn her car in on Tuesday (I think?). Ed flies back Monday night. She's close to the airport but they don't fly out until Wednesday. Spencer, as a life flight nurse, is on call one week and off a week. His week off starts on Wednesday. He's found a duplex for them, but they'll have to wait a couple of weeks for their stuff to catch up with them. At least they will be together again.

We started the day out having breakfast at Kneaders (yum!)


Erin says goodbye to Robert


Last picture outside her house

Prayer for Your Man

Too funny not to share!

Dear Lord,

I pray for Wisdom to understand my man,
Love to forgive him,
and Patience for his moods.
Because, Lord,
if I pray for Strength,
I'll beat him to death.

Amen

Happy Halloween from the Grandkids

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Erin's Moving

Spencer has been in Hawaii for a few weeks now. He's making friends and really enjoying his work. But it's killing him and Erin that they haven't been able to be together as a family. The real estate market is really slow right now, so they haven't been able to sell their house. So they've reached the decision to rent it. Looks like they may have someone lined up. She and the kids will be leaving on October 24th. Ed's going to drive a UHaul truck to L.A. (it will save a lot of money on the shipping of their belonging is she can get it there herself). Ed will fly back on Monday.

Wow. It's really happening. *sob*

Trips to Gardner Village

Since we managed to sneak in one more October visit to Gardner Village before Erin's family joins Spencer in Hawaii, I've added snap shots to the longer video and added to the following that I had previously posted in September (now deleted).

In 2006, my daughter Erin and I started making trips to a local shopping area in West Jordan called Gardner Village. It was once a grist mill in the early days of the community, and the original silo is still there, including the water wheel. The atmosphere there is wonderful. They've relocated some small old homes, which have shops in them. There's a nice restaurant called Archibalds. There used to be a bookstore there called The Storybook Nook, and that's where we decided to go for the release party for the last Harry Potter book. It was perfect for the experience with the quaint atmosphere.

Gardner Villages puts up some minor Easter decorations, but they really go all out decorating for Halloween (lots of witches) and Christmas (Elves). It's always been too cold to take the grandkids, when we wanted to go around Christmas, but the fall visit has become a tradition.

One of the things I enjoy the most of watching this particular show it how much the kids have grown over the last three years. You can see it especially in Mad, who make her first showing as a newborn and sits eyeing the candy in the most recent visit.

Madelyn's Animal Sounds

Madelyn, who turned 2 earlier last month has started talking now, and she's learning her animal sounds.