Ike, Family & Other Adventures

This past week-end was truly an emotional rollercoaster for us. Jeremy and Christopher both live on the coast of Texas, Jeremy and Daesha live in League City, Christopher and Heather in Crosby. Friday was a long day for Tonya, spending most of her evening surfing between all the major news stations and then our satellite carrier began carrying KHOU's direct feed. Knowing how big this hurricane was and knowing that the boys were there in the middle of this mess was pretty stressful. Did we mention they both opted to NOT evacuate for this hurricane? Tonya finally went to bed around midnight but didn't really sleep much, then at 5:15 am Saturday morning our phone rang, it was Daesha, they had survived the storm. Had, what some would consider minor, damage to their house, but they were okay. Then about 1:00 pm Christopher called, they made it thru okay as well, not much damage to the house. Of course they were both without power but they felt sure they had made the necessary preparations. Whitney spent all week-end with us. It's always good to have her here, we really enjoy her. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/the_short_but_eventful_life_of.html?s_campaign=8315

Saturday afternoon after our 2nd refrigerator in as many weeks had been delivered we drove to Everett, our brother-in-law Steve wanted us to come up and go thru some more of Linda's belongings. This was hard, really hard. It's hard for us but it really hit Whitney hard. We know she's gone, we were all there holding her hand when she passed away, but it's still hard to see all of Linda's things being rummaged thru. I think what hurts the worst is that our brother-in-law has decided to move to Mexico and live for a while.

Sunday, we headed up to Mt Rainier for a day hike, it was such a gorgeous day for the Pacific Northwest! Nearly 80 degrees and not a cloud in the sky. The mountain was truly beautiful, it was so peaceful. We all needed to be in the great out doors to air out our minds and our emotions, to spend some quality time with each other, and there is no place better place than the wildflower meadow or Reflection Lake at Mt. Rainer to do just that.