Spring Break 2012.....

Jon came home from SPU March 16th for Spring Break! The local store in town was glad to have him back also and immediately put him to work. On Thursday the 22nd we awoke to 30 degree temperatures and 4" of snow. Jon had the day off from work and the Amity schools were closed because of the snow, (Our Spring Break is a week later than Washington) so Jon and Cody decided to build an igloo.

Thursday night Adam came home to spend a little time with the family. We loaded up on Friday morning and headed to the lake. With all the rain and snow the water was very murky and the fish did not cooperate, but we had a great day on the water with some great company!

Glynn Jr.

I'm in a bind and way behind.....

I'm sorry for the lack of posting as of late. Seems like life is coming at us fast right now. It's ok....I'm not complaining....ok.....I'm not complaining a lot. To catch up first about Cody, he had an echocardiagram (sp?) a few weeks ago and all is well with him. He has a little leakage around one of his valves but the doctor said that was not unusual. They said the leakage is what they can hear as a "murmur" and that if he wasn't so skinny they wouldn't be able to even hear it. So we found a test for skininess!

Cody is doing awesome in school. His class had a paper they studied a few weeks ago and for extra credit they were instructed to come up with as many words as they could using the letters from the title of the paper (I forget what it was called). On the last day before he was to turn in the extra credit we had to make him go to bed as he passed the 750 word mark. Before school the next day he reached his goal of 777 words! Needless to say he had the most of anyone in his class.

This last Saturday we went over to our favorite pond. Cody and I, took fishing gear and Lorelei took care of the photography!

Lorelei has another long term sub job that will last through the end of the year. It's in our home town of Amity so she gets Friday's off! I hope we get a chance to get in some fishing this spring.

Adam and Jon are doing well. We are looking forward to Jon being home for spring break in a couple of weeks.

Sorry for the short post. I have been so busy with work lately it's hard to find time.

Glynn Jr.

January is slipping away.......

January is almost over. Cody is having fun playing basketball. I think we are taking him next week to a local cardiologist for a test.

In other news around the place, we have had a lot of rain and snow the past couple of weeks which has pushed many of the rivers over flood stage.Our little creek flowing down off of the hill went over it's banks and cut a small path through our driveway but the damage was not too bad.
Queenie (our dog) is doing ok although she doesn't have a lot of energy. The chickens are giving us plenty of fresh eggs.
After many years of putting up with a less than perfect stove and oven, we purchased an "upgrade"

Lorelei is quite happy with the new addition!

As for me, I am busy at work and as always way behind on my chores around the place. Jon is doing well up at Seattle Pacific and he was invited to a banquet that is exclusively for the students in the top 5% of the class. Wow..........nice job Jon!
Adam's job is doing well in Portland. They have changed ownership and it sounds like things are improving.
Lorelei is getting over her 4th cold of the season! Her job keeps her around sick kids all the time and she has had a heck of a time this year staying healthy.

That's about all for now,
Glynn Jr.

Going back a few weeks......

I wanted to go back a few weeks and get caught up on the end of the year stuff. Jon and Corina wanted to go up to the mountains and play in the snow before they headed back to college after the Christmas break. There was only one problem........there was no snow! We had one of the driest Decembers on record. So when I got home from work on Thursday Dec. 29th they had changed the plans to Geocaching at the coast.  Jon got online and located some caches and on Friday away we went! Corina's family joined us later in the day. We had dinner at the Otis Cafe to finish off the day. We finished up the day with a total of (6) caches found for (6) attempts!

Below, Jon racing for the cache at the fish hatchery.

Even though Jon is fast, Corina found the cache.

Not to be outdone, Lorelei finds the next one.

Then Cody with a tough find, a snail hidden on top of an old growth stump!

It was a wet and windy day over on the coast, but it did not deter us at all. We had a great time with friends and family!

Glynn Jr.