What a crazy time it has been over the past 90 days.
At the end of June as many of you know we moved back into the house. What an ordeal! we now know why people only do one remodel in their lifetime. Anyone who does two is either a general contractor, works for a general contractor or a just plain insane.
It seemed like we had just gotten back into our house and Alan's (Opa to the kids) health began to rapidly decline. The cancer was finally worn Alan down and it seemed that nothing could stop it. Alan lost his fight this summer.
Everybody got back to school in September and it seemed like we could resume some normalcy when the economy started a free fall. Michael's work began adjusting work schedules doing temporary work stoppages and finally started laying off. Michael's job is safe right now but as he has said many times "PACCAR is over 100 years old, at PACCAR we are all temporary."
So it seems that the best thing to do at this point is control what you can and don't worry about the rest. Rally around family and friends and try an not take life to seriously.
We took a weekend trip down to the beach house and had wonderful weather to forget about the daily grind. Here are a few photos
Smiles all around ...What are they up to?
Super Heros - Here they come to save the day...
Chase and Sophie Riding the train at Seaside
We have all made snow angels.
How about Nolan's sand Angel?
Sophie's Remake of the movie "10." 
One Pooped Pooch
Making sand castles in ankle deep water...
No matter how many times we
told her it was a family beach,
