Keys......lost and found!

So Joshua called the renters at the Sunriver house and I'll be dipped, they found the keys! I had already sent a very long and detailed email to the owners about our 'friendly' housekeeper. I just sent another quick email to let them know that indeed the keys had been found. Must mean the housekeeping staff isn't really doing a very good job cleaning! Glad Joshua called. Extra glad the keys were found! JUSTICE! I'll keep you posted!

It's over!

I really don't like the day after it's all over. It was so fun to have Stewart/Andrus/Phair families come back to our house for one additional night. We swam and ate (big surprise eh?) and enjoyed one another. Dani made it back without having the baby in Madras. I haven't heard from Ben and Sharon but presume they are back home and settled into routine life.

Dad and I really want to thank each of you for coming to Sunriver. We know that you have choices of where to spend your vacation time and we also know that the time will come where you will want your own vacations (we certainly got to that point with our own parents tho neither one of them ever rented us a house in Sunriver!) So THANK YOU to each of you for being there with us. You have no idea how much it means to us to see each of you interact with one another and to enjoy one another. We loved spending time with the grandkiddies - they are so loving to us and they make us feel really special. We hope they know how much they are loved by their grandparents!

I really want to thank dad for providing this past week for all of us. He goes beyond the mark to make sure we all have a good time. He is such a good provider and a good example of what a dad/grandpa should be. And I want you to know that I mean that regardless of any money he may spend on all of us. That's a bonus for sure but he really does work hard to provide opportunities for us to have family time.

I hope that there were no negative experiences for any of you. I also want to ask for an informal survey on Sunriver this year. Please provide your good thoughts and any suggestions to make it better. You may certainly provide those in a personal email to me if you don't want to go public with your thoughts!

Thank you to all of you for providing the opportunity to get fat all week. Thank you for the craft time! I loved what I did and I know everyone really enjoyed them all.

You are wonderful children and in-law children. You are wonderful people. I hope that you left this week knowing that your parents really do love you.

Now let's get planning next year!

Six days and counting!

As we were discussing our activities/events/crafts for Sunriver we wanted to make sure we had enough time to fit everything in and still have some time to relax and play games as a family (instead of just crafting without the menfolk every chance we got).

Here are the crafts a few of us ladies thought would be at the top of our list:

-glitter toes
-frames
-cards

We could maybe do away with the rest, or just do them on an "if there's time" basis. I would hate for any of us to bring a bunch of stuff we didn't end up needing/using. Ladies... your thoughts? (or if you men have a hankering to do crafts, we'll take your thoughts too) :)

A few other things to put on our calendar while we are up there:

Wednesday night: Rhythm on the Range 6:30pm-8:00pm
Thursday night: Munch and Music @ Drake Park 5:30-8:30pm
FHE one night? or just games and oj's?

Six days and counting. But you can't count today because it's already started, so that's only five days, and Summer, Josh, Sam, & Nikki get in on Saturday, so that's only four days, plus a day for packing makes three days until Sunriver!

Happy packing!