Wow!!! 30 years have gone by... I remember it like it was yesterday. I got home from work and your mama told me that this baby is coming. We piled back into the Beav's old International and made the drive from Falls City to the mid-wife in Dallas on the King's Valley Highway. It was a foggy, rainy night... could barely see the center line and we were near empty. Oh what a night!!! Your mama was in full labor and had to stick her hand up under the dash to keep the windshield wipers wiping-- the motor was burned out. But we made it and you waited til we got there... Thank you very much. Cecilia Miller, the mid-wife carefully placed you in a basket beside the bed. She said the baby needed his own space. As soon as she left, we scooped you up and moved you into the big bed and there you stayed for years.
That old International was a favorite play pen for you for years. You'd play in there while I worked on the house and on the fruit trees out there in Falls City. It was one way to keep you from climbing up the ladders when I turned my back. There are pictures of you up on the roof when you were way too young to be up there.
This picture is from a trip back to Gramma and Grampa's about 1980-81. That's the trip that you made the footprint at Gramma and Grampa's. I think Erin took a picture when she was here a few years ago.
We are planning on visiting spring - early summer even if Martha has to put me in a suitcase so I don't freak out about the plane. Sasha understands. Happy birthday and lots of love to you and your crew.
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What you guys are coming out HERE??? If that's correct, that would be awesome!
If you guys do make it check out our local Craigslist, there are a lot of vacation homes for the same price as a hotel and they're right downtown. Also if you google MILL INN Bend Oregon, it's a cheap, neat B&B.
http://bend.craigslist.org/vac/
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