We recently enjoyed the company of two grandchildren, Jessica and Craig, when they came north from Southern California to participate in the Zion Half Marathon.
We LOVE those kids.
Jessica is a Registered Nurse at a hospital in San Diego County, and Craig is going to college and working full-time, hoping to get a degree in Psychology. They are both intelligent and articulate, they are hard workers, and they are super nice “kids”.
The whole package.
And, they have a brother “Josh”, a winner as well, who recently got engaged to his squeeze “Andie”. Both of them have good paying jobs (he’s a manager in a large medical lab and she works in law enforcement) and have been together for several years.
Granddaughter Jessica just recently got engaged and is going to marry her live-in boyfriend “Abe” in October when we are scheduled to be RV vacationing in Oceanside. Jess and Abe live nearby. Abe is a heavy equipment operator, specializing in those huge cranes that erect skyscrapers and such. He makes good money and is a fine man, to boot. He and Jessica share joint custody of his twin kids (boy and girl) with his former wife, and it seems to be an amicable relationship.
Grandson Craig has toyed with the idea of joining the Air Force or Navy. However, he is busy now with work and school (where he is getting good grades), and he’s getting older (I think he is 21 now). At some point, the military isn’t interested in prospects that “old” (as their training is geared toward 18-year-old, unworldly, pimply-faced kids who can be molded into obedient soldiers)… unless the recruit has a college degree. Craig might be one of the latter in a few years.
I drove Jess and Craig to and from the 13-mile race on Saturday. They are both ample specimens (not slender) who were doing the race for the achievement of finishing… which they did! They both said, after the race, that the “killer” was the several mile uphill portion just after the 6-mile mark… something that caught them off-guard. However, they gritted their teeth and gutted out the race. I think they finished, together, in about 2-1/2 hours.
Better than I could do!
Speaking of visitors to our Mesquite home, we are anticipating welcoming my sister Kellie and sister-in-law Kay on April 30 for a few days. Neither has seen our property, and the two of them want to do a quickee tour of Zion National Park, as well. I’m sure I can arrange that.
Also, I believe that our son Jon and his wife Misty are planning to visit us in May, coming all the way from Lexington, Kentucky. We can hardly wait!
Maybe I’ll take them up to Zion, too; everyone loves that place.
Charlie and I are still working on our diets, trying to slim down before we hit the beach in Zihuatanejo, Mexico in a few weeks. It is our reward (to ourselves!) for 50 years of marriage.
So far, Charlie has lost 22 pounds since December, and I’ve lost 17. We’re quite proud of ourselves.
As I mentioned previously, we will become “visitors” in the Fall when we spend a month in Oceanside, California and spend some time with our old Southern California friends and relatives.
Visiting is fun!
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