Kids Blog Post #1

I love your blogs and pictures!
Hey kiddos! It's so great to read about your great adventures! It cracks me up, how things I saw in your personalities years ago are evident in your blog posts today. I'm happy that you guys are all having such an exciting, scenic adventure as a family. Thanks for posting the pictures! And Maggie, you are growing into such a beautiful young lady! It makes me want to cry, seeing you so close "the teenager zone"! haha (It might also make me feel a little old.) Billy, thanks for talking about the animals. I especially like that cute little ground squirrel! My baby girl and I had fun spotting ground squirrels outside in Michigan a couple of weeks ago. Tommy, I understand the "mind is a blank thing". That's why I'm about to go to bed! haha Sean, I'm glad you had so much fun swimming! I bet you're having lots of fun exploring the country in the RV now. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone again sometime, and introducing you to my husband and "miniature girl". :) Love, Deborah

I sit here, after reading your blog on my computer, look out my window and think again of all the wonderful things you are doing and seeing. I tell Cappy about all the animals with their huge antlers, and I show her Billy\'s pictures. She barks once at the striped squirrel, sniffs at Tommy\'s Grizzly Bear, really. really warns me about Sean robbing the bank, and has absolutely no reaction to Maggie\'s beautiful pictures of the Sunset at the Grand Tetons. I think she agrees with Maggie that, after a while, the grass all looks the same! I finally give her a treat, and settle back to enjoying every one of your moments for myself! I guess a dog is still a dog! It\'s been so great following you, and I hope you will still have a little room in your memory drive for the bottom bunk mate! I can\'t wait for you to tell me about your speedy saucer rides, your hikes, your views from the sky, your \"close encounters\" with big eyes, claws, antlers, and the nose of a friendly horse! You are all doing so many new things! I climb, hike, run, swim, jump, scream with you all --- and then I collapse! Where does your mother find the energy to make her fingers go at the end of the day?! And how does your father open his eyes to the road at dawn?? Youth is such a sweet thing! However, To share your energy, excitement, and wonder touches the spark that still smolders in these old bones! The warmth is so special. Thank you! But I still get COLD on those ledges! Be careful, and know I\'m thinking of you all. Love, love!