Hello Everyone!

 

Wow! It has been a long time and I apologize for that! Bob and I had a wonderful summer! I had to have some dental surgery done (which I am still going through), but I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel on that.

 

We went to Orange Beach and Gulf Shores Alabama for our first anniversary. Has it really been a year?!? We spent 10 days having fun in the sun and we also attended Shrimp Festival while we were down. My mom and step-dad came over one day and it was good to see them.  We hadn't seen them since Christmas last year, so there was a lot to catch up on.  We went out to eat and then went to the festival.  Bob and I went to the festival two of the four days it was going on.  We stayed in a condo on the beautiful Alabama Gulf Coast and ate a lot of good food!

 

This past Sunday, we went out to eat with Freeman and April and their two boys to Red Lobster in Salem to celebrate Freeman's birthday.  It was very good! We look forward to spending more time with Freeman and April and the boys now that things seem to have settled down again for all of us. 

 

Back in October, me and Bob and Sue and Gracie went to a cornfield maze.  What a great time!  The best time to go to a cornfield maze is definitely at night!  We had fun scaring each other and then eating Mexican food afterwards.  Halloween weekend, me and Sue and Angie and Hiroshi all went to the haunted catacombs here at Oregon State University.  I don't think I have ever screamed that much! Afterwards, Sue and I went to get something to eat and met up with Bob.  Then we went back with Bob!  He was a lot braver than either one of us and didn't even jump. Sue and I were just as scared the second time as we were the first!  We also had dinner with Sue and Gracie at their house that weekend.  The food was really yummy, and then when we were playing cards, the lights went out.  How appropriate for Halloween weekend!

 

Halloween night, Bob and I dressed up and had tons of fun handing out goodies to all of the kids who came trick or treating. We even saw some ones we knew!

 

Well, all for now.  If anyone is interested, there was an anniversary announcement for me and Bob yesterday in the Salem Statesman Journal yesterday. Here's the link:

 

 http://online.statesmanjournal.com/milestones/milestone_display.cfm

 

Ya'll take care and we hope to hear from all of you soon!

 

Love,

Alanda