Where The Motorhome Takes Us...: Snow's here ...kinda. I think it's more cold though, ya know?

Well, just as the weather forecasters said it was gonna snow, it did snow. Not a whole lot of it, probably only like 1/2" or so, but it was enough to cause the ground and streets to go white. But since there's so little of it, that's why I'm only saying "kinda". Normally, as it has in the past few weeks, the snow melts and goes away in a couple of hours after the sun comes up. However, the "normal" days have been modified as it's getting colder now, and the warmer temps that were here for the snow melting won't be coming for some time. So I guess this would be "normal" for winter, not fall.

There is much sickness in the house now. James and Avery went to the Dr. yesterday, James was told that he had "walking pneumonia", and that Avery had something a little less. If Avery would sit still for very long, maybe it could be said that he has "sitting pneumonia", but the kid is rarely sedentary for that amount of time. Regardless, it's in our prayers that they both get better soon, and that no one else in the house get sick like what they are. Your prayers would be appreciated also.

The Travelogue around May - June of 2012.

It's hard for me to write about this part of our lives because I've never wrote about it quite so in depth. It's probably not all that uncommon to lots of other folks, but our son, Jeff, had a problem with drugs. We praise God that we were there at the time he came to realize that he wasn't meant to be on those chemicals, and that we were able to assist him in the beginning on his road to recovery. Through Valley Bible Fellowship in Las Vegas, Nv., he was able to be connected with Teen Challenge induction center in Shafter, Ca., where he was able to start his Christ centered road to recovery. Due to previous commitments, we weren't able to actually take him there, but a friend of his did in our place for which we were very grateful. All of this was happening from the middle of May through the middle of June of 2012, right near the end of our time in LV, and just before the time for us to do a gig at Bear Lake State Park near Garden City, Ut, due to start near the end of June.

So prior to Jeff going to Teen Challenge, he had a couple of court things to take care of, as well as taking part in a Radiohead tribute at The Royal House (A boutique hotel on Convention Center Drive in Las Vegas) with his band. The band thing was what he was really looking forward to, and he and his band had been working up to it for sometime. The following pictures are of the night of the show.

Katie and Jeff together prior to the set.

Jeff in his element during the set. Lots of folks came to hear Jeff sing that night, and he did a great job.

So a couple days after that, we took him with us up to Amanda's house for a few days prior to a last court date and then hopefully to Teen Challenge in Shafter, Ca., where he was to be inducted. This was a good time for us to get together and enjoy each other. And the weather was nice, being warm enough to be able to wear summer attire rather than what we're having to wear now with the temps being in the teens as we wait for more snow to come this weekend. Darn!

We were able to go to the 1st grade concert that Riley was in, which was patriotic in nature. Here's a couple of pictures of it.

1st grade patriotic colorings at their finest.

Riley's in the center of the picture in the blue shirt with the horizontal stripes. I think he was paying more attention to Grandma taking a picture with the camera rather than his music teacher.