And we are back from brads. We got to meet and spoil our precious new grandson Bode Thomas Rykal. He is absolutely adorable! And such a good baby! They are so lucky and until they have a cranky baby they wont really know how good they have it. We fed and rocked and held and spoiled him for a week and enjoyed every minute of it and we miss him already.
Interesting flight home. We had a long layover in Dallas tx. 6 hours. After multiple gate changes and basically walking all over DFW airport all day we get to our gate and they announce that a smaller plane was sent and plane was now overbooked by 7 people. Looking for volunteers at $125 a ticket to bump. one gentleman took that. no one else did tho. Then next offer. $250. No one bites. Next offer $550. 4 people jump on it. tom and I discuss it knowing that next plane out is 8 hours later and we have already been there for 6....no one else takes the $550 so eventually we did thinking that $1100 in plane vouchers is a lot of money to have in our back pockets. Everyone around us thanked us for doing that as the plane wasn't going anywhere overbooked. So now we have many many hours to kill. Find a bar and have a few beers on the food vouchers they gave us. Took a nap in a relatively comfortable chair, walked a lot and ate yet again. After again many gate changes we finally get to the gate and no plane. "Oh, its late getting in from LA." so an hour later we finally start to board and take off. Upon landing in Brownsville the pilot announces that the landing may be bumpy and to secure everything. We start to land and suddenly the plane goes full power and goes up...wth...we fly around for at least another 20 -30 minutes before we see lights again and land...not a word was issued during the last 40 minutes from the cockpit. we will never know what happened. but I wondered if we had gotten hijacked! Anyway, made it back to Winterhaven at 2am. EXHAUSTED! 24 hours after getting up to leave brads house. eii yi yi
Friday we made pea soup and had beth/todd/phil and jan over for dinner. good to catch up with everyone. Damm wind hasn't stopped gusting since we got home so we cant even plan to have a fire
Brett and Bode. 
Bode is just so darn cute and barely has any photos taken!
Plane vouchers. yeehaw!
love this video
mallory and bode
grandmas pretty dang happy. he loves to be held!
He will learn how to read early I think
Breanna came over one night to visit and meet Bode. She is his first cousin to meet.
family pic
Our Brett.
Sip and paint wine class. I loved the sip. Picture turned out lousy
Jan and I rockin the place. Longboards on SPI. the others were so embrassed!
Our new residents in the park.