On the Road Again

So, I was pleasantly surprised to sign on here today and see that I'm only a little over 2 months behind on posts...I'm digging myself out!

The last week of July, I took the kids up to Reno for my dad's cancer surgery. Mike had to work, so it was me with the kids. I swear that my dad is a cat with 9 lives. First, he beats late-stage prostate cancer and then 7 years later he beats ureter cancer. We stayed up there for almost a week to help out and to be there for him. Then my sister, Heather, and I drove from Reno to Portland to meet up with Mike for our beach vacation to visit his family. Heather needed to get up there for a a job interview (which she got and is now living and working in Portland) and she wanted some help driving. The only way that I'd agree to drive to Portland, with 3 kids, was if we could stop in Grants Pass to visit all the O'Leary family. Reagan got to meet her 99 year old Great Grandma, her Great Aunt, and Mike's cousin + son(2nd cousin? I forget.). The kids had a blast playing with everyone and is was wonderful to see all the family. We stopped for the night there and then headed to Portland the next day to meet Grandma/pa O'Leary, Aunt Becky and cousins Everett & Natalie, and Mike at the zoo.