A few weeks in Mesa

pictures jace,judd,Chelsey, JD, Jace

Went down to Mesa to be with Vanessa and Joey as he was so sick and I arrived on Thursday and he died early Friday morning. As most of you know by now that Joe had cancer and he was a very brave man who always thought of others and even in the last 5 weeks he was still thinking of others and helping them through his Illness. What a strong man he was. His Funeral was on May 23rd and he will be missed by many as we set at the funeral Vanessa and there Children did a wonderful job of showing love for Joey and also to the people that had come to honor him.There was 500 people at the viewing and 1000 people at the funeral. Now comes the hard part and that is learning how to live with out him and what it is that is the waiting for Vanessa to do. She is strong but will miss him like crazy.. I stayed and tried to help but I felt she needed some time to grieve. She is back at work and work will help. One day I felt that Vanessa need to get away and I kidnapped her and we went to Sedona and Jerome. I drove and we were on a high mountain and had to turn around . So as I pulled forward a high drop off was in front of the car so Vanessa screamed, then I had to back up with another drop of behind us and she screamed again and she said the trip did her a lot of good because she found out she could not cry and scream at the same time.

Rachel and CJ and family have now moved into my house and will probably live here for a while . CJ is hoping to get a job for the Border patrol . They will live here while he does his training. The children all love living next to there cousins Ron's family)This is working out so well as I'm spending a lot of time in Mesa and other places. I have more traveling to do.

This last week end we had a sisters reunion and we stated at a nice Inn in Tempe and played cards and went out to dinner and then played more games. Mostly we talk and laughed about the past memories. We were loud with all the stories that can't be repeated (what was said in that room must remain there.) Our room was at the very back of the place , maybe because when they saw 8 sisters going into the rooms they decided they we should be isolated. We never did receive the usual (be quite call ). Of course much Chocolate and diet coke was consumed.