Spending time in California

So another week has come and gone. We are having the best time getting to know Evelyn. She has already changed so much since we have gotten here. She is getting to be so cute and personality is developing fast. To say that Steve and I are smitten is the understatement of the year. She is cooing and smiling all the time and she just loves to be walked and patted and held while she sleeps. (Yes Debby, no matter how hard I try not to, I'm spoiling her ROTTEN!!, and I'm loving it.)

Steve and I went to the campground we were supposed to be staying at for the month and picked up our deposit. While we were out that way we stopped to take a few pictures of the underpass we drove the RV through. Well, I thought it was bad from my seat in the RV, but seeing it from the car and the street, oh it looked even worse. This thing must have been so tight. Steve and I talked about it, if we'd gotten stuck we would have had to knock out a window and climb down to get help. Wait till you see the photos. God drives along side Steve often and I am so thankful for that, because I'm not much help. I just hide my eyes till we are through. 

Yesterday I had such a nice surprise. I "wanted" to go see the Star Wars movie. I know, it has been out since BEFORE Christmas and I still haven't seen it. We were so busy before the holidays, then we were getting things settled so that we could make the trip to California, anyway we just didn't get around to going. Well so I was thinking it would be a nice thing to do on my birthday. We figured that Courtney needed a break from us anyway, but don't you know Steve kept putting me off. I was a bit perturbed when he announced he didn't want to go, we could go on Monday. Monday would be so much better he insisted. I wasn't convinced, but hell that means I get to go see Evelyn. So I'm good!!! Little did I know there were schemes being played out. Curtis and Courtney ordered a cake and got a gift card for the movies for me. That was just the sweetest thing. Courtney made authentic tacos for dinner. They were so different than anything I've had and they were so darn good, then they brought out a Tinkerbell cake with candles and the whole deal. Honestly I was hoping my birthday went by with little fuss and no notice. Never in my wildest imaginings did I think about being 55, but heck life is good, I have wonderful family, wonderful friends, and a husband that is second to none. So I guess God is traveling right beside me too. 

Did I mention that Courtney and I made a tutu for Evelyn. I didn't think so. We sure as heck did and it was fun. We got glitter ALL over the living room. Steve was having a panic because before we were done we had glitter all over the baby too. He acts like that's a bad thing. She has just had her iniation into the girly girl club. Glitter should be worn proudly, and often. I don't think Curtis was in the door more then two minutes before he wanted to know where all the glitter came from and we had wiped things down vacuumed and dusted after we were done. Lesson learned maybe don't get the glitter tulle next time, oh who am I kidding, these guys just need to learn to live with glitter. 

Enjoying Our Great-Grandbaby

OK I guess I need to bring you up to date on what is happening here. Although it was a long trip across the country we made it with little to no trouble. Thank God for Steve's driving skills because we had high winds, and not so great roads, long days, etc to deal with and he handled it like a pro, then we got to our final day. Doesn't that sound ominous? We set off for the last time and the jacks gave us some trouble, not a big deal, we have been around this block a time or two let me tell ya. So we get that issue fixed and we are on the road. We are riding high because before the end of the day we will see our sweet baby Evelyn (her daddy and her mommy too, I know it sounds like we have no interest in Curtis and Courtney and that really is not true, but Evelyn is brand new and needs all the fussing only great-grandparents can give), anyway getting back on track. We are riding along, following the GPS making good time even though we were delayed a few minutes with the jacks, we are driving now along farm roads and we come to a FREAKING train tressle. Now not only is this train tressle kind of low and we look at each other not daring to address the elephant in the room, but it is so narrow and there is an abutment in the middle making it so narrow if we had a sheet of paper we couldn't have slipped it between us and bridge. Oh it was a white knuckle ride today to say the least, oh but I'm just getting started. We drive just a few miles more down winding and pocked roads and we pull up to our campground. Half of this place is on one side of the road and half on the other. The right side took a hard turn that was a wicked down grade and sloped to one side, the left looked like it went to a marina. There were two signs that said campground to the right marina to the left. The sign on the left said store, marina, boat ramp, and camping to the left. What the hell am I in Oz now, remember the scarecrow telling Dorothy to go to the left and the right? Anyway, I called the office number and I was asking him which way we go, he wasn't a hell of a lot of help. We ended up having to disconnect the car, turn the RV around and try to make an approach from the opposite direction. That was no better, NO BETTER AT ALL!!!!! Well by this time our rock guard was ruined from all the swales and my last nerve was at the breaking point. The campers that were there looked like they had been abandoned. Do these people not realize we have been on the road since the previous Monday and we are in the Danger Zone? I want to get settled, I want to get off the road, I want to see Curtis and Courtney, and I WANT TO SEE MY GREAT-GRANDBABY EVELYN, SO IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU, DON'T PUSH ME. We went into the store/office and told them we wouldn't be staying with them. OK great we told them, but now it is getting late and we have nowhere to stay. Thank God for a very nice lady at a Thousand Trails campground. Although they really didn't have anything for several days she was able to give me a suggestion that worked out well.

Well I guess it is apparent that Steve and I are having the time of our lives because it took me so long to get a blog update out. Evelyn is a perfect angel and  she responds to her Great Grandpa Steve talking to her and she just can't get enough of Great Grandmom Ruth anne's rocking and patting. We are in our glory!!!! We have gone shopping, out to breakfast, to a doctor's apt. and lots more. We have been eating wonderful meals and had so much fun cooking together with Curtis and Courtney.  Curtis bought a really nice smoker/grill that has been used for almost every meal. I have taken photos but we are going over to see the kids early and not getting home until late so I haven't been able to get them off the camera and into the blog (oooops sorry), but holding baby has been a lot more fun than taking pictures or writing my blog and posting it. I'm weak, I know it and I don't care.

Today while the football games are going on I am making it my priority to get the blog done and photos loaded and posted so everyone can see.

Great-Grand-Baby Evelyn

Well I'm surprised to be blogging again so soon, but we are on our way to meet our great-granddaughter Evelyn. I didn't dare hope we could go out to visit since they are all the way on the west coast, but Steve surprised me and I sure as hell wasn't going to say NO! Maybe in retrospect the timing might not be the best and we, and when I say we I really mean he, should have worked on a route and plans for stops so that I could make reservations but hey, we're crazy people we live by the seat of our pants. Today trying to find a place to stop for the night wasn't easy and tomorrow's place was just about as hard to find. This is the time of year all the snowbirds are coming south and campsites are scarce, I was reminded that we could do a Walmart, oh God help me I don't want to do a Walmart but I guess in a pinch. . . 

We got off this morning pretty well. The RV was cold though and didn't like the idea of having to crank, boy we get spoiled so easily. I thought this might be the first trip that we wouldn't have to put the generator on to run the A/C and I was right but I came real close to using a heater. It took until well into the afternoon to warm up in here. I may not complain quite so much in the summer. Oh yeah right, that was a riot, me not complaining. Too funny!!!! So our projected plan is to take our time, stay to the southern most route and be in Stockton, California by next Tuesday. I'll be sure to regale all of you with stories from the road. We are also going to lay low over the weekend. 

Tuesday we are on the road again. We have several full days of driving ahead of us and it's only just begun. Oh and just a note in passing. Louisiana has some of the worst highways. Really horrible!!

Wednesday we had a free breakfast from the campground we stayed at. All I have to say is a meal you don't have to pay for probably isn't worth much. We weren't impressed. Oh well we weren't there to have a good time. We are just passing through. This afternoon we pulled into a pecan orchard. The campground we are staying at tonight is on the edge of a pecan orchard. As we rode down the entrance road there are deer playing in a clearing off to the left it would be perfect except for one small thing. For hours we haven't had any kind of cell service and this place has nothing. No phone service no cable, no internet, NOTHING!!!! It's only one night right?

Thursday just another day almost, we are on the road again. Driving through Texas still. Steve is fighting high gusting crosswinds that are pushing the RV in unexpected directions. It was pretty much the same as Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, then I'm talking on the phone with Kim and a tumbleweed tumbles across the freaking highway. I actually got to see a tumbleweed tumbling. It was so exciting. Now I'm sure if you have to deal with tumbleweeds, they might not be quite so exciting but heck this was my first. I was a tumbleweed virgin. I don't know why something so silly got me so excited, what can I say, I'm easy!!