Oceanside Beach

The beach was awesome, we got there Tuesday evening and split our time
between the beach and the pool at the condo. The pool was a good break
from the sand getting too close to Faith's trach which we found a
little nerve-racking! Fred's parents came and joined us for the first
day which was very nice although we wished we had more time with
them. We stayed through Friday morning and drove all day yesterday
and are just pulling into our driveway at home as I hit send on this
post! It was a great vacation, but boy are we glad to be home!!!

Anthony and Fred

Faith playing with her toys!

Visiting Grandma & Grandpa Kargoll

We had a really great visit with G'ma & G'pa Kargoll, especially when
he took us to see the beautiful new firestation #3 where he is a
senior volunteer. The station is georgeous and the kids really
enjoyed checking it out. Unfortunately we just missed the
firefighters who were taking off just when we arrived. We also
enjoyed meeting their friends at the pool.

Anthony teaching Faith how to drive the big rig!

Silly faces!

Grandpa and Anthony on the brush fire truck in their matching
Escondido FD t-shirts!

Loving it!

Faith and Anthony playing in the senior volunteer's van.

Las Vegas and San Diego!

Having a blast on our trip! We left Vegas on Sunday and got into
Escondido, CA around 6pm and had a very nice visit with Grandma and
Grandpa Kargoll. We left their house yesterday around 4pm and drove 26
minutes to Oceanside Beach!! Our condo is beautiful and we got such a
good deal on it; we are very happy! G'ma and G'pa will drive over and
spend the day with us today; should be lots of fun! Hopefully I'll get
a good picture of the kids playing in the water to send!
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Westward Bound!

Time to take a much needed vacation to destress and get ready to start
my new job! Yep, you read it right, I finally got a job offer and I
accepted! I will be working as a contractor to Policy Studies, a
government contracting company that builds information systems for
state governments, like child support collection systems (did you know
that 65% of child support is collected by garnering wages? I was
surprised, I guess Fred is in the minority that pays of their own
will!). I've been looking for an opportunity to move back into a field
focused on improving people's basic quality of life (rather than the
quality of their entertainment options!) so I'm very hopeful that this
job is a step in that direction.

So we are off for a week of some fun in the sun. Unfortunately Lauren
and Ryan couldn't get away on short notice, but Dana is happy to have
the back seat to herself! We left last night at 8pm and drove to Green
River UT and got a few hours of sleep before hitting the road again
this morning. We are stopping in Vegas for 2 nights to find some good
fireworks and then off to San Diego to see Grandma and Grandpa Kargoll
and go to Oceanside Beach for a few days! We'll drive home on Fri/Sat
have Sunday to recover and then start our new routines on Monday!

Happiness is having a job again! :)