Home Sweet Home

Hello Everyone. We made it back home on Wednesday but have been incredibly busy with no time to post. Today Miss Piper spent the day with us which was wonderful of course. She vacummed the condo for me and did an excellent job of it. While Piper vacummed, I went to the movies with my sister,  Melanie, to see "The Sound of Freedom." It's a true story about a government agent who actually quits his job to save a small boy and his equally small sister from child trafficers. It's a sobering look at the reality that over 2 million children, TWO MILLION, are stolen and put into child trafficing around the world and most are imported into the United States. How awful is that? It's not a feel good movie at all, but something we need to be aware of, since it's obviously not being reported in the news for some reason. I know I will never be the same and will be watching children in public with an eagle eye.

After the movie, Melanie and I met Dennis, Piper and Mom for lunch at a great fast food restaurant called Don & Millies that makes all kinds of salads, burgers and childen tenders. 

And now for the wonderful news I mentioned at the end of my last post. I'm able to post photos of our Montana Grandkids! When we had dinner with them Monday, I asked them permission to post their photos on here since they are older, and they both said yes! So I present to you Caleb and Kyleigh Queen! Kyleigh graduated high school last month and was Valedictorian! Caleb will be a Junior this coming year. They are both great kids with high grades and sweet spirits too.

I couldn't choose which photo, so you get two of her senior pictures. :-)

Our Montana girl. Isn't she beautiful? She's off to college next month. She loves horses and all animals and we love her so much. I can't believe that she was the tiny baby that was life-flighted to Great Falls and I stayed with her until her Mom was discharged from the hospital.  We used to spend so much time with them, but living so far away, we only see them once a year or so. We have these two in Montana, Piper here and Baby J in London. Our hearts are spread all over the world.

I love how she decorated her graduation cap. 💜

Here is Kyleigh with her Dad, our son, Jamie. He's a software engineer for a Silicon Valley company. He's the computer brain of our family and brilliant. He has come to love Montana too. It does get in your blood. Wide open spaces and mountains everywhere. 

Caleb is the quintessential Montana boy. He's a snowboarder/mountain climbing motorcyle rider/trout fisherman/cliff jumping young man. He's the sweetest guy and a hard worker to boot. He's working full-time this summer for a landscaping company. And great grades in school too.
We're so proud of all of these kids. (Including their Dad.) 

It's funny to me how all three of our kids went totally different directions in education, but they've all done so well in their own fields of study. We both love all three of them so much and the decisions they've made with their lives. And now we're watching our Grandkids do the same. Life is amazing and God is so good about helping us through this thing called life.

Look at this happy group of people under the big, beautiful Montana sky!

Mandy sent me the photo below as we drove the final hours home on Wednesday. She was working and these two were napping in her office. They just plain don't like to be separated, but gosh, they were so glad to see us when we arrived. Zoey was all over both of us and didn't want to be away from us, even for a minute. Lots of puppy kisses for sure. Lizzie was the same and wanted to go home with us too. She whimpered when we went out the door with Zoey. We're so grateful that they love each other so much.

We're still playing catch-up from being gone. We leave again in about six weeks for London and the wedding celebration of our kids there. "T" will finally get to wear her wedding dress that Covid took away from her with the registrar service they finally gave in and had so they would be married. It will be great fun as a lot of friends and family will be there.

Take care my friends. I'll be back soon.

Blessings and hugs,
Betsy