Day with Grandma in Patagonia

We enjoyed our day trip down to have lunch with Grandma and catch up with her.
It was a treat to see the town of Patagonia as she sees it. It is neat that all of these old buildings are still standing.

The actual school where Grandma, Joan, and Francis went is still the town's school. The school is on top of this hill, Grandma said that all the kids would walk to school which meant they would climb muscle up this hill everyday. Looking down from the hill you can get part of a glance at the town of Patagonia.

Mom and Larry were even married at the Old Patagonia Christain Church. Afterwards they had
their celebration at the Wagon Wheel Saloon. I remember decorating it

and putting pretty white lights in all the trees on the side yard.
People commented on how nice it
looked we left them for the customers to continue to enjoy.

Grandma remembers The Lopez Pool Hall was a
popular place to hang out. They held many dances at the Lopez Pool Hall.

After driving around Patagonia, taking pictures and enjoying Grandma's stories we stopped over at Home Plate to have lunch. Currently Home Plate is located in the old hotel.

Our Big Third Grader

Check out our special little boy, not so little anymore! He is now in Third Grade. A few things will be very different for Mason and Tia this year.

First of all, I'd like to introduce you to Tia. When Mason began Ms. Wiley's First Grade Class at Manzanita he immediately started talking about his new friend that sat at his table, Tai. He spoke about Tai often, Bil and I assumed it was Ty, short for Tyler. Then, a few days into school at parent pick up Mason happily shared as he got into the truck, look, there is my friend Tai. I looked and who he appeared to be pointing to was this sweet, shy looking girl. As the story goes it was Tai, simple put for our new sweet friend. To our pleasure, we were happy to learn that Tia and her family live just a couple of streets over, at that point we began the Westmoreland/Huesgen carpool. It has been a pleasure getting to know Tai and her family, Jeff, Jessie, Ryn and Jora.

This year our carpool has change! The Littles as they are often called, Ryn and Jora have started Kindergarten. Our ride is much more exciting and playful, Summer loves the girls coming with us. All of them get along so well. As an added benefit I think Mason will have girls figured out very well when he graduates out of our carpooling.