Yep, still waiting!

Time is going slow and fast all at the same time, so excited to get our motorhome! We went by La Mesa RV on Sunday and they are still saying August 10th.  Things are going to be tight to have a party, load up all 21 boxes from storage and get on the road to get to Chama, New Mexico by the 26th of August!

But we have been keeping busy.  Ted had lunch with his friends Jeff and Eddie from his Reynard Arms Apartments days.  Ted made a group of friends that he met at the apartments when he was in his early 20's (a loooong time ago) and he sees Jeff and Eddie in San Diego and we visit with Bill and Ginny in Missouri.  Jeff had returned from a month's hiking trip in Europe visiting some of the old communist blocked countries so he filled them in on his trip.  They had lunch at the Harbor Island Marina where Eddie's son is the chef!  We had gotten married there in 2000!  They had a good visit.

Ted came home and got me and Sophie and we went to Tony and Gina's to celebrate Mallorie and Trent's birthdays.  Mallorie is the 12th (which happens to be the day I met Ted back in 1998) and Trent's is the 26th.  Sophie got to meet Halo their puppy and had a lot of fun chasing him!  He would turn and chase her and she'd run for cover!  She liked being the chaser and not the chasee!  They had fun and we had a beautiful afternoon by the pool to celebrate the kids' birthdays!

Sophie relaxing while Halo keeps his eye on her!

Gina fixed Stach a rum and coke....now that's a rum and coke!  Tony is cooking hamburgers and hotdogs!

 We have mostly been spending time with Sophie but we got a pen for her and have started leaving her alone a little at a time!  On thursday we left her for a little while and had lunch with Guy, one of Ted's former co-workers at the county of San Diego!  He's a really nice guy and Sophie didn't
like being by herself.  She had dumped over her water and chewed on her bed a little bit.

We had dinner with my friend Peggy on Friday evening and Sophie did better, didn't chew up anything and her water dish was intact!  She goes a little crazy running around when we get home but settles down and takes a nap pretty quickly!

On Saturday, we left her again and went to the movies with Peggy.  We saw World War Z.  It was entertaining but not a great movie.  We hurried home after the movie to make sure Sophie was doing okay!

On Sunday we had lunch with our friends Jeri and Stach.  Sophie is doing a little better each time with us being gone.

Last night I attended a jewelry party at Gina's house with Jeri (Jeri and Stach's daughter-in-law).  It was fun to see some of her family and friends I had not seen for awhile.   The jewelry is Silpada and I found a pair of earrings to buy.  It is really pretty jewelry and goes from $20 on up.  They have earrings, necklaces, charms, bracelets and rings.  Ted and Sophie spent the evening with Stach.

On Monday, we go back up to Menifee for a week.  We will be back on the 5th of August!  Hopefully we will get good news and the RV will come in early!  I keep hoping!  LOL

A cute picture of my sister that she sent me!  She's a teacher down in Mexico near Vera Cruz.

Some new pictures of Sophie!

Dad and Sophie!

Sisters and puppies..."Ain't Life Grand!"

Still waiting!

Yes we are still waiting for the new motorhome which is not due in until August 10, 2013, but I keep hoping it will be in early!

In the meantime, we are keeping busy!  Ted had lunch with his friend, David Prime, on Wednesday the 10th.  On Thursday we met Jeri and Stach and their grandson, Trent (the baseball player), their granddaughter, Mallorie (the recent graduate) and her boyfriend.  Jeri's childhood friend, Sherri was visiting from Northern California and she joined us all for a picnic lunch at La Jolla Shores.  It was a beautiful day down there with little spits of rain every so often.  Sophie had a good time with all the attention she got from everyone!

Friday at noon I drove to Pacific Beach to the Alehouse to meet former co-workers from Hawkins and Scott, CPA firm.  I had worked with Bill Staley the longest and he gets the guys together once a month.  I was the mystery guest!  I had not seen most of them in quite a long time and it was fun catching up with them, seeing how they were doing and they all looked great!  Bill has retired and the other four have their own CPA practices.

Cory Homnick

Jim Digenan

Victor Mosso

 

Maurice Correia

and the Ring Leader...Bill Staley!

Friday night Sherri (Jeri's friend) had a small group going to Lips so Jeri had never been and we decided to join them.  Our little group of 7 had a good time and a lot of laughs.  Sherri's friend Rene is from Texas and visiting San Diego with her Dad who is turning 80.  Rene and Lloyd went up on stage, Lloyd was a little embarrassed.  It was a fun evening!

Sherri and Jeri!

Denise (Sherri's sis), Rene and Lloyd 

Lips!

Lips!

Sherri, Jeri & Susan!

On Sunday we drove up to Fullerton to watch Trent play baseball.  His traveling team, The Show, won both games they played on Saturday and they were in first place.  We got up there at noon and the Semi-final game started at 12:30ish!  They brought Trent in to play right field in the third inning.  He hit a great ground ball between 2nd and 3rd getting through to the outfield!  That hit brought in an RBI and he was safe at first!  Trent stole 2nd (the first of the game) and scored on a hit by one of his teammates!  The Show went on to win the game 14-4!

The Final game was supposed to start at 4:30 and finally started around 6:00 p.m.  Trent was brought in the 3rd inning and played right field for two innings, catching a great fly ball!  Trent came in to pitch in the fifth inning and closed out the game.  Score was 10-3 Show winning the tournament!  It was a very exciting game even though Show won by a lot!

The kids played great offensively and defensively and it showed!  Here they are getting their medals and fooling around a bit!  Trent is standing at the far right!

Ted had taken the baseball picture so when I downloaded it I also found this one of Sophie, far right by the pink dog and four of her five brothers and sisters.  They were all pretty cute, but think we got the best one (of course)!

There was also a great picture of Chip, our middle nephew on his camera!  

Old friends, baseball, puppies and a nephew..."Ain't Life Grand!"

More about Sophie!

Sophie had a good check up at the vet Sunday afternoon but really didn't like getting her temperature taken!  I guess it didn't bother her too much...

...she fell asleep waiting for the vet to come back!

On Monday we came back down to Pio Pico in Jamul.  There were no 50 amp spaces available so we parked on the north side and then crossed over Tuesday when a space became available.  So now we have 50 amps and can run two air conditioners!  Yay, we can beat the heat!

I went to girls night out last night and we went to see "The Heat" with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy.  It was really funny but a LOT of really bad language!  I don't see how they will be able to show that movie on tv!

This morning I had 5 hummingbirds on the feeder!  I took this picture of two of them.  I enjoy watching them!

Just in case you haven't seen enough pictures of Sophie, here are a couple more pictures!

Enjoying our little Sophie..."Ain't Life Grand!"

Happy Belated July 4th

Hope everyone had a safe and fun Independence Day!

Our life for the past week has been all about Sophie!  She just turned 3 months old and is learning where to do her "business" if you know what I mean!  She's got those nice sharp baby alligator teeth and so she gets a toy stuffed in her mouth every time she goes to bite our fingers or chew on anything!  This is a cute, but painful stage in the life of a puppy!

Most nights Sophie sleeps 7 hours.  It's really funny but right before bed time she becomes a crazy girl! It's funny but then takes a while to wind her back down!  She's a little better about going outside but still doesn't like it.  She has definitely figured out how to get up the steps and as close to the door as her body can get!

Today we are taking her to get her stitches out and see what the vet thinks about her make and model!  Mainly we would just like to know if she's as healthy as she seems and how big she's going to get!  I've been taking a million pictures because with her "golden" color she's really easy to photograph.

Here's Sophie:

Sleepy Sophie

 Playful Sophie

Nosy Sophie

Daddy's Girl

Sweet Sophie

Inquisitive Sophie

Since we are all about Sophie, we've just been trying to survive the heat here in Menifee.  We had four days over 100 and it got up to 84 inside in the late afternoon.  This campground only has 30 amps which won't support two air conditioners and unfortunately our generator is set up for 50 amps but as a 30 and a 20 so will not support two either.  Looking forward to our new motorhome!

Tomorrow we head back down to Pio Pico.  We will try and get a spot closer to the wifi hot spots.  Since we have to pay for it might as well be able to use it!

Inquisitive Sophie..."Ain't Life Grand!"

Meet Sophie!

We thought we would be getting our new motorhome some time this week of June 23rd, but since we decided not to accept the one that arrived for us because of a couple of items that were not correct, the week has been open with no appointments!  That some times gets you in trouble!

That brings us to Sophie Kercher!  Yes, we got a new puppy.  I'm pretty sure we have lost our minds, but we did it!  We went on the internet looking at sites that have puppies to adopt.  We saw a Cocker mix liter of six available puppies.  There were three girls and three boys.  Two of the boys were black and one looked somewhat like Max.  We decided on one of the "golden" girls.  The mother was pure cocker but the dad was unknown.  We have a suspicion that he might have been a golden retriever!  The foster mom had named all six puppies...Bonnie, Melanie, Scarlett, Ohara, Rhett and Ashley...notice a theme!   We chose Melanie but changed her name to Sophie!

We brought Sophie home on Sunday.   She was born on April 11th and is a sweet little girl.  She was spayed on Thursday and on Sunday she was still pretty mellow and slept all the way home from Whittier, California.  She is still taking lots of naps but is perking up and staying awake more and more and she is keeping us busy!  Since it is easy to take her picture, I've already taken a ton, but with the bad wifi connection I can't get the pics to post.  I'll post pics when we get up to Wilderness on the 8th!

On the way home we stopped to see Jeri and Stach and introduce them to Sophie.  I called ahead so they went out and got her the pink toy in the picture and a cute little card.  Sophie was very pleased and is enjoying the toy.  When she woke in the middle of the night and played with it, I wasn't sure I was so pleased because it has crinkle plastic in the body and makes noise!  LOL

After we got home Peggy and Scott (her son) came over to meet Sophie.  They brought her the cute doggy pillow in the picture that she lays all over and just loves!  It makes a great lap pillow for Sophie to sleep on as well!

On Monday evening Trent had a baseball game.  He was selected for the All Star game.  The games are being held in Ramona.  Sophie is too little to stay home so she got to go to the game.  She was such a good girl and pretty much slept through the whole game either in my lap or Trent's mom, Gina's lap!  Unfortunately his team lost but they will play a second game.

Tuesday night was the second game and this time they won by a landslide.  It was like 26 to 3 or something like that.  Sophie was a good girl and actually watched the game and all the kids all around us between naps.  The next game is Thursday night and I'm wondering if she's going to be willing to lay on my lap!  She's getting more perky and playful!  Will keep you posted!

Wednesday night Sophie went to play with Rose.  Rose belongs to Meg, Jeri's sister!  Rose is a 9 year old Golden Retriever and such a good dog.  She tolerated Sophie mostly, giving her a whap in the head with her big paw to remind her who was boss!  Sophie had the best time and was a crazy girl running around!  So cute.   Meg had pizza for us and we enjoyed visiting with her and her friend Ann.

Thursday night Trent's team played again.  It was a really good game and ended up on a bad call by the Umpire.  Without some early errors, they might have been able to win.  Trent was brought in to pitch in the first inning after they got 3 runs.  He pitched five more innings and  only gave up 1 run.  His team caught up by the 6th inning.  Another pitcher gave up one run in the 7th inning and because of a bad out at first, our score at home to tie it up didn't count and they were out of the tournament!

Last night  we were invited to dinner at Jim and Della's.  We are only getting this invitations to eat because everyone wants to meet Sophie!  She was a good girl at their house and we were even able to play a game of Phase 10 cards and I was the big winner.  Jim barbecued ribs and boy were they yummy!  We had a fun evening!

Sweet little Sophie...""Ain't Life Grand!"

Motor Home has arrived...yay...not so fast!

It has been an interesting few days!  We had lunch with Ted's classmate Steve and his wife Kathe on Tuesday.  We had a nice lunch and caught up with them and their new gorgeous SUV.  Since we were over by Ideal Plumbing, Heating and Air, my last place of work, we stopped by and said hello to friends that still work there and the owner, Don Teemsma.  I always enjoy stopping by and seeing how everything is going!  In the late afternoon we headed home.

Wednesday morning we left the campground to have lunch with Dottie Bates Stamper.  She went to high school with Ted and is a kick!  It's alway fun to see Dottie and love her sense of humor!  On the way to meet her we got to an area with cell service, and had a call from Scott at La Mesa RV!  He said he had news for us and was sure I would want to call back as soon as possible!  Yikes, I could barely dial the phone I was excited and nervous!  Our new motorhome was due in on the 21st and we knew it had left the factory and was at the transportation company.

When I finally got Scott on the phone, he told me it was about time I called him!  Our RV had arrived Tuesday afternoon!  He told us we could come see it, and reminded us they needed to get it cleaned up and check it all out.  We met Dottie and had a great lunch and then headed to see the motorhome!

They took us back there and we came around the corner and man it looked huge...and beautiful!  We didn't exactly know what the paint design and colors would be on the 2014 model.  We had picked out the color based on the 2012 and 2013 colors, but every year they change the design and colors a little!  So that was the first hurdle out of the way!

We got inside and the floor was different than we thought.  It wasn't the shiny tile they used to put in and at first I was disappointed.  After they opened the slides, I decided I really liked it and it wouldn't be slippery when wet!  I saw the counter tops right away and loved the colors.  They look very warm.  That was another thing we didn't know the color of and I really was happy with it!  We looked all around and were really happy.  We discovered a couple of small things that were fixable and then...Ted went outside!

He looked up on the roof and only saw two air conditioners.  Our salesman, Andres, got out a ladder and climbed up and sure enough there were only two, not three and the generator was the smaller one.  This doesn't sound like a big deal and most of the time, we have found two to be plenty, but we were in Indiana and it was 108 degrees and one of our air conditioners went out.  One air conditioner would not cool it down or even keep it cool so we decided it was important to us.

Long story but they have reordered our motor home, exactly like it this one, except with 3 air conditioners and the larger generator.  We also noted one item that was a production item problem with electrical switches in the wrong place but everything else will be the same.  We also requested a side by side refrigerator instead of the four door, but not sure if they will get a different refrigerator or not.   We are very happy with our choices and sad we have to wait until August to get the new one!  They have given us a new date of August 10th.

I have a good signal tonight so I have added LOTS of pictures, just hope it will post!

Mallorie at Graduation:

Mallorie and her Mom, Gina!

Mallorie and her Nana, Jeri!

Trent getting ready to pitch!

And, last but not least...pictures of our almost new motor home!

Front  (generator door is open)

side (only one small slide out is out)

Ted & Jeri

Stach

Susan

The bed spread was not the one we requested but they will get the right one for us!

This gives you an idea of what our new home will look like...I just hope we get it soon!  We have had to change our travel plans for July and August and of course our open house!  We have a commitment in Chama, New Mexico on August 26th so we hope the new motor home will arrive on time and is perfect!  We will keep you posted on our open house!

Excited about our new home..."Ain't Life Grand!"