Phoenix

I arrived on Wednesday and the warm weather is wonderful. MY knees and hip have not bothered me at all while I am here. Just been laying around and doing fun stuff. Katie is a riot. She is razor sharp smart as well. I was helping her study for a spelling test last night, and she knew all 20 words! Some were same sounding words that are spelled different, like fair, and fare. I defiantly would have not done so well at 7. Let's be realistic I could not do so well at 41. It was strange to be on the plane without Kevin. I sat next to 2 elderly ladies and they were sleeping most of the way.
Even when I wake up here it is strange without Kevin. At home I have gotten use to him not being there. Here it is a starting again experience. I see Katie and all she does and can not help but think that Kevin would have enjoyed it so. He always got sick while we were here for at least a couple of days, except for the last time in 2007. Well he had the tumor but we did not know it then. this was the last trip that he was still fully mobile. We went to Branson for Christmas with the Eckhoff bunch after Christmas. Kevin was really having trouble walking by then, I remember we walked all over Silver Dollar City in the freezing and he was limping terribly. It was also colder than a witches @%&.
I have those times to remember as not being overshadowed with the tumor.