Coach Beeson

Well, we can once again refer to Lance as Coach Beeson. He has just been hired as the head football coach at Columbia High School in Burbank, WA. He is excited about the new position and we are excited and proud as well. Even though this will make are fall schedule once again difficult to juggle, we are extremely happy for him. Hopefully being close to our extended family will make those scheduling difficulties easier to handle.

My job is once again a struggle. We lost one of our partners unexpectedly (she is leaving abruptly) and it has thrown our group into a tizzy. This group has a fine line between professional and happy versus dysfunctional and bipolar! Hopefully everything will work out, but right now I am not sure I will be with this hospital long term and hope that something else will turn up within the area as I so do NOT want to move again and I am sure neither does Lance now!

Pray for us as we both delve into our new and evolving sagas! Stay tuned, will post pics of the boys soon.

Is it Spring yet???

Hope this finds everyone happy and healthy. We are all settling in here in Kennewick, WA. However, we have yet to experience the "mild weather" they see here in eastern Washington. It has been cold and sooooo windy! The wind here is brutal and I have decided that I do not like running outside anymore. I thought Kansas was windy but it was nothing compared to here. No one told us about that before we moved here. Hopefully it will die down a little this summer.

My job has gotten a little better, they are definitely taking in my suggestions and working to change for the better so far, hopefully it will continue.

The boys are doing well. RJ continues to do very well in pre-school. He has never once had his name on the "bad-side" of the chalkboard, the only child some days to remain there. I wish he would bring that good behavior home with him (as he tends to be a little stinker once he gets home!). Jack Jack is doing well too, he goes to school 3 days a week and no longer cries when we drop him off. We thought he broke his arm again the other day wrestling with his brother, but after a trip to the ER we found out it was just a dislocation and they were able to pop it back in without incident.

Lance is still looking for a part time job, but while he searches is keeping busy selling cards on eBay.

Drop us a line when you get a chance, we miss you all!

Rough Week

Amy and Bill at dinner with us just before we left town.

Hannah and RJ at Boo at the Zoo (RJ refused to dress up but Hannah was a cute bat-princess!)

Well, we have had a rough week. We lost a friend, Bill Kinnish who died unexpectantly at a very young age. He left behind a wife, Amy and a 5 year old little girl, Hannah. We are thinking of Amy and little Hannah daily and they are also in our daily prayers. Another one of my good friends, Mary Buckland also lost her father this week. So our moods seem to go along fine with the cool, dreary weather.

I started my new job this week at Richland. Overall, it is a very nice hospital with very good nurses and friendly people, but it needs a little work in its efficiency! It took me almost 10 to 12 hours a day just to help 15 patients (which is a long time for those of you who don't do this sort of thing on a regular basis). I am missing the big and helpful hospital, and its staff that I left behind in Kansas City, but am sure with time things will get better here.

All my boys (Lance too) seem to be adjusting well. RJ loves his new school and teacher. He says, "Mrs. Brown is nicer than daddy but not quite as nice as mommy!" Jack Jack seems to fit in well at his new daycare as well. He spends 3 days a week there to give Lance a break and some time to look for work and catch up on his Ebay business. They all seem to have more energy than me and it seems hard to find time to keep up with them, and to keep them fed (healthily at least, as was my New Year's Resolution).

We wish you well here from Kennewick, Washington. Drop us a line when you get a chance. We miss all!

Brrrrrrrrrr!

Well, so much for the mild weather here in the tri-cities! I was told it would be great, lows in the 40's and mid-day temps in the 50's. I thought, great, I will be able to run outside even in the middle of the winter (as I am NOT a cold-weather runner if I can avoid it). So far, however, it has been cold, drops to the low 20's and teens at night and it is rare it hits 40 during the day. So miuch for their 300+ days of sunshine a year as well, it was cloudy for the first 2 weeks I got here (can you say SAD?). In fact, right now it is snowing, the third time it has done so in an area that "rarely gets a flake!" So needless to say I have been a little disappointed since my arrival, however, it really isn't much different than it had been in the KC area so it is not a totally new situation.

I even got Jack Jack out to make a snowman for a while, and he seemed to have fun. Neither of my kids much like the cold however, I think it stems from their Thai background, as the coldest it ever gets there is 85 degrees!

Both Lance and I have gotten all new emails and here they are:

lance email: ldbeeson@charter.net

donna email dlbeeson@charter.net

You can email us if you want new address, phone numbers, etc.

Hope all of you are happy and healthy and don't forget us now that we are way out here!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Hope the new year is starting out right for one and all. We have officially moved out of Kansas and into Kennewick, WA. Lance and my weekend away was a wash (snowstorm in KC closed airport so that I was delayed for 5 hrs and didn't arrive into Seattle until around 9PM and then Lance's sister's plane and family had trouble and had to fly into Seattle so we had to pick them up the next morning). Oh well, I am sure that we will be able to have a true weekend away soon now that we are so close to family. We had a very nice Christmas though, Lance's sister and her family as well as Lance's mom and grandma were all there. Jack Jack and RJ had a great time with their cousins, Matthew and Nathan. We then got to spend some time in Idaho visiting my family and having a Christmas after a Christmas so it was very nice.

Now I must settle down and start unloading the rest of the boxes, which seems the easy part. The hard part will be trying to find places to put all the stuff that comes out of the boxes. It is already very apparent that we will not have enough room for all of our "stuff". Oh well, it is only stuff and the real important parts, Lance, RJ and Jack Jack fit just fine. It is nice to be so close to family and I hope that the boys will now grow up knowing all of their cousins and the rest of their extended family, which is a luxury I did not have as a child and think is important. Because when push comes to shove, it is really your family and their unconditional love is all that really matters. Hope the Lord continues to bless you and your family as he has ours. Keep in touch, I still do not have a new phone number or email address but I do now know my home address, it is: 99721 Canyon View, Kennewick, WA 99338.

Merry Christmas!

Well, we are officially out of our house in Kansas, sort of. They came and got our cars last Tuesday and we have been driving a small smelly rental since. They packed up all of our stuff on Thursday and loaded the truck on Friday. All of our belongings now reside in Kennewick, WA thanks to a lot of help from Lance's mom. We, however are still here in Kansas, sleeping on the floor and getting a wake up call from Jack Jack about every two hours thanks to his ear infection, and now what I believe to be a bad case of croup. Lance and the boys leave on an early flight tomorrow morning (hopefully Lance will survive the trip!). I have to work this week, as well as clean the house from top to bottom, but will then meet them this weekend before Christmas. Doubt we will have much time to "blog" before then, so I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Celebration

Well, this week has been an eventful one, especially for Jack Jack. He celebrated his adoption finalization by getting circumcised! He has actually done great and had a much easier time of it than RJ did, although to RJ's credit he was almost a year older than Jack Jack is now. Besides a few tears at diaper changing time he seems to have made a full recovery.
We are getting ready for the move, however due to some bad pizza Lance and I spent most of Saturday just laying around and not getting much done, using all of our energy to keep up with the 3 kids we had here Saturday (RJ had his playmate of several years here one more time Friday night and Saturday). We are feeling much better and Lance has gotten a lot of packing done while I mostly watched the kids and got my Christmas cards done. Keep posted, as this week has a lot of changes for our family. The transportation for the car company comes and picks up our cars Tuesday and the movers start packing/moving on Wednesday, all while I am working at one of our most busiest times of year as well as trying to get together with friends in the area for that last time. It should be an interesting week!