RJ & JACK AT MARYS HOUSE

RJ & JACK ON THE FOURTH OF JULY W/GRANDPA

We're Back!!

Wow, it sure has been a while. I am sorry it has taken me so long to get to a new post. I kept meaning to do it, and then wanted to wait until I had pictures of the bots ready, but never got to sit down at the computer with time to do both until now.

My job is getting better, this hospital still has its problems but I haven't worked at one yet that doesn't. The administration seems to be honestly trying to improve but it is the same old story here as it is almost everywhere else, too many patients and not enough doctors. Administration doesn't seem to understand that there is only so much one doctor can do and don't understand that we are not a limitless resource. With the shortage of good physicians out there, I am not sure that will be a fixable problem soon so we all just do the best we can for all the patients out there.

Lance has officially started football season. There are conditioning hours, weights hours plus numerous other hours that coaches spend trying to get ready for the season. Out lives will not be the same until November, but we will adjust. He seems to be really enjoying it so far. He has also agreed to teach out of his area (English of all things!) just so he can be on campus and available for the kids, hopefully it won't drive him crazy.

The boys are doing great. RJ is about to start Kindergarten, I can't believe it! Jack Jack will go to full time at his daycare but he seems to be happy there and the teachers seem to love him. His biggest accomplishment is going potty in the potty (however not very consistently).

We just went to visit our friends Mary and Gary Buckland. They used to live in Lees Summitt, MO and we were friends before they moved, and they happened to move around the same time as we did only 3 hours away! I am so lucky! There house is lovely and they sit up on the mountains near Portland and have a gorgeous view from their backyard. Makes me jealous as we are here in a true desert and I miss the green and pine trees.

Hope this finds you all happy and healthy, drop us a line if you get a chance, dlbeeson@charter.net or ldbeeson@charter.net. You can also hook up with us both on Facebook. We miss you all!

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.