Shae...

Nothing better than a visit from your grandkids, even if it's only one of them! Shae is our 9-year old grandson who lives in Dover, DE. We last saw him two summers ago when we had him fly to Denver, CO and took him from Denver to Rapid City, SD where his mom lived. We didn't get a chance to see him last summer since we started building the house at that time. We thought we would see him around Thanksgiving, but that never worked out. We had planned on having him visit this summer but really thought it would be IN the house. We decided that house or no house, we needed to see him! :-)

Shae and I have always shared a special bond. He stayed with us for a month when he was just a year old while both his parents were off with thier respective jobs. He took his first steps with us! :-) When his mom was stationed in Okinawa, Japan it was me that picked him up in Dover and flew with him to Okinawa for the summer. We have so many memories of that time and always have such fun when we are together! In fact, when we delivered him to his mom's...he cried because he wanted to stay with us! :-( That about broke my heart, but I told him he couldn't cry every time we saw him during that stay or we wouldn't be able to come see him. He was brave, but he really wanted to be with us!

Shae must have grown 2 feet in the last two years! He's always been very tall for his age...I can remember people commenting about how much older he looked when he was still little! The bad thing about that (when he was younger) he would act his age and people thought he should be acting older! He has the sweetest personality and is just an awesome young man! Shae has always loved the water and we have done a lot of "water" things since he's been here! We've taught him to ski, wake board, and knee board. He really wanted to wake board so we borrowed a wake board. The first day we never could get his foot in the boot. Our second try we came equipped with soap and after a time or two...he got it! He really didn't want to knee board, I think he got the impression from his dad that it wasn't very fun, but after one of our friends told him how fun it was (and easy) he decided to try it! You should have seen the smile on his face! :-)

We've played a few games, watched a few movies (when we were in Japan...Shae and I must have watched "Top Gun" a 1,000 times...we've watched in twice this time) and spent lots of time in the water!

He's only here for 12 days so we are trying to enjoy each and every day!!