Monday, May 12

Doug's sister, Lori has been very courageously fighting lung cancer for 6 months. Doug had purchased an airline ticket to go to Oregon in June to visit Lori, but we got a call last Sunday that Doug needed to come out now. Doug was able to get a refund on his June ticket, and purchased a ticket to fly out Tuesday morning, May 13 and would return home the following Saturday. We spent Monday evening as a family, in anticipation of Dad being gone several days. We began our evening at a restaurant called Shorty Smalls. Doug's dad had sent us a gift certificate that expired on Monday. We were in luck as it was free kid's meal night. To top it off, the kids meals came with a fudge bar for desert. Ben loved his
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Then we went to Doug's parents house to water plants and play in the backyard. Sam had a blast collecting sticks and Ben had fun playing around the swing set.