Home again, home again, jiggity jig.

Sisters Audrey and Kate with us at the KK airport as we are leaving

ELDER DAVIS & CICIE

 It is nice to be home.  Everything looks so big to me.  My kitchen countertops are so high!  Our car is so big!  Our tap water is so cold!  All is well here.  Jason and Christine took such good care of our home.  They are preparing to move and have been very busy with that and getting their 3 oldest started in school an hour's drive away.   They were thoughtful enough to leave some yard work for us.  It will be good to do that.  We are having really nice warm weather so if that lasts the work will be done.

AT THE KOTA KINABALU AIRPORT

DAVID, PRES LING, Ellen & Bill, PRES FAUSTO AND BRO. CHUAH

FAMILY AT THE SEATTLE AIRPORT

 It does seem like a dream that we were in Malaysia just a short time ago.  It was so hard to leave our friends there.  But it is nice to be with our children and grand-children here now.  All our kids except for Matthew who was sick with pneumonia, met us at the airport in Seattle.  It was sure exciting to see them all waving and cheering.  A lot of other people around us had big grins on their faces, too.

JASON, LYNN, & DAD AT LAURALEE'S HOME

OUR RIDE HOME AS WE LEAVE SINGAPORE

FAMILY PARTY AT KEITH AND PATTY'S HOME

 The evening after we got home we received a phone call letting us know that my Aunt Evelyn had passed away.  She was 88 years old and beloved by all our family.  We were able to go to her funeral on Monday the 27th, driving all day to Idaho Falls, Idaho, to be there in time.  It was good to see all my cousins and extended family.  It was a quick trip and we were home Tuesday afternoon. 

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PLAYING GIANT CROQUET

EATING PIZZA ALL TOGETHER

Our two daughters who live in Utah, came with their families to be with us.  What a fun reunion.  And then later in the week we were ALL together when Matt and Heidi came.  Must be what it will be like when we die and greet all our family.

AT LAURALEE'S HOME

AT KEITH AND PATTY'S HOME

WATCHING THE KIDS PLAY AT KEITH & PATTY'S HOME

We are also preparing for my almost-92-year-old mother to live with us again.  She is much more fragile and much less independent that she was 18 months ago.  I will have to have some help with her care.

Bill Here

We are home and at times we are still in culture shock. Sometimes it feels like we never left. Other times we can close our eyes and be in KK with our good friends for a minute. We have memories and stories that only we will really understand and feel and remember and unfortunately they are amongst the best. We feel that we have a much larger family now and we will be with them again some day.