Here I am again, I thought I would sorta fill you in in case you don't know that our son is a Missionary in Argentina home on furlough.  He goes to different churches and tells about his work.  We love being with our Grandkids and also enjoy the different churches, always great meeting new people!!!  I am sure we will have many adventures, so come on along!
                   See ya, Arlette & Bill too, and the yappy Sassy!  She isn't use to the kids yet.  She will get there!

Hi, here we are in Gilbert,AZ, At Desert Gateway Baptist Church,where our son preached,

These are our Grandsons, left to right.... Peter, Philip, Matthew & Bill, a handsome lot!! Well, I think so, after all, I'm Gramma!!

Our beautiful Granddaughters, left to right, Lorin, Emily & Maurica, if you wonder why their mouths are funny, they are singing! (In Spanish)

OH MAN, I have never been wired before, yikes, says Matt.  One of the things in the presentation is how well Matt can interpret in Spanish for his Dad.  It was a big church with a Spanish following, so Matt interpreted his Dads complete message, Matt is 16.  Not bad says this Gramma!

I forgot to take pictures of the church, but here we are getting ready to hit the road for Marana,AZ, near Tucson, Grampa is more than ready. "Head 'em up, move 'em out", as the saying goes!

Wellllll, we headed 'em up but ran into a little problem,we were driving along and all of a sudden Grampa says, "Get on that phone, call Jeff and tell him he is about to have a blow out, oops, to late BLAMmmm.......You can see we aren't very far off the freeway, so Gramps is being vigilant!

Here, Grandson Bill is trying to get the spare off, been over 4 years since it has been off, but he did it!

If ya look real close you can see where it blew and how far he went, we are thanking the Lord that all was OK.  And then there is the Sweet Sassy saying "Hey, what's going on??

Can I come out and look too??

Ahh, I don't think they can use this tire again, but Bill put it back where the spare tire goes anyway!

When there are problems, the older boys are always ready to help Dad, good practice for later years, right??  Matt, holding up the rubber off the tire.

YeeHaw,anybody need a spare??

All went well and we were back on the road in less than an hour, the girls had started lunch, but only had time to make a sandwich each, and with this bunch there HAS to be at least 2 sandwiches, after all, they are growing kids!!

I am really trying to get some blogs out so you will know where we are, sometimes it is easy, sometimes it's NOT, so hang in there, OK? I will be referring to Sweet William as Grampa, and Jeffs oldest son as Bill, just a little FYI.

So Until next time, hugs, prayers and always Love from Arlette & Bill too and the Sassy, and the other 9 Kleins that we are stalking! ha ha

HOTDOG!!! Roast that is.....

Ever wonder what Seniors do for fun??   Well here we are in Quartzsite, Az, out in the desert,  Above you see Glen and Jan and Beth, next is .....

Trish, Roy and Jan, Roy is an artist and he is showing the ladies some of his work, below you will see Clara, that is her and Roys motor home, they are our friends from Canada, they were so gracious to invite us to their place for dinner, and even though we may be older, we still love to get together and roast wieners (weenies)!!  Below you see Clara,a fun lady!!

This is Les, his wife is Trish, all of these folks go to our little church in Quartzsite,AZ.

Roy here, getting ready to really get the fire going, they have been coming down here to Quartzsite many years, and Les and Trish live here.  John and Beth are now full time, and Jan and Glen just bought a park model, do you suppose we are next? Not telling.................

John, Clara and Sweet William,above,and at last our beautiful fire, thanks to Roy we had a great one,

All the ladies made salads, deserts and goodies to put along side the hot dogs, we ate, and ate and ate, yakked and yakked and yakked, laughed, joked and all had a wonderful time!  The young folks have nuthin' on us!  We love retirement and plan on doing a lot of this in the near future!!

So,Come on back, next time I will be writing about our travels with our kids and grandkids, see ya ~~~ Arlette & Bill too, and the lonely Sassy,(left her home, she eats to many hot dogs!) Hee hee

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Catching up....................

HOWDY!!! THANKS TO MY GRANDDAUGHTER MAURICA,I NOW HAVE PICTURES AGAIN, SO AM GOING BACK A BIT TO SHOW YOU THE TRUCK BILL BUILT FOR THE KIDS TO PULL THEIR TRAILER WITH WHILES ON FURLOW.  WE BOUGHT THE TRUCK,

THEN BILL BOUGHT 2 FORD TRUCK BODIES, CUT THEM BOTH APART , AND USED PARTS OF BOTH OF T HEM TO FORM A 6 DOOR PICKUP, AFTER THAT WE HAULED IT DOWN TO PENDLETON,ORE.

HE BROUGHT IT ON A TRAILER, I DROVE THE CAR. ALL OUR GRANDSONS HELPED, OH YEAH, JEFF TOO!!   AND BELOW YOU SEE THE FINISHED PRODUCT.  IT WAS REALLY WONDERFUL, SWEET WILLIAM HAS SUCH A GOD GIVEN TALENT.  EVEN IF HE DOESN'T THINK SO. HA HA.

HERE THEY ARE, ALL HOOKED UP AND RAREIN' TO GO.

WILL BE DOING BLOGS AGAIN REAL SOON, GOT MY CAMERA OUT AND WILL DO MY BEST TO GET A BLOG OUT AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK.  I REALLY WANT TO THANK  THE FOLKS THAT HAVE BEEN SO FAITHFUL TO THE BLOG THROUGH MY HEART ATTACK AND LACK OF PICTURES.

WE ARE HEADED FOR PHOENIX, AZ. ON TUESDAY, THEN ON TO TUCSON,AZ, FROM THERE, WHO KNOWS, COME ON ALONG AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.  UNTIL NEXT TIME, HUGS, LOVE AND PRAYERS, ARLETTE AND BILL TOO, AND OF COURSE THE HOT,(PANT,PANT) SASSY!

Helping Gramma

Trying to help Gramma with her blog! :) Seeing how stuff works.

Love ya Gramma!!!!

Maurica

Hello again, #2 of last blog.
    On the way home I had the first of a possible 8 heartattacks, didn't know it, had no symptoms, no high blood pressure or high cholesterol, so thought I had a really bad backache, and when I couldn't breathe, went to the hospital and was life~flighted to Boise, Idaho
  Was in there for 9 days, in Baker Hospital for 3 days, back to Boise for a day and had a stent put in.    That stopped our plans to escape, sniff, sniff.  But never fear, we don't quit, Doc said within a year I would be fine. So settled in, just waiting for the cold, brrrrr.
     In October of 2012, our Son Jeff and his family came home from Argentina, so Bill and I moved to Pendleton to be near them, and Bill, Jeff and the boys finished a 6door truck for them to pull their 37ft trailer with to go on furlough.  It is an amazing piece of work, looks like it just came off the factory floor.  (again, sorry about no pictures.  Will honestly try to figure it out.  We went back to Baker City, and when it got to below zero, we got out of there and headed for Arizona, where we are now.  More has happened, some quite an adventure, but will get to that in the next one.  These 2 blogs are the first ones I have been able to hold my hands up long enough to do, so I really do apologize and will try to keep them coming.  The first ones will be a catch up series, so hang on to your hats, we are still out here and hope to be for a few more years if the Lord allows us to be.  In the meantime, Hugs, prayers & Smiles from your 3 weird Vagabonds.  Arlette & Bill too, and Sweet Sassy
.PS:  There ya go Maria! ;*)