Vegas - Menaw's Retirement

One of the most exciting parts of our Christmas break was a quick trip to Las Vegas to surprise Rob's mother Kay with a retirement party. She retired on 12/31/08 after 42 years of working for the government. She has done her time and deserves a break! All of Rob's family was able to join us and Ray was a major part of pulling off the surprise. We surprised her at a restaurant for dinner and then bombarded her house with grand kids and hungry people for 3 days! She loved every minute of it!! She said it was a fitting way to end her career - she started her career for her family and ended her career for her family! She now has a full-time grandchild babysitting job as she flies from state to state to visit us! We also attempted family pictures while we were all together (minus Adam - we missed him dearly!) that was an adventure! Congratulations Kay! The grandkids enjoyed eachother and of course we headed to the fun park race track and the big boys had more fun then the little ones. Our niece Jana got engaged over Christmas and her fiance Rick joined the entire family for a few days - we hope he still wants to marry her!!