Oregon State Fair and trip home

Adeleah with grandma Harper

Adeleah riding Joe around. She loves that dog.

Adeleah got to ride back in on the team with Grandpa Harper and he won the class. She loved it!

Adeleah with Grandpa Ruhnow

Adeleah with Grandma Ruhnow

Sitting around talking
Mom cooking

Adeleah on Bob

Had to play with moms dog, Joe (the dog) thinks hes the life of the party.

Adeleah with uncle Tyrel

Sorry it took me a week to get this done.

It was really nice to go home for a few weeks and to be able to go to the state fair. Fair was fun and a lot of work but I was able to see a lot of family. I was even able to get anyway one day to go down to Gabes parents for the night and visit with all of that side of the family. It was great to see everyone and I am going to miss all my family on both sides a lot when we are in japan. Anyway, we did really good this year with the draft horses. I love showing them and am thankful to have been able to take Adeleah to her first horse show. After fair we went back to my parents for a few days. Then on Thursday we had to fly home. Which I was ready to be home with Gabe, I missed him so much. But it was really hard to say bye to my parents because I don't know when I will see them again with the move to Japan. Well I would love to say the flight home was great, but that would be a lie. When we got to the airport that morning they said the flight was an hour late, not a problem, we were going to be sitting in Dallas for a few hours as it was. Well when we got on the plan we sat there for a long time and then they finally tell us that they need 5 people to wait for a different flight. Then we start to get going or so we all thought, no they tell us we have to go back to the gate and have 5 more people leave. It was all because of some bad weather in Dallas and we have to have more gas to get there and weight and everything. Well we finally do get in the air and flying to Dallas after sitting on the plan for 2 1/2 hours, it was only the time we were to be landing in the first place. And if that wasn't enough, we get over Texas and they tell us we can't land in Dallas because they have closed the airport because of the weather and so we will be landing in Abilene, Texas. We ended up staying the night there and flying out in the morning to Dallas and then finally flying into jax at about 3pm Friday. Thankfully the airline put us all up in a really nice hotel for the night and I was lucky to have really nice people help me out and give me some one to visit with during all of this. I am very thankful to them. So yeah I don't really want to get on another plan for sometime now. Anyways besides the flight home I had a wonderful time with family and friends. I will miss them all very much in Japan.

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