Introducing Darryl Ross -

Friday October 6th -

Today I made the 8 hour drive to Sandpoint, Idaho to help Cody and Alisa out when she has the baby. 

Miss Rachel was very happy to have Grandma Cindy visit. Although, her first words to me were "Where's Darrow?" She is her grandpa's girl.

Sunday October 8, 2017 

Miss Rachel let me fix her hair for church. She is such a sweet little girl!

If you have to wait a couple days for the new arrival, this is a beautiful place to do the waiting.

Monday October 9, 2017

              I knew early this morning that Alisa was in the very beginning of her labor. Around 2:00 it started getting pretty intense so she and Cody went to the Birthing Center in town since the Mid-Wife was unable to come out to our place. 2 1/2 hours later this little bundle of joy was born. 

Meet Darryl Ross Cunningham

Born at 5:23 p.m. weighing 7 lbs 13 oz. and 20 inches long.

Darryl Cody and Darryl Ross. One proud daddy and his baby boy!

 Grandma Cindy gets a turn to hold her 25th grandchild.

Wearing his sister's booties that Aunt Kendra made.

Rachel brings her baby doll to meet her new brother.

Kisses for her brother.

Tuesday October 10 - Tuesday October 17, 2017

One happy little family.

Rachel was very quick to let us know that Ross is her baby. 

She loves to hold him and kiss him and wants him to sleep in her bed at night. She was a little disappointed when she was told he has to sleep in his cradle.

He is not really a fat baby, but he does have such round, fat cheeks!

Some mornings are just harder to get up and get going than other mornings.

But when she does get up and going she wants to be with her baby brother.

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 Oh a big yawn!

He has his daddy's ears, that's for sure. 

Love the raised eyebrow! And just look at those kissable cheeks!

Daddy and his kiddos ready to go to bed.

  

Ten days later it's time for Grandma to go home. Rachel gave me a hug and I said, "Smile so we can take a picture". This is what I got.

Alisa tells her "Show your teeth like this"....

Now she's getting it!

What a blessing to be able to be there for the birth of our little grandson and spend time with Cody and Alisa and these beautiful grandbabies! Darryl is so good to let me just take off when I feel I need to. What a good life we have!

Driving the Oregon Coast Road

I have to tell you, I was very excited to  hear we were coming to Oregon for this job. Although I have lived next door in Idaho for 20 years I have never ventured further west in all that time. Until a month ago I had never been in the state of Oregon. What a beautiful place this is! No wonder so many pioneers risked everything to come here!

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On a beautiful Friday afternoon we decided to take a drive to the coast as we had heard of how beautiful it is there. We were not disappointed.

We drove over to Tillamook (yes, the cheese place) and around Tillamook Bay to Garibaldi, a quaint little fishing village.  We saw several cars at this food truck, and since it was well past lunch time we decided to give it a go.

Fresh fish and chips, and they were delicious!

From there we drove up to Rockaway Beach. A beautiful spot and quite the popular resort area in the summer.

The Pacific Ocean on one side and dunes and mountains on the other.

It was very windy so there was a fine mist blowing off the ocean.

A small memorial by a little church.

As we headed north towards Astoria the views became spectacular as we looked down from the side of the mountains to the sometimes rocky shores or long stretches of beach on the blue Pacific Ocean.

When we reached Astoria we drove across the huge causeway bridge to Washington State.

It's not as tall as the big bridge in Tampa, FL....

But it is one of the steepest bridges I have ever been on. Here we are going down the north side.

Welcome to Washington!

Looking back at Astoria, Oregon.

We didn't stay in Washington but turned around and headed back south on the 101. As we were driving through the coastal town of Gearhart By the Sea we were surprised by this sight on a residential street.

Darryl turned the truck around and drove back to it to make sure we were seeing it correctly.

A herd of wild elk nibbling the shrubs in the yards of  the neighborhood houses.
Oh the things you see when you leave home!

Our last stop was in the pretty town of Seaside, Oregon

at the Lewis and Clark
End of the Trail Monument . It faces the Ocean and is a popular spot to watch the sunset.

It is a beautiful spot with many fun shops to look through and some fabulous looking restaurants to satisfy any type of appetite.

We ate a delicious seafood dinner, bought some candy and fudge, and as the sun set we headed home to Hillsboro.

It was such a lovely day!