August 2026

What an in-depth month! Rusty does a lot of traveling, starting off by visiting Seattle, then driving north to Vancouver for a day to take Joy up there. After this, he meets up with many cousins, aunts, uncles, and more up in New England to visit Stroker. After this, Rusty spends more time in Seattle, and then participates in a veterans hiking event in Colorado. After this, the family briefly reunites, before Jordan moves into his graduate school apartment, and Grant moves away from Tucson for the first time! Jen and Rusty help him set up his dorm and hang out in Flag for a few days, beating out the heat. Meanwhile, Jordan got accepted for a software position at Raytheon, which he will begin in October! And then the kids start their first years of undergraduate and graduate school! Meanwhile, Rusty and Jen travel up to Northern California to have some fun with family and friends up there. Jen celebrates her birthday in Flagstaff and then with the family in California and had a good time celebrating! On this trip, Dan, Jay, Rusty, Gavin, along with a few others go on their annual Yosemite motorcycle adventure. Then everyone drives home. Wow, what a fascinating month this was, and full of a lot of adventure. Hopefully next month is just as fun (as Jordan will be busy soon)!