And Suddenly, I’m a Great-Grandfather!

Welcome to the world, Crew Strader! Somewhere about 5:30pm MST on February 19th Crew made his entrance. Details are sketchy, however the most important detail is that he is well, healthy, and strong.

We’re now a five-generation family! We’ll soon have to make a family trip to Soda Springs to get this relatively rare event recorded as a picture for the future. I started to write “… event recorded on film …” but we don’t do that anymore. We need a new clichĂ©.

Many, many years ago we were living in an off-base housing complex near what was then called Johnson AFB, Japan and gathered with a few other couples playing pinochle. One of the fellows was a doctor on call at the small medical center on base. The hospital itself was then at Tachikawa AFB (also now non-existant), about 45 minutes away. He was called into the clinic for an imminent delivery of a baby without time to transport to the hospital (side note: our two oldest daughters were born at that hospital). About an hour later he came back. One of the ladies asked, “What was it? A boy or a girl?” He thought for a minute and replied, “I don’t remember. I just know it was a keeper!”

Crew Strader is a definitely a keeper. Congratulations Stephanie and Randy!