The retirement party was great. We started off with everyone going swimming and Dad getting all dressed and ready to go. Kristie's husband Bob got permission from his dept to come to Clark's retirement dressed in the Orange County sheriff's uniform. It was fun to see our two policeman looking so spiffy. We went down to the city building at 1:00 p.m. to set up. I put up his motorcycle uniform from the Seattle Police Dept and I made him a scrapbook of all the years of dealing with my policeman. Angie bought the book and my friend and I scrapbooked. I am not a scrapbooker, so she did a ton of work for me. Then at 1:00 the color guard posted the colors in full ceremony. The chief came and gave a little speech about how wonderful Clark did in all his 43 years of service. He is the longest policeman on record for the dept. It was nice to hear the words from his captain and the chief telling everyone how he gave 100 percent up to the day he left the dept. Then Clark spoke and told everyone how hard this was on him to retire. It was very sweet. After that Stephanie came with her beautiful cake. WOW, what a cake. It was all made out of chocolate. She is certainly talented. The kids had fun seeing alot of old friends and family.
After that we went to our house for a supper out in the backyard. The kids had fun throwing rocks in the pond, until Clark put a stop to that. We had family pictures and we had some grouchy kids. It was the only day we could do our pictures though and so hopefully something will turn out. I do want a family picture. The whole day was wonderful. I know there were a few things that I missed, but most of it turned out terrific. Congratulations Clark.
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I am very proud of you! It's bloggin time! Good job on posting pictures and short stories.
Hello, this is Chy Jorgensen (Lundblade) Its funny all the random people you can run into on blog:) Thanks for droping a line.
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