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Joi Gardner Raihala

The following is catch up for those who I haven't had a chance to see in a long time.

Curt and I married right out of college; he went into officers training and we entered into the Air Force for the next four years. During that time he was sent overseas and I remained home to have our first child. He met our son for the first time when he was over a year old. I have much compassion for our military families who go through this regularly. We added to our family with a girl (middle child – she runs the family) and another son.

Over the next ten years we traveled due to Curt’s work and moved on the average of once every six months. When we were fortunate enough to be moved back to the Pacific Northwest we said we would never leave this part of the country again. We knew we were in God’s country! We settled into Gresham, Oregon for the next 28 years, raised our children and both have our work careers.

Curt settled into real estate five years ago and we moved into our dream home in Camas, Washington overlooking the Columbia River and the gorge. We simply love where we live. Our children all live around us with four grandchildren to lavish with love upon and Curt and I still enjoy working at jobs that we love. We’re very lucky people indeed.

Living where we are gives us access to all the things we love to do outdoors. We’re equally close to the ocean, mountains and central Oregon. We like to bike, hike, canoe, play tennis, golf. We just enjoy being around all the beauty this part of the world provides in abundance. However, as we get older we’ve had to narrow some of our activities but push as much into every day as we can.

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