(Great) Uncle Donny only 75

June 24, 1932- March 26, 2008
as a kid with my granny (his older sister obviously)
Donald Lee Painter beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather passed away peacefully on Wednesday March 26, after a four year battle with pulmonary disease (COPD). Don was born June 24, 1932 in Newport, WA. He was youngest of nine children. He entered the Army at seventeen and served over three years in Japan and Korea. After his discharge, he returned home to Newport and worked in construction for a few years. In 1956, he moved to Seattle, Washington, and went to work at The Boeing Company. His Boeing career spanned 35 years. Don loved to bowl and he has competed in many national tournaments. He also enjoyed golfing, traveling, volunteering, reading, and watching television. He was a great fan of the Seahawks and the Mariners.
working at boeing
Don loved life, but most of all he loved his family, friends and his dog, Slater. He is survived by his wife, Lois; his sister, Margaret Oberg; his daughter, Tonda (Raymond) Saccomanno; his son, Michael Painter; his step-sons, David (Khamla) Fox and Paul (Cindy) Fox; his step-daughters, Denise (Jeff) Leidholm and Barbara (John) Blaine; his grandchildren, Gary, Joel, Reana, Sarah, Kim, Jason, Adam, Tricia, Jessica, Steven, Rachel, Ken, Mark, Chris and Vanessa; and eleven great-grandchildren.

My funnest memory was when I was around the age of 12 or so he talked to me with the spitting image of Donald Duck. He had that voice down pact... It was HILARIOUS!! He would have had so much fun knowing that his funeral was on April Fools Day.

We loved you so much Unlce Donald

Friends

We had our friends Conrad and Allison over this weekend and played a little dance dance revolution...



Some Catans...



Josh and Conrad played a little "Medal of Honor"



We all went and watched the movie "21"


and had to doctor our puppy Kunami...


We always have fun with these guys!!!!

HILARIOUS!!!!

Melanie M. had this on her blog and I thought it was funny enough to put on mine!

Thanks for posting it Mel!!

'Tis the Season

Games are starting soon!!!
Practice even sooner!!!

It is always a treat when it starts!!!... This will be the second year that Josh and I have gotten a co-ed softball team together. This year will be even better because I know tons more people (almost more then Josh and I have been here 2 years less then him(hee hee)).
I will keep everyone who reads this updated on the team and how we do (dont get too excited for wins we just play to have fun. We dont win that much BUT this year will be different).

Happy Easter

I hope you all had a great Easter Weekend!!!

As I promised.....

We did all the tiles in the bathroom ourselves with the help of Josh's Dad

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!!

Just wanted to wish you all a
Happy St. Patrick's Day

Doctor Doctor

So the car went in for its doctors appt. It is going to be a while before we get it back and hopefully it will have a clean bill of health!!! hee hee We don't expect to get it back till around mid-April. We have already been without it for 3 weeks whats another 4... :|


Sorry for the lack of bathroom pics. We have been busy all weekend and are busy so far almost every night this week. I wll definately get them up this weekend if not before!

Bathroom

I dont have any pictures yet BUT we have finally tiled the new bathroom.... So now its evern more close to being done. I believe we are going to paint it this weekend. I will post some pics of it here soon... Either tonight or tomorrow night.

Update on car

so for this post I will have no pictures.

An update is all its going to have to be. So... where to start...

Our Insurance is Allstate (which we recommend to any and everyone) and the guy that hit us his insurance is Safeco (which I am having issues with). Safeco inspected the car and came back to us saying that its totalled but wont give us anything compensation to either pay off the current loan on the car (it was an 06 and we were still making payments on it) or to give us money for a rental car because they have it as our fault. BUT the guy that his us has changed his story a significant amount of times. I don't know if his insurance cant see that his story is changing or what but its getting ridiculous. We also had our insurance inspect it and they have it as not totalled and the other guys fault.

With where he hit us there is no logical or physical way it was out fault... But we have to wait and see what the insurance companies come up with.

Since our insurance didn't total it we are getting it fixed!!! We are happy because now we don't have to go through the process of finding and buying another car. GOOD!! But we cant get the car into the shop until the 17Th of March... Another 2 weeks... ARGH!!! After we get it into the shop they have around 15 days to fix it.. so we don't expect to have our car back until mid April.

All we have to pay on it is the deductible, which is finally down to $300. Originally it was $500 but we have a plan that every year if you don't have an accident then the deductible goes down $100. Also with Allstate they already gave us a check for the fixes on the car so now when we go to pick it up from the shop we just hand them that check plus our check for $300 and its all paid for. If when the insurance companies finally settle and it turns out that it is totally the other guys fault I believe that we get reimbursed for the $300 as well as all the medical that we have to pay out of pocket (which is barely anything because Allstate covers us for $4000 of it.)But we do hope to get reimbursed for the amount of gas we have had to use extra being that we only have a truck to drive back and forth to work now. So I guess all in all we will see what evolves from this mess..