Shelly Rae Rishel Thompson, Harlow:  

Life As most of you know somehow I ended up married to Charlie Thompson, not just once but twice. We have two wonderful kids a 16 year old daughter Stephanie, and a 8 year old son Geoffrey. They keep me extremely busy since I've also taken up the rewarding and challenging job of homeschooling them. We have bought a home in Plains, Montana which serves as our base as Charlie's job has him and occasionally us traveling all over the world. We recently just returned from a 2 year stint in Europe first 4 months in Grenoble France and then the rest of the time in Dresden, Germany. My daughter thought it was fun to see the country where she was born but she got so terribly homesick that we decided that was as much traveling as we could take for awhile. So now we stay home and Charlie just does short trips overseas without us. We have really enjoyed being home. After all the moving I did growing up it is really nice to be stationary for a change. It feels wonderful to have finally planted roots somewhere. As much as I enjoy a new adventure I've been longing to stay put somewhere for a LONG time I feel blessed to have had most of my biggest dreams fulfilled at such an early age. God's been more than good to me. I have a husband who is good to me, two intelligent,great looking kids, a beautiful home, great friends, and some of the best memories I wouldnt trade for anything. Take care, write me and I'll do my best to get back to you. UPDATE! Since I wrote last we stayed in Minneapolis MN for a few months till the Mall of America seemed too small, he he! And winter was approaching-wasn't looking forward to a MN winter! I got to go with Charlie on a business/early anniversary trip to San Jose, CA and while there I got tickets to the Dr. Phil show and had to drive a rental car by myself (Charlie had to work at the last minute) to Hollywood from San Jose (that was an experience!) It only showed me in the audience for a brief moment but I have Tivo and saved the moment. he he! For awhile we just enjoyed living in Wild Horse Plains, MT. However, now it is time to move on again this time back to Oregon, Beaverton to be precise. Charlie got a better job offer than the great job offer he had in Kalispell, MT (Where he had worked himself up to a Manager's position at a great worldwide high tech company, to an even better paying (and with better benefits) job in Beaverton Oregon. It all happened quite suddenly and now I'm scrambeling to get things ready to move AGAIN! Never thought I'd be doing that again! We are all heartbroken to be leaving my folks and our friends who have become family to us..but we are also excited to be heading on a new adventure. I feel so blessed to have been able to do and see so much and to be able to have made such amazing friends along the way. God is sooo good! UPDATE**** Charlie got a new job for Maxim Industries in Beaverton OR and we have moved to Saint Helens OR. Things are great here and God's blessings have been overwhelming. I still homeschool and it has it's moments but overall it's going great. Hard to believe Stephanie is a Senior this year, she's doing her last year online at MorningStar Academy. She just got back from a Youth Group trip to California to a big Youth Convention and a day at Disneyland. She's really come out of her shell and has made a lot of great friends here. It's a little weird with her having her licence now as it makes the time when she will leave us seem all the sooner. We found out that Geoff's speech problems had to do with him having an Auditory Processing Problem and he is also dyslexic and as with many dyslexics is extremely bright as well. So he compensates really good. He was amazing in Soccer this year with Charlie as his coach...Expand for more