Mary Cossairt

Spouse: Mike  celebrating  our 40^th anniversary this year (2009)

Kids: 2 daughters, 6 grandchildren

Mike and I were fortunate to be able to retire from WSU early and become snow birds. We love our life in Arizona but always look forward to coming home to Moscow to see family and friends.

Daughter Jody & Justin

Mike and I celebrated our 40th anniversary with the long awaited Alaskan Cruise. It was great.

I was lucky to be able to travel a bit the last couple years. I spent some time in Singapore and Ireland thanks to my kids who traveled there for work. They tell me our next adventure will be in Uganda, Africa. Heather and her family hope to go there this summer and work for Show Mercy International.  They will be working to build homes and schools for orphaned children. I look forward to this new adventure.

Hello to all and a Happy New Year this 2004!!!!  We are currently spending the winter in sunny Yuma, Az. We just love it here.  We have family and lots of friends so we keep really busy. It is such a different life here; hard to explain, wakeing up to sunshine every morning does have its advantages.  Mike enjoys golf and I love shopping and craft classes.

We are about ready to sell our Moscow home and head for Oregon to be near 2 of our 5 girls and grandsons.  A new adventure to be sure. Speaking of adventures I had gastric by-pass surgery 18 months ago and have lost 142 lbs.  I can't begin to tell you how good this feels after fighting the weight battle all of my life.

I wish you all the best in 2004. We are having fun planning a great reunion for all of you!!!

We are patiently (?) waiting for a closing date on our house and packing for our move to Sweethome, Oregon.

Leaving Moscow brings mixed emotions, but we are looking forward to the change and being closer to family.

The pictures are of our Oregon daughters and grandsons.