Febuary 2009
Jenny and Jethro´s children and Ana called Kate, Tony, McGee, Abby, and Ducky and asked them to meet them in the park. The six children and their Au-Pair came up with an idea. They want to buy tickets for a vacation for Jenny and Jethro. They have been through enough and they just want them to relax a little and forget the illness for a while. "Hey guys" said Ana. "Hey guys" said Kate. Chloé, Grace, Leroy, Simon, Aaron and Ana are playing at the playground. Rose is talking to the team. Rose speaks up. "Guys we need your help. We want to book a vacation for our parents. They have been through enough and they just need to relax and forget for a while." "Sure how can we help you?" "We need you to do their work while they are gone. Mom and Dad would love to go to Alaska." "We could arange that." "How about this Rose. We book the vacation and give you the tickets and you can wrap them and can give them to your parents." "Thank you Kate." "You are welcome." Kate and Rose get up and walk over to the playground and Rose says. "Mom and Dad used to travel with us a lot. In the summer vacation we traveled trough the US and and on their honeymoon they went through Kanada. They really did not have time to think about these things in the past few years." "I know." "Kate I know that I am asking a lot but would it be OK with you if you would move in with us for the time my parents are not there?" "Rose you have Ana and Aaron and Simon. You can come visit me as often as you like." "Please Kate. I need you to help me with a other surprise that I want to make for my mother and I need a friend too." "OK I will live with you during that time."
Two weeks later the team and the family is in the living-room of the Gibbs house waiting for Jenny and jethro to come home. When they arrive home Kate and Rose tell them about the surprise. "Sit down you two." They obey. "The team and we as a family decided that you need a vacation and we already bought the tickets and you are leaving in three days." "Oh my God." "Kate is going to stay with us while you are away." "We cannot do that." "Yes you can. Besides it is already booked. You are going to board a ship in Seattle and are going to travel to Alaska and back." "Thank you so much guys." "You are welcome." "Do not worry Jenny we will be fine" says Ana. Rose hugs Kate and says. "Thank you Kate." "You are more then welcome."
While Gibbs and Jenny are away for three weeks.
The children, the team and Ana have decided to redecorate the house because they know that Jenny, Gibbs and the children do not like it anymore. 8 bedrooms, the livingroom, the diningroom and the familyroom.
They Jenny´s and Jetho´s room. They are decorating it in the way Jenny always wanted to have it. On one wall they paint a picture of Alaska and infront of the second wall there is the closet. In fron of the third wall there is the bed and on the forth wall there are photos of the children and of Jenny and Gibbs.
The second room is Aaron´s room. He decorates it with pictures of the travels he has made with his own earned money. Pictures of his travels through Central America and paints two walls in red. He draws a map of of the world on his wall.
Then Simon´s roon is the next. He decorates it like an underwater world. He draws picture of a underwaterworld on the wll. The rest of the walls are painted in a light blue.
Rose decorates her room in the way of a horse farm. She has horse pictures and a horse on one wall. The rest of the walls are painted in a light green.
Leroy room is the fifth room. He likes the space. He draws the planets on one wall and the other walls are painted in darkblue and white.
Grace´s room is pretts easy. She likes art. They walls are painted in beige and she hangs postcards of the art of Van Gogh and other Artists in her room.
Chloé´s room sort of hard. She loves dolphins. Kate and Rose draw a dolphin on the wall and the other walls are painted in blue. Matching the water.
Then thy did Ana´s room. She wants a room with the theme music. She draws a piano on the wall and on the other walls she hangs pictures of instruments.
The diningroom is decorated like a Medeteranien Diningroom with orange walls and pictures of the family on the walls.
The livingroom is decorated in the landhouse style. It was very light green walls and here, too, there are pictures of the family on the wall.
When they come back from their vacation and have seen all the rooms they are speechless. "Thank you so much guys. We really like it. And thank you for helping the kids too." "You are welcome. Rose came to us with the idea and with the decorating ideas."
Two days later Jethro and Jenny talk to Rose. "How did you know how we wanted to decorate our room, the livingroom and the diningroom?" "I overheard a conversation you had in the livingroom about two years ago. I wrote the ideas down immediately and promised myself that when you are better I would find a way to get you out of the house for a while to make sure that the rooms would be redecorated." "Thank you Rose." "You are welcome mom. I hope you like it." "I really love it." "As a thank you present we bought you a vacation on a horse farm for a week." "Thanky you so much mom." "You are more than welcome. You took so good care of the kids and your father when I was ill." "But so did Aaron, Simon and Leroy." "We know. That they helped a lot. And they will each get a present too. But you deserve it. You gave up more than the three boys while I was ill." "Thank you so much mom." "We have one las present to show you." She leeds them into the hallway. "This is a picture of us six children. We went to a photographer and the team has one each too and so does Ana. We also have the negatives and you can reprint it as much as you want." "Thank you Rose. Your mother and I love it."