7 Years Ago Today my Mother Went to Heaven

A Little Bit about Mom So glad I was able to visit them in Florida for her 70th birthday just 3 months before she died.

Sometimes (not often which made it funnier) she would ham it upShe loved vacations and her friends
She loved puzzles & games

Supporting Jennifer at Basic TrainingOur last Mother's Day. We had no idea.

The next Mother's Day would be the day she died.She loved family get togethersShe worked at the Post Office for 27 yearsThomas was born on her birthday. Here he turns 16 and she turns 61with Jenni with Tommy

Visiting us in ColoradoGramma NancyRoller skating, she loved roller skating

Visiting us in Germany with our boys

with her mom
With our "Tommy". She loved books and after she retired she worked part time at the library

Here I am in the same dress, it still hangs in my closet

My HS graduation
with her first grandchild

They loved to danceShe loved the beach and getting a tan Four Generations

She was always cold. There's that blanket again.There's that blanket againYoung Lovemwith her big brother, Carl

Miss ya Mom!

A Week in the Life

I just got done dowloading the pictures from this week and was trying to think of some clever way to combine them into one entertaining topic . . . hmmm ahhhh . . . . maybe it will come to me later. Meanwhile In my last post I mentioned this shelf and how the kids love to push things off of it and down the steps and guess who the newest one was to figure it out, our Lily Bean.

FUNNY GIRL

Jack had Observation Day at gymnastics

These pictures make it look like he can actually do all this stuff.

In reality none of those kids was doing anything that "teacher" wanted them to do.LOL

He stopped to watch. They cracked me up!

Sure do love that boy!

Sami loves her Jack too. She's the only one other than Tom and I that calls him Jack.

Everyone else uses Johnny or John Robert.

The girls were with us for dinner one night (or was it two?)Papa even let them eat upstairs once.

of course it had to be "pink steak"

Ginger (Thomas's dog) came for a visit too

A tea party was in order one afternoon

There's my parent's precious blanket from my last post too..(cringe)

It was even nice enough to go outside.

So glad we downsized

our yard especially!

Peanut butter & strawberries were a perfect snack

and some craft time

on the windows too

That's Thomas coming up the walk so I guess, time to go

The common thread is so obvious isn't it!

I love being a grandma.