January 24th, 2009

My grandma started her eternal life at 9:06 pm on Saturday, January 24th. I will miss her.

Praying

I am praying that Grandma Marge gets some peace soon. She is more than ready to leave. She is in some pain and really wants to go. I hope that she soon is able to pass on. I also pray that my dad handles it okay. He is struggling with some of the decisions that have to be made. I pray his health doesn't deteriorate due to this.

Fond Memories

Walked through my grandma's house for probably one of the last times. Boy lots of history and memories there! I wish I could have been in a position to buy that house, but wasn't meant to be. We are getting the pool table! Yay! It is being moved today. I think we will really enjoy it. Then I did get suckered into my reminiscing and said I'd take the organ also. Oh my! Not quite sure where it will go, but I did enjoy going through all the music books she had. Found the songs she and I used to play together. For example "The Old Grey Mare" and "Grandfather's Clock" :-) I know it will make her happy for me to have the organ. Hopefully I'll get pics up soon of the new old stuff!

Sisters!

Can't wait for Friday. My sisters are coming to stay with me!!!!! It will be the first time that the 3 of us have gotten to go out together in forever! Then they are going to spend the night. The kids will be so excited, too. Not sure of their plans Sat. night, but they will have to head back to NE on Sunday.

The Lake!

Yay! The weather was gorgeous today at the lake. We went to Smithville lake where Beau keeps his boat. The set up was awesome! You could live out there with the accommodations some of them had! Anyhow, after we got loaded up, we headed out in Beau's Presumed Innocent. We ended up in a cove area and tied up with a bunch of other people who he normally hangs out with up there. I think we eventually had about 8 boats all together. We just hung out on the water and the kids had a blast swimming around. The water was perfect! I tried to take some pics, but it was so hard to see what I was aiming at, so I didn't take very many. Here are a few: Starting at the top - the kids loved floating around on that big air mattress like thing. It was a hoot when we pulled Nicole on it when we left the docks to get to the cove. It was a handy sucker to lay out on in the water. Then the next couple of pics show some of the people we were hanging out with. The music was blaring, the water was perfect temp., and got to laugh and relax all day! Even the dogs got in the action! Last pic shows Todd and Beau talking about something important, I'm sure. =)

A Night Out On The Town

Todd has been working some long hours lately at work. He has been able to fix a bunch of different issues and so his bosses gave him two $100 Night On The Town certificates. Todd wanted to use one with just the two of us, and the other for us and the kids. So tonight we did the family night and took the kids to Dave and Busters! We had a great dinner and then played for about 4 hours!!! Morgan liked the games where you won tickets (Deal or No Deal, Spin to Win, Skee Ball, Gone Fishin, etc). Tyler liked the car racing and shooting games. Todd liked the Daytona 500 car racing game also. There was another one where you pulled a helmet down over your head to see the screen. You stay standing up and you are able to rotate all around to see the planes and such coming in that you are to shoot down. I liked the car games the best also. I really enjoyed Need for Speed/Fast and Furious. The games were linked so you could race with each other and the seats took you for a ride as you raced. FUN! The place is like a big arcade place for adults (kids have to be there with someone 25 yrs or older.) They had good food and a fun variety of drinks. It was a beautiful night outside, so afterwards we walked around Legends a bit and then headed home. Best thing about the night besides having so much fun together was the fact that it was "free"! Now we need to plan for the other certificate for just the two of us to have a night on the town!

Now we just need to keep our fingers crossed for good weather tomorrow so we can go to the lake and ride in Beau's boat!