Happy Easter!!!

It wouldn't be my blog if it weren't a month behind!!

(All photo's courtesy of my non-flash iPhone)

First up: OC Egg Hunt

I had no idea she could hula for thirty minutes non-stop AND look graceful, barely moving her body. I either forgot how or never mastered this trade, as I looked very similar to a fish flopping in the air...

Apparently the kids outgrew their Cars and Hannah Montana Easter buckets five minutes before the egg hunt this year. Turns out Walmart sacks can hold a lot more melting chocolates...

Next up: Austen's church Egg Hunt

Cookie Decorating!!

Zane's Icing Easter Bunny Holding Basket Skills...

Avery's Icing Easter Bunny Holding Basket Skills...

Night Before Easter

Only 2 eggs each this year...

EASTER MORNING!!!

Zane: Tub of Lego's and Snickers Bunny. (That lovely basket is Austen's)

Avery: Art stuff and Snicker's Easter Bunny Zane figured out that a ghost and a bunny head can make a pretty rad Easter Bunny.

Hope yall had a good Easter with much better picture quality!!

Goodbye Grandpa. See you in Heaven!

Going Back a little...

When I came home from Dallas the third weekend of January, I heard my grandpa had fallen and was in the hospital and they didn't expect him to make it much longer. I went to visit him in Tulsa that next day. I was expecting a relaxing Monday of no work and all sleep after an intense sleep deprived 5 days of training where bedtime was no earlier than midnight and as late as 2 to 3am. However, I'm very glad I got to see him alert enough to know it was me. He squeezed my hand and didn't want to let go. He tried talking but it was all just mumbled nonsense. He ended up living two weeks longer and passed away while I was in Dallas the first weekend of February. I came back and went to his funeral that Tuesday.

He is the first grandparent I have lost and I wasn't really ready for it. When Avery was 18 months old I lost my great grandad (my dad's mom's dad). He lived through two wives and the last several times we visited all he would talk about is how he was ready to go Home, so I was ready for him to go. Not to mention, during his funeral Avery had a bad case of diarreah, so I had to change her diaper litteraly every 3 minutes practically missing the entire funeral.

My dad's dad however, was a hard funeral. Funeral slide shows are killers and when my dad got up to talk, I could not stop crying. He was a great grandpa and will be missed.

Here he is with my kiddo's through the years...

For his 80th birthday, Zane really wanted to give him a present. He chose his sling shot. So precious!!

Thanksgiving 2010

Thanksgiving 2011

His children. Three biological, and the younger three are his neice and nephews who came to live with them after their parents were killed in a car wreck when they were 3, 6, and 9 years old.

These are all but two of his grandchildren (and one who he gets to see in Heaven) and his 4 great grandchildren.

Thankfully, everyone was able to see him at least once in a semi-coherent state where they felt he recognized they were there. What a blessing for us and him.

The boys worked outside getting the leaves and gumballs out of the backyard to help my grandma out

This was not easy for me, but it's so much easier to say goodbye knowing 100% where he is right now. Can't wait to see him again one day.