Holy Smokes!

I just clicked on our blog and realized it has been over two months since my last post. There are several reasons for this and I won't go into most of them, they aren't fun, glamorous, or even entertaining. Nuff said.

So since Winter is gone, and Spring is here, I am back. Clearer mind and happier days are upon us.

So what have we been up to you might ask...

Erik had a birthday.
We are all excited for a birthday around our house. Especially Daddy's birthday.





Valentine's Day is always fun too. Erik had Dunkin' Donuts for the kids that morning. You would have thought they had won the lottery. He also had flowers on the table for me. But the two youngest started hollering for me to come see the flowers Daddy got for them. I loved it. They were beautiful and I certainly didn't mind sharing them with all the girls in the house.



That evening we had a fun dinner from DQ.



I also took my little girls and hit the road on a 10 hour trip to Oklahoma City. My grandmother had been suffering for so long and finally was able to move on with her eternal progression. My mother and all of her children were there with Grandma as she passed on. It was a wonderful and spiritual experience that I was privileged to be apart of. I was so thankful that my Grandma was not alone and that her posterity was able to help her those last few days of her life here on earth. What a blessing it was to be able to serve her. What an honor it is to be her granddaughter. A wonderful, spunky, hilarious, spit-fire of a woman that I love and adore.

Her funeral was perfect! When I die, I want mine to be the same way. We all shared a little something that we love about her and sang some beautiful hymns. And that was it. She is buried in this Mennonite Family cemetery in Corn, Ok. It took us almost 2 hours to get there but when you stand out there, there is nothing but farms as far as the eye can see with not a sound to hear other than the cows. A very peaceful and lovely place!






It was so wonderful to see my brother and sisters all in one place. We haven't all been together for a very very very long time and it was so nice to be together and lean on each other. And these three little girls below...they were in heaven because they were together again. Those three little girls have a wonderful bond with each other that I love witnessing.





And as far as March goes...more will follow. I promise it won't be two more months!