Pictures with cousins

In July Grandma Yorgason  bought some cute dresses for the little girls, and wanted pictures of all the grandchildren.  The pictures turned out so cute.

Recovery

This month had brought a lot of sadness for us.  My Grandpa died on the first Wednesday of the month.  I went through a lot of emotions and many tears.  The funeral was the following Tuesday, it was a great service.  It was nice to hear stories about Grandpa.  The music tugged at my heart strings and made the tears come.  After such an emotional week I was ready to relax, and  get back to normal.

Unfortunately that was not to happen.  The day after my Grandpa's funeral, which also happened to be a Wednesday, Adam received a phone call from his mother.  His sweet Grandma had passed away, just a week after my Grandpa.  So instead of things going back to normal, the tears returned.  The funeral was on Monday, it was also a wonderful service.  They had the great grandchildren sing I am a Child of God at the graveside service and release white balloons, it was cute and sweet.

We have made it through the past 2  weeks, and are now trying to return to a normal routine.  Even though the past 2 weeks stood still for us emotionally, everything else kept moving.  We will now have to find our new normal routine.  

Grandpa

Last night we had to say goodbye to  Grandpa Collins.  When you lose someone it's amazing the things that you feel, don't feel, and the things you think about.  I'm not one that cries a lot, I cried last night when I got the phone call.  I know that my Grandpa loves me, and he loves his whole family.

I will miss his sense of humor, and hearing him call me by my nickname. When I close my eyes I can see him in the kitchen for our birthdays sitting at the end of the table talking. His mind was amazing and always going, he loved fixing things, and was great at it.  Grandpa had an amazing green thumb, he made taking care of  plants look easy.  He would always bring us extra tomatoes from his garden.  He  always brought our dogs a treat when he came to visit.  The dogs knew when he was coming and would meet him at the door, just like little kids.  

I love my Grandpa Collins, and I am so thankful that I am blessed to have him as my Grandpa.  Even though he is no longer with us, I know that one day we will all be together as a family.

Ice Cream

Emilee and I went for a walk this morning.  I wish we had left a little earlier, by the time we left it was already hot.  When we got back we decided to relax and make ice cream.  I should say that Emilee made ice cream, we found this tutorial for Ice Cream in a bag and decided to try.  Emilee enjoyed eating her ice cream, and was kind enough to share with me.  We will be making this again throughout the summer.  To answer your question, Yes even a Princess will work for Ice Cream.

 

Swim Lessons

I can't believe that June is almost over, the summer disappears too fast.  Emilee loved swim lessons, she loves being in the water.  Adam helped her learn to open her eyes under the water, and helped get her comfortable with floating on her back.   She remembered the slides from last year and kept asking about them everyday,  she was excited when she finally got to go down the them.   The day swim lessons ended she was already asking for more lessons.

Preschool Graduation

I can't believe it, the school year is done.  Emilee had her Preschool Graduation last night, they did such a great job.  The kids sang songs they had learned about all of the colors.  Emilee has really enjoyed Preschool this year, I am so glad that we put her in school.  Miss Janae is a wonderful teacher, Emilee loved her.  They did so many fun things and learned while having fun.

The four kids (including Emilee) on the end are Emilee's Class

Such cute Graduates

Receiving her Diploma

She's too cute

Rain=Puddles and slimy things

For the most part I love the fact that we have had so much rain, it has kept the temperatures down and everything looks so green.  I hate having to drive my husband to work in the rain storms, its really hard to see when it's dark and raining.

Yesterday we decided to go for a walk in the rain, we were tired of being indoors.  We grabbed our jackets, umbrellas and off we went.  We had lots of fun on our walk in the rain.  We found some worms swimming in a puddle, and we decided to save a couple of them.  When I say we saved, I really mean Adam is the one who touched them and put them in the grass.  Emilee liked looking, but would not get close. On our walk Emilee had fun seeing how big of a splash she could get.  It was a lot of fun to watch her jumping in puddles, she came home with very wet legs.