A BUSY FEW DAYS

On Good Friday we got a call from DH's brother telling us that their Grandma had passed away that morning.  As soon as DH's got home he called his brother and he said that in the morning she had breakfast and then was complaining it was hard to breath.  And then shortly after she passed away.  We are so sad that she is gone but at the same time we know that she was ready and that she had lived a full life.  She was ninety six years old - and had a very large family.  She will be missed!!!

Easter was a wonderful day with our friends. We had a brunch with about 20 people here at the house.  It was so fun.  There were six families here including ours.  It was a very relaxing day and great to have time to catch up with everyone that was here.  The kids all of course had a great time.  Then we had an easter egg hunt which was a huge success with the kids.  They all had so much fun running all over the place.  It was the first year that we found every egg.  But I have to say that when the easter bunny was hiding the eggs outside in the early morning, it was snowing!!!  I could not believe it!!!

On Monday DH had to go in the office for part of the morning.  Missy Moo and I had a couple of errands that we needed to run.  Then we came back and started to pack for our trip to DH's home town for the wake.  We ended up leaving about 1:00pm - we also picked up DH's cousin's wife - she needed a ride back.  She studied the whole way back and thankfully Missy Moo took a great nap.  When we got there we dropped DH  off at the wake and then took his cousins wife to her kids.  Missy Moo and I headed over to DH's parents house.  When we got there we found out that most of the family had just left for the wake.  Although most of the kids stayed at the house while their parents went to the wake.   The bad news was that a couple of the kids were not feeling well.  Poor Emily really did not look like she felt good.

After the wake we went to DH's brothers house for awhile and talked with his family and one of his other brothers.  Then we headed to our hotel.  We used to always stay in town but they took down the only motel in the town so now we have to drive about 30 min. away.   We got to the hotel about 9:00pm.  Missy Moo wanted to go swimming so DH took her swimming while I got our stuff unpacked.  They got back to the room about 10:00pm and then we had dinner.  Yes, we had been so busy that we did not have dinner yet.  Lights out was about 11:00pm - very late for Missy Moo.

The next morning DH took off to the funeral.  I then got ready and got Missy Moo going.   She was so tired and it took forever to get her moving.  We finally got out of the hotel and stopped at a local store for some milk and nylons (which I had forgotten).  But buy the time we got out of the store we were very late.  It was 10:10am and the service started at 10:30am.   I drove about 80 MPH to get there on time.  I got there at 10:25am but had a very hard time finding parking.   The good news is that we made it on time.  Yippee.  The service was really nice - I actually learned a lot about Grandma that I did not know.  Plus it was so amazing to see everyone from her family there.  It really was amazing to see how many kids, grandchildren, and great grandchildren she had.  

After the service there was a lunch provided - which was really nice to have some time to see and talk with everyone.  We headed back home about 2:30pm.