Grandpa's Funeral

It is hard to believe that the funeral was a week ago today.... It was such a beautiful day; clear and not to cold. The part of the day that really touched me and my family would have to have been the graveside services- The members of the American Legion who did the military tribute did an amazing job especially the three young men who fold the flag. When they presented the flag to my mother (which my grandfather had requested) we all got pretty teary eyed.

If the week before the funeral we went through pictures to put in a slide show and I found this one I had forgotten about....

It almost seems surreal that all my grandparents are gone now.....

I am so grateful to know 'the plan' and that we can be together forever.

Here are some pictures from the funeral that I swiped from my sister Chelsea's blog

This is the flower arrangement that I made for the funeral and one of the one's I made for the pallbearers. I have done some flower arranging before but it's been awhile and I was very happy/relieved with how they turned out.

Porter & Mom's 8 Favorite Things

PORTER= Red MOMMY = Blue

8 favorite TV shows: Mickey Mouse (Hot Dog!), Backyardagains, That is pretty much all I get to watch but every now and then mommy lets me watch Wonder Pets, Little Einsteins, Go Digeo, Handy Manny, or Charlie and Lola. Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Eureka, Scrapbook Memories, NCIS, CSI Las Vegas, Chuck, Pushing Daisies.

8 things I did yesterday: Got yogurt in my hair and all over the floor, Cleaned Yogurt off the Floor Dumped out mommy's clean laundry on the dirty kitchen floor, Laundry Ate lunch with Daddy at Apple B's where I got to sit in the big boy Booster seat!! Yumm! Took Aunt Chels, Kam and Kars to Sams Club, (Where I stuck to my budget and didn't spend a dime), Visited grandma at work (a garden store) and walked with her in the snow (considered growing my flowers from seed this year but decided I actually wanted them to look nice), took a nice long nap, listened to the second Twilight book while I cleaned, fed the dog with Uncle Ott, cleaned the floor... Again! Gave mom a big goose egg. Managed to not freak out and yell when porter decided to do kungfu and gave me a giant goose egg on my forhead- Gold star for me on patience!

8 things I look forward to: Daddy Coming home, Aaron coming home, Eating, Starting my garden, playing with Ickles, getting the mail, feeding the dog, Porter's Daily Nap!, Milk!, Camping, Playing with Kam & Kars, finishing my massive housewide de-junking/organization project, it getting warm so I can play outside, Remodling our Bathroom, meeting my new cousin Layla, Meeting Layla,

8 Favorite Restaurants: House Salad/Breadsticks at Olive Garden, Idaho Pizza/Cheese Pizza at Craigo's, Salad Bar/Watermellon at Sizzler, French Onion Soup/Mac N' Cheese at Apple B's, Breadsticks/Breadsticks at Little Ceasers, Potato Soup/Mac N' Cheese at Johnny Carinos, CrunchWrap/Cheese Wrap at Taco Bell,

Now we tag You!!!

"I am the resurrection, and the life" spoke the Master "he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." John 11:25-26

We will miss you Grandpa George!
Jan 15th 1917 - Jan 10th 2009

Christmas 2008 Part 2

Here's a few pictures from Nanna and Pa's on Christmas Eve


Porter (looking mischievous) & Cousin Kars
note the shirt- boy was it right on!!


My Mom made these adorable stockings-
They were almost bigger than the boys!

The three Amigo's in their matching PJ's from Nanna