Celebrating Gr. Ma!

On February 4th, my 93 year old Gr.Ma went to be with her savior!  She was ready and in the last couple of years her health had really declined.  We praise God for all the answered prayers and how she went so peacefully with my mom at her bedside.

Gr.Ma was really our only grandparent that we have ever known.  What a blessing to get to go to the states for a week to celebrate Gr.Ma and be with my family! 

Daniel, who is also living in the UK right now, and I were able to travel together which was a lot of fun!  Here he is talking to his beautiful wife and precious daughter in the Heathrow Airport. 

So fun to have a brother as a seatmate!  How often as adult children do you get this kind of time with your siblings?! 

We arrived in Little Rock on Valentines Day and were greated by the family. 

My sweet friend Angela had sent this great headband to us last year and I thought it was the perfect comic relief for the situation and appropriate since it was Valentines day! 
Thanks Angela!

Jenny flew to Little Rock but James and the boys drove in for the Memorial!  Love this guy!  So full of personality!

 

Of course, I had a shopping list and Friday was our only free time to do it.  It was so fun to go shopping with my sister, mom, and Aunt Dee(mom's chosen sister).

Saturday was the memorial and that will get its own post.

Sunday we went to church and celebrated Jenny's b-day!

Monday the three of us flew to California with my Aunt Kate and her wife, Nori, to have a graveside memorial with family and friends in California.

On Tuesday, we went to Disneyland.  A favorite memory from growing up.  It was so much fun to hear mom and Kates stories about going as kids.

When Allen told Ben that I was going to California, Ben said, "She's going to the big race!"  We may watch A LOT of Cars in this house. 

Jenny's boys LOVE starwars.

They make some really fun "ears" now!

Loved the time with my sister and mom.  It was precious!

My mom and her twin sister, Kate!