On Monday morning, I headed to the airport with Sandi to fly to Colorado. We were meeting up with mom and spending the week together with Grandpa. I dropped Eileen off with Sandi so she could house/dog sit while we were gone. Dan took care of the kids for me - the younger boys got spoiled with getting driven to and from school all week - now they are going to have to go back to walking, so hopefully they aren't too sad to have me back!
Monday, we got in and Mom picked us up from the airport. Then we headed to Grandpa's where we enjoyed an afternoon together before heading to Olive Garden for dinner.
Tuesday, we met up with some distant cousins Donna and Judy for lunch across the street. We had a nice lunch chatting with them! Then we spent the afternoon walking and talking before making up some dinner at Grandpa's place and showing Grandpa how to use his tv to watch a show he wanted to watch. :)
Wednesday, my Dad got in to town, but he was only partly there to visit - he also had work to get done. We had a nice day together chatting and walking.
Grandpa has decided that as he nears the end of his life, he would like to give the kids blessing in the style of the Biblical patriarchs. I am so grateful to have this man as my grandfather! We are so blessed by his example of faith and devotion to God! He wanted to get some info from me on the kids to get to know them a bit better first, so we spent some time talking about them, their likes and dislikes - their plans for the future and their personalities.
Thursday evening, was a dinner that turned into a birthday party. Doug was making his yummy spaghetti for dinner and most of us were able to be there for the dinner! My mom spent all week looking at photos and putting them together in to a slide show - both to look at and also to get her brother's input on which ones to keep and which to get rid of. It was fun to look at the old pictures of them when they were younger - young Frank looks a LOT like Taz! Grandpa had asked Sandi and I to sing, so she and I spent some of the afternoon getting ready for that. It went well - but we had an unintended intermission in the middle of the song when the accompaniment track accidentally stopped :) It was a fun evening together!
Friday, we got together with Tina for a ladies lunch across the street. We had a wonderful time chatting and eating yummy food. Then we headed out and I went to take my stuff from Tina's car to Grandpa's place while my mom went to move her car. Shortly after, I got a call from her - telling me she had fallen in the parking lot and needed help. We all went running. She had hit her head pretty hard and landed kinda hard on her arm. So we got her into her car, and I drove her to the hospital and Dad followed in his car with Sandi. Also - Tina, though she had left when it happened, had left to go to a doctor's appointment and was already at the same hospital we took my mom to, so she came down to meet me after her appointment. They took x-rays and CT scans to make sure everything was alright. Her wrist thankfully was not fractured and there was no internal bleeding. She had broken her nose, but it was not crooked and didn't need to be re-aligned. There were so many tender mercies in all of it. There were kind people near by when it happened to help her and stay with her until we could get to her. With so much family around, there was plenty of support and help and while it looked pretty bad and was scary at the time, she is doing well now and there was so much love and support. Family is so important! Sandi and I were still able to get on our flight home since we knew Dad was still there to be with her and she had no major problems and could be released that night. Dad had to delay his flight one day, but then was still able to fly home. She has two spectacular black eyes, but is otherwise doing well.
I got home late Friday and headed out early on Saturday with Anna for our Peter the Rock practices. They went well and it is really feeling like the music is coming together. Just over a month left before the performances! Saturday afternoon, Dan took me to the gym since I hadn't really gotten to work out all week, so that was really nice. Then in the evening, I took Evie and Aaron to open polo. Anna had a date so she couldn't come.
Today was great, but a bit stressful and tiring. Daylight savings kinda kicked my rear and we had lots of meetings and such after church. But the talks and lessons were wonderful and the music was wonderful! Choir practice went well and then I went home and crashed until dinner.
Evelyn got the results back from her Flute Solo at the competition last weekend and she got super high scores - she is amazing! I've asked her to look at the flute part for the ward choir Easter number and she tried it out today with the choir, and did an amazing job, especially considering that she jammed her finger at water polo last night. :)
David sneaking up on people....
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