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This is Halle's attire for our Saturday morning walks!!


Her silly self before handing at the pool on Memorial Day

More Saturday morning attire

This is her new thing. She likes to sit on the couch and you hide

her with the pillow and play pee-a-boo

This is her trying to fall off the couch!!

Happy Memorial Day !

I hope all of you had a great Memorial weekend. We enjoyed it, doing pretty much of nothing due to the rain. It was nice though. Darrin was home and here lately that doesn't happen often. With Summer in full swing and him being in charge of our tournaments at the Country Club he is pretty much gone all the time getting ready for those. And on top of that he has just worked an outage at work that required him to be at the plant for almost 20, 12 hour days if not more straight. Anyway, he and I ended up putting up our pop-up tent Saturday afternoon so that we could cook on Darrin's NEW Green Egg. He has had it for probably a month now if not long, but has been building this...

And has fallen in love for the third time in his life. HaHa. We cooked on the Egg Saturday night, Sunday night and again on Monday. We had a great time and the food was great too. One of the times that it stopped raining this weekend, we decided to put Halle in her swim suit and take her outside. Dumb me didn't know that the pool water was 76 degrees, so needless to say Halle didn't get to have her first pool dip. She did look the part though.

Latest Update

Okay I know that it's been a couple of days since I told about my prayer request. I just got off the phone and was told that my great grandmother is doing better. They could not find where the bleeding was coming from, but the bleeding has stopped. If everything is still better tomorrow, she will get to go back to the nursing home.

Dana, my mom and Rhae made it to Omaha. Rhae LOVED the airplane ride. They sad she only got sick once when the plane was a little bumpy. They said when they were taking off she would watch out the window. Praise God for making it a nice and safe trip for them and for letting Rhae enjoy it instead of being miserable.

My dad is still scheduled for his surgery in a couple of weeks. Please still pray that it will go as planned with no complications.

My aunt Kaye is recovering great. She is up and moving about. Slow, but still moving.

Thanks to all that prayed for our family. They were obviously answered. Praise God for that.

Do you see anything wrong with this picture?

Let me just start by saying that Darrin has been working 12 hour days for over 7 days now and Halle and I miss him terribly. After this weekend of it being just Halle and I Saturday and Sunday ALL day long, Darrin leaving before 5am and not getting home until 7 or 8pm, I raise my hat to all those single mothers out there! So, I said all of that to say yesterday afternoon while I was in the kitchen trying to get dinner ready and Halle fed she was in the highchair I thought eating when I turned around and found a piece of carrot on her head and mac and cheese smeared all over her face. When I finally gave in took her out of her highchair, what little bit of hair she has was matted to her head from carrot juice and I assume mac and cheese. She was so tired that she decided it would be fun to play in her food instead of eat it. I thought it was too funny not to share.

Huge Prayer Request

I normally don't do this, but have come to realize the more people there is praying for one person the better. This morning after getting home from Church I got a call from my mother saying that my 101 year old great-grandmother was being taken to the hospital by ambulance due to hemorrhaging. I know that she has lived a very long life and has seen and done more than any of us every will, but I pray that she will be comfortable and God's will, will be done whatever it may be. Please keep our family in your prayers.

My mother is thankfully in town (from Texas). She, my sister and baby Rhae will be leaving Tuesday flying out to Omaha, Nebraska to take Rhae to the OI clinic. Please pray that they will have a safe trip there and back and that Rhae will get good reports.

My aunt Kaye had another back surgery this past Monday and is recovering from that. She is in pain and can move around a little, but still needs all the prayers that she can.

I have said all of this to say as we speak our family is trying to make several different decisions on who will go with my grandmother to Evergreen where my great-grandmother lives in a nursing home. Someone will have to stay here with my grandfather who has dementia because he can no longer take care of himself. They will be taking him tomorrow to the nursing home to stay until my grandmother can get back. So, with my mother flying out on Tuesday, my uncle needing to be here with is wife whom just had back surgery and someone needing to stay with my grandfather and someone needing to drive my grandmother. Whoa. I hope that all made sense because my brain is on overload. Anyway, just please keep our family in your prayers that everyone gets to where they need to go and be safely.

One last prayer request. My dad was scheduled to have a small surgery this past Monday himself and due to a problem with the blood work was unable to have it. He is scheduled to have it in three weeks. Please pray that he will be able to have the surgery and that everything will go as planned.

I hope you all have a great week and hope to be posting wonderful things soon.

Creative Saturdays

Well, Darrin has been working 12 hour days this past week and is having to work this weekend as well due to an outage they are having at work. So, while Halle and I were bored at home, I came up with something new for us to do. After all, I was sick of playing peek-a-boo ALL day long and all the toys were getting old very quickly. Here is Halle's newest fun. She loves crawling in and out and for me to say peek-a-boo when she pokes her head out.

After all the excitement I found her on the floor like this. Exhausted from all the playing.