Girly Girl

Nora is such a girl. She loves all that is shiny and sparkly. And her dolls, loves her dolls. I never thought I would have a girly girl since I was a tomboy but she's very cute with it all. My sister started brushing Nora's hair yesterday and Nora probably could have fallen asleep with her doing that, she loved it. This is our bike carrier. Lucas loves it and Nora as you can tell doesn't enjoy it that much.

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Dad remembered.....

Dad's memorial was today. I think it went well and mom felt loved. Attached is the video that I made for the service.

My brother Chris wrote and read a beautiful history of my dad.

It was good but we still miss Dad!

Family Day

Friday is usually our family day since I work on saturdays and Ted works on Sundays. Lucas is really into us "being a family" in other words, all being together. We decided to drive up to Wallace Falls (outside of Gold Bar) to do a little hike. Well, Lucas loves to throw rocks into rivers, lakes, basically any body of water. His feet got dunked into the river early on in the hike. So I gave him my 2nd pair of socks and then wraped his feet in plastic and then into the wet shoes. Pretty clever if I do say so myself. He didn't complained and he hiked a little longer. Our hike didn't even hit a mile and then we went back. It was a beautiful hike but we've decided to go to St Ed's or Discover Park from now on. Keep it close until they can go longer distances.

Our Garden

We dared to start a garden this year. Summer had a late start this year so I'm not quite sure how well it will do. I've enjoyed it. The day Dad died we had a dragonfly buzzing around in the garden. Dad loved dragonflies the last few years. It was a nice quiet reminder of Dad on a sad day.

Our garden has tomatoes, corn, squash, onions, lettuce and some herbs. Pray we have a big harvest!

Some Pictures....

Thought I hadn't put many pictures of Nora so here's one from yesterday. She's getting a lot happier since she can walk.

Ted and Lucas camped out in the backyard last night while Grandma spent the night with us after her knee surgery. Grandma and mom tried to get Nora to go to sleep while reading to her in Lucas' room. A 3 generation of girls.

Friend Luc

Lucas has a special friend named Lucas too. He calls him "Friend Luc" and Friend Luc calls Lucas "Trigg". They are moving in August and so we are trying to have a lot of fun with them before they leave. We all went to the fountain at the center and had ice cream on the 4th of July. Friend Luc's sister Rayna is in the shots too. She calls Nora "Nuna". Lucas loves Friend Luc. They went to preschool together and basically only wants to do things with Friend Luc so it will be interesting how life will be like after they're gone. Their whole family is very dear to us and we will miss them a lot.

Buddies

Life goes on with love and laughter. Lucas here with his neighborhood buddies.

I'm at mom's today helping her clean and go through some things. Mostly Dad's clothes, boy! he loved clothes. I think more than most women I know. He had a lot!
It's been a week and periods of grief still come and I'm sure they will keep coming.

This last saturday was Ted and my 5th Anniversary. He was going to get a ring tattoo but the place we go to will not tattoo all the way around the finger since it wears off so quickly. But then we saw a lady later that day that had it all around her finger and it looked fine. Oh well! We had fun going to the market and out to lunch. Then we got pedicures. Ted will hate it that I put that piece of info on our blog. Oh well, e-mail and make fun of him. He's a great husband and fabulous father. The Lord has truly blessed me, Lucas and Nora.