Our January & February 2011 Randoms

We all brought our bikes to the Gibbons house & then rode to Discovery Park on a day off from school...

We got 2 new family members on the Cummard side!!

These 2 boys were born with in 30 minutes of each other & the rooms were back to back.
Made it nice to visit!
CHARLIE is Lee & Sarah's new son & STEELE is Parker & Kanoe's.

One of my latest obsessions is the twist flower clips, so we even made them for KDO at the gym.

Ellie "babysat" a couple of her favorite little ones: Lucy & Hank!

I got to go with the 1st graders to the zoo on a field trip {again}! These 6 are all cousins. Love it.

We had a hard time watching my Grandpa Sherwood get worse with his cancer & etc.
 {I'm gonna ramble for a moment so I don't regret writing a few things for myself to remember}

Some of the things that I'll remember most about him was his goofy faces & happy smile. In the last month or so before he died, Lance, Elle & I went to visit him when he was at a hospice place. He was confused. He was in & out of sleep- from minute to minute. He kept bringing up how he had to go work- he was always busy working or doing, helping, etc. He would tell Lance to help him get his shoes & Lance would tell him it was already taken care of... but in the next minute or so he would say something about needing to go help someone with something again. FINALLY- he gets to rest. That gives me peace. He more than earned it.
 ALSO- that day I had been asking him if anyone had come that day- which I knew a couple of my sisters had been. At first he told me "no"-- and then kind of remembered that one of them was there. At one point he kind of knew who I was but he had been trying to figure out where he knew Lance from. All of the sudden when I said my dad's name- SAM- he said to Lance "Oh that is where I know you from. Sam & Vicki's house." I'm not sure why.. but I asked "Do you recognize me/know me?".... He wanted to say yes, but he hesitated & told me that he wasn't sure. It tore me up. I asked if he knew who {Ellie} the little girl was. He said "Yeah, that is Sam & Vicki's daughter- Suzanne." It was so hard for him to even talk. That was one of the last conversations I had with my grandpa. I lost it- BUT I knew he didn't forget me. He just remembered me being younger & obviously Ellie looks enough like me that he thought it was me. It was sweet. (Plus I like to believe that I was one of his favorites when I was younger... and still while I was grown up.)

We all enjoyed listening to his stories of his life & his life history & I know that we were lucky to have the time that we did with him. 

We love him....He will be missed! We're all glad he is not in any more pain.