This Week....

Wonderful lamb cake that my neighbor Joan made for us! 

Once again, this has been a week of extreme highs and lows.  The low was that my father-in-law passed away.  After his wife of 70 years died in October he didn't have a will to live any more.  He was eating little and became more and more distant and died two days short of his 91st birthday.  We had the funeral Friday and our cousin-good friend Dr. Jack Starkey  officiated.  After the funeral at our luncheon, we told old family stories (Larry's uncle was Jack's father.  Larry's dad and Jack's grandfather were brothers...) and some were quite amusing.
Later Larry brought home a diary that Joe had kept the last couple of years.  He had pasted to the cover many of the great grandchildren's pictures.  It touched both our hearts a great deal.  Being the week of Easter, it brought many poignant thoughts to light.  The Savior's death and Resurrection first, and then family and how you just want to keep them all close.  We were lucky enough to see all our kids this week...if not in the same day.

Emma and Bailey last weekend on an Easter egg hunt...

Dad-Mike helping a little

A beautiful warm day so we could spend some of it outside.

Uncle Tim with Mike helping Bailey...push the trike??

Today, the rest of the clan came and it was the "boy's day"!  Love Cooper's expression here after brunch as we begin their egg hunt!

While it was cool out, the boys still wanted to be outdoors....here throwing sticks and  stones in the creek.

It's so much fun to just watch them be boys! 

Did I say it was fun to watch them??

Here they were chasing butter-flies to put under the bug-microscope.

Did they catch one, -nope.  

But I bet they both went home tired little guys.  It was a happy ending to a busy week.  Certainly it  kept me contemplating God, life and family...and making the most of all our time together.  Happy Easter!!