Catching Up... Granmar's Funeral

On January 14, my grandmother, known as Granmar died and went to be with Jesus.  She as my last living grandparent.  She would have been 90 on May 17th.  She wasn't the easier person to have a relationship with, but she loved Jesus, people, food, matching her handbags to her shoes, going on trips, and children.  Since I grew up overseas, I didn't know her as well as some of my cousins, or even as well as my younger siblings, who grew up mostly in America.  I'm happy Granmar was able to know all of her great-grandchildren.  She always wanted to hold them and always offered to babysit, even when she could barely walk!

Our whole family was able to be at the funeral and it was nice for the kids to see each other again after such a short time apart.

Playing dress up at Sani's.

Sweet Eamon and Liz.

Great pictures of Granmar and Grandaddy.  She loved flowers.

Cousins Lane, soon-to-be cousin Anthony, Erin, and Mitchell.

Cousins and siblings.

At the graveside.  We all sang "I'm in the Lord's Army" together.

My cousins Hayley's children stayed at Sani's
with our kids and babysitters.  They all did great!
This is Aly. She and Hadley share a birthday.

Morgan, aka Mo-mo.  She is a few months
older than Eamon.

Three year old cousins in the "hugglepod."

After the funeral, we had a great lunch at the Read House hotel.  We went to get our children and came back to a conference room to visit with our cousins.  Unfortunately, Patrick and I let the dog out right before we left and in an attempt to capture him, Patrick slipped and dislocated his shoulder.  Mom too him to the ER and he had months of physical therapy.

College cousins.

Mama cousins.

Cousins Elaine, cousin Martha, and Tate friend Marguerite.
Three red heads!  Martha passed away recently from ovarian cancer.

The girls were having fun drinking Gatorade and playing on
the tile floor.

Lots of pictures of Granmar's life.

Aunt Graham and cousin Judy.

Patrick in his sling.  Poor guy.

iPad sharing time.

Eamon like Arthur and I think Arthur got a little irritated with Eamon.