Let me begin by saying thank you to all of you for your prayers during the loss of my Mam-maw (grandmother). She passed away last week after coming out of surgery for colon cancer. She lived such a blessed life for 92 years. She had 6 children, 12 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren. She was a strong Christian lady who today is up in heaven with her husband, Pap-paw, her son Jerry and her daughter,my mom, Joyce. What a reunion they are having. My Uncle Mike and I were talking and we said we can never remember her saying a bad thing about anyone or we never heard her say one curse word....what a Christian lady. I wish I could be half the woman, mom, wife, sister, Mam-maw that she has been. She has touched so many lives and it's wonderful to know pieces of her remain in all of us.
We flew out last Thursday as a family and came home on Monday. It was great to see all my family even though the circumstances weren't the best. We did our best to celebrate her life. I can just remember having every Sunday lunch after church at her house and loving her fried chicken meal, sweet tea topped with coconut pie....what a meal. No one could cook like her. I only wish I had paid better attention because there are things that she cooked that you can't find in a cookbook.
She also use to hand quilt quilts and I am so grateful she finished the quilt Mom and I had started right before Mom died.
The boys are doing great even though Colby managed to bring home a double ear infection. We went to the doctor yesterday and he is currently on antibiotics.
Austin is now counting to 10 and it's the cutest thing. He is also repeating EVERYTHING he hears, so we have to be very careful. I whispered to him on the plane to stop playing with the tray on the seat and he very loudly said "no you stop it" the whole plane started laughing. He is also saying "hello darlin" as Natalie taught him.
We had a heat wave today here in Utah as we hit a big whopping 50 degrees. We took the boys to the park for about 45 minutes and they loved it. They really loved the slide and I see us spending many many hours at the park this summer.
Austin decided out of the blue to go head first and he thought it was so funny.
We hope everyone is doing well and we just want you to know we miss you and love you.
Alexa and family.
