Grandad's Funeral

...finally...

 

Reunited at Last

My Grandpa Going passed away last night around 5pm. Sometimes it's hard to see one of your loved ones be taken from this existence but I know this is better for him. He's not in pain anymore, and now he has finally been reunited with my Grandma who passed away many years ago from cancer.

We've been able to reflect on the value of life quite a bit in the last month with the deaths of both of our grandparents. Here are some things that I will always remember about my Grandpa:

* His love of gardening. No matter where he was living, he was always growing something. Even if that meant growing tomatoes from a bucket on the cement outside his condo

*His amazing garden at the house we lived in while I was young. We had so many different fruits and vegetables.

*The time he got mad at me and my cousins for playing hide-and-go-seek in the corn stalks. oops.

*The jumpsuits - need I say more.

* Hearing stories of his life in New Zealand, hoping someday I'll be able to see some of those places.

*Racing on his Jazzy. I've never seen someone drive out of the house so quickly to get the mail. 

*His love of building things and his many saws and hand tools

I'm so grateful for the time we had to live so close to my Grandpa and learn from his great example of hard work.

This picture was taken last Christmas. I'm sitting next to the sweetest step-Grandma a girl could ever have.

Election Day - Preschool Style

We got up early this morning (5am) to go cast our votes. I was pretty happy when we only had to wait about 40 minutes in the rain, much better than others who had to wait multiple hours!

 

At school today, we got the kids involved in Election day too. They got to make patriotic hats of red, white, and blue. They got to sign their name on their official Primrose Voting Card (which I think were the cutest ever!). And then they cast their ballot of who they wanted to be the class mascot. Their choices were Billy the Duck or Percy the Rooster (both Primrose Pals). They got to vote on what they want for snack tomorrow too - pretzels and cheese or bananas and yogurt. They had a lot of fun and got really excited when we revealed the results of the election.

 

 

I'm proud to announce that Percy the Rooster is now our class mascot! 

They also voted to have pretzels and cheese for snack! We ended the election by reading the book Duck for President. 

Election Day was a great way to introduce the kids to politics. I wonder what I should have them vote on next...

Pumpkin Carving

We had our friends over last weekend for a carving party. We had tons of pumpkins, tons of food, tons of gooey mess, and tons of fun.

I had a lot of fun with making the food festive. We had Ghoul Goop (apple juice, seltzer, and green jell-o) It was interesting :) Our other snacks were Halloween shaped homemade chips and dip, snack mix, candy, BBQ chicken wings, and Brian's amazing pumpkin pie. It was all so yummy.

Here are most of the pumpkins that were carved. Brian and Cameron were still working on some when this picture was taken. Cameron was so nice and made Audrey 2 from Little Shop of Horrors for Haley. Everyone did a great job on their pumpkins!

Happy Halloween everyone!!