Tuesday, January 26, 2010

My Grandma Grape(Gray)

Ok so today is a sad day. My sweet little Grandma died today. It is also her birthday. My grandma has been sick for a long time now, so we knew it was only a matter of time, but I am still going to miss her so much. This is the last time I saw my grandma. We went to visit and let her meet Sammie. We sang for her at the nursing home. My grandma loved music! She loved to dance and listen to music. Every year at Thanksgiving when I was a kid we would pack all of my dad's P.A. equipment and take it to Vernal so that we could put on a show for Grandma.

When I think of my Grandma I think of how I used to call her Grandma Grape when I was little. I actually thought that was her name! I didn't know it was actually Gray till I got older. I also remember her sitting in her yellow kitchen drinking tea and doing her cross word puzzles. She loved to do cross word puzzles and play tivial pursuit! She had a great memory and would kick everyone's butt!

I also remember that grandma loved to do the laundry. She would wash the clothes and then go hang them on the line out back. She also loved cloudy skies. Nothing made her more happy than a nice cloudy day. She also loved to people watch out her front window while she washed the dishes. I also remember that Grandma made the best food. It didn't matter what she made, it always tasted soo good. I loved it when she would make breakfast for me. She would always go all out. She would make french toast, bacon, and eggs. She made sure you left that table with a way full tummy!


My favorite memory of my grandma has got to be when Jeremy and Gabe decided to cook a quail in grandma's kitchen at 10:00 at night. They made this smelly marinade to go on it and it stunk uo the whole house. Grandma was already alseep when they started cooking it. The nasty smell woke up grandma and when she saw that they had messed up her nice, clean kitchen she was more mad than I have ever seen her. She stormed into the kitchen with her hair all crazy from sleep and yelled, "What in the Sam Hell do you think you are doin? You better clean up this mess of I'll tan you're hides!" The best part was that the rest of us were watching and trying so hard not to laugh! We knew that if we laughed then grandma would get after us next. After grandma went back to bed the rest of us laughed till we cried. I love my grandma and I will miss her dearly. I am sad that my kids will not get to know her like I did.



Friday, January 8, 2010

New Year's Eve

My brother-in-law Josh came to visit. While he was here, we dyed his hair green with purple highlights.

For New Years we went to a friend's house. They had a fire pit in the back yard and that is where we stayed most of the night. I got so cold that I sat right next to the fire, in fact I sat so close that I caught my shoes on fire!

Von and I. We don't really take very many pictures of the two of us any more.


Von and Josh. It is funny that once you get these two together they revert back to their teenage days! They were being pretty funny! Hope everyone had a great New Year's! I also hope that all of your New Year's resolutions are going well. So far mine are going well. I am working hard every day to get ready for my 5k. Running is a lot harder than I thought it was going to be!



Friday, January 1, 2010

These are my cute little nephews, Keith and Lavon. They have gotten so big!

Here is all of the family! We were only missing Heather's husband Joe.

Sammie is opening her Christmas presents. She got pretty spoiled!


We hardly ever take pics of the three of us, so I thought it would be nice to get one! Sammie was not really in the picture taking mood. She was tired, you can tell because when she gets tired she sucks her fingers! Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!