A Funeral, A few birthdays, Father's Day, and well nothing went as planned

As I mentioned in my last post we lost Ben's grandmother, Grandma Lilly, last weekend.  We headed over to MO to attend the funeral on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Grandma had a good life, she was 87 and is no longer suffering, in a better place, so it was more of a celebration of life than time to mourn.

We also got to see cousins and family that, well, we just don't get to see very often other than events like this.

Girl's have taken over the Werner family.  When Ben was growing up it was like 7 boys and 1 girl and now the Great Grandkids are all girls and 1 boy I think!!

Mallory had a ball running around, most literally, with her cousins and meeting other family.

Here's her and Grammy at the lunch after the funeral.

Thursday was back to work and Zumba for me, Ben had to head to Chicago after the funeral, so it was just me with Bean until Friday night when he got back.

I woke up at 2:30 am on Friday morning when a stomach bug hit me.  That pretty much kept me totally down all day Friday.  And to make it worse, Mallory had to be home with me because Tiffany and her family had headed to the beach on Friday (although come to find out she got sick Friday am as well and called into the dr for some meds so they could get on the road, just later than planned) and Mom was working and Ben was out of town. 

So me with a nasty virus trying to somewhat tame a 2 year old.  needless to say the house looked like a war zone because as long as it wasn't something that was going to hurt her, I really didn't care what she did or what she pulled out.

I was SOOOOO ready for Ben to get home Friday night so he could take over watching her and guess what, she fell asleep in her chair about 10 minutes before he got home and didn't wake up until the next morning!  He got off easy.

Saturday was my birthday and I had big plans, go get my bike, then go to Hot Yoga, spend the afternoon at the pool and then go with Ben to the Black Horse to eat.  Yeah, well, only half that happened.

I did feel better Saturday morning, but I knew I wasn't in any condition for Hot Yoga, so we slept in and I went and got my bike.  Oh and I found out that now Mom had the virus, great.
 
Got my bike, yeah, now I just have to feel well enough to ride it!



Came home and then after lunch, although I still wasn't hungry, Bean and I went to the pool for a couple hours.

Since mom was now sick and I was in no place to enjoy a good meal and beer at the Black Horse, I told Ben he could play in the glow ball tornament instead.  Bean and I rode around with him in the golf cart for about 3 holes.


Bean and I headed home and watched Cars on tv and crashed.

Oh, and I found out Ben's mom was also sick on Friday, so far it's hit 4.

Now 5, Sunday, and Dad's got it.  So scratch all the Birthday/Father's Day plans for Sunday night.  We will just plan on doing it all next weekend.

So now I'm just enjoying a lazy Sunday afternoon watching it rain.  I feel a little more crummy today than yesterday so I'm just trying to take it easy.

Here's a few other pictures.

Bed Head!!!

Stealing Daddy's Orange Juice!

Mallory playing with lip gloss....obviously the little chat we had about keeping it on your LIPS didn't stick....

My sleeping beauty!

Kicking back watching it rain!!

Relay For Life and we lost one as well

This weekend was Relay For Life in Todd County.

My Bunco Group has been having fundraisers since earlier this year and Friday night was the ending shebang.  Unfortunately the woman who was in charge of the TC one this year never really involved any of us in any of the meetings or communications for that matter and did a very poor job of advertising, so it was probably the worst Relay I’ve ever been to, but we were there and we did our part.

I guess the only good thing to come out of a smaller relay is they decided to close down shop at midnight which suited me just fine.  I’m not one for staying up all night anymore anyway and I’m pretty sure none of us will be involved with it next year after the way things happened this year.

So that was how I spent Friday night. 

Saturday morning we got up and I worked on doing some house work and then Bean and I went Grocery shopping.  That’s when Ben called to say his grandmother had passed away.  We’ve known for several months that there was nothing else they could do for her so it was probably just a matter of when.  Thankfully she’s in a better place now and we will be heading to MO for the funeral on Tuesday and Wednesday.

So Bean and I wrapped up grocery shopping and our plan was to then go to the pool but someone fell asleep on the way home and then proceeded to sleep until 4:30!  So we went for a little while when she got up but we were probably barely there 45 minutes.

Oh well.  We made some grilled pork chops for dinner and had a nice evening at home.

Sunday was church and the plan was to go to the pool after church and lunch but it was rainy and cloudy, so no go on the pool.  We cleaned up some more and then headed to Clarksville for a few things.  Came back and had Susan and Nick and Heather and Jason over for burgers and fixings. 

And another weekend went by way too quickly.

Elmo butt makes for the best sleeping aid!



Having fun with her new potty!



Everytime she goes she will get an Elmo sticker on her pot, although we aren't actively in training mode yet.



Having fun by Grammy's fern!

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The Zoo, and, oh, THE HOUSE IS SOLD!!!!

we FINALLY closed on Thursday afternoon, I'm so excited. Turns out we know the brother of the girl who bought it, funny.




That's a huge RELIEF!!

Friday night I did a "paint and sip" with the girls. In other words, you drink wine, socialize and somehow manage to paint a picture during that time. Turned out pretty well, Ben was impressed. He said he wasn't sure what to expect, lol!





Saturday Dad and Ben were cutting wheat, so Mom and I took Bean to the Louisville Zoo for the NICU reunion. It was great since it was barely 70 degrees on Saturday!!




This was not for us but I found it hilarious!





When we got home Mallory found one of the very few pairs of heels I own and decided they are now hers:


Then she decided to take a few pictures of herself:



We were having fun in the tub Sunday night:


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Pool Time and Memorial Day Weekend!

Yay for the long weekend! 
We spent lots of time (with lots of sunscreen) at the pool this long weekend.
It was our first weekend at the Elk Fork Country Club, where I grew up going to the pool, as did Mom.
It hasn't changed much, but it's a good size pool, there's normally someone around for the kiddos to play with and it's never too crowded.
So we spent Friday afternoon late, Saturday, and Sunday there.  Monday we went over to Jarrod's (a good friend from college who lives about 15 miles away) house with his wife Traci and their 2 kiddos and swam in their pool! 
Swimming makes for long naps and good nights sleep for Bean!
Ben and Nick played 9 holes of golf Sunday afternoon, so overall we had a good and relaxing weekend.
I have a few pictures below.
One day soon I should be able to make a post saying we've closed on this house, close, but not yet.  Hopefully tomorrow.  Grrrrr.  It's driving me nuts!







Swimming is hard work, must refuel!


Donning her swim gear!


Me and Bean waiting to eat at Cracker Barrel


Our first ever painted toe nails!!


Playing on the ranger


That's how Walmart spells Momma.....


Celebrating Memaw's Birthday!





Mallory trying to plug in her play phone into the charger.

Getting Closer!

We are getting closer and closer to having this house sold!

Ben and I went back up Saturday am to get the final stuff, vacuum and say fair well!

Didn't take long! Other than dropping off the garage door opener and couple extra keys, we are done!!

Looks like we may close this coming Friday!!!!

I spent this weekend cleaning and organizing so I can spend ALL of next weekend at the pool with Bean and Sue!

In other news, I'm running another half marathon, in December, in Memphis, where it's FLAT!! Yippee!

Here's some pictures:

Mom and dads geese with their 3 babies!


Damnit the turkey made it home in one piece:


Mallory FINALLY letting me give her pig tails!!


She decided to wear my swim cap on the Ranger ride to mom and dads to get in the hot tub.



Daddy's way to put on headbands....hippy baby I guess!!


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Mother's Day Weekend and a Move

Mother’s Day Weekend and a Move

I’m afraid Mother’s Day weekend pretty much was overshadowed
by the need to get everything out of our house this weekend. 

The appraisal came back good, so back to the back to
underwriting again and we should close late this week or early next week.  I am SO ready to close.

But that means all the crap that we left in the house needs
to be removed because we set it up so they could take possession at the
closing.

Friday Ben and I went up and loaded boxes and as much of
anything else that we could.

We came back to Elkton in time for the 5K I had registered
for sometime ago.  It was at 5:30
PM.  Susan and I did it while pushing M
in the stroller in 37:07.  Improving, I
still want to be under 35 minutes soon.

Here’s a few pictures of that.

Saturday Ben, myself, Mallory, Mom and Susan headed back to
Utica and Bud and Susan met us there as well. 
So we spent ALL DAY loading up the rest of our crap, another full semi
load full.  We have a lot of stuff that
we need to get rid of.

We came home Saturday night and crashed.  Sunday it was church and then Bud and Susan
headed back to Sikeston, so it just wasn’t much of a fun Mother’s day for any
of the mother’s in our immediate family. 
I need to figure out how to best make that up to everyone!

Sunday night we went over to Aunt Sharon’s for a Mother’s
Day dinner there which was nice.  We took
a few pictures and here’s some of those.

Fingers crossed we get this house scheduled for closing
asap!!

Slacking

Sorry I've been slacking lately in posting, trying to get everything finished up with the house has just been eating into time.
I'm still waiting on the appraisal to come back on our house in Utica and as long as that's fine (fingers, toes, legs all crossed) we should close next week.  I just don't think I'll rest easy until it's closed.
Here's a few pictures of Bean from the last couple weeks, I know that's what people want most anyway : )