Catching Up

May Travels

Wow... so I just blinked, and May happened.  Crazy!  The first two weeks of May we spent traveling through France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and Italy.  Trip of a lifetime to be sure!  Through my travels, I've decided that sometime in my life I need to live in the mountains and/or live somewhere cold because my soul just longs for places that are beautiful!  I loved absorbing every second of all of the different cultures we experienced, and it was so fun to just get out of our routine and catch a glimpse of how the rest of the world lives.  We may be writing more on this later... but this is just a quick May/June catch up post for now.

Birthday Boy

We celebrated Scott's big 2-4 at the end of the month by having a Memorial Day BBQ with some of his closest friends over.  We had a blast stuffing our faces and spending time with our besties.

Celebration in Heaven

My sweet grandma (my dad's mom) passed away at the end of May as well.  She had fallen and hurt herself mid-May, and was struggling to recover.  After a few days of being in the hospital, she was transferred to hospice where she spent her final days in peace.  My family was able to go and say our goodbyes to her at this time as we knew she would not be on this Earth much longer.  It was hard to say goodbye, but we know she's in a better place now.:)  

We had some family come into town for the funeral, and Scott and I had the privilege of having my Grandma Helen come stay at our house for a few days!  It was so fun having her around and getting to spend so much quality time.  She is a yoga instructor, massage therapist, and likes to go on hikes with her grandkids!  She is also an active quiltist (is that a word?? now it is!!) and gardener!!  Coolest. Grandma. Ever.:)

She will be truly missed.

Annnnnnnnnnnd of course, today is Father's Day!  We had my family over for a BBQ and then went to As You Wish (a pottery place where you can pick out a piece of blank art work and decorate/paint/stensil/puff paint to your heart's desire!)  Juli bought us 6 ice-cream bowls and we all painted one for my Dad.  Very fun!  I wish I would have taken pictures of all of them.... but I didn't so I'll just have to wait until after it comes out of the kiln!  They all turned out great.  Anyway, I'm convinced I have the best Dad in the whole world and love that there is a whole day to celebrate how wonderful he is. :-)  Love you, Dad!!