Grandkids – Gracious Rain

September 6, 2025October 22, 2025

An Otter For Skylie

While I was gone, I had and enormous amount of certainty that I would spend all my waking hours crocheting my guts out…for the Farmer’s Market.

Vacation or no vacation, I told myself, it had to be done. I have a booth to run. It was the only responsible thing to do!

Trouble is that I’m apparently an immediate gratification sort of chick, and there were these really adorable kids that desperately needed what I was making.

Needed.

Neeeeeeeded.

Good Grammy’s never ignore their grandchildren’s needs.

Goes without saying.

PS– Love you Skylie!

Original pattern from LorettasLoops on Etsy

September 3, 2025October 20, 2025

Road Trip- Day 6 Heading Home

Ok, this is my LEAST favorite thing about roadtrips….

having to say good-bye to a big chunk of my heart.

Ooooh, I’m going to miss this sweet guy…

and his family….SO, so much.

The cousins will miss each other too. It was just all so dang FUN!!

It’s so strange to drive away from these guys who just lived down the road a few months ago. Kind of awful, actually. Feels like we should all be going “home” together.

Deep breaths. Deep breaths.

Good-bye sweet family—I love you!!

August 31, 2025October 19, 2025

Road Trip- Day 3 Sunday

We woke up to a glorious, HUGE breakfast that Dane made while we were all still sleeping. This guy is awesome.

Next, sacrament meeting with the families.

And, no, I probably shouldn’t be taking pictures during the prayer. But tell me this little guys isn’t the cutest thing you’ve ever seen.

I couldn’t help myself.

Dane taught the Gospel Doctrine class…

and even had the missionaries help.

He is such a good teacher…and SO handsome!

Afterwards the kids came back from their classes and we got ready to go home.

The ladies made us another lovely feast.

Merrick chose to postpone his “birthday” cake until we came to visit, so we gave him our presents too and had a mini birthday party for him.

Then we headed back to church for the whole reason that we came to Arkansas…

Merrick turned eight…

and today was his baptism day!!

So proud of this sweet boy and his family.

Josh did the tech stuff so the folks back home could tune in.

April and Lily…

were in charge of the music.

The Bishop spoke.

I spoke too, but there is no physical evidence. Thank goodness.

What a wonderful day. Congratulations Merrick!

I sure do love these people.

August 6, 2025September 28, 2025

Warrior Birthday Party

Jillian tried something new this year for her boy’s birthday. It was a family or group or company that puts on warrior parties. They are called Battle Birthdays.

They supply all the foam “swords” and shields and whatever else is needed for a bunch of battle games.

Now, you know perfectly well that all the people with any smarts about them stayed perfectly “put” undercover in the pavilion. No swinging swords and crazed warriors running around us.

Nope.

I will say though that it was fun to see all the enthusiastic engagement from the ummmmm….

grown men.

Apparently, this was their kind of kids party!

In fact, I almost lost track of the kids completely because it was so much fun watching the big guys.

I think we need to find out if these guys do more than just children’s parties. If they do…we should definitely book them a few more times…

if you get my drift.

Check out this adorable cake that Jillian made with the little sour patch warriors on the top!! She is soooo good at making whatever cake the kids want. It’s amazing.