Showing posts with label Great Grandpa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great Grandpa. Show all posts

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Visiting my Grandma

This past Friday and Saturday we* went to Ogden to visit with my grandma. As I said her health is rapidly declining and we aren't sure how much longer she will be with us.

*includes me, Isaac, Anna, my parents, Jan, Joe and Melanie and their kids.

We left Friday afternoon and stayed in a hotel that night. Thanks to Joe's Marriott discount, it wasn't bad. We had a nice dinner at Cracker Barrel before we went over to Grandma's. I got some pictures of my parents holding baby Levi, he's a cutie!


We spent some time with Grandma Friday night, she was much more responsive than she had been. I fed her a little Jell-o and gave her some water. I sang to her, Jan rubbed her feet and brushed her hair a little. She is simply an angel! She responded well to Joe and Melanie's new baby, Levi. She loves babies!

After a little bit, most everyone headed back to the hotel, but a few of us stayed behind to help with a family history project. My aunt Georgia is here from Denmark, to spend time with her mom and to help with things around the house. She is also trying to get some pictures and obituaries and other sources uploaded to family search before she takes a bunch of it back to Denmark with her, so we helped with that. It was actually pretty fun and interesting to just upload pictures with my phone and attach them to family search profiles.

On Saturday, I felt like I should stay at the hotel with Melanie to help her with her kids. We went to the pool and watched them there. They had a great time! Eve stretched out and said, "now this is what I call relaxing!" It was so cute.

I took some slow motion videos of them jumping in the pool, and they loved that!

Melanie and I took a poolside selfie with Levi
Silly kids in the hotel room after swimming.
I'm glad that we went, it was nice to spend time with my sweet Grandma
and the kids had some fun cousin time.

Monday, June 23, 2014

Great Grandpa's Ties

I've been helping out with some cleaning and stuff at my Grandma's house and my uncles house in Ogden. I was happy to have the chance to get some of my Grandpa Elmer's ties. My boys each wore one to church yesterday. They never got the chance to know him because he died when I was about 14. I always felt a closeness to him though because I was born on his birthday. He was such a great man.
My maternal grandpa George Wilford Elmer.
Dallin, Isaac and Noah wearing the ties.
I think they look great!