HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANNA! ~ 8/28

HAPPY 12TH BIRTHDAY, ANNA! Pack your day full of fun and make this coming year the BEST EVER before you begin your teenage years! Love you, honey.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SHANNON! ~ 8/26

Happy 30th birthday, Shannon!! May this day be the beginning of a new decade that treats you well in every way! May your dreams come true and fill you with happiness. Enjoy the journey and we send you the best of our wishes! May you be blessed with many more!

30 HUGS to you, girl!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MIC ~ 8/25

HAPPY 65TH BIRTHDAY, MIC!! This deserves a celebration like no other! Go have a day you will remember forever. Be a kid and forget the age thing. Keep smiling, be of good spirit and give every day all the love you can. We love you, Mic, and are blowing a kiss your way! Congratulations and wishes for many more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY BERN AND TERI ~ 8/23

Happy 15th anniversary! Wishing you a day filled with joy and smiles! May you be blessed with many more! Congratulation! With love from your family.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY RANDY & KATHY 8/17

Happy 21st anniversary! May your celebration be lovely! We wish you many many more years of happiness together! Hugs to you.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NATE~ 8/16

hAPPY 27TH bIRTHDAY! No, good luck to you! Hopes of a day filled with surprises and laughs! May this be the best year ever! Enjoy a night with the wife! Hugs to you, man.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARIA ~ 8/14

Happy 4th birthday! We hope today gives you many good stories!
Have a great party and eats lots of your favorite food! Four is Fun, Funny, Fantastic, Fancy and a Fairytale! With Hugs and Kisses.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MIRANDA ~ 8/14

HAPPY 12TH BIRTHDAY! HOPE YOU HAVE A SUPER FUN DAY! May all your dreams come ture, young lady! Love you always.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY AL & KAREN ~ 8/13

Happy 40th anniversary!! Hope you are enjoying your get-away Up North under the full moon! May all the rest of your years be smooth sailing filled with many smiles and great times! May you be blessed with many many more! With Love.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MELYNDA 8/9

Happy 38th birthday! Have a delightful celebration and may the next year bring you much sweet sunshine! Wishing you many many more. Love to you from all of us.

Happy 36th birthday! May your day be filled with sunshine and the next year bring you much joy! Wishing you many many more! Love from the "L" bunch.

MEMORIES

Love you always, love you forever.

Grandma Fan is now saying goodbye...

Shivers wrestle their way across the muscles, bones, and flesh of my body just writing the title to this post.  We've experienced death before with this family, but it's usually been a miscarriage with a life cut short.  It's been many years since Grandma Gert went to live with God. We still have great memories. We also still grieve her loss.  If only my kids could have tasted her chocolate milk on on hot summer day or seen the look of pure joy her eyes gave out to her grandchildren most every time we entered her kitchen for a family visit.

Death is suppoesd to hurt a bit less as people age. We are supposed to die eventually.  But we are not.  We were meant to live with God among us on this earth.  We were meant to live forever, but somehow we do not yet live in that reality.  Until then, we will live with pain, hurt, and tears. The shivers will continue as we know a funeral is coming and Grandpa will be burying his second wife. We will share memories of Grandma Fan for decades to come as well. She was such a natural second grandma.  She loved us and my grandpa well.

Life is not supposed to be this way.  Until God lives more completely among us, hold me tight.  I'm shaking like a leaf on a tree in a summer storm, and I want to believe everything will be o.k.  But sometimes I'm not so sure... Just don't tell me God meant for it to be this way or that it's all in God's plan.  Death was never in God's plan.  Pain was never in God's plan. That isn't the way of God... and I'm sensing the winds are increasing....  I want to go hold my grandpa's hand like my eight year old boyhood of thirty-seven years ago did on many occasions.