One Life To Live and she has lived it to the fullest!

She was born a century ago

She wouldn't wish lonesome on anyone!

Grandma,

Your life has been an amazing book of unconditional love, hard times, great times, travels, and heartache and the stories you have told to all of us in the past will forever be unmatched. You will never know to what depth you have impacted the lives of so many of us and I hope that your legacy will live on forever.

I know your days on this earth are coming to an end and I know you know where you are going and you are more than ready to walk the streets of gold with with your Maker. It was so very hard to see how fast you are failing and it broke my heart so many times when you thought I was Velda because I know you have missed her for many, many years and can't wait to see that daughter of yours who was taken from you far too soon. Please give her a hug for me and my mama too! We all have so many amazing memories, from you doing gymnastics with the girls in the grass, wood tag with all of our friends, hours putting puzzles together, playing board games, chocolate cake and blarney stones and so many more and they will live in our hearts forever.

In your 100 hundred years of life you have done more things and seen more places than most of us would see if we lived to be 200 and I can't imagine the lonesome you feel in your heart. I know you wouldn't wish it on anyone. I don't know why God has chosen to leave you here but Mama says your work on earth is not done. So Grandma, if you complete God's mission that he has for your life before I see you again, please know I love you, I appreciate the life lessons you have taught, and I will one day see you on the other side.

All my love and then some! XOXO

Scary Spooks 3

So really they weren't so scary at all!

Just another Ordinary Day

Really it's not an ordinary day at all.

It's a Friday and Dad is home.

One begged and learned how to mow.

Cassie is home and living under the blanket curled up on the couch just as she should be.

Reece is doing what all great brothers do (figured out how to give his sister a ride on his big wheel and they call themselves a big wheel gang).

Caden is working on baseball, because that's what Caden does.

Gears, gears, gears, are dumped all over the living room floor and creations are being built.

And I'm just glad I don't get to come and sit a spell but get to stay for a lifetime.

A part of Grandpa Bob has landed...

close enough for my kids to sit in it.

As I was sitting at Janet's yesterday waiting for her to arrive with something that belonged to her Daddy and watching my kids play in the backyard, I thought to myself, I wonder how different our Sunday afternoons would be if God hadn't needed Grandpa Bob so soon?

When she finally pulled up and my kids were just as excited to see Aunt Janet as they were to see inside this

Budget truck,I wondered if he was laughing at us from Heaven as Phil, Janet and Jim discussed how in the world they were going to get it out of that truck.

I wonder if he wished they would hurry up, so these three kids could sit in it?

I wondered if he ever thought that it would mean the world to his daughter-in-law to see my kids be able to see a part of who he was?

I wanted to ask so badly but didn't have the courage. I wanted to ask Jim (one of Grandpa Bob's good friends) if he ever thinks how different life would be if Bob was still around.

The wondering soon stopped because there was a plane to be unloaded.

The wings came out first

Then we recruited Darrin Ross from St. Francis which also made me wonder if Grandpa Bob was laughing because here it is, his plane which started out in Northwest Kansas Sunday morning was now in Wichita, Kansas being carried off of a Budget truck by one of his best friends, who moved to Wichita from Bird City and his son and one of his best friends who knew Jim and Janet from Saint Francis and now lives in Wichita. I wonder if he thought it was crazy that here we were on a Sunday afternoon messing with one of his planes and it was a Sunday afternoon when he decided to make his last flight that took him to his forever home.

Janet entered the cockpit and kept the brake on while these 3 men guided her down the make shift runway.

Where she landed safely

and I'm sure she was thrilled that they did not drop her and the plane off of those planks.

Grandpa Bob's plane has a new temporary home in Aunt Janet's garage, but hopefully soon she will have it all restored and she will be the one that will fly my kids around on Sunday afternoons while Grandpa smiles at them from above.

As I looked at this man through the lens of my camera holding his baby girl, I had to wonder if he ever thought while he was unloading this plane what it would be like if life were different. I didn't have to ask him because I already knew the answer.

I have to wonder while these kids were dreaming of flying in this plane someday with Aunt Janet, will they ever know how much they would have been loved by their Grandpa?

I have to wonder, will either one of them someday follow in his footsteps and learn to fly too?

I have to wonder if Grandpa Bob's is smiling down from above and if he will wave at them someday as they nearly touch the sky!

A part of Grandpa Bob has landed and part of him lives in our hearts and will for generations!

We sure do miss you Grandpa Bob!