One Sweet World

Apr 9, 2011

Beautiful Saturday here in the Bay Area. Playing at the park by the water. Pretending to be Rapunzel and enjoying the breeze.

Girls...here are some of my very best memories of Granny Pa. Things I want you to remember. Stories that I will share with you as you grow. Lessons I hope to share with you during your childhood.

Dear Granny Pa:

My very first memories of you were in your kitchen. Me with one of your aprons tied around my 5 year old waist and you with yours on. Cooking. We always cooked. One day I read about "cream puffs" and I asked you what they were. Later that day we were making them. They were so yummy!

Every Thanksgiving we made "chocolate goo". We made Fried Pies for Daddy. On Sundays we make Buttermilk Pies and had Mom and Dad over. You are the kind of person that can taste something in a restaurant and go home and duplicated it...perfectly.

Your patience with me was amazing. I am sure I was a little too eager a time or two. Or didn't measure exactly at some point. But you never cared. You always smiled and helped me.

I remember going into your closet and dressing up. Sara and I would come out decked out in hats, dresses, shoes and you took pictures. Lots of them. You loved your camera. We have hours and hours of video that you took of us. Thank you for capturing us. Those are memories we will have for a lifetime. Ones we will be able to show our children.

Summer Lunches with you and Miss Lucille @ Swensen's. Their amazing bubble gum ice cream or the sundae's with the chocolate wafer cookies. Those lunches were so special to me and my sister. We always dressed up and lunch usually took about 2 hours and ended with you and Miss Lucille talking about how you shouldn't have eaten the ice cream. It was so funny.

I have more memories that I will save for another post. These are just a few that I wanted to share with you. Thank you for being an amazing, loving, caring Grandmother. I love you very, very much.

Spring 2011

We have had a busy Spring so far. We have visited GamMa and Pa, Clayton and Brit and Karisa and Andrew. We have been camping and to the rodeo.

Tay, you are very aware of your surroundings and people around you. Very curious about peoples different skin tones and very aware about different languages. You are spelling and very close to reading thanks to Ms. Linda. She has taught you so much this year. You are very particular about things in life. You are also still super sweet and loving.

Megs, you are always happy. You love everyone all the time. You are always conscious about others feelings and fall apart when you get in trouble. You like school but would rather be at home. You too are spelling words ad get very excited when you get something right. I call you my dandelion floating in the breeze.

Together you are best friends. You love playing together and enjoy each other's company. You love pretending and playing princess.

We have more fun coming this Spring and I can't wait!!!