Happy Birthday Gramma Betty - a Great 77 years

Saturday was my mother-in-law's 77th birthday! She is suffering with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) and is no longer able to swallow at all and is only able to communicate in writing. We are all facing the fact that she is failing and this may well be her last birthday. In honor of her big day, we got all of the family possible together for her day. There were in total - 3 sons, 2 daughters-in-law, 7 grandkids, 8 great grandchildren and 10 friends! It was a fun day and she looked so happy to have them all there.

Here's to Gramma Betty - wishing you comfort and peace as you struggle through each day. Know that we love you so much and are so lucky to have you in our lives.

Megan made a fabulous scrapbook page for Gramma about the things she learned from her. i cannot say things better about Gramma so I will just include this picture . . .

Failed miserably

Well, my best intentions just weren't good enough. I could give a lot of excuses including my 37th birthday, going back to work more regularly, closing of the candy store, volunteering in kids classrooms, registering Chase for kindergarten, etc, etc, etc - but I won't.

Life has been busy but I have enjoyed some fun craft time and had to post a picture of the cards and birthday calendar book I made for my sister's birthday (and she loved them too!).

It is late and I just got the last batch of butterhorns out of the oven so I am head to bed.

Good night!