In memory of my awesome Grandpa Petty

                                          WE love you Grandpa!

Fun at the Virgin river on July 25th

The gorgeous Virgin river.

Toryn's first time playin' in the river!

Smiles in the face of death

My grandpa is dying. He's in the hospital right now as I write this. He has been for a week and a day now. He's 95 years old. He's had a good long life. I love that guy. He's such a strong, sweet old man. He will be well missed in this world. But it amazes me, that as he lay there in his bed slowly letting go, people can still smile and laugh as death calls his name. I've been to visit a few times since he's been there and I've always brought Toryn, my baby girl, with me. And even though, it's a hard and sad thing to watch him go, people just light up when they see her. They smile and play with her, as if sadness wasn't in the room at all.

My grandpa has four children and out of them came lots of grandchildren and out of them more great grandchildren. So my grandpa has a big family and a lot of them have come to visit him in his last days. It's great to see how loved he is. It amazed me how many people have took the time and made special trips to come down and see him. It's awesome. It's great to see everyone. It's just kinda sad that it had to be in these circumstances. But even as it may, we smile and laugh as we talk to each other, chatting, and catching up. My dad makes jokes with people and everyone laughs. It's amazing that even in this heavy-hearted time, people can do that.

Believe me, it hasn't been all smiles and giggles. There's been plenty of frowns and crying, especially when my grandpa is groaning in pain. That seems to be the hardest for everyone. No one wants him to suffer so every one's doing there very best to keep him comfortable as the time draws nearer for him to move on. But even as death cast it's shadow, people still make light in the situation by just loving on my grandpa and enjoying each others company with a smile and a laugh.

The F-Word

I can not explain how much I do not like the F-word. I hate it. I don't hate many things, but I do hate the F-word. Especially when it's flying out of my husband's mouth, like a baseball hitting machine shoots baseballs. I don't like it. They are not particularly aimed at me, mostly he is so frustrated he doesn't know how else to express it so he flings them angrily out into the world. I don't like Toryn to see her daddy like this, but it tends to be things dealing with her that gets him saying this distasteful word. Oh, how I wish he could control his vocabulary. I try to tell him this, but in the heat of the moment it tends to only upset him more. I do not like the F-word. I do not like it at all.

Stumbley Toryn

Toryn's a bit stumbley. I think she may have a had a little too much of the good stuff. She's looks milk drunk. :)

Toryn's really cruisin' now.

Toryn's really moving now. Sometimes she gets going a little too fast and can't keep her balance. It's kinda funny. See for yourself. Oh and if you're wondering what she's playing with at the end that's just plastic cup that was suppose to be in the trash. She likes to pull things out of the garbage. They seem to be some of her favorite toys. :)

My baby girl is growing up so fast and walking now! She's getting to be a big girl. It's fun. :)

Here's one of Toryn beating up her daddy. She likes to do that for some reason. It's pretty funny. :)

Disgusting!!

We have bugs in our house even though the dumb bug guys sprayed a while back. They obviously didn't do a very good job, but we didn't pay so we can't really complain. So yeah, we still have bugs. We have ants, spiders, cockroaches,etc. It's not fun but the worst thing we found last night was maggots on our kitchen floor! And for the life of us we can't figure out where they came from. It's so disgusting! So Joe threw out anything and washed everything that he thought they came from. But I still found a couple more this morning wiggling on my kitchen floor! Yucky. So I grabbed a napkin to kill them and the first one I squished popped! IT was sooooooooo disgusting!!! I freaked out! Bleh. It was so gross. I had to do the other one with my foot cuz I couldn't have another one pop under my finger. I still get the creepy-crawleys thinking about it. I don't like maggots, especially on my kitchen floor! Maggots, cockroaches, and earwigs I do not like. They give me the heeby-jeebies. Most other bugs I can handle as long as they're not on me.

Hopefully we've seen the last of the maggots and  hopefully we can get some bug spray soon for all the others that are invading our house. We must defend our home and we will be victorious!

More parties!

I'm so excited my birthday is this month and then Toryn will be one in August! I can't believe I'm gunna be 26 on the 27th. For some reason that sounds kind of old to me. I was all good being 25 but 26...it's kind of a weird age. I don't know, it's inevitable so I'll just roll with it. :) I'm all stoked to throw more parties though. I'm going to have an Iron Man party for my b-day and then go see Iron Man 2 after cuz I haven't seen it yet. I'm excited! Then my baby girl will be a one year old on August 16th! It's amazing how fast the time goes. I'm going to throw her a baby sesame street party cuz she loves those guys. It'll be so fun! I'm more excited about throwing her party more than mine, but they'll both be fun. :)

My first Tupperware party.

I threw my first Tupperware party last night and I'm glad to say that it was pretty successful. I had five ladies show up and all wanted to buy a couple things, which was cool. It was pretty casual and relaxed. I just had my chocolate fountain and snacks to dip and then my mom made a chocolate cake in the microwave as a demo. I could call it a Chocolate Tupperware party. :) It was yummy and nice to see the ladies. And it will help my mom get rid of some of her overstocked inventory of Tupperware which will be good. So yeah, it went well.