Celebration of Life

My Grandmother Geraldine Bos passed away Tuesday afternoon while on a cruise with my Grandfather. She was a beautiful, strong, and wise person who loved God dearly and strove to serve him daily. I want to remember her as the stubborn and hysterical woman that she was. She had a rough last few years here on earth due to a stroke that occurred post open heart surgery in 1997. Sometimes she was totally cohesive and other times terribly confused but through it all she was always willing to laugh it off. For instance:

The last time we saw her was Thanksgiving (when Dan and Kristy announced their pregnancy with Kaylee). When she arrived at the house she promptly hugged Kristy and told her "Happy Anniversary!"

The day before that my mother served her spaghetti with Italian deer sausage and she asked my mother "well, how did you know the deer was Italian?"

At our wedding she made silly faces at Dan and Kristy the entire time they were on the alter and when the ceremony was over she told Kristy that she liked her wedding the best (you know the one that was going to happen the following June :) )

She loved to crochet and even though her fingers were tired and fragile she still made both of her great grand children beautiful blankets for their arrivals. My grandfather called my brother before grandma sent the blanket to Kaylee warning them that it was not her best craftsmanship. When they received the blanket they realized it was full of dropped stitches and much longer on one end then the other. She worked her fingers to the bone out of pure love for her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. Dan and Kristy call it Kaylee's Linus blanket (from the Peanuts cartoon).

We love you grandma and know that you are finally able to dance again! We are so glad that your pacemaker will no longer keep you up at night tick, tick, ticking. And that darn left foot will no longer get in your way! You are a great source of love and inspiration to us all. We look forward to the day when we are united with you again. For now please give our love to our two precious babies. We know they are thrilled to meet their GiGi for the first time. We love you!

Air Show & Zoo Boo

We had an awesome weekend full of great family time. Saturday we headed to Sugar Land to help the Lions club at the Sugar Land Airport. They had a great static airplane display and tons of fun for the kiddos. Curtis loved to look at and "fly" all the airplanes (aaaiiirr-pane).

He was really excited to have his hand painted with a "bue sarr" (blue star) until he realized that it wouldn't come off...

Then on Sunday we went to Zoo Boo . We actually got him to wear a costume! My aunt Nancy sent him some Batman PJ's and they were adorable! Tonight Jacob and I are going out on a much needed date night! Hope you had a great weekend too!

Awesome family time

Curtis is asleep in my arms so I only have one hand to type, but I wanted to thank Dan and Kristy for a great day yesterday! Be sure to check out all the pictures on Picasa.

What a difference a year makes

How did this happen?

In just one year! (Check out more pictures from the pumpkin patch on our Picasa site, too cute!). By the way please don't expect to see some super cute costume pictures in a few days because you will be sorely disappointed. He just WILL. NOT. DO. IT! He told me he wanted to be a lion this year. We looked at pictures on line and talked about it for days. We went out today to buy a super cute lion costume (he practiced his roar and everything). As soon as he saw it he started to freak out. He screamed the entire time I tried to finagle his octopus arms into the suit. Not worth the heartache for my little guy! Maybe I can modify more normal clothes to be a baseball player or beach bum or something. Jacob suggested letting him go topless with blue shorts and a cape and calling him Superman. Naked...now that a costume he would love! No lion this year that's for sure!

Fingerpainting Fun

I am always looking for some fun ways to let Curtis get good and dirty. After all boys need to be dirty at least ninety percent of their life to be consitered true men. Curtis has fingerpainted before but this time he actually got more paint on the paper than on himself. Huge improvement! Now that he has developed more language I love to quiz him to see what he can remember from the activity we just completed. Today I asked him what he drew and he remembered that we drew Jesus ("sesus"), circles ("cirk"), and his name though all he could remember was the letters "R" and "I". It is so much fun to see what his little brain can compute. The only color that he could remember was blue but then again every time you ask him what color something is he always resonds "bue". He is at such a fun age! Watching him learn and explore daily is such a joy.

Chug! Chug! Chug!

Here is Curtis in his very first (and Mommy prays his last) chugging contest...(rootbeer of course)

Eyes closed in concentration.

And look who won...

Daddy was so proud.

Me and Little Man

Because of my miscarriage, surgery, and then hurricane Ike, it has been a LONG time since Curtis and I have had a normal day just the two of us doing our thing. The past two days have been life back to normal. I realized that yesterday has been the first day since I was about five weeks pregnant that I felt great all day. Morning sickness, pregnancy tiredness, and surgery recovery had me feeling off for quite some time. It has been wonderful to be feeling great and able to play like crazy with my favorite little guy. So today we went to the zoo...


















It was a wonderful day. God is so good and generous for giving us such a beautiful and wonderful little guy. Can you believe how long his little legs have gotten? He has really sprouted the past month or so, I have a feeling he is going to be tall like his Pop Pop.

The good ol boys are on TV tonight!!! Sic 'Em Bears lets go for three and one!