Alec's Funeral..

My sweet cousin Alec who had cerebral palsy and was 35 years old died un-expectantly  on Jan. 5th of pneumonia. It came as a shock and broke our hearts, but we knew he was in a better place with a perfect body. The next morning when I told the girls Molly looked deep in thought as to take it all in. Maggie looked at me and said " But mom, now Alec can talk and dance" in fact she has a special Alec dance she created to show Aunt Jill what Alec's dance in heaven looked like. To this day she asks me if I want to see her Alec dance. So sweet! 

Marissa had the idea to paint Alec's casket like a red mustang since red cars were his favorite. Since my dad paints cars he took on the challenge. It was a team effort to sand and put back together, but well worth it. I didn't do much but help tape things off. We were even able to get real Mustang emblems to go on the sides of the casket. It was the coolest part. 

We also had 35 red/white balloons waiting at the graveside to let go of in honor of his 35 years. It was one of the most touching spiritual funerals I have ever been to and was so neat to hear what everyone had to say. It was also fun to see family we rarely get to see. Both my moms brothers and parents came down so their whole little family was together. It was a beautiful tribute to Alec and we loved seeing pictures and hearing stories of him. As sad as it was it was a really great day.

The cutest grandma- Grandma Grape as my girls call her loves on my girls every second she can get. Somehow she got Maggie in the sweetest little love I love these pictures the most out of any from the funeral- Maggie loves her Grandma Grape so much and the feeling is mutual the pictures tell it all and I love them so much. 

 Chris-Kara-Jill-Jeff

Their whole family 

My sweet Molly 

Candy Hearts

It has been a bit chilly outside and the girls were dying to have  a picnic so we went to the market got some goodies and came home for a picnic we made heart sandwiches, chips, and oranges and for a treat they picked candy hearts!!! Who knew they would love those candy hearts so much, not just for the fact that it is pure sugar, but they had letters on it and they loved to make patterns, lines, and words with those things. We played candy hearts for well over an hour. 

We had a lunch date with Kyle for his birthday while he was down, girls and I were waiting for Clint so I made them take some pictures you can clearly see that we take loads of pictures and sometimes they let me know that we have taken too many and they dont need another picture for weeks-according to Molly ha ha!!

" I so angry I don't wanna take a nap my body is not tired- I just so mad about it" Is what Maggie says in response to me telling her its time for a nap- sadly she is growing out of these since if she has one she likes to stay up way too late so we just judge by the day whether she needs one or not!

2 little techies, these two have got technology figured out!

The other day my dad asked the girls if they wanted to help him with a special job, they were thrilled and he had them take tools from his old tool chest to the new one, they were thrilled about this and had a lot of fun helping grandpa with his jobs.. Molly said " Wow, Grandpa is like a really hard worker mom"-the things they come up with crack me up!

Dressing Up...

Since Maggie got these dress ups for Christmas first thing in the morning she puts on the whole ensamble Molly usually could take/leave it most the time and doesnt get into it as much, but recently she has jumped right in too. 

So they dress up then ask me to come watch them dance in their room on a daily basis.Maggie is very serious in her dancing and Molly was busting some killer moves I don't know where she came up. Then they decide they need to do their hair and make-up and tell me to come watch them do that.Then they go back to dancing again.

 These are the best mornings- no where to go and plenty of time to play!