Cake Boss

Tonight after dinner I asked Brax if he wanted to help me make a cake. He was so excited and I pulled out several boxes (I know my dad is SO disappointed) and let him pick the kind he wanted. He chose a yellow cake and chocolate frosting.

He loved pouring the ingredients in the bowl and mixing and I'm sure you can tell that he loved even more tasting the batter before we poured it into the pans.

It's important that you remember that I just wanted to make a cake. There really was no reason behind it. The sweet part of this story is while I was icing it Braxton started singing Happy Birthday. I asked who he was singing to and he said "my birthday is over". He started singing again and so I asked again and he said "G.G" He looked at me and said "We sing Happy Birthday to G.G and I eat her cake?" I got the candles out and let him put the candles in it (21 of them) and we sang Happy Birthday to G.G. Then he asked me about her presents!

The weird thing that Braxton doesn't know is her birthday is coming up on July 29! We just celebrated a little early.

The Sign Says It All

Thursday was the service for my beautiful grandmother. This is the sign going into the church parking lot. It says how we all feel.

The other is a picture of Braxton having a tea-party with his Grandaddy and his G.G the night before she had her stroke while we were in the mountains.

Life is too short

It's weird the way life works out. My dad just retired after 36 years and couldn't wait to begin spending some time with his mom. We took her with us to the mountains two weeks ago. Braxton had tea parties with his G.G. We went and got ice cream. We took her shopping. And we took naps. The last morning we were there we couldn't get her awake and had to call the paramedics. So for the past week we've been at the hospital everyday praying and hoping that she'd wake up. After being told on Friday that she'd had a major stroke, we called my brother home and after he made it we all gathered around her bed and prayed for her to make the journey to a better place.

She went to Heaven Monday.

We took a picture of this lilly from our yard. We received it one Easter and it's never bloomed before. It reminded me of my Grandmother. Beautiful.