Celebrating

We have been celebrating a ton the last few days! Today was my Memaw's 97th birthday and Jacob's Pawpaw's 91st birthday!

On Saturday we celebrated Memaw's birthday. Out of town family came in and our group of 25 (give or take a few) descended on a local steakhouse. We had such a great time visiting and of course, eating. Lily and Levi kept themselves occupied with the lemons and their cups of water.

This boy is a goof ball!

Sweet Asher.

After lunch we headed back to Memaw's for presents, cake & ice cream. It was past the kids nap time, but they did pretty well. 

Levi had the greatest time playing with all the toys.

Memaw fed Levi a bunch of her cake and ice cream. 

I think they both enjoyed it.

We took the kids home for naps and I made dinner for my sister. After the kids got up, we loaded back in the van and went back to Memaw's to give Myra her supper and visit with family. 

The cousins had the best time playing around the farm! They fed goats, rode bikes, threw acorns in the ditch, made goofy faces while swinging, and kicked a ball to each other. I sat outside and watched them  for most of the time. So many memories of my childhood flooded my mind and made me so thankful that my children can experience some of the same things I did. 

After Sunday dinner with Jacob's family, we went over and visited Pawpaw. He is at home now with Hospice and Home Health coming in and caring for him. He was in pretty good spirits. Lily was so sweet to sit by him. She told me today that she doesn't want to give Pawpaw hugs because he looks so scary (with the oxygen and breathing treatments). I felt so bad for her, I know she can't really understand what's going on.

Jacob played some of Pawpaw's favorite hymns - Great is Thy Faithfulness, Amazing Grace, Satisfied, It is Well With My Soul, and Be Still My Soul.

Levi telling Pawpaw bye-bye.

Today was full of more celebrating. It started off with breakfast at Cracker Barrel. Pawpaw has eaten at cb nearly everyday for years. His birthday wish was that he would be able to go there for breakfast after 7 weeks of being in the hospital/rehab. We were thrilled that he actually made it! Of course since he's been so often, all the waitresses know him, as well as lots of other customers. 

They seated us at a great big long table. It was crazy to say the least!

Lily and Aunt Eliz. 

Pawpaw, Asher and my mother-in-law.

Our wonderful babysitter came and watched Lily and Levi while I ran some errands. After naps Lily and Levi helped me make jambalya for supper. Lily insisted that we all wear our aprons. Ha.

After supper we went over to have cake with Pawpaw. He was pretty tired and sat in his chair sleeping most of the time we were there, but we had a great time with all the family that was there. Asher got to play with his cousin who is 3 weeks younger than him. So fun!

What a precious few days these have been celebrating our grandparents! God has blessed us so much! We are thankful for the sweet, sweet memories we've made!