I Loved You Too Much To Just Be Your Friend So God Let Me Be Your Sister

Missing You

The girls leaving flowers where Grandpa & Grandma Reed's ashes will be buried
I thought of you with love today but that is nothing new
I thought about you yesterday and days before that too,
I think of you in silence I often speak your name
All I have are memories and your picture in a frame
Your memory is my keepsake with which I’ll never part
God has you in His keeping I have you in my heart

We miss you more than anyone could ever imagine and think about you both each and everyday. Our lives just are not the same without you here. We had a beautiful weekend in Ashland this weekend and understand why you loved it so much; we just wish you could've been there with us physically. We love you!

M.I.A.

Yes, that's us; we've been missing in action from the blog world. I think about our blog often and know I need to be better about posting since I'm not really the scrapbooking type and I want to have this for the girls. So...I will do my best to keep up on it a little bit better:) So, what have we been up to??? I'll fill you in!

Dave:

Being the best man in my little brother's wedding. He did a great job-so glad that the two of them get along so well. Like Dave said in his speech, Doug is his "brother from another mother."

Building this massive shed. In all reality I should've put up all pictures of this shed since it is consuming Dave's life. This "little" project began Memorial Day weekend and is yet to be finished. Maybe by Labor Day???
Spending LOTS of $ at Menards for this little shed project! Yes, this is our receipt from one trip!
Lexie:

Having a wonderful time at Doug & Sarah's wedding. It was absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!! It was so much fun (minus my kids being naughty) and it was soooo good to see friends and family who came. Couldn't ask for a better sis-in-law!

Catching up with old friends at my 10 year high school reunion! Man do I feel old:) It was so good to see some of my old friends who I miss dearly. Apparently people in Wyoming don't drink beverages that contain lemonade; two different occasions I was looked at like I was nuts:)

Holding cute Miss Ellie George! What a doll she is! I took a solo trip to Wyoming to meet Ellie (and visit the rest of the George family too) and go to my class reunion. It was great to see them and it might have made me a little baby hungry-then I came home and remembered that I have a hard enough time controlling the two I have and I snapped out of it:)

Madi:

Riding camels with Auntie Kaci at the Milwaukee Zoo. The day before I left for Wyoming we took a trip to the Milwaukee Zoo; it was a beautiful day and we had so much fun!

Going to the zoo here with her friend Hailey. They haven't gotten to play since the end of preschool so they were very happy to see eachother. I overheard Hailey tell Madi in the backseat, "I missed you Madisyn." So cute:) Madi also went to summer school for two weeks. She had fun, minus when she had to leave mom each morning.

Kicking butt at soccer. Now that Madi will finally get out on the field and play she is quite the soccer player. She has two goals under her belt; one for her team and one for the opponent:)Grace:

Being the cutest little one year old I know. Actually, tomorrow she will be a year and a half!!! Where does the time go?

Loving being able to play outside. She would stay outside 24 hours a day if you let her. Here she is after taking a drink from her water table; she also likes to climb in it and use it for her swimming pool!

Enjoying some ice cream. How one little girl can make such a mess with everything amazes me every time she eats:) Grace is the most adventerous and crazy little girl I have ever met.

Well, that's our summer so far in a nutshell. I will try to be a better blogger:)

Madi-isms

*Madisyn asked me if I was a Grandma to anyone. I told her, no, I wouldn't be a Grandma until her or Gracie had a baby which wouldn't be for a VERY long time. She asked, "then you'll be old?" I told her yes, I would be older then to which she replied, "will you be really old like Ga?" So funny considering somtimes my mom is mistaken for their mom instead of their Grandma!

*After Grandpa Reed passed away his little dog Willie came to live with us. Madi has since started calling him Willie John Reed (Grandpa's name was John). Makes me smile everytime!

What a difference a month makes...

It's been over a month since I last blogged. I have sat down several times with good intentions but just haven't gotten it done-I did manage to change my background design one day at least. The past month has been....well, it's been a month here's a little recap in pictures.

We had a nice Easter. Dave's brother and his family came down and spent Friday & Saturday nights with us so the kids could all do the Easter egg hunts together. They had so much fun. Sunday we all went to church then to brunch with Dave's family. My dad was gone at work but we stopped by to visit my mom in the evening for a while. It was a very nice day.

On May 3 we lost Grandpa Reed to lung cancer. Although we know he is happy in heaven with Grandma, we miss him so much and it's still hard to believe he's gone. I find myself thinking about calling him to come over for dinner or taking him a treat I've made. I'm so thankful for the time we had with him and for the special bond my girls had with him. We now have his little dog Willie with us so we have a constant reminder of Grandpa & Grandma running around our house:)
I had an awesome Mother's Day. The weather was so beautiful! Dave made me breakfast and got me a newspaper and we just relaxed for the morning. We went to lunch at my parent's house which my dad made and it was delicious. I got spoiled as usual. I'm so thankful for the two little cuties who made it possible for me to be a mom:)

Today was Sarah's bridal shower/bachelorette party. She is so cute and I am so happy to have her as part of our family; I seriously couldn't ask for a better sis-in-law.

Here is the bridal party at dinner. Madi is the flower girl and Grace is a miniture bridesmaid and I get to walk with her-I will definitely have the cutest partner at the wedding:)

A beautiful reminder about not waiting until it's too late to let someone know how much you love them. Sometimes it's hard to understand why bad things happen to the people we love most but we have to trust God's plan and make eachothers days here on earth the best we know how.

"One Little Rose"

I would rather have one little rose From the garden of a friend Than to have the choicest flowers When my stay on earth must end. I would rather have one pleasant word In kindness said to me Than flattery when my heart is still And life has ceased to be. I would rather have a loving smile From friends I know are true Than tears shed round my casket When this world I've bid adiew. Bring me all your flowers today Whether pink, or white, or red; I'd rather have one blossom now Than a basketful when I'm dead.

Author unknown

If I worked at church...

Madi was at Dairy Queen with my mom the other day and Madisyn was eating ice cream. She kept showing my mom the chunks of cookie in her Blizzard and my mom said Madi should stop teasing her because it was lent and she couldn't have any. Madi proceeded to say, "Well if I worked at the church I would say "No more lent FOREVER."