A Red, White and Blue Monday

Greetings on Memorial Day, 2016!  I hope you all are having a good holiday, but most of all I hope everyone is remembering the reason for this day, honoring those military members who we have lost.. 

I am linking up to Jeanne's Blue Monday.  Please stop by and see all the blues for today, and say hi to Jeanne!

Carl and I normally would be at our city's Memorial Day gathering, but since we have now moved, we will need to start a new tradition here in the Reno area.. I have been at our son and daughter in law's home the past couple weeks helping with the grands, just got home Saturday evening so didn't have time to research local events.  Next year for sure!

I thought I would share a few images I found on Pinterest with some 'blue'.. more appropriately, today, red, white AND blue!

and one new blue, for us

 



That's about it for today, it has been a quiet holiday for us..Thank you for stopping by, would love It if you would leave a comment!

Blue Monday

I've decided to join the gang over at Backyard Neighbor for the weekly Blue Monday, joining my dear long time friend Anne, who blogs at Phamilyblog..

What on earth can I post for Blue Monday...let me go through some pictures...then maybe I can come up with a theme..

Grandson Jack gathering flowers

Frenchman's Lake, CA 

 Great nieces and nephews at Moonrocks

 Carl and I at Moonrocks with our Razr

 Grandgirl Gracie taking a picture

 This artwork is named Sassy, love the blue scarf!

 Enjoying ice cream with Mimi

Nevada Highway Patrol Car

 

Well, I've enjoyed visiting with you today, be sure and link up and also go read some great blogs!

 

Barb



 

MOM'S MEMORIAL OPEN HOUSE

I was going to go  right back to the hotel room after Mom's open house on Thursday, May 12, and put up a blog post,  but I was so tired and wrung out, it's taken me this long to share some pictures.  I made a pretty table of memories to honor my mom..Pictures, trinkets, things that were representative of the things she loved.  I hope I did her proud.

There was not actually a 'service', just family and friends gathering to honor mom..Sherman's Deli in Palm Springs provided delicious sandwiches, salads and desserts, and Bridget Kraychir, a local real estate agent and friend of my folks, provided her Casita for the gathering in Palm Springs.  The pastor who ministered to Mom during her time with hospice came and sang a couple of favorite songs of hers that they would sing together..Mom loved singing...beautiful songs, silly songs, she sang them all as we were growing up.

My brother Raymond put together a beautiful slide show of Mom's life.  I spent about 3 weeks digging through our newly moved boxes looking for photos to scan and send to him and with Dad's help, he found a lot of photos at my parent's home.  Here is the YouTube link the slide show if you would care to watch:

https://youtube/bysW4lvcqCc

Hope the link works, it's worth the few minutes!

It was so great to have both my sons, Scott and Dan, there...Scott traveled from Northern CA with his two little ones, Grace Lily and Jackson Scott.  Dan was there with his girlfriend Annette.  My daughter in law was not able to take any bereavement leave due to her agency's regulations and is very low on vacation days as she has only been with the agency a couple years.  So she was missed and I know she missed being there to honor Grammy.

Our cousin Linda and her husband, Fred, travelled from Arizona, my cousin Lanell came from Orange County, and Linda's daughter, Danielle also attended.  My dearest friend-sisters, Denise and Eloda were there to support me, as were long time friends Eric and Jen, and their little one, Owen.  My brother Raymond's wife, mother in law, and brother in law attended. My sister was there with her sons and their wives. 

Anyway, I will post some pictures for you to see...My mom would have loved to have her life so honored by so many who loved her, of course I know that she was there in spirit holding our hands.

 Scott

 Denise and Dan

 Owen

 Dad,Fred, Linda and Lanell

 Danielle

 Sister in Law Lynette

 My grandgirl Gracie and my brother Ray

Carl and I

 My dad

 Pastor

 Nephew Matt and daughter Autumn

Fred, Linda, nephew Joe, Amy, Lanell and Dad

 

Like I said it was a lovely couple of hours, then it was over..A sense of finality, of some closure, for me anyway.  I've had my ups and downs since Mom passed in April.  I miss her but I know that she is in Heaven with our Heavenly Father, healthy, happy and watching over all of us.  That helps, although the heart doesn't feel that way at times.  My dad is very lost, they were married over 65 years, so very understandable.

 

I feel very blessed to have so much love around me, indeed I do!

 

Thank you for visiting!