Goodbye Grandma!

My Grandma Christensen passed away last week.  She has been sick for quite awhile, and has been a widow for 9 years, so it was a happy and sad time for all of us.  I was remembering what a neat lady she is and pulled out some pictures from my trip with her to Georgia.  I went in 2005 I think, I'll have to check my journal for sure :)  But I flew out with Grandma and we stayed with family, close to where Grandma grew up.  I had such a wonderful time seeing where she spent her life until she met and married my Grandpa and moved "out west."  This picture is from when we went to the Atlanta Temple together.  She loved going to the temple and whenever I would visit her in Brigham, I would take her up to the Ogden Temple so we could do a session together.  She is such a great example to me and I am so grateful that I got to know her as well as I did!  And I'm grateful we could get together as a family this last weekend and remember her at her funeral.  It was a really nice service and just a good day :)

When we were growing up, we would go to Grandma and Grandpa's house every Sunday for ice cream and games.  My cousins Kari-lynn and Kimiko just lived a few houses away, so we would have so much fun playing together.  They moved to California when I was in the 7th grade, but we've all stayed really good friends.  They both came back here for college, and we took this picture when we all went to Grandma and Grandpa's for Peach Days in 2003.  9 years ago!

And this is us at Grandma's funeral.  We don't get together every week like we used to, but we sure do have fun together when we do make it to the same place at the same time!  :)  Isn't family the best?!  And speaking of family,

ours will be getting another addition in March!  We feel so blessed and are as happy as can be.  Just think, Grandma gets to meet our little one before we do!  I'm sure she will shake her finger at him/her and let them know what a great family they will be a part of :)