What a week!

Wow! What a week last week was.

Last Sunday, February 17th, my Aunt Robert Bostock passed away after a short battle with a rare and aggressive form of colon cancer. She had had the cancer for a little over a month, but it was such a shock to have her go so fast. I LOVED my Aunt Roberta. She was one of the most positive, happy, energetic, optimistic, faithful and beautiful people that I have ever had the privilege to know. I knew that when she died it would be hard, but it ended up being more difficult than I thought it would be. I didn't give myself time to cry at first and it caused quite the emotional headache on Monday. I took Wednesday through today (Monday) off, to prepare for and to be with family. Rad and I had Jared, Amy and Tavin stay with us at our house. It was nice to have them there. Heidi, Ben, Samantha and Andrew and Michael came too, as well as all of my moms siblings and their spouses and their children. Talk about a lot of people. It was really neat to see everyone, even under the sad circumstances. It was Samantha's 2nd birthday on Friday and we celebrated all day. She opened one present almost every hour of the day. It was really neat to see all of the "baby" cousins together. At one point there were 10 babies ages 2 and under at my moms house... Roxy, Samantha, Radley, Kai, Bailey, Hunter, Tavin, Andrew, Conner, and Tien... actually, Kai might not have been there that day? Radley loved all of the babies but I was only allowed to hold Tavin. He was quite the jealous boy over the weekend.

On Saturday we had the funeral, it was a great tribute to Aunt Roberta. They estimated about 800 people there. She was and is so loved. I was truly inspired by her and her life this week and have reprioritized quite a bit.

We are now in the 4th week of Derrick being gone. Thankfully it's going faster than we thought. I am looking forward to being able to say... Derrick's plane lands in 10 minutes!

Pregnancy is still going well. I had an appointment with the midwife last Tuesday, Rad threw a fit every time she came near me so I didn't have much of a checkup and she couldn't find a heart beat. That was disappointing but I am only 11 weeks along. Next time I have an appointment, Rad will stay home with Grameri. ☺

It's starting to warm up a bit. It was sunny lots of last week, but today it is back to gloom. I'm ready for the sunshine... wait til August though. I'll be 8 months pregnant wishing that it weren't so dang hot!

Sorry... no pictures with this post. Derrick has the camera still. I'll try to snag some from V Child though and post them later this week.

♥