The week of July 28th

Kristi and I would workout faithfully during the week... we had to capture our sweaty self's after we worked hard!

Dave's Birthday was on Tuesday and it was really hard to be away from him.. he had grown and knew that I needed to be there with my Dad at this time...it wasn't easy for the both of us...but we are so grateful for the decision to be with my family at this time.

This week it became really difficult for Dad to keep things down in the morning after he tried to eat a few bites he would just throw it up...it was really hard to watch.  This is Sarah and Gordon giving him loves after he had thrown up everything that was in his tummy... he ate less and less and had a hard time keeping down his pills by this time.  There are less and less pictures of this week because it became harder on all of us emotionally, psychically, mentally.  Dad started trying to figure out what sounded good to eat, cheese puffs, rice pudding, tomato soup, jello, sprite...but he would take a bit or two and just couldn't keep it down. Around the weekend of July 26-27th; Dad had finally come to the conclusion that he would do the Lord will.  That was really hard to hear, but knew his time was coming to a close.  Dad wanted to make sure that he was remembered by his grandchildren.  He gave Jonathan his cougar stuffed animal (that he loves and sleep by every night), Gordon he gave him his byu snow hat, Sarah a little black doggy and a little blanket that Aunt Lori gave to him.  Dad also spent time talking to the grandchildren telling them he loved them and bearing his testimony to them one by one.  He gave each of his children a fathers blessing...and then he spoke with each of us one by one telling us whatever he felt was important.  That night was hard for me cause I knew that it was one of the last things that dad would talk to me here on this earth...  Around Wednesday I felt that I needed to spend more time with Dad and have the kids babysat during the day so I could spend more time with Dad.  We had a hospital bed that Dad wasn't ready to get into but the children and grandchildren loved to lay and play on it.  In the midst of this Dad had started to put in a concrete slab for a storage shed...so Grandpa and Craig helped a lot of the time getting it prepped for concrete at the end of the week.  My kids were missing there Dad a lot especially Henry and he started to find different Uncles to get love from.  Dad was getting so weak that it was hard to hold up his phone to talk...so we started to limit his phone calls.  He felt like he needed to call someone that had been trying to reach him. We enjoyed eating from Grammy and Papa's garden during this time...there was lots of visitors and lots cleaning and cooking that had to happen.  I was so thankful for the people that chipped in and helped.

This was a picture of a typical dinner meal.

Best Buds

Henry loving the cast offs of Papa; he doesn't get that at home!