Still catching up!

I started to blog and got as far as arriving at Shelley's last December and helping my sister decorate her cute condo for Christmas.

It has been a busy week. Paul and I have been working hard, helping family with one thing or another and taking care of church service as well.

Last week my mother was in town and several family members gathered for a graveside service for my Grandmother who passed March of 2008. She was cremated and we finally got her ashes to Utah at Wasatch Lawn Memorial. Karlie put together a beautiful spray of flowers and my brother dedicated the grave.

Saturday about a half hour before taking my mother to the airport back to California, she received a call that her sister-in-law whom she lives by had passed away. My aunt Margaret was fighting cancer and she and my mother had grown very close the last several months. Mom would help her out around the house, bring in food and visit for hours. She was sad to go home and not have her be there.

Paul and I had planned to go on vacation this week to Moab with my brother and other extended family when I got a call today that the father of the family I use to live with before I married Paul passed away Saturday morning. Margaret his wife thought she had called us, but in all that she had to do, we never got the call.

So now we are still going to Moab, but leaving early to attend a funeral in St. George. It will be crowded. It's UEA weekend, Conference weekend and the St. George Marathon is going on that Saturday. I believe we will have to stay in Cedar City on Friday due to so much activity.

Paul's store had inventory on Sunday and I was helping my sister move her son's household to storage. So needless to say our time off has been well spent, but not relaxing. So the vacation will be good and seeing friend and family will have it's joys. Hoping to catch up again with blogging for the 2009 year so stay tune in a couple of weeks.