On February 13th my mom's dad: Kenneth Humphreys, whom we called Papa, went to glory. My sister posted these pictures of him on facebook which I love: one of him in the Airforce and the other holding his first great-grandson (David):
My parents and Joel and I and the kids all drove to Spokane for the funeral. Papa served during World War 2, Korea and Vietnam, and retired in Spokane, WA, so he received a military funeral complete with a gun salute, after which the soldiers folded the flag and handed it to my Gran. The service was beautiful and hard, and even though we cried that day it was still a wonderful celebration of his life and a looking-forward to the resurrection.
Since then we've just been watching the days fly by with two adorable, active girls. Joel is getting more and more settled at Digilent, and I am loving being plugged back into this community and my friends here. The girls have the most fun personalities, so I thought I'd share a video of each of them doing what they do best.
Lucy loves having tea-parties in which she invites me over to her house (she stresses it's a grown-up party because we're both grown-ups), and then we just talk and eat pretend food. I secretly (or so I thought) taped one of them because I love the way Lucy talks during our parties. ALSO, in case you have trouble understanding her, if you click on the CC image on the video and select ON you will see the handy closed captions I transcribed. In order to do this I think you have to watch it on youtube's website. They don't always sync with the dialogue but I'm not a professional.
And here is one of Clara nurturing a baby doll. Lucy never cared much for dolls, to this day she still way prefers being a mommy to her stuffed animals than to dolls. But Clara shows no partiality. She will hug and kiss anything that will lay still long enough for her to grab it. I found this cradle at goodwill and Clara has immediately adopted the new roll of mother to this doll, putting it to bed SO gently:
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