We had a really fun Labor Day weekend, just around here. I confess, I struggled with that - the staying around here part. I love to take road trips, at least to Lancaster County. But we'll have some of those coming up in October.
Dick had been given some free tickets to a baseball game. Our local semi-pro team is the Spikes, and we have a really nice stadium. This was their last weekend of the season. We went on Friday evening. The weather was PERFECT!!
Destiny and Elizer went with us. Oh my. He was so darn cute that evening!! Everyone around us was smitten!
To add to the fun, it was "bark in the park" night, so there were lots of dogs there.
When Elizer got antsy we took turns walking him around. When Dick was walking him, a stadium attendant gave Elizer a ball. Oh my goodness!! He was delighted. BUT he desperately wanted to throw it!! We ended up needing to take it away from him till they were at home!
The other special thing that night was that kids and dogs were allowed to run the bases after the game was over. Dick took Elizer!
On their way!
How cute are they???
We were barely out of the parking lot before Elizer was sleeping!!
On Friday I had had a six-month appointment with the cardiologist. I showed her my knee and the bruising that was all the way down to my feet. She was sure I must have bumped my knee at some point and the bruising down my leg happened because my veins don't properly bring the blood back up my leg??? Something like that.
While I was there I got a call from my primary physician's office. They said that she would be having hours at a Saturday clinic and she could see me about my leg. So I went to see her on Saturday afternoon. Again, no answer about my knee, except that I must have bumped it. She did order bloodwork, which has come back with no problems. Ugh. The bruising is going away, but the lump on my knee is still big and painful to the touch. I simply cannot imagine that I would have bumped my knee hard enough to do this without remembering it. Good grief!! So now I'll just wait for the orthopedic appointment at the end of September. Maybe it will go away by then.
On Saturday evening we went over to Destiny and Alex's place. I got this picture of the impatiens by her front door.
I took Elizer for a walk, and we enjoyed watching our shadow!
Dick grilled hot dogs, shrimp burgers (that Destiny had gotten at Trader Joe's), and bacon cheeseburgers. Elizer wanted his little swing set up, but I think he has pretty much outgrown it. His feet were practically dragging on the ground.
We were also having fun with his baseball. He has a little tee ball stand. He would put the ball on the stand for me to hit. Then he would go get on a lawn chair and start cheering for me, hahaha!! He got bit by the baseball bug the evening before!! He loves to cheer!
We brought the folding table into the living room and ate while watching a movie. Then we played UNO. I had not played it in years! I forgot how fun and unpredictable it is!
Elizer wanted to play too, but we tried to content him with just one card. Not very successfully! He kept going out to the kitchen, pushing his little car up to the kitchen sink, standing on it and playing in the dishwater. Thankfully there's an opening between the living room and kitchen and we could see when he did that. Poor Alex didn't get to sit down much during the game!
On Sunday after church Dick and I went on campus. Destiny was working at the Starbucks in the HUB (student union building) that afternoon, and we got our lunch there.
I really don't think I had been there since Anthony graduated in 1999. I think there was construction going on at that time. What a beautiful place!!!
We ate on the patio with Destiny during her lunch break.
As we ate I was looking across the lawn at another building and started to think it looked like Lori's building. So after I was finished eating I walked over there, and indeed it was the Biobehavioral Health Building where Lori's department is.
I remembered taking a picture under that sign one time! 2013 - Lisa, Sophie, and Lori!
After we left campus Dick took me past some flowers that he has been enjoying this summer. He passes by when he test drives vehicles for work. He said he saw when the zinnias were first planted or sown in the spring and were coming up in neat rows. Now look at them!! I want to put a zinnia bed by our shed next summer.
When we got home I walked around taking pictures of my own flowers - still a few lilies, sunflowers, and brown-eyed susans. And how about that geranium??
We knew that the Spikes' last game was that evening and that they would be putting off fireworks afterward. We thought it would be fun to go out to the hill where we had watched the July 4th fireworks. We estimated about what time that would be, according to how long the game had lasted on Friday evening. When Dick and I walked out of the house at 8:15 we realized we were hearing fireworks. WHAT??? But we hoped maybe it was fireworks somewhere else, so we went and picked up Destiny and Elizer. Alex didn't feel like going if the fireworks were over, but Destiny and I were hoping they weren't!
Dick decided to go right to the ball stadium to see if the game really was over or not. It was beginning to rain a little bit as we drove there. We got to the stadium and indeed, people were walking out. Darn!! We were so disappointed. Had they cut the game short? We slowly drove by and suddenly there was an absolute cloud burst of rain. It was just dumping out of the sky!! It was crazy!! I guess they had seen the storm coming on the radar and cut the game short so they could get the fireworks in before it hit! I felt so sorry for people walking to their cars in that rain!!
We decided to go to McDonald's drive-through to get ice cream cones before taking Destiny and Elizer back home. So we had fun anyway.
As we were driving to their place Elizer thought we were going to our house and he was not happy that we weren't. So I decided since Monday was a holiday he could sleep at our house. He was excited about that!
He was NOT sleepy as soon as I was that night. What a character! I was in the guestroom bed with him. He thought it was so funny to quietly get off the bed and tip toe past me to the door. He has no fear of walking around in the dark. One time he walked right into the box of marbles in the living room. That made a great-sounding crash!! Later he got weepy and wanted mommy and daddy. So that took a while to get over. Eventually he went to sleep. But I don't sleep well in that bed, so I was awake way too soon, and Elizer sat up and noticed daylight above the drape at the window, and he was all ready to wake up. Whew!! I felt like a zombie that morning!! Thankfully Dick was here!
He took an early afternoon nap for two hours, and when he woke up he sat on Dick's lap and slept about another hour. I managed to get a bit of a nap too.
We took him home after he woke up. Then we came home and I cleaned up my house that looked like a tornado had swept through, hahahaha!! I was really ready for bed earlier than usual last evening!
Look who finally had his first day of first grade today!! Our grandson Brennan in Portland!! What a handsome, preppy-looking little guy he is!! I'm sure he was counting down the days!
Remember how sad I was earlier this summer that there were no yellow tea rose bushes anywhere? But I had gotten a new red one. (Both my red and yellow ones had gotten hit with too much ice on their roots last winter and did not survive.) Well, finally my red one is seriously blooming!! And they smell really good too. I am so delighted!!
On a much sadder note, there was a tragedy in my family on Friday morning. My cousin Jeff Myers, age 65, was hit by a drunk driver and killed. Absolutely shocking news! To add to the extreme sadness, his 42-year-old stepson Shane had died less than two weeks prior. Shane had been severely injured in a motorcycle accident seventeen years ago and has been severely disabled since then. His mother Barb, Jeff's wife, was his primary caregiver. So Barb lost her son, hasn't even had his memorial service yet, and now she has lost her husband. Some things are just too hard to comprehend. My heart aches for her so bad.
My sister took this picture at our Myers reunion in April. (Dick and I were unable to go, and now I'm even more sad about that.) Jeff is on the far left. His wife Barb is next to him. Others at the table are Jeff's sisters and their husbands and Jeff's brother, standing. They are such a wonderful family. Their dad Paul was my mom's brother.
I don't want to end on such a sad note, so here's a cute collage I made today - September pictures of Elizer!
That's all for this time!
4 comments:
Hi Jean. So sorry to hear about your cousin. That is such a hard thing, especially when his step-son had also passed so recently. All of the flowers in this post are beautiful! That rose is gorgeous! The baseball game looks like it was a lot of fun. We used to take our kids to baseball games - St. Louis Cardinals when we lived in Illinois and later the LA Dodgers and Anaheim Angels when we moved to California. Good memories. I hope you have another wonderful weekend! See you again soon.
I am so very sorry to hear about your family's losses. I will keep Barb in my prayers as she bears such terrible grief. Your flowers are beautiful and those zinnias will look amazing by your shed next year! Brennan is SO CUTE!! First-grade killer with that hair and preppy outfit! Elizer is adorable - no way around those eyes and that smile. Love to all!!
That Elizer just gets cuter all the time! I loved seeing him dance. Brennan is adorable too.
So sad about your cousin, and so senseless. I'll pray for Barb, so much loss in such a short time.
Oh dear, poor Barb, I'll pray for her too. I do seriously enjoy your blog, such love you have for your family, it just shines through. Elizer is absolutely adorable, and I love that you had him overnight so he wasn't sad, and oh my goodness, him creeping out of the room, ha! What a personality! You're the best grandma!
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