I took mom to one of her MRI appointments at Summit. I wouldn’t normally post about something like this but while sitting in the waiting room I decided to take a picture to send to some friends and family. I thought the picture of mom turned out really good so here it is.

Mom really likes this butterfly that she ironed on her purple sweater. She wanted me to take a picture of it not really sure why but anyway hehe I did take the pix of it for here so I thought I would share it with all of you.

On our way home mom and I decided to give Mel a call to see if she wanted to meet us uptown for lunch. So we met and took a few more pix. It was a good time and a nice lunch. Taylor was sure full of smiles she was happy she got to sit next to her Grandma. I think we should try to do lunches like this more often.

Mom finally went out on the boat with me. The river was a little choppy because the wind was coming and going but the boat was pretty stable. She seemed to enjoy herself.

I was hoping to show her the Eagles that have been flying around the river but they must have been hiding. I did show her the eagles nest but there weren’t any eagles in it. I have watched the eagles fly around several times.

She had never seen the houses with riverfront property from the perspective of the river so that was interesting to her. I have a dream to someday have one of the houses on the river. I think it would be pretty awesome to put some poles out in the morning and sit behind my computer looking out a window at my poles.

This was a pretty fun day. Well even if it wasn’t I can pretend anyway. Well as you can see in the pictures above My mom is wearing camo. Not sure what got into her to make her want to but it created some smiles.

When Grandma offered me the trolling motor she also gave me some of Grandpa’s hunting stuff. When mom saw it all she was pretty excited she liked the light stuff and she put it on. She wanted to send these pictures to some people she wanted to be sure to get her ladybug coffee cup in the picture.

Then we sent the pictures out and waited for replies.

I snapped this pic of mom getting ready to go out. She had some Dr appointments this day. I thought it was kinda unique because of the way i took the picture of the mirror so it also caught my cellphone taking a picture of itself.  might sound goofy to you reading it. but o-well. I can be goofy when I want to.

After her appointments and a little shopping we went out for lunch at Old Chicago. We took these pictures to intentionally tease Doug and Grandma. When mom and I go out for lunch we like to take pix and send them to a few people. Its a lot of fun sometimes to see their replies.

Doug responded to the pix I sent to him with a picture of his lunch an apple. It was pretty silly and gave both mom and I a smile when I received the image from him.

Here is one of the many pictures of Grandpa giving the Grandkids a ride on the John Deere.

Oh how they love it done mean just the kids I mean Grandpa too. It wont be long and they will be wanting to mow the lawn by themselves.

When I was picking out the pictures to put on here I told the kids they could pick out just two pictures and these are the ones they picked.

This is Grandpa cutting up watermelon with the most precious Grandkids.

Oh the fun! The kids had watching and helping Grandpa cut up the watermelon.

Austin and Taylor were eating it as fast as Grandpa was carving the melon.

After all the cutting was finished Melissa, Jason, the Kids, And I enjoyed watermelon until our bellies ached.

Grandpa put all the time and effort into cutting the watermelon and he doesn’t even enjoy watermelon. He did it just for everyone else.

Tonight after dinner I asked mom if she wanted to go for a little boat ride. I was hoping to just put it in the water run around for an hour or so then head back home.

We got the boat in the water with no problems. We got the boat all loaded up and ready to go out. Then after we got comfortable i tried and tried to start the dang thing. I tried everything i could to get it to run it just wouldnt fire up.

So after a long time of trying and trying and trying some more. We decided that we would just put it back on the trailer and figure out what is wrong with it in daylight. So I guess I will try to figure it out tomorrow and attempt to take mom on another boat ride soon.

When my dad was sick we would talk everyday on the phone. sometimes I would be sitting on the back deck, I would always see this butterfly and I told Dad that I felt like it was Uncle Dick coming around to say hi. sometimes I would see 2 and  Dad said maybe it is Grandma Faherty and Uncle Dick letting me know they where together. I remember telling Dad they are probably getting ready to go fishing . And we laughed, Dad said oh your laughing makes me feel better. He then told me that some day he will come back and visit me as a Butterfly. well my dad does come and visits us as a Butterfly.. sometimes I even see 3 flying around together . In this picture you can see how this Butterfly is just sitting on Jims wrist next to the yellow band he wore in support of Dads cancer. To this day Jim still wears his yellow band.

This is a better pix. well better then the last one

I have my favorite P.J.’s on, The ones my sister got me for my birthday!