Everything's bigger in Texas, this is true. Here's Molly at the Texas Welcome Center. We made a trip to Texas to go to our neice Karlynn's wedding in Umbarger. On the way, we stopped in Haskell and Abilene to see my mother, grandmother, aunt, uncle and friends there for a few days.
This child had never experienced the sweet texture of cotton candy. She absolutely thought it was amazing and Golden Corral is the best restaurant ever.
Next door to Mom's house is a playground at one of the churches. Molly had fun playing on everything for a while, but it was a bit hot.
The next day, we drove to Abilene to see Grandma Pauline. She'd moved into an assisted living facility there last year and I hadn't seen it yet. It seemed very comfortable and nice.
I think she looks great for 96, don't you?
We gave her a photo of Molly which she loved.
She had this painting of Grandpa Raymond in her living room. I've always loved it. We miss him so. He's been gone since 1988...way too young.
Saying goodbye is always hard to do.
We enjoyed our visit with Grandma. Now I can visualize where she is when I call her.
We spent some time with Aunt Andrea and Uncle Bobby too. Here we'd just had dinner at a mexican restaurant down the road from Mom's house.
We always take an afternoon to go visit Grandpa Raymond's grave. It's a very tranquil place to remember him. Wish he could have met Molly and Dan. He would have loved to take Molly to ride his horses at the farm. I used to love to ride when I was a kid.
Cousins Jolie (18) and Riley (16) have long ago started a little tradition of writing to Molly on Mom refrigerator message board. How sweet are these notes?
We had a second visit to Grandma's place in Abilene and got our yearly 4 generations photo.
Grandma wears blue every day. It was nice to see her again.
Uncle Bobby has chicken, roosters, pheasants and rabbits that we had a chance to go see.
We also had dinner with Mom's dear friend Tommye Jo and her husband Bob, Aunt Andrea and Uncle Bobby. Tommye Jo's a childhood friend from way back and was even there the day I was born. They say that they may have been babies in cribs next to each other back when they were born.
Good friends and sisters are the best.
Me with Mom, Molly, Tommye Jo and Aunt Andrea.
