This last week my parents had plans to go to Las Vegas to visit my mom's parents. My grandpa has been diagnosed with cancer in his lungs and brain, so he doesn't have long to live. So, I asked if I could tag along. My grandparents have never met Beckett, and the last time they saw Elleree was when she was a year old.
Grandpa is in a wheel chair now.
He has type 2 diabetes, and has had to have both of his legs amputated.
He is also on dialysis three times a week. It is a marvel that he is still ticking.
Elleree loved his wheel chair, he took her for a spin.
I made sure we got pictures with my grandparents. That is something I regret terribly with my Grandma Vaden. I never took picture, because I always went to shoot the breeze. We saw them enough, that I just didn't think about those things. Now I wish I would have!
So here you have it four generations.
Here are just the girls.
Four generations of strong women. No comments about my eyes please! For some reason I always do that in pictures.
We stayed at my aunts house, she is a good sport. They have this gate to keep their dog in only one part of the house. I love taking pictures by it. I swear I have a picture of all my kids at this same age behind "bars".
I got to spend the evenings with my cousins Doug and Travis who are the cooooolest. We got to talk until late. They took me to see a movie at the "D- Box" if you don't know what that is check it out http://www.d-box.com/ it was great. They also took me to the poker palace to teach me how to play blackjack. I rocked! I had a good time it was a nice quick trip!
2 comments:
I'm sorry to hear about your grandpa. I'm glad you got some photos.
I too have similar regrets about the lack of photos. Mom didn't like to have her picture taken for a variety of reasons, and would MUCH rather have visited with you- but that doesn't alter the fact that we don't have those images now...
Glad you got to go see them and had a nice visit.
It's true that mom did not like haveing her picture taken. Most of the time I took them anyway. I'm not saying they are great photos, but I do have a few which is all that matters. I realized years ago when I was looking through dad's photos and saw tons of scenery photos that were meaningless to me and not so many people photos that had more meaning that is was more important to have the photos of the people even if they didn't want their pictures taken. We were all the same with dad about not wanting our pictures taken and I think that's partly why he didn't take as many as he might have. That's why I go picture crazy when ever I get around family! That was a rather long winded way of saying you did the right thing! You'll be so glad you have to those pictures of you grandparents--even if you were making funny faces in all of them :-)
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