100 Years

My Grandma turned 100 years old last Saturday. Pretty amazing when I stop to think about it. 100 years! She has accomplished a lot in those 100 years. One-room schoolhouse teacher, farmer's wife, mom, grandma, great-grandma, record-keeper, world-traveler, quilt-maker, best raisin cookie maker. As you can imagine, the list goes on and on. My mom and her siblings wrote a book about her life (For the Record) and my cousin Adam put it online.

While I wasn't able to make it to Minnesota for the celebration, I was once again thankful for technology to allow me a chance to get a glimpse at the happenings.

David, Eva, and my mom:

Love those cheeks!
Jacob.
Jeani and Leah.
My cousin Amy and Eva.
My Grandma. David took his phone over so I could I wish her a happy birthday, but I'm not quite sure she understood what she was looking at. Last year, David stopped by my Grandma's while he was traveling to visit a customer. We did a FaceTime visit, but neither one of us thought to take a picture. Glad we got it done this time.

Lesson learned. So, remember how I wrote that the stomach bug only got Aiden? Um, yeah. Wrote too soon. Eric sent me a text on Friday morning to report that Reid too had been plagued. Eric left town that afternoon and suffered through a bad 24 hours in Minneapolis with the same affliction. While I never had it as bad as the rest of them, I didn't feel all that great. Reid seemed to be on the mend on Saturday, but felt bad again on Sunday. He spent a lot of time cuddling with his mama, which I had no complaints about.
Aiden- Under the weather, but still pretty cute.

I got a new treadmill for Christmas! It was delivered on Monday and Eric and I somehow managed to get the treadmill to the basement after we decided that we didn't want to pay for set-up. I finally made some progress last night. Hopefully, I'll finish getting it set up with the long weekend ahead. That and 5 million other things I want to get done.

On Tuesday, we spent some time outside before the next snow storm hit on Wednesday. A common Aiden pose.
Reid fell down right away, which led to this crying-induced red nose. Once he realized he could play with water in the gutter, the pain was forgotten.
Holding Mama's hand. Heart melting.




One of our neighbors walked back to his house while we played outside. It was funny how quickly Reid turned into a shy guy and backed up until he was safely leaning against my legs.

























Cheese!
Um, no. Reid has standards to maintain.




Love those big brown eyes.


Stealthy Mama caught a smile.






Hello? Hello?

The boys helping me with the dishes. More and more they want to be part of the action. After today's snack, I let Reid hold a wrapper. He disappeared for a little bit and I could hear the garbage can in the kitchen open and close. He came back beaming and gave me a huge grin when I correctly guessed that he had thrown it away. Note to self- check the garbage can the next time something is missing.



Reid insisted that he push his chair back to the table.
Then he checked to make sure I hadn't left the water switch on.
Darn, it's off. We'll catch her one of these days.
Eric captured this cute picture of Aiden holding the lion and dolphin from Auntie Jennifer.
While I was cleaning up after supper last night, the boys and Grandma started giggling. Aiden was especially giggling uncontrollably. I'm not quite sure what it was about, but it must have been quite the inside joke.

Eva update:
She loves the blocks! I bet she'll be calculating volume and surface area in no time.

Have a good weekend!