Trains

Teague love playing trains with his Dad.

Toys R Us

Bryce received a gift certificate to Toys R Us from his work as a Christmas gift, he let Teague use it to find something he would like. Teague was in heaven in that store. Of course he found a whole aisle of Thomas the Train, he ended up picking more tracks for his many trains.

Date Night

Bryce and I had a fun date night tonight, we went to see The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and ate at Costa Vita

MRI

Bryce had his second MRI for his back today. It looks as if he has multiple bulging discs. Dr is hoping to get him in for surgery within the next week. Ouch :(

Goodbye Grandpa

Wednesday morning October 28th, I got a phone call around 3:15 in the morning. Of course a phone call that early can never be good. My first thought was that something had happened to Bryce who has been training with Ogden City Police down in Salt Lake for the last month. I looked at the caller ID and saw that it was my sister Jennifer. The news was not good, as expected. Jennifer was calling to let me know that Grandpa Urry had passed away.

Grandpa went in to have surgery on his knee on Monday morning. The surgery went well, there were no complications, and all indications were that everything would be ok. Mom and Dad went to visit with him in the hospital on Tuesday and he was in some pain and very restless, but was fearful of taking any pain medication. When the nurses went into Grandpa's room just before 2 am to check on him they found he wasn't breathing.

Grandpa was such an amazing man. He suffered so much as a WWII POW for 13 months, met and married grandma after just three short days, raised eight children together, served two missions and so much more. You could tell that he loved Grandma so much as well as the rest of the family. I will never forget our yearly camping trips to perception park, going down to St George as a family when we were young and now with my sisters for our girls weekend away. I remember when my parents and Jennifer went to Mexico and Grandpa and Grandma came out to our house and stayed with us. Most recently I think of our last trip to St George all of us girls were sitting around talking and laughing and Grandpa who we thought was interested in a TV show would all of a sudden bust up laughing at us. I have so many fond memories of Grandpa.

Grandpa I appreciate the example you have always been in my life. I only hope I can be half the person you have been. Thank you for your words of wisdom and advice that you were so willing to give when I came to you for help and answers. I love you, and will miss you greatly.

(Yes I know the picture is sideways, it's the first picture I have found but I couldn't figure out how to change it)

We had a great time at our family reunion Saturday. My Aunt Shantel reserved a pool in Ogden for three hours. The kids had so much fun. On the way to the reunion I stopped at KFC to pick up some dinner for my family. I never have to ask the kids what they want when we go there, they get the same thing every time, so not thinking, I ordered six meals. It wasn't until I paid that I realized that I had purchased a meal for Bryce. Sometimes I forget he's gone. I talked to him on the phone today. He sounded really good. It's alway nice just to hear his voice.

April Fools

So I found this cute idea on the internet and decided to try it to see if the kids would like it.
For dinner tonight, we had chicken nuggets(waffer cookies spread with peanut butter and rolled in corn flake crumbs), peas (green M&M's), and chocolate cupcakes (meat loaf with mashed potato frosting). The kids absolutely loved it!!! They want to have chocolate cupcakes for dinner more often. They weren't as fond of the chicken nuggets as they were the rest, but it was fun.