Mornin' coffee with the guys!

 

 June Potter sent this plant to the funeral home

Len found the perfect place for it!

 

 You either love coconut cake or hate it!

You can ask anyone and they will tell you I'm a lover of it!

 

Breakfast with the family

Stephanie flies back to Clarksburg, TN this afternoon

 

We slept in this morning till 8 a.m.  Bob of course was up from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. so he needed a nap today which was fine with me!

 

It was kind of a down day for me.  We did breakfast and then I was supposed to do some running around but I came back to the condo and never left again.  I did however, work on the blog for three hours before I finally decided to take a break!

 

Bob worked out this morning and then came home and took a nap :-)

 

Len did a lot of running around taking care of business.

 

All's good on the home front with the J-Team!



Thursday, January 29, 2015

Judy Laylon's Obituary from the Aegis

 

 Memorial Service Announcement

 

Bill & Jack

(Bob & Moe in background)

 

Bob giving Jack a little tug on his ear

Jack wearing a nice bow tie that his Uncle Bob

gave him to wear tonight

 

Me, Bob & Moe

 

 Judy was cremated and put in this urn... Her granddaughter Sara painted it....

The verse is a quote from Judy's book "My Life As I Remember It" it says:

 

The story I have written is about me, Julia Laylon, and the life I have lived in this world.

It is also about my family and the many people that I have met along the way.  We are all

unique individual - so let's feel free to be who we are, and lift our wings and soar!

 

 Judy loved butterfly's...

 

 Another side view

 

 Top view

 

 Mother's flowers

 

 Judy has always enjoyed boating!
 

Just one picture frame of the many she has of her family!

 

 Beautiful plant!
 

 One of Len & Judy's cruise's!

 

 She loved the Chesapeake Bay

 

 

 

  I know it's not readable...but this is a list of the 51 places she lived

throughout her life....being a Rear Admiral's daughter she traveled to

many countries and states....including China, Manila, Philippines,

and the list goes on and on...

 



Bob and I

 

Bill & !Annette! 

Annette was her step-daughter (Len's daughter)

 

Sara & Stephanie

 

Len & family members watching the picture slide show

 

Judy loved butterfly's and the funeral home had butterfly's on their lamp shades!

 

 

Tricia & Laura (I used to work with them)

Funny story:!!  I haven't seen either of them since

I retired in 2012.  I knew Laura had lost a lot of weight

because of Facebook and I knew Tricia had lost some from

"a" picture I had seen of her several months maybe even a

year ago....anyway....I'm sitting in the funeral home and I see

this girl looking at me and she kind of winks at me and I'm like

I must know who this is but for the life of me I can remember

who it was????  Then she starts walking towards me and I start

panicking...who is this? who is this?  And all of a sudden she says

"Lynnard (she would call me that at work sometimes" and I knew

 immediately "Oh my God! Tricia!??!" She looks amazing! 

The two of them are just gorgeous!

 

Karen & Robin

They don't age...they look the same as they did

when I met them years ago!

 

Derek & Shelley

 

Me with Abby

 

Nikki  & Abby her 2 month old baby girl!

 

Ross, Randy, Derek, Shelley, Moe, Bob and others
 

Cliff, Bill and Tony Jr. Bel Air VFC members
 

Asad (friend from Harford Mall), Len, Stephanie, and Annette (Len's girls)
 

Talking about the past
 

 Shannon and Brian Berk (Grand children)

 

 "Another" Thank You to Moe!

She graciously offered to play "Amazing Grace" on her

guitar and sang along with it.  I wasn't able to get a picture

while she was playing (I whispered to Bob and said I guess it

would be inappropriate to stand up and take a picture of

Moe about now huh?)  He just smiled and said yes.

 

The boys first bath at home!
Andrew was not happy about it!
 

A little happier...but he's looking like
don't even think about coming near me again!
 

Cameron was like...fine you going to wash me then I'm
going to give you a reason to and he peed all over himself!
But in the end, all was well :-)
 

 Shew...bathing isn't easy!

 

I started off in Baltimore this morning with the J-Team.  I got a little laundry done, some dishes and cooked up some pasta for them to warm up for later.  I then packed and headed north for a couple of days.  Today was Judy's Memorial Service and I wanted to get there early so I could spend some time with Bob.

 

We went up to McComas Funeral Home around noon and set up for the visitation hours.  There were lots of pictures to put up and other things to take care of. 

 

The visitation hours were 1 to 3 and 5 to 7.  Both were a success with many old friends,  acquaintances, and family to pay their final respects.

 

The service began at 7:00 with Moe playing a guitar and singing a beautiful rendition of, "Amazing Grace."  Bob was very appreciative!  Pastor Rick from the Bel Air Presbyterian church gave some prayers and reading from Psalms, and then Bob gave a wonderful eulogy.

 

It was a long day for everyone and bed came easily at 9:00 pm.

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

 Andrew sleeping...isn't he just adorable!

 

 Jenny is sitting in the living room downstairs and she

happen to look at the baby monitor and see's Samantha in

the bedroom. She knows she's not allowed in there....she had to push

the door open just to get in! 

 

 Shannon gave Andrew the "Little Man" binky!

Needless to say, he is loving it!

This is the closest Charlie has been to Andrew...he's like

what is this??  Are we going to keep it!!??!

 

 Jenny feeding Andew...

 

My diaper is changed, my belly is full...I guess it is time to say

 

Nappy Time...Just like Grand-papa and Grand-mama!

I'm groovin' to the tunes...and I get to go home!!

 

Tonight Cameron comes home!  He just finished

eating and the J-Team are packing him up to bring

him home!  Yay!  Can't wait to have the whole

crew here!

Here I come Andrew!!

 

Jen and I got to spend a little time together in between feeding with Andrew.  Before we knew it Jon was on his way home to pick up Jenny so they could go and get Cameron!  Jon is taking off the next two weeks to spend time with mom and babies!  That's a good thing....he  needs some down time (if there is such a thing with twins in the house!)...him and Jenny have just been running their butts off!

 

Jen is only 7 pounds from her original weight prior to babies!  Now that's amazing! 

 

By the time Jon & Jen got home I was exhausted (yes, again!) and went to bed rather, actually, very early :-)  When I hit the bed I heard both babies at the same time start screaming from the top of their lungs...I just laid there in bed with a smile on my face and said "night, night :-)"

 

 



 Andrew just prior to his feeding

 

 Cameron sleeping...he's not due to eat for another 45 minutes...

they know when it's time...they start to wake up right on the hour!

It's pretty amazing!

 

 Jenny feeding Andrew

 

 Every day they get more and more alert!

 

 Cameron still snoozing!

 

Now it's Cameron's turn!

 



 He passed his car seat test today (2nd time around)

He failed yesterday cuz he had to take a poop which

caused a brady which meant they had to stop the test

and do it again.  He passed with flying colors this morning!

 

Pretty happy now that he's been fed!  Unfortunately

he is not able to come home tonight with Andrew...and really

unfortunate was the fact that he had another minor brady tonight

when the J's went up there tonight.  He may not come home until

Thursday now :-(

 

Another busy day.  Jen's arm has been giving her problems...it is numb from the elbow down and she is not able to extend her arm fully out so we decided she needed to go to Kaiser to find out what the issue was before bringing the boys home.  Come to find out, during the "C section/anesthesia process, she got a pinched nerve in her elbow so now she has to wear a wrist cast at night and go in for physical therapy.  Jeez it never ends!

 

We went up and visited with Cameron and Andrew.  They both drank just about all there milk and were very happy campers.  Jon & Jen are up there now getting ready to bring Andrew home after they take infant CPR training.  It's hard to believe one of them is finally coming home!!!!

Luckily I got to leave a couple of hours early.  I went shopping for stuff I needed, some groceries, came home and cleaned up a bit so the house would be perfect for Andrew, fed the animals, walked the dog, making dinner, and finishing the blog.  I'll be in bed before you know it!