Weekend Update

Well this weekend update isn't quite as fun as they normally are.

We got news of Gran's passing Thursday morning.  After doing much weather checking, we headed to the beach Thursday after school.  And we are glad we did! The triangle got hit HARD with some snow/ice and schools were canceled on Friday.  So we didn't miss much.

I really did not take many pictures at all, obviously.

But it was a great weekend with family celebrating the life of a wonderful lady!

We talked, cried, laughed, and shared a lot of stories of Gran.

We did a private viewing for the family and we all got dressed in our rooms and walked out and we all were matching-- everyone wore the same jacket :) I got it in NYC and patty loved it and got one for all of the girls.  It is the coziest jacket ever.  You can find it here.   I love it so much, I might order another color....

We had the funeral service Saturday afternoon.  The boys looked adorable in their blue blazers.  I tried to get a picture of Andy before the service started, but he was mad at me and wanted Mimi's phone to play with.  

We got up on Sunday and cleaned up and hit the road.  The roads were fine the whole way home, until we got to our neighborhood.  Then it was like ice.  Hank got out of the car and ran around like a puppy.  He looooves the snow and loves to make little pup angels in it.  

 The boys were itching to get to play in it because we had zero snow at the beach-- but it was so so so so so cold.  There was zero outside play time while we were there. 

 Bundled up and ready to go!

 Andy has decided he wants to learn to snow board.  He asked Eddie to teach him how to do it on his sled.  He is literally begging Eddie to take him to the mountains to do this. 

Sunday afternoon consisted of laundry and playing catch up for the week to come.  Eddie's parents are here until Wednesday. We got the call around 4:30 that Cal is out of school for Monday.  He has an early release day Wednesday and Andy doesn't have school Thursday or Friday.  I might hit up the liquor store tomorrow. 

 

Sweet, sweet Gran

Eddie's dear grandmother, "Gran", went home to be with the Lord Thursday morning early.

Thankfully, it was a very peaceful passing, with her children there holding her hands.  There is something so perfect about holding the hands of the woman who brought you into this world, as she is leaving this world.  I can only pray that my passing is that peaceful.

Gran has loved me as her own granddaughter for a long time-- probably since high school.  And I am so thankful for her love.

She lived at the beach, so we were lucky to get to see her often-- the boys have grown up knowing her.  Which also made this harder. When we told them, Cal was very quiet, reflecting on what we told him, and Andy burst into tears, crying that he was sad he didn't get to say goodbye to her.

Her service is tomorrow, Saturday, and we are looking forward to celebrating such a sweet life.  We are all BEYOND thankful that we got to spend so much time with her over Christmas.  (here and here)

I am in charge of printing off some pictures to have on display at the service (#ofcourseiam), and here are some of the ones I am printing:

Look at how happy she was!

Gran gave her all every day.  She was living on her own and still driving.  She served at her church, a retirement home and at a hospital.  She gave constantly.  Hopefully we can continue in her footsteps. 

We know she is super excited to be reunited with her husband in Heaven!



 

Life Lately

Happy Hump Day, Y'all!

 

Here's a look at our life lately-- not a whole lot going on!

What we are reading:
Holy moly..... what a good book.  

Cal has been reading these Cars books.  I found several when I did some of my massive clean outs and he is having a great time reading them.

What we are eating:

Sunday: there is a new-ish restaurant in Chapel Hill that is AH-mazing.  They specialize in pizza, and I am sure their pizza is fine.... but their salads are ridiculous.
This was mine... it is huge.  And their home made dressing is to die for.  Why am I not a paid spokesperson?!?!

Monday: orange chicken.  
Tuesday (taco Tuesday!): the boys are having enchiladas-- momma is getting OUT!
Wednesday: Buffalo Chicken Garbage Bread (this is sooooo good!)
Thursday: I have no clue.
Friday: Over to Tricia and Tommy's house for his birthday!


What we are watching:
A LOT of football! Of course we are watching all of the NFL playoff games.  When we make Cal go to bed when a game is on, the first thing out of his mouth in the morning is always "who won the _____ game?!" He doesn't want to talk about anything else until he knows who won! We record all the games and the boys watch them during their rest time.  


What's making me happy:
When I cleaned out the study, I found this old newspaper clipping of Eddie...

 Did y'all know he went to Junior Olympics for diving? If you can zoom in and read the caption, it says "Eddie Williamson has been platform diving for less than a month. But this weekend, he could win a national championship." Eddie is the kind of person who can never have experience with something, and then he picks it up and is awesome at it-- he could never bowl in his life and then get 6 strikes in a row.  He could not run for months and months and then get up and run 10 miles like it is no big deal.  Yeah.  Not me.  Also, look at his rib cage.

Speaking of, check out this picture I found of me right around the same age:

I hit 5'10'' really young.  Like 5th grade. And I didn't break 100 pounds for a loooong time.  sigh.  Wish I could blame kids.  Thankfully, my chest grew as my thighs grew.  #findthebrightspot

Also making me happy-- Andy is obsessed with his Cam Newton shirt we got him for Christmas.  He wants to wear it every day.  He wore it on Thursday of last week and when he stayed home with me on Friday, he wanted to wear it.  I told him it was dirty.  He insisted on staying shirtless until it was clean-- and then helped me do laundry to expedite the process:

His little crazy self makes me happy. Also making me happy? He  is 100% done sucking his fingers and twirling his hair.  This is epic.  Huge.  Massive.  I was convinced it would be several more years before we broke this.  The finger nail polish helped, but I think it was mainly him decided he was done. 

What I am wearing:
lots and lots and lots of layers! burrrrrr!

Weight update:
well, this is frustrating.  I have a rock,  I was doing great and lost 4 and then just stopped.  ugh.  I need to get serious.  Mexico is coming... and I am not trying to be a beached whale by the pool.

note: I wrote this whole post and then lost most of it-- the post I wrote was set to publish on Wednesday, but never went live.  Not sure where it went, but I tried to re-create it, and it isn't very good.  apologies....

 

Insta Funnies

These were a big hit last week...! Might as well try to make you smile again this week:

(pardon the language...sorry, mom!)

This goes for this blog too...

This one is so wrong.  Just wrong.  But it made me laugh so hard.  Please forgive me.  

 

Weekend Update

We had what I thought was a lowkey weekend, but it ended up feeling like a marathon weekend of go go go.

Thursday night, Andy wasn't feeling well and went to bed a little warm.  He woke up at 10:30 with a 102.5 fever.  I slept in his bed with him and we were up for hours and hours.  I have a little cold, and I think staying up all night with him made me feel even worse.  Andy and I stayed home together on Friday and I cleaned out the study and the playroom-- it was a HUGE task! Holy cow.  Thankfully, Andy woke up Friday morning feeling great and full of energy. He was super "helpful" in my cleaning jobs.

Before....the study... it has been a collection spot for many many things...and where Bruce sleeps.  I moved everything out and vacuumed it multiple times to get all the hair up. 

I was on such a roll of throwing stuff away, I think he feared he was next.  He hid under the desk...

Here is the after... well, part of the room.  I didn't take the time to take the other side picture.  Oops.  Bruce loves his new room :) and I guess Hank does too from the below pic.  

 Andy loooooves his Cam Newton jersey.  It's all he wants to wear.  But he wore it to school Thursday so it was dirty Friday. He remained shirtless until it was clean.  He helped me with the laundry to expedite the process--

We did multiple loads together.  So helpful...

 Before we knew it, it was time to go get Cal. It was a nasty, rainy day-- we represented Fitch Lumber on our way!

Because we weren't feeling great, we bagged our plans for Friday night and laid low.  And it was lovely.  I started my new book and it is GOOD.

Saturday was a cuh-razy day.  I was teaching popup at 9, Cal had a basketball game (that Eddie was coaching) at 9:15, then Eddie had a funeral to attend, so he left Cal at basketball (to be brought home by Mr. Bryan), brought Andy to me at the club as I was finishing class, and then we hauled it home to meet Cal. Eddie left for the funeral with a change of clothes so he could get to Andy's basketball, where he is also coaching, by 1:00.  In between basketball practices, we went to my parents house so the kids could playin the driveway with my brother's kids.

Because I was teaching class, I missed Cal's practice, and therefore have no pictures...! Next time, I will take over load.  At Andy's, I took some pics and loads of videos (which I won't post here...!).  Andy was so so so excited about getting a turn to play basketball.  It is hard being the little brother and always watching the big boys play-- he is finally getting to where he can play all the same sports and he loves it.

 I have zero clue why he's wearing those socks.  Cal wore some like it too.  Eddie got them dressed.  They have actual basketball socks.... again, no clue.  These are the thickest, hottest socks ever.  But whatever.

Here are 4 of the red dragons....

We came home after basketball and had some chill time.  Eddie cooked us dinner on the grill and then it was baths and bed-- and these two were WIRED.  I mean, going crazy, running around and dancing like fools.  It WORE me out watching them!

Saturday night, Eddie went to see a movie and I curled up on the couch with my book and the fire and was in heaven! We got this bed at costco for a whopping $20 (most pet beds are over $100, easily), and the dogs fight over it.  They both sprint towards the bed to see who gets there first.  Hank looooooves this thing.  Now that I m writing this, I feel like I have already written about his love of this bed....! ha!

Sunday, everyone sort of slept in...and then the boys went downstairs and let me and Eddie sleep until almost 8:30....! WHAT????? It was amazing.

And, while we were eating breakfast, it started "snowing"! I use that term loosely because it was close to 60 yesterday so this white stuff was nowhere near sticking.  But boy, did it get these kids excited!

We did a whole lot of screaming and they attempted to catch some flakes in their mouth and then decided it was cold outside and came in to warm up. haha

We were supposed to have flag football start Sunday, but with the weather, it was canceled.  The boys were bummed, but that just builds even more excitement for next weekend! It would have been so cold and wet and MUDDY had we had it-- which got these two goofs beyond excited... but it was canceled. 

My brother told me Jackson was wanting a playdate so he came over for a bit to play.  Before long, they were playing shirts vs skins football... welcome to the Williamson household.... #sigh.

Andy was sick of getting tackled in no-tackle football, so he came down to do a little brownie baking with me. 

I planned my workouts for Monday (I am teaching a double header at popup... better eat my wheaties!), and did some meal planning.  It was a productive day, but pretty lazy...! I didn't mind one bit. 

Tomorrow is still considered the weekend, since it is MLK day... but for the regular weekend, this was it.  Low key and pretty boring...but pretty perfect!






 

Insta Funnies

Instagram makes me laugh... in case you need some laughs too, here's what  made me laugh lately: