trip home

Jon's grandmother passed away this week. We found out about midnight Tuesday and were on a plane Thursday. We'll be in Nisland for about a week.

The plane from Denver to Rapid City was probably the smallest commercial plane I've been on - just 32 seats. Jon has taken an even smaller plane in Australia that was a really rough ride.

Leon has had four sets of twin calves already, and he's only about halfway through calving! This is a twin who's mother left her, so he's been keeping her in the shop and feeding her with a bottle. All of the kids were pretty excited to feed and pet her.

I helped make a collage of photos of Grandma Sadie. The service was today and it was really nice. Jenni really made the service the way Sadie would have liked it - from the old country music to the chili pepper cloth and cactus on the coffin. She also wrote an eulogy that really showed Sadie's character; she had family members smiling through their tears at some of the stories that captured the essence of her personality.