last weekend we went to folkston to spend some time with my family. we hadn't been since christmas and that's just too long for sk to go without seeing ava and bryce! she misses them all the time. i took the girls down thursday after school & sk's art class. it ended up being a weekend full of cousin time so sk was in heaven - just what she had been wanting. and hayes had a blast of course - she loves a good time and being with people (especially family).
friday was one of sk's favorite days of her life so far. i took her to st. marys to have lunch with ava & bryce in the lunchroom at their school. she thought that was the coolest thing in the world!
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| i didn't get a pic of them eating! but afterward, we walked down the hall with them to their classroom and they each showed her where they sat. sk and i looked at their work displayed in the hallway and we were so impressed with their writing! |
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| adoration! she thinks they are IT! |
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| sweet girls |
after we walked them back to their class, we went to visit aunt ashley's room. her kids were napping so we got to talk to her and mrs. lanae for a bit. sk was so excited about the whole thing - "i got to eat lunch in the big cafeteria and i'm not even 6 yet!!!" she did think it was a little noisy..ha! they eat lunch in their classrooms at sk's school and have to keep it down!
as for the rest of the weekend….
lots of golf cart rides to feed the horses
lunch with the cousins fri, sat, and sunday! and dinner with them on saturday, too.
saturday was an all day cousin party at mimi's!
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| brycie pushing me on the tree swing |
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| ava bug! |
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saturday after dinner, my dad and trey went out to the backyard to bury our beau boy.
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| my dad designed and ordered a marker for him. |
the day we had him put to sleep we discussed our options with our vet and decided that the best thing for us to do was to have beau cremated. so we did. and the funeral home who took care of him did such a great job - they were very sweet and handled everything with such good care. they gave us a clipping of his fur and some paw prints. i didn't get a fancy urn or anything. his ashes are in a cute little paw-print tin which is now buried next to my childhood dog, soccer. our family dog chip and cobey cat are there as well. i sure do miss my beau beau! i'm glad that he is buried there - he could have lived down there and been perfectly content chasing butterflies and birds and squirrels all day long. he loved it there.
trey had an oil painted of beau and i love it!
i wish that i had taken a video of the girls saying goodbye to each other after lunch on sunday! they did some kind of cousin chant where they put their hands in the middle (basketball style) and said something like, "GO COUSINS" or whatever - that wasn't it, but something of the like. it was really funny! and sweet.
