Visit with Great Grandma

We just returned from a wonderful visit with Grandma in State College, PA.  I had looked forward to this visit for a long time, since I had not been able to be here for Grandaddy's Memorial Service.  We had a great time visiting, seeing where she lives, continuing fun traditions like ice cream runs at Meyer Dairy and getting to catch up.  We also really enjoyed seeing my Aunt Deannine and our cousins...Abby, Joshua and Brittany, who are so big and grown up now.  Abby and Joshua were flower girl and ring bearer in our wedding and now are finishing high school!  Here are the highlights!

It was so fun to introduce Lucy to Grandma and Lucy was all smiles!

Here we are at Meyer Dairy...a must-see every time we are in State College.  The boys ate hot dogs and loved the ice cream of course.

After ice cream, the boys enjoyed running down this hill of beautiful green grass, right next to the dairy farm that makes the ice cream.

Eating with Aunt Deannine at Foxdale, Grandma's new (to me anyway) home.

We also had a wonderful time eating lunch at the Yoder's Farm, a local Amish family that has opened their home to Grandma and Grandaddy many times.  The food was DELICIOUS and the boys enjoyed seeing the horses, cows, chickens, pigs and pigeons on their farm.  No pictures allowed, but a very memorable experience.

We got to visit Grandaddy's grave.  The temporary marker is still up (the permanent one is not ready yet), still flying many Memorial Day flags there.  It was good to visit and see the spot, a beautiful cemetery that claims to be the birthplace of Memorial Day.  Grandaddy was so patriotic, I think it is fitting for him to be laid to rest there.

On a not-so-serious note, as we were visiting the grave site, Chris suddenly looked over to find Bennett with his pants down, about to pee on someone else's gravestone.  Yikes...boys!  All that beautiful green grass was just too tempting I guess.  Chris did avert that disaster just in time, though he did pee in the grass elsewhere.  We had a great visit though and loved being there.