beautiful...

...isn't she?

And speaking of beautiful...today would have been my Grandma Nye's birthday (well, technically, I guess it still IS her birthday). She passed away when I was pregnant with Meagan. She would be 92 this year (I think). I have so many good memories of Grandma...so many things that remind me of her...so many things I don't want to ever forget...

• homemade chili and scones - and the way her house smelled when we walked through the front door to join her and Grandpa for dinner


• singing and humming and dancing


• making up funny little poems and songs


• one night when she stayed at our house when mom & dad went out of town she stood by my bunk bed and tickled my face...then told me a story about a little girl running through the tall green grass on a beautiful hillside (I wish I could remember if she was making up a story or telling me about when she was a little girl)


• puffed rice balls on Halloween


• cake with coins inside (wrapped in wax paper)


• buttons


• handwritten notes in birthday cards (which also included a few dollars)
• soda crackers with honey


• laundry in her back seat...because she did her laundry at the laundromat - her car smelled good...like clean clothes!


• talking on the telephone


• being in the mountains...


• clotheslines


• playing "hide the cup"


• the way she always made each grandchild feel like they were important...and probably her favorite :o)


• Her smile (she always had one on)


• Her faith and testimony