Gram and Gramps

Just got off the phone with my Grandma. It's been a while since we've had dinner and played cards, so we made plans to get together next week. My grandparents are some of the coolest people ever. Cool, and godly. They've been together for almost 60 years I think! Gram is always encouraging me in my walk with Jesus Christ, and she prays for me all the time. A large portion of my memories include my grandparents. I am so blessed to have had these special times with such wonderful people! (Obviously I could not list everything here and you know the minute I publish this post I will think of ten more things to add to the list...so, oh well)

*camping at Hoffmaster with our big family
*hunting up north, tracking deer in the dark, playing cards in the trailer, singing by the fire
*Gram reading Good Night Aunt Lily when we slept over
*Gram and Gramps coming along on our family vacations down south, and up to New York/Niagara Falls
*Christmas Eve with the whole family at Gram and Gramps' house
*Gramps reading the Christmas story every year
*playing cards by the fire
*fun times crammed in Gram and Gramps' hot tub with our cousins...there would be like ten of us little kids in there at a time
*the year Gram came and taught my students how to make sock monkeys
*Gram and Gramps leading their hymn sings at church these last few years
*the time they came and got me when I locked my keys in the car at WalMart
*the summer Gram and I prayed together one morning a week
*they hosted my 16th birthday party for the whole youth group
*they hosted at least one other girls' sleepover too
*Gram reading to my students on Reading Day several different times
*staying in the deer woods with them and T while mom was at teacher convention
*Gram's applesauce made over the camp fire
*Gramps leading song service at Bethel when I was a kid
*shopping with Gram for material for new pillows
*Gram's laughing til she cried when we played Uno
*Gramps coming to rescue me and Melissa Franklin when my windshield wipers broke and it was pouring (or snowing?)
*for my 19th birthday Gram wrote in a beautiful little notebook a bunch of Scriptures that had been meaningful to her along with some words of testimony
*we always had a bowl of cereal when we went to Gram and Gramps' house
*Gram and Gramps went to WI with me for my college baccalaureate and graduation
*Gram taking time to make zucchini bread with the twins and me
*Gram's gluten free chex mix
*helping Gramps put up the 12 foot Christmas tree a couple times
*visiting Great-grandma Warnock in the nursing home with Gram and cousins and
those "chicken little" sandwiches from KFC
*trips to Ludington to hike, fish, swim over spring break, especially when we were younger and it was T and me and the Grands
*listening to Gram practice her memory verses
*Gramps playing harmonica, guitar, banjo, mandolin, piano, washtub, saw, and who knows what other instruments
*Gram's help making Risa's beautiful baby quilt
*taking my class to the deer woods for a day, a couple different years, and watching Gram and Gramps teaching and loving the kids