Joy and sadness

It's been quite a week. Really...so much has happened in the last week that it feels like it's surely been more than a week. At church we started an after school program for our kids and youth. I'll save that for another post...but it was an excellent week in that regard. And then on Thursday I found out that my grandma had passed away. She found out last year that she had a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer. She fought hard..I mean really hard. And last summer there was no one that thought she would still be around. But she made it a whole extra year and we all were so blessed to have an extra year worth of time and memories to hold on to. And yet it seems that no matter how long you have to prepare for someone's death it's not long enough...and it's still sad...and there's still great loss. So on Friday morning my brother, Katelyn and I headed up to Michigan to join the rest of our family as we mourn and celebrate together.

Tomorrow is the visitation and Monday is the funeral. Katelyn did so well in the car on the way up here and she's been a little ray of sunshine for everyone...because a two year old knows nothing of death and is full of life.

So this morning, this full of life child was ready to run...so my mom and I took her down to the zoo. I think she was more excited about running and climbing than she was about the animals...but nevertheless, we had fun.

Here's our little drummer girl...oh how she loves to pound on things.

We were both looking at the camera, but my camera's shutter speed is just not quick enough for a two year old. It's a wonder that I ever get a good picture of her!

GRRRRRR.......

Grammy and Kateybug...

This was hillarious...the leopard had climbed up the side of this wall and was checking out what was going on below....

Here he is from the other side...just hanging out.

Really, most of my pictures were blurry like this because Katelyn ran and ran and ran and ran....