Thursday, July 14, 2011

To honor a kidney

My amazing oldest sister Kathryn received a Kidney transplant on June 11th! It was unexpected and very exciting. I came home from girls camp and she had a new kidney.

So, in honor of her new kidney my sister Liz, her husband Kyle and my adorable nephew Gram came out to visit. We took the kids everywhere during the week while they were here! It was a lot of fun. We also spent time with Kathryn at the house, playing games and doing sewing projects and everyone helped me get ready for youth conference.

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Lydia at Kaleidoscope. She is a bit young still, but we had fun coloring.

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Gram and Lydia played in the fountains at Zona Rosa and had a blast. Lydia was not afraid and she was running into them with Gram, and me and Ben...we all ended up soaked.

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We also mined for precious stones at Deanna Rose Farmstead.

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Cows!

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Cowgirl

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Two girls on a cow.

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Lydia decided living in a tee pee was not for her.

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Although she did look pretty comfortable on this tractor. Either she is ready for her license or she will marry a farmer.

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She stole Opa's ice cream cone.

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We went to the zoo. This is us on the train! So much fun. (for a short train ride, long line and we did not really see much...)

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The Millard family in Africa.

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How we rolled around the zoo.

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Africa is a HUGE. Sweet little girl fell asleep half way through.(She woke up just in time for some frozen lemonade.

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Another one bites the dust.

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And we played with bubbles on the deck at Oma and Opa's.

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Lydia and Auntie Xiao Hua. She looks terrified, but I think she is looking at bubbles.

My sister Liz took a bunch of pictures too, so I will post those when I get them.

It was great having our entire family together. Gram and Lydia played pretty well together and the reason for getting together was the best! Yeah for Kidneys!!!

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3 comments:

thepainterfamily said...

lovely!

and we obviously need to get together ASAP...because I hardly recognize lydia! she is looking so grown up!

Holbrook's said...

Love it all!! Love that Kathryn has a new kidney!! I can't believe how long Lydia's hair is!!

aLi said...

Congrats to your sister. That is awesome!!! Cute pictures Margaret!!!