a blessing from God

What's with the obscure title? Last night at 9:44 p.m. my gradfather went to a much better place; Heaven. It was truly a miracle of how the event happened. My brother was in Long beach with a summer school final so he took it and came dashing up in the evening. For him to not hit traffic and only take an hour to get to Camarillo is a mircale when he has to take the 405 and 101 freeway. Anyways, he picked my mom and me up and we went to Santa Barbara to my grandparents house. Everyone in the family all 12 of us were now at my gradfathers side.

So all of the grandchildren went in to see grandpa around 9:35 p.m. we said our goodbye's he couldn't open his eyes or talk but the movement of his head or the touch of his hand we knew he understood us and felt we were there.

After we left the room, his children went in to say goodbye and be at his side. At 9:44 p.m. he went to be with the Lord, peacefully.

The Month of July

Yes Kristin, I get your point, it has been over a month since my last post. So here is goes.
July has been a month of relaxation and recuperation from a busy year. It has been a great time to just chill, take a few saturday afternoon naps, catch up with old friends, read a book or two, take up golf lessons and pretty much just stop and smell the roses. Let me say I'm only 17 days into the month and I really needed this break.

But.... reality is soon setting in and back to getting busy again. I'm busy planning the 3rd. Annual Cara Barton Awards Dinner and Silent Auction for the Red Cross chapter of Ventura County. It will be at the Reagan Library over looking the air force one place. It is such a georgous site. Then there is another event for the Red Cross in September 2006 that we are starting to work on ideas for, it is going to be a salute to our military so lots of patriotic themed items going into this thought process. This weekend I'm doing an event for about 70 people and it's a golf themed birthday party so that will be alot of fun. Do you see a theme going on here.... Vicky really likes planning events.

Besides that, the family is good. My grandfather has been given about six months to live, his cancer count is up and his kidneys are shutting down so that is really hard. But, I know that he is going to a much better place.

So... since I'm lame and can never remeber everyone's blog address, shoot me an e-mail with your blog and I'll save it to my favorites.

V