a few more pictures.....

I'm feeling a little WICKED!!

Emma was the only one who hadn't seen Wicked-the other girls saw it on Broadway in New York when we took them after graduation from high school. It's been in San Francisco for awhile and not knowing if it will be around when Emma graduates from high school we got tickets! It was a great production-and even the 4th time around for me it was fantastic. We waited outside the cast stage door on Market Street after was it over and got to get autographs from some of the cast. Patty Duke was an awesome Madame Morrible and talked to the girls for quite awhile and signed their playbills! It was also a great excuse to get to see Lily and Jana and Joe who met us downtown for dinner.

 

 

Auntie Emma!

 

Emma has decided she is going to be the favorite aunt-there has got to be one good reason for being the only one still left at home!

This is hard to beat....

 

Amazing that I can spend hours holding this little angel and I'm completely content. I've always heard people say how wonderful it is to be a grandparent, and I imagined it to be great. But I had no idea how deeply this experience would affect me. I'm in love with her..... When I look at her it's like I'm looking at one of my own little girls but with a different perspective-a better one. Is it strange that I can't bring myself to wash this pink hoodie because it smells like Lily?

First Great-Grandchild

 

Jana was their first grandchild and now Lily Jane Eliason is their first great-grandchild!! An interesting thing about her name....my mom's name is Elizabeth Jane and she was named after her grandmother, Elizabeth Jane Edwards. I only knew my great grandmother as "Gran" but as a younger woman, she was known as Lily Jane. I just loved learning about their shared names....Can't wait to share what I know about my great-grandmother with little Lily!

Two of My Favorite Things....

 

When I make a list of my favorite things, of course my family is on the top of the list.... my parents, my brother and my sisters, my husband, my children, and now my grandchild (gasp!) After that it's hard to determine an order of favorite-ness, but the beach house definitely ranks up there. My dad was raised in this house in Aptos and as a child we spent a great deal of time visiting my Nana and Papa Schaffer and of course enjoying the beach. I hold wonderful childhood memories centered there. When my Nana passed away, my dad and his brother were able to keep their family home. And now, we are able to enjoy it and I know grandparents are thrilled-I can feel it when I'm there.