granddad, tell me your memories.

My grandparents came over for christmas when I was 13 years old. We gave them these books that said "Grandma/Grandpa tell me your memories." My granny had filled hers out and given it back to us. We thought that granddad had done the same. When my granddad passed away this past May, I remembered about the books. I asked my mom if she knew what had happened to them. She thought that they were probably in the storage unit we have in AZ. The next morning we were over at my grannys house and she was cleaning out some drawers. I just happened to come in and saw the book sitting on her bed. I couldn't believe it. We didn't even know he still had it. Not everything had been filled out, but quite a bit had! Granny gave it to me as my little keepsake of granddad. It has been really fun to read over stories of his youth.

One of my favorite stories is of how my grandparents met. I thought I would share the story.

The question was "Tell about your first date."

Marie was my first date, but it was not planned. I was training to be a fighter pilot in South Wales. It was a Saturday night and two friends came to my room to say we were all going to a dance at Swansea hospital. They had put my name down because I had the car! When we got there, all the guys were down one side of the hall, and all the nurses were down the other side, and 'Matron' was up on the stage keeping an eye on all. When the music started, I went to one of the nurses and asked for a dance. "Where do you come from?" "I come from the valleys!" (In a Welsh accent) I don't like the welsh accent! After about three or four, all the same, one of my friends said "Hey, have you seen that little Irish nurse over there?" "Irish, Irish, where?" "Over there in pink!" Whoosh - I was over there quick as a flash and we spent the rest of the evening together and after that we dated regularly, and so on...!

The next question is "Tell about your first kiss."

At the end of the dance I gave Marie a very tentative 'peck' - I didn't want to be too 'fresh' besides I was pretty green in the matters! Our first 'proper' kiss came at a subsequent date.

Here is their wedding picture on March 19th 1960. Don't they look lovely!

cancer free is the way to be!

I wrote this a few weeks ago but I never actually hit publish for some reason. I must have gotten distracted.

My dad got the results of his CT scan that he had taken a few weeks ago and he is completely cancer free!! 

We went out to eat at this thai place for dinner to celebrate. I was a little skeptical to eat there because I never had thai food before. I remember someone had told me once that if you are ever eating thai food you can never go wrong with pad thai. So I ordered pad thai. It was SO good. I am so glad I took that advice!

Since I wrote that my dad is doing really well. He's still quite tired so he takes a nap during the day. His hair is slowly growing back. Although it looks like it is growing back white, which will be very weird to see. I'm so glad that is over with now. Jared came home about a week and a half ago but I will save that for another post!