Tony's grandpa (Orvel) has had one medical issue after another in the last several years! This man has survived a few heart attacks, and more than one kind of cancer! His doctors told him about 2 years ago that he had a few months to live, and here he is, still truckin'! He ended up in the hospital a couple of weeks ago but since they live a few hours away we couldn't make it there right away. So last Saturday after he got home we took a day-trip to see him and Joyce. We left around 10am & got there around 1pm. Joyce had made us lunch, then we just hung out and talked with the 2 of them for awhile. Macie got a little bored since it was too cold to play outside, so she had kind of an attitude...that's why she isn't in the picture below....she REFUSED to have her picture taken! Orvel was really happy that we had made the trip...he kept saying how glad he was that we brought the kids for him to see. We haven't seen them since September so the kids have grown a lot since then, especially Paxton! Anyway, we ended up leaving around 4pm and were home around 7pm. The kids did pretty well for being in the car for so long...I ended up putting Paxton in the front-facing carseat even though he's a couple months shy of being old enough. He has literally outgrown the weight limit for the baby seat and his poor little legs get so crammed when he's faced backwards in the big carseat, plus I wanted to be able to see him and hand him things as we drove. He loved it, too!
Anyway, I kind of thought going down that it might be the last time we saw Orvel, but he seemed to be doing so well I can't imagine he's going anywhere anytime soon! He was talking about getting his strength up enough so he could go drive their new car!
Grandparents are so great!
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