March 4th

On the fourth of this month, I got to "March fourth" into a new year of my life. Happy Birthday to me. I remember thinking that time was so long and that I would never get older. Well, here I am, older, and it seems that as each year goes by, time gets shorter and shorter. This was the second birthday that I got to celebrate with the love of my life- although it was my first one married! We went out to eat lunch and it was delicious! That evening we had dinner with my family and cake and ice cream and watched a movie. It was nice being with my family. For my birthday, Gus bought me the "Hunger Games" book series. They were good, but not what I expected them to be. They were kind of depressing in some ways. They kind of reminded me of the book "The Giver." You had to look past the actual words to see what was going on- the meaning behind the books. They were good though. I got the game of "Life" from my younger brother- he's so cute. He had opened the game and took out the money and two cars and put a guy and a girl in them- then he put that in a bag and had me open it. When I opened it, he told me that he had given me some money and a car for both Gus and I- and then he gave me the actual game.- It was cute. and then like that, my birthday was over for another year. Speaking of birthday's though, today is my Grandpa's 85th birthday. Happy Birthday Grandpa! I love my grandparents so much. It truly has been wonderful having such loving grandparents. I wish they would be here forever, but at least I will be with them forever- maybe not in this life though. It has been really hard watching them get older and hard explaining how they use to be when I was a little kid. I really want my kids to be able to know them, but I don't know how that will go. Grandpa Kitchen is in really bad health and his short term memory is going. He's also isn't the same person he use to be, but he is still a wonderful, kind, loving man that anyone would be glad to have as a grandpa! Grandma Kitchen is probably in the best shape now- she is also the youngest of them all, but even she is getting older. Grandpa Mickelson has cancer. They gave him about a year to live, but he is in the process of seeing what all they can do to help him out. It is so sad, because even though he is diabetic, he has always seemed to be the one in the best health. He has always been active and was always making things in his wood shop and doing their garden and going camping in their trailer. I loved spending the summers with them when I was younger. It seemed so neat to get to spend so much time with them. Grandma Mickelson has never really been in that great of health, but she has always kept going and has worked hard- and Grandpa Mickelson has taken such great care of her- and vice versa! She is also very stressed about Grandpa's health and her memory is going too... It all adds up! They truly are the best! But I know that my kids will have wonderful grandparent too- even if they don't get to know their great grandparents. I really have a wonderful family! I'm sure that Gus's is great too, but I have only met his sister and parents. I don't know his grandparents or aunts and uncles. Hopefully I will get to meet them soon. I really want my kids to be able to know both sides of their family. It is going to be really hard though with them being in two different countries. Growing up, we didn't always live extremely close to my grandparents, but when when we did visit, both sets of grandparents lived three blocks away from each other- very convenient and nice! I guess time never stops. Each year I'll have a birthday and we will all get older- it is inevitable. To a happy and beautiful future!