I'm not happy as all of my posts published last to first!!  So, please scroll down to the bottom of the page and work up.  I hate this happened, but I don't have the time to redo it!!

Thank!!

After We Got Home From the Funeral

Brandon had already changed his clothes to something more comfortable, but Pappy aka Dennis didn't care about that and had baby Jordan just spoiling him :o)

Caden trying to help Jordan

My two adorable grandsons!!  Yes, in case you can't tell I'm very, very proud :o)

Admiring Jordan

Oh, how I could just squeeze that little munchkin right now!!

Jordan, too, has his Daddy's eyes!

Before he could even change his clothes he grabbed the Doritos bag and was chomping away.  Look at that cheesy mouth.  Speaking of cheesy, look at that smile I got :o)

What a boy!!

After the Meal Following the Funeral

I took quite a few pictures after the meal of our immediate family but also Dennis' cousins, etc.

Here the "Little Man" was running everytime he saw me or anyone with a camera!  What a ham!!

Karissa with her baby!

Brandon

Caden Andrew finally posing for this Grammy

Karissa, Jordan, Leslie (Dennis' niece), Jamie & Ricky (Dennis' nephew & wife) Brandon and Caden

Janie, Suzy, Ray Jr., Melba, Dennis, Cindy (Dennis' sister) & Janet.  The little girls whose names I forget are grandkids of Ray & Suzy.  Ray, Janie, Melba & Janet are brother and sisters.  They are Dennis' cousins and are wonderful people.  He's been very close to them over the years.  It hasn't been too many years that they lost both of their parents.  Janet, on the far right had been fighting cancer.  Recently she had a PET scan and there was no cancer in her body!  We are so happy for her!!

This was two pink rosebuds on a pillow that was placed in Alice's casket with Caden & Jordan's names as the Great Grandchildren.

This was four red rosebuds on a pillow with the four Grandchildren's names.

Karissa with baby Jordan

Dennis in a hurry to do something

Dennis' cousins ~ Jane, Ray Jr., Janet & Melba

Going To the Cemetery

This is Dennis' parents Church ~ Weaver Church of the Nazarene.  Aren't the flowers beautiful?  Alice would've loved them!  There was an hour viewing before the service began, but we got there early and the funeral director told us that there was no electric in the Church.  He said there was lots of light from the windows and that it was warm enough inside.  He said we could stay there and hope for the electric to come on or go back to the funeral home.  Dennis' Dad opted to stay at the Church.  While I sitting in the pew waiting for the electric to come on and the service to begin, I could see Alice as she lay there in the casket.  I was looking and looking when I mentioned to Karissa that it looked like there was a light shining on her face, but remember there was no electricity!!  She saw it, too.  Dennis said he thought it was just for us, but whatever the case it was amazing!!  About 11:10 the electric came on and the service began. 

Going up one of the back roads to the cemetery

Dennis talking to his Aunt Verla after the committal service

This is Dennis' cousin's headstone.  She died 21 years ago after a horrible car accident!  Her Mama keeps it so pretty!

This is Dennis' Uncle Leck & Aunt Anna Mae's headstone.  Uncle Leck died 17 years ago from cancer!  Dennis & he were very close.

Dennis' parents had their funerals preplanned and this is the headstone they had picked out.  It's very pretty.  Cindy put some of the flowers from the funeral in the vases afterward.  Click on the picture and you'll see how they had Dennis & Cindy's names engraved on the front.

This is really neat!  They had the four Grandkids names engraved on the back!  I can just hear Alice saying that they had to have those on there.  She loved her Grandchildren!!

It was rather windy and chilly when we got to the cemetery.  Caden asked if he could stay in the van and watch his DVD.  When the service was over he got out and wanted one of his Great~Grammy's flowers.  I just love this picture of him!!

Getting Ready For the Funeral

When Karissa came to West Virginia, Dennis told her that we were going to buy suits for the boys.

Here he is playing with a John Deere toy while waiting for everyone to finish getting ready for the funeral.

Jordan was asleep laying in bed drinking his bottle :o)

Silly Man!!

At the Viewing With Family

Our Church here in Cayman sent some of the most beautiful flowers.  As you can see, they were Fall colors.  The picture doesn't do them justice!  It was a huge bouquet.  Dennis said his Mother would have loved them!

These four are Alice's siblings and the only one's left out of a family of ten.

Uncle Joe, Aunt Carmen, Aunt Verla and Uncle Raymond.  Uncle Raymond's wife wasn't able to come to the viewing as she was just diagnosed with cancer and given less than six months to live.  We were glad he came!

(Somehow I bumped a few keys on my computer and moved this picture from up above )

This large bouquet was from a family in Church who just a few months ago lost their wife/Mother.  How thoughtful it was of them to think of us!!

I took a picture on Uncle Joe's phone for him and here they were all checking it out :o)

Uncle Raymond and Aunt Carmen's daughter, Sheila, looking at another picture on another phone :o)

This is Dennis' cousins Rodney and Sharlet.  When they were growing up, their families lived in a duplex house in North Linthicum, Maryland.  They, too, have been very close.  Dennis' parents were like parents to these two!  It was so good to see them as we don't get to visit with them very often!

You'll Forever Be In Our Hearts and We'll Miss You

Alice Pauline McCoy

February 14, 1937 ~ October 18, 2010

Rest In Peace, Dear One

We Will Forever Miss You!!

The next several posts are for you to read, but I'm sharing many recent pictures for my son, Brett, who currently is deployed to Afghanistan in the United States Air Force.  He was very, very close to his Grandmother and wasn't able to come home to see her or for her services. 

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On October 12th, my Mother~in~law went into the hospital for what we all thought was going to be a very simple eye surgery.  She had glacoma for several years.  Her eye doctor said she needed surgery for the glacoma, but they agreed to put it off.  But then the last time she was in to see him he urged her to have the surgery to hopefully preserve her eyesight!  The surgery was very successful and she came through it fine.  In a few short minutes afterward, a number of things transpired which would take too long to put on here.  They ended up putting her in a medical induced coma but she had issues with her heart that nobody knew about and it just couldn't take the stress of everything.  The last four plus years she never had a pain free day.  She was in a terrible car accident in September of 2006 with many, many serious injuries including head trauma.  Over the years, she's had several serious head injuries which the doctors think may have contributed to the beginning of Alzhemizer's.  Her mind was still pretty good for all she had been through.  Her major problems were at night time! 

 Dennis' sister called the day of the surgery to tell us what happened and the doctor's thought that by the following morning she would wake up and pull through the ordeal, but when Dennis called them back the next day, he found out she had taken a turn for the worse and that the doctor's said they didn't think she'd make it through that day!  He immediately got plane tickets to fly out that same afternoon.  Again, to make a real long story short, after the family discussed what they were going to do, the decision was made to remove the tube.  You see, when she was still in good health and her mind was very good, she made Dennis promise her that he'd never leave her on life support.  So, to grant her wishes they agreed to take her off that and she was able to breathe on her own for about nine hours.  Then God sent his angels to carry her Home to be with Him!

 We will truly miss her!!  She was a wonderful Mother to her two children!  She took awesome care of them as they were growing up.  If it had not been for her, Dennis wouldn't be where he's at today nor be the man he is.  She was his best friend and he is really hurting!  She was also the best Grandmother a kid could ask for.  Our boys were blessed to have her for their Grandmother!!  When they were pretty young, they would go to Gram & Pap's for several weeks during the summer.  They would have a blast with her.  She would do just about anything that they asked her to do and believe me, that was anything that a young boy could think of :o)  I remember wondering every summer when they returned home what they would bring with them.  One time, they found two snow white kittens and she brought them home for the boys to enjoy.  Another time, we had to bring a dog home that was found at a park, because she thought the boys just had to have it :o)  She loved the boys!!  They never did any wrong in her eyes :o)))  She was also a wonderul Mother~in~law to me.  She taught me many things ~ probably the number one thing was how to be a good shopper.  Oh, did she love to shop!!  The last time we were there this past summer, we were running the roads looking for sales.  We always had a good time together.

 My Mother~in~law also was a great cook!!  Up until she had the bad accident she was always cooking up a storm.  She made some of the most awesome biscuits from scratch that you've ever eaten!  She'd fry ham, fry potatoes, make a big pot of brown (pinto) beans, cook apples and have biscuits.  After the main course, she'd set a dessert of some kind ~ a yellow cake with homemade thick chocolate fudge like icing on the table for everyone to dig into.  Then she'd start to quarrel at Dennis asking him when he was going to go on a diet and lose weight.  How could you diet when you even thought about going to her house?  Impossible!!  At Christmas, she'd bake upteen kinds of cookies, make several kinds of fudge and give most of it away!  Her heart was made of gold!! 

 I said she was little but what a mighty lady she was!  She may have been petite, but when she spoke everyone listened as she had something to say. 

She had planned to Grand Cayman this Fall to visit us, but unfortunately it didn't happen.  She really was looking forward to that.  When we still lived in Ohio and my Mother was living with us, Alice would drive up sometimes by herself to visit.  I remember her coming up several times during the Summer when our Church would be in Vacation Bible School with the children.  As Dennis & I would have to go to the Church earlier for preparations, she would cook dinner and then bring my Mother to VBS!  Like I said, she had a heart of gold.  She'd do anything for just about anyone.

 This is a picture of one of her roses that was just bursting in bloom this summer when we visited there.  Dennis' dad told us with tears streaming down his cheeks as we were getting ready to leave to fly back to Cayman after the funeral that he's going to have to dig up the rose bush.  It was one of her favorites and it's to painful for him to look at!  The rose reminds me so much of Alice ~ just bursting forth with a sweet smelling fragrance and beauty!

As the title post says,

"You'll Forever Be In Our Hearts and We'll Miss You!"

Cruise Ships, Huge Iguana's, A Mansion and Tourists

While we were out and about on Wednesday, I remembered where there was a little park along the beach at South Sound.  So, when I found it I decided we'd pull in a check it out.  Look at the huge iguana's that were there.

 This is one of the same cruise ships that we saw earlier and now it was down where we were at!

 Isn't this just so pretty?

 Posing by the huge iguana

 This huge mansion is owned by a family that has a big store here on the Island like a Home Depot or Lowe's

 And then we have some tourists posing at the "Welcome to the Cayman Islands" sign in downtown George Town.

 I asked Jim to give me his "disgusted" look :o)

 And these two were clowning around again as usual!  What a pair when they get going!!