sad sounds

it has been alovely new years eve, new years day..

today rylan and i cleaned in the kitchensomemore. not just doing dishes type of stuff. reorganizing cabinets, cleaning things out, making it more user friendly.. all of that. thats part of our goal for the christmas break, to go through the house and clean, organize, simplify, all of that.

got a phone call yesterday morning. w oke us up actually. my great aunt billie june in arizona passed away very unexpectedly. massive heart attack. mom just talked to her on saturday and she was fine. monday she just hadn't beenf eeling very good, so she staye din bed. and my grandmother (billie june's sister) hung out with her, crocheted, tlaked all of that. and that night things got worse so they called the ambulance. the helicopter came to pick her up (in the desert when the closest hospital is over 90 miles away over the mountains, they come for you in a chopper and fly you there). billie june smiled and waved to grandmother as they strapped her to the board. and she never made it tot he phoenix hospital.
she had the heart attack in the helicopter and that was that.

billie june was always home base for everyone out west. she just always was. a stylish individualistic woman, with her own mind. one of the coolest ladies i have ever known. so it's really hard that she is gone so unexpectedly. and everyone in that family has gone that way: billie june and grandmother's brother had a massive heart attack. their father had a massive heart attack..,. i dont know about uncle george (billie june's husband).. but that's just the way it has gone.

so yesterday was also spent, aside form hanging out with mom and trying to comfort her, trying to find airfare for her tog et to phoenix for the memorial service and to help take care of things. finally found some and by some miracle, answer to a prayer, someone from the family called up mom and said "you're charging your place tickets to my credit card. here is the information." no questions asked. the same person is flying out cousin amy from colorado. same story. amy and mom arrive in phoenix within an hour of each other. its amazing how heavenly father works.

i talked mom through buying her tickets online last night. she read to me what the screen and web site said and i told her what to do. by midnight she had her ticket information and all of that.

i have defintely gotten hooked on using the readthe scriptures.com website for my daily reading material and the gospel doctrine lesson material. so i reccommend that to anyone looking for an alternative..

my boy is off to work. i am off to finish the kitchen, do some quilting and knitting (i am working on my first sweater) and do some writing... the snow is melting off.... and its a happy thing.