a dinner date with millie...

terrible quality iPhone pic, but too cute not to share.

the kids and i went out to allen for a special dinner date last night with gram millie. i know i have talked about gram millie on my blog before, but i'll fill you in again. gram millie is my mom's mom, my grandmother, and great-grandmother to o & j. she is an amazing lady. since she doesn't read my blog it is ok for me to reveal that she is 94 years old (i think that is right, it's at least close.) and going strong. she has had a lot of changes in the last several months. she lost her husband (papa terry), moved to assisted living, and moved away from all of her friends. all in all she has handled all the change amazingly well, but she still loves a little extra attention, so we were excited to have the opportunity to get her out of her house and spend some time with her. we had a great evening. she wanted to go to cheddar's, so cheddar's it was. after dinner, she told the kids we could get dessert, so we introduced her to the famous cookie monster. we should have ordered 2 because i think they have shrunk in size and between the 4 of us it was GONE in minutes!! yummy!! i know she had fun because on our way to take her home she was already trying to plan our next dinner date. we dropped her off, said our good-byes, and headed back down 75 toward home. on our way back to our house olivia kept talking about how much she loved gram millie. of course, jack chimed in too, agreeing with his big sister. as they were talking i too felt so grateful for the relationship we have, the love that is shared, and the incredible gift she is to our family.