My maternal grandparents live in Pawnee, about an hour & 1/2 drive from Edmond. It's not too far, but it's not very close either so we don't get to see them as much as I would like my girls to see them. We always go up for Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, major holidays are spent with them at their house. I have 4 cousins who are all married & have 2 children each, Grandma & Grandpa's house is VERY crowded! On a good holiday, there are about 25 people in their house!! Grandpa has trouble hearing anything, so with that many people in one house, it's hard to talk to him. (Timmy, the ONLY grandson, can talk to Grandpa in a way that he can hear him...and everyone in the county can hear him too.)
Easter 2013, everyone was at Grandma & Grandpa's house. Grandpa had a terrible cough & everyone was very concerned! About a month later, my mom called me to tell me that they had been with Grandpa in the emergency room the night before. He had been coughing so much that he couldn't breathe. They called the home health care nurse & she was concerned & his lips were turning blue. They called Timmy & Timmy got the ambulance out there. It was the first time Grandpa had ridden in an ambulance! They gave him 2 breathing treatments & decided to send him home.
We had a free weekend & thought we needed to go see them when we could really visit & not have 25 other people there.
Grandpa didn't cough as much as he had been & when he did cough, it didn't sound near as bad as before.
Grandpa & Grandma's wedding anniversary was April 26th. They have been married 66 years! (Grandpa is 89 & Grandma just turned 84).
Since Grandpa been on his oxygen more at night, he's been having vivid dreams! He told me that he dreamed that he was at the church (they got married at the pastor's house) & he & the preacher were standing at the front, waiting on Grandma. The preacher leaned over to him & said "Is she coming? Is she here?" & Grandpa looked in the audience & said, "Yes, she's right there!" & he went in the audience, got her & brought her to the front & they got married! He thought that was a funny dream!! I thought that was really sweet dream! After 66 years together, he would still chose her to marry!
(I think that Jesus is like that. He & God are at the front, waiting on you & God asks where you are, Jesus seeks you & goes & gets you!!)
Then they told us about their real wedding: Grandma still had a few weeks of HS left. She wore a blue suit. Grandpa wore a nice shirt & pants. A lot of their friends were going to the courthouse & getting married, but Grandpa & Grandma wanted to be married by a preacher. They wanted to get married earlier, but something about the blood test was messed up so they had to wait a few weeks.
They went to the preacher's house, they had 2 witnesses (I forgot who she said, but it was family) & got married.
Grandpa told us about riding his horse to school. He graduated when he was 16. He would ride his horse to school (a one room school house) a lady about a block from the school had a barn that he tied his horse up in & walked to school.
