The Adventures of the Flannery Fun Team

I'm sure all of you probably have a sweet Grandma but I'm pretty sure that mine takes the cake. I have some of the most incredible memories of my Grandma. She can make any flower grow and has such a love for gardening (I think that's why I enjoy it so much now). She can cook and bake like no one I've ever met. I learned a lot from my Grandma, not by a formal lesson, but just in watching how she loved and served her family. It was always her greatest joy to cook a huge meal and have her family come over and share it with her. As a little girl my favorite thing was to spend the night at my Grandma and Grandpa's and and wake up the next morning to the smell of coffee brewing, breakfast cooking and Grandpa listening to the agriculture report on the radio. When it was your turn to spend the night Grandma always made your favorite breakfast, mine was biscuits and gravy, and of course you always got hot chocolate with whip cream! It was heaven! My Grandma is the ultimate hostess and servant.

As I love and serve my family today I realize how much my Grandma really taught me.
My Grandma, who my kids call "Nanny", has been sick a lot this winter. She is 82 years old and such a blessing to us all. It has made me really sad to see her not feeling well. In February the Flannery Fun Team made a special trip to see Nanny in West Plains, Missouri. She had been put in a nursing home and we wanted to go and let her know how much we love and appreciate her. While the boys and Tim played in the hotel pool Caitlyn and I got to go over and visit Nanny for a little while by ourselves.

This is our last picture with Nanny before she got to go home to be with her Heavenly Daddy.