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| Well thought it was about time to put something new in this. First of all HAPPY THANKSGIVING and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! WE PUT OUR CHRISTMAS TREE UP TODAY!!! YEAH!! It looks very pretty!!! Well Friday after Thanksgiving I went out w/ Bea and went shopping!!! I got a lot of stuff! I got 3 movies for only $4 each!!!! I got 2 shirts at Van Maur for only $14!!! That store I love it! It's so expensive,but when you find good sales they are SOOOOO very good. Well I gotta go get ready for church... ~Whitney | | |
| Well the funeral went very well. LynnAnn (my older sister) played the piano while Maggie (my cousin) sang. The song was SO pretty!♥ The words were amazing! It was called Celebrate Your Life. I was crying my eyes out the whole time, but it was very special. Before it started my friends Trisha and Lynn got out of school so they could come and see me. As soon as I saw them I started crying. I didn't know that I was that close to crying until it happened. My cousin Greg talked about when he golfed with Grandpa for the first time and when he started to cry it made everyone else cry. My Granddaddy (my dad's dad) spoke at the funeral and it was a very special and touching message. For the past 2-3 days it has seemed like a dream. Like I'll wake up and Grandpa will still be here, but I know that he'll be in heaven waiting for us to come to see him. We were surrounded with close friends and family the whole time. When we went to the grave site they did a ceremony they do for the vets. It made me cry so hard when they were shooting the guns off. I was holding my 2nd cousin Lydia and she started crying because she was scared. It just gave me a good excuse to hug her and cry into her. They gave all of us cousins a bullet shell and a little flag pin to remember him by. Everyone also got to take a couple flowers from the bouquet that goes in w/ him. I'll have to put this picture slide show thing that I'm trying to make up on this thing about my Grandpa. There are some pretty funny pictures on there. ♥Whitney♥ | | |
| Bennett Wardell Stadtmiller July 21, 1918 - October 5, 2006 Loving Husband,Father and Grandfather We'll always remember you, and we'll see you again in heaven! Every time I hear this song, (Silent Night) I will remember Grandpa. The story was told so often that we will never forget. He played this song on his trumpet in the tunnel of his catholic church when he was a little boy for Christmas Mass, and it was his favorite hymn. | | |
| Well I promised that this would have good news, but I don't think that's going to happen for a while... My WHOLE family (all the cousins,aunt's and uncles) went over to my Grandma's house on Tuesday to be w/ Grandma and Grandpa. My Grandpa was in a hospital bed when we got there and had been like that for almost 2 days...It was just so shocking because just two days ago on Sunday my family went over to their house and sang some hymns w/ them. We have this tradition kinda thing that on Sunday nights my family and the pakala's all go over and sing because my Grandpa can't go to church anymore so it's a good ministry to them and we get to visit! WEll he was sitting up in his chair and singing w/ us and it was just such a change on Tuesday..He was lying in the bed breathing really hard..and it was just so sad to see all my aunts and my uncle and Grandma watching their dad/husband like that... Us older cousins were just kinda sitting of to the side and the sisters and brothers and Grandma were all sitting around Grandpa. I didn't really know what to do so I asked Alex if we should sing.. SO like 5 of us started singing Grandpa's favorite hymns. I was trying SOOO hard not to cry. Once in a while someone would stop singing cause it was so sad..Around 11 or so we started to leave.. It was so hard to say goodbye to him. I just started to cry so hard. I mean saying goodbye to someone you know is going to die soon...But I know that he will be SOO much better in heaven!! I'm SO glad that God didn't shut his doors on Grandpa, he kept waiting and waiting for him! He was saved earlier this year!! See I did end on a good note! Well I guess I should go finish some stuff up. I've got classes tonight. Thanks for all your prayers! Whitney | | |
| Well it's been a while...SO I thought I would update... This week has been crazy with me babysitting and my mom helping her old boss out w/ working for him for a few days..and my Grandpa isn't doing well at all either...And to top all that off my parents have a lot of stress about my other house..cause it's not selling..My mom went over tonight to spend the night at my Grandparents to help out w/ Grandpa so i'm here alone at home...Well Bonnie, Tyler and Will are here, but it's kinda scary at night w/out parents... The nurse people said that Grandpa wont probably live that much longer because he's showing signs of it being in about 1 week or less.. Well ya sorry no good news really...Next one i'll try to make it ALL happy!!! I LOVE THIS SONG!! It has such a good message in it! He wrote it about this one kid that he knew in high school who was in drugs and alcohol like nothing else. He had said that he just wanted someone to come and tell him he needed to stop as a friend not as an enemy...Someone trying to help him instead of telling him if he doesn't stop they're not going to be his friend anymore... "How To Save A Life"
Step one you say we need to talk
He walks you say sit down it's just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
And you begin to wonder why you came
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
Let him know that you know best
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defense
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you've told him all along
And pray to God he hears you
And pray to God he hears you
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
As he begins to raise his voice
You lower yours and grant him one last choice
Drive until you lose the road
Or break with the ones you've followed
He will do one of two things
He will admit to everything
Or he'll say he's just not the same
And you'll begin to wonder why you came
Where did I go wrong (where did I go wrong), I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up (I would of stayed up) with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
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