There is a lot going on
Facebook is in almost every way better than LiveJournal, except for blogging. Sometimes you can't say what all is going on in a little snipet on Facebook (or especially twitter) and you gotta go back to the blog.
So we officially moved into the farm house a few weeks ago. This is the house that was built in the mid 1800's for farm workers and then after William Hartman (Great Grandfather) bought what is now Rivermist subdivision, he tore down all the houses except this one which he moved to the farm. Ardin Hartman (Grandfather) used it for years as a tack house, and then later as storage, until about 10 year ago when it almost completely burnt down. MaryAnn Hartman (Grandmother) had it remodeled and added on to it and since then Ben Hartman (Brother) has been living in it. Ben moved to New Orleans to marry Lane so Elizabeth and I moved it. It's a big house, 2 stories with a full basement, which is especially big to us since we have only ever lived in apartments before. We are still unpacking and organizing and customizing it to make it ours which is going to take awhile, but we enjoy it.
In more important news, Izora "Ikey" Howell (Great Grandmother) passed away today at Dekalb Medical center. They disovered she had abdominal cancer a few weeks ago which they operated on, but there was so much cancer they couldn't remove it and she had been in the ICU ever since. While in the ICU she started developing infections, blood clot, pneumonia, a mild heart attack, etc... She was on a ventilator but they were unable to wean her off of it. Today the family decided it was time to let nature take it's course so they removed the ventilator. Two hours later, with her family at the bed, she passed and went up to heaven. She was an awesome lady, VERY tall, and was more energetic then most people half her age. It is sad that she is gone, but at least everyone got to say goodbye and she isn't in pain anymore and she is in a better place with her husband.
With all of that sad news going on, Ben is getting married on Saturday. The timing is horrible, but at least it wasn't a situation where we were all in New Orleans when it happened. I hope that during the wedding we can all be happy and enjoy it because I really think Ikey would have wanted us too.
So we officially moved into the farm house a few weeks ago. This is the house that was built in the mid 1800's for farm workers and then after William Hartman (Great Grandfather) bought what is now Rivermist subdivision, he tore down all the houses except this one which he moved to the farm. Ardin Hartman (Grandfather) used it for years as a tack house, and then later as storage, until about 10 year ago when it almost completely burnt down. MaryAnn Hartman (Grandmother) had it remodeled and added on to it and since then Ben Hartman (Brother) has been living in it. Ben moved to New Orleans to marry Lane so Elizabeth and I moved it. It's a big house, 2 stories with a full basement, which is especially big to us since we have only ever lived in apartments before. We are still unpacking and organizing and customizing it to make it ours which is going to take awhile, but we enjoy it.
In more important news, Izora "Ikey" Howell (Great Grandmother) passed away today at Dekalb Medical center. They disovered she had abdominal cancer a few weeks ago which they operated on, but there was so much cancer they couldn't remove it and she had been in the ICU ever since. While in the ICU she started developing infections, blood clot, pneumonia, a mild heart attack, etc... She was on a ventilator but they were unable to wean her off of it. Today the family decided it was time to let nature take it's course so they removed the ventilator. Two hours later, with her family at the bed, she passed and went up to heaven. She was an awesome lady, VERY tall, and was more energetic then most people half her age. It is sad that she is gone, but at least everyone got to say goodbye and she isn't in pain anymore and she is in a better place with her husband.
With all of that sad news going on, Ben is getting married on Saturday. The timing is horrible, but at least it wasn't a situation where we were all in New Orleans when it happened. I hope that during the wedding we can all be happy and enjoy it because I really think Ikey would have wanted us too.