What a weekend

Friday night we traveled to Morgan City for Gigi's funeral services. David worked all day Friday on a power point of some pictures of her, and it played continuously in the funeral home the whole time we were there. Saturday morning were the funeral itself and her graveside service. I think overall all it was a good celebration of the life she lived. We learned a lot about her from the biography written on the back of her program (like the fact that she introduced Roy Rogers and Trigger to the stage in Morgan City, and that the day she retired from a hospital was declared Roma Fortinberry Day in Morgan City, and she delivered Payton Manning!). Dee Ann read something from her journal at the funeral that made everybody in the place start crying. It really was a beautiful tribute to her.
My parents came, and they brought Nadia up to the casket at the end so that they could pay their last respects. Nadia pointed to Gigi and said, "Gigi night night." Then she said, "Bye Bye Gigi." It was so cute!
We stayed Friday night and Saturday night at Danny's new house. His house is GREAT! I so wish we could find something like that in this neck of the woods, but the housing market is just a LITTLE different where we live (words dripping with sarcasm here!) Danny was nice enough to give up his bed for us, and boy, did I appreciate that! My hip didn't cooperate with me too well, and by Saturday afternoon/evening I couldn't walk without holding on to the couch or the walls to get around. At one point I couldn't get off the couch for about two hours because when I would stand up to move around, I couldn't even take a single step.
We left Morgan City early this morning to make it to church in time to work in the nursery at 9:45. We were about five minutes late, but we made it. We are no longer working in Nadia's class (and she had to move up to the next age group today), and that made us a little sad. I'm really glad they did though, because there is no way my hip would have handled chasing after a roomful of two year olds for an hour. So today I got to rock, feed, and burp a three month old little boy...Good practice for when Dawson arrives! I had David change his diaper so he could get his practice in too. We then attended the third service, and I got a chance to talk with a few of my friends afterwards.
After church we came home, ate lunch, and took naps. We slept for about an hour and 45 minutes, and then went to the UL Fan Appreciation Day at Cajun Field. They had free food and drinks, a live band playing, and a chance to meet the coaches and teams. The coolest part of it was they had four skydivers jump and land in the middle of the field. All four of them landed on the 50 yard line! Nadia was so impressed (and honestly, so were we!) After that, David took Nadia down to the field and let her run around and play with all of the other kids. She had a blast running around and burning off lots of energy.
David and I are planning to go to bed around 10 o'clock tonight, which for us is EARLY. I have to go back to school tomorrow, which means I have to wake up really early. I'm tired from the weekend, so I need to try to get at least 7 hours of sleep. I hope Dawson cooperates with my plan.