The girls and I took a trip down to Dew Berry Farms on Saturday with some friends to pick a pumpkin! We had lots of fun riding the train and the hay ride to the pumpkin patch! We picked up four little pumpkins, each representing each member of our precious family! Happy Halloween!!!

In a small hospital room in Baton Rouge Louisiana the world stopped for a brief second to watch a precious soul rise up to heaven and receive her eternal wings. Peggy Diaz went to be with God today after a battle with cancer. She was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister, daughter and friend to many. She never met a stranger and made someone she barely new feel welcome. I came to meet this wonderful lady in 2001 at her and Kenneth's home in Sugar Land. As soon as I met her I felt like I had known her forever. She was cooking dinner and visiting with everyone and seemed to have no trouble multi tasking! We talked, we ate, we laughed and we became friends all in one evening. In 2004 she became my mother in law and Kenneth became my father in law. We enjoyed many visits with the two of them at their home in Missouri City and always got a great meal. She was a great cook and seemed to love trying new Ethel Cajun recipes. While she was cooking we would enjoy her cheese and rotel with beef added as an appetizer which always seemed to hit the spot. During football season everyone would make jokes about her alum aggies and she would say that she was going to hang her flag on the house one of these days because they were going to get better! In 2005, 2006, & 2008 she became a grandmother. She loved our kids and the kids of Beau and Kenny. By the way she was with the kids you could have never known that they were not blood. I remember going to their house after they had moved back home to Louisiana for Thanksgiving and watching her play with Kenzie. She was caring and never missed a beat when ever Kenzie would throw the ball around her house. She was married to Kenneth in the perfect fashion, on a cruise, and never stop loving him. She loved Kenneth so much and even in death I know she still does. She was a mother of two blood children and three step children and to watch her with them you would have never known she did not birth them all. She loved, she laughed, she cried and she cherished. We lost a wonderful lady today and gained a precious angel. I take comfort in the fact that she is up there with God watching over us, she is up there fighting for us and she is up there loving us. She may have left her body in what we call death but she is alive. She is alive in our hearts and our souls and she will never be forgotten. To those who have had the pleasure of knowing this wonderful lady I say you are truly blessed. To those who called her mom you are truly blessed and to one who called her your wife you are forever blessed. Peggy you are loved, you are missed and you will never be forgotten for you are an angel who has left her mark on the lives of many.

'Say not in grief 'she is no more' but live in thankfulness that she was'