Remembering The Little Things {The Best Is Yet Too Be}!: Memorial Day

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Memorial Day

We had a fun, relaxing, family weekend! We started on Friday when we meet my Grandma Carlson, Uncle Steve, Aunt Laureen, cousins Jake, Nick, and Zach, Ryan, Molly, and Nana, and Papa over in Logan to my Grandpa's grave. We got his headstone looking all festive! Afterwards my Uncle Steve took us out for pizza because it was my Aunt Laureen's birthday. We had a wonderful time, it is always nice to visit with them.

Over the weekend I had an opportunity to make quite a few Memorial Day arrangements for some friends. I should have taken pictures, I loved the way they turned out. It was different doing them for my friends because I was doing them for their loved ones. It just felt different then making them for people who I don't know.

On Monday we went over to my Grandma Rhodes' grave. This is a Rhodes family tradition. We meet in Honeyville to get her headstone all decorated up and then we head on over to my Grandpa's house for lunch. It was fun seeing everyone, but we look forward to seeing everyone else in July!

These are quite a few of my Grandpa's Great Grand kids!

The 3 Amigos!

Alec enjoying one of his favorite past times, climbing trees!

My kids love when Uncle Ry comes over to Nana and Papa's house so he can kick the ball really high in the air and then the boys try to catch! They could do this for hours. Ryan usually leaves pretty tired!

1 comment:

Lindsay said...: Your kiddos are so stinkin' adorable! I've missed seeing you around now that the weddings are all over!; June 26, 2010 at 3:10 PM

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