Memorial Day 2012

Growing up, Memorial Day was always spent at my Grandpa Anderson's grave.  He died when my dad was only 3 yrs old.  My grandma never remarried, I don't know how she did it.  She was an amazing person.  Anyways, my dad's whole family (which is big and wonderful) would met up at the cemetery.  They still do gather there to honor my grandpa, and my grandma now too.  Every Memorial Day, I wish I was there with them.  Its these little things that make me wish we lived closer.

This Memorial Day was different, now we have our own little angel to honor and love on this day.  I wish we didn't.  I wish she was here.  I have faith in Heavenly Father's plan, but it doesn't change the wishing things could have been planned differently.

Since we aren't close enough to go visit Teagan's grave, we decided to release some balloons for her.  We all picked out a balloon for her.  Bentli chose a Princess one, Tate's was spiderman (haha), Jared's was a purple star, and I had the pink heart.  We wrote some notes to Teagan, the kids drew pictures on theirs and we sent them up to heaven.  We sat and watched them race up to heaven, I'm convinced that mine won!

That afternoon we had a barbeque with our neighborhood friends.  It was lots of fun to sit and chat with each other as we melted in the heat.

Lukas, Tatum, Stockton, and Cole

Bradys, Troy, Sherrie, and Caroline. 

Michelle Jolley and Sara Horne

Shawna Murphy, Alisha and Brad Packer

As we were finishing cleaning up, Ben started a water fight with the kids.  It was hilarious.  This is a pretty good sequence, I was distracting the kids with the camera and Ben surprised them from behind.