Memorial Weekend 2008

memory >noun (pl. memories) 1 the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information. 2 a person or thing remembered. 3 the length of time over which people's memory extends

Here are just a few of our family members we remembered this year. Some we knew, some we didn't, but I always enjoy going to the cemetery and thinking about them. These pictures I'm using in my heritage book that I'm hoping to complete in the near future. The first two are Casey's grandpa Worwood & Smith then my grandma Jarrett and then my uncle Mark Jarrett who died 34 years ago yesterday. Doing family history has made me more aware that I need to learn from the past to better the future. I am so grateful for the people before me and all we can learn from their lives.

For the past couple years we've not went anywhere for the long weekend. Mostly because the weather will never cooperate. We've found that it's a good weekend to get the house ready for the summer. Every year we try to have a project we want to get done. There is always a long list and we never get it all done, but we usually spend the whole weekend busy and this year was no exception. Our main project was to get the bark in our flower beds. We underestimated this as usual, but we took our time and made sure that it was the way we wanted it. We ran up north Saturday morning to get our first load, by our calculations we thought we would need around 6 truck loads. It's a good thing we went and picked it up instead of had it delivered because our first load did more than half of what we needed. On our way home from getting it we had some problems with Gary's truck and ended up having to be towed back to Gary & Linda's house. That made Cael's day by getting to ride in Bert's big tow truck. We thought once we got home we could start unloading the bark, until we realized that the bark was in back of the broken truck. So Casey started to unload it onto a trailer and then hauled it up to our house. This added a lot of extra time and left us with no time to run back up for another load. From the way it looks we should only need one more load about 1/3 of what we had planned on! {hopefully our kids don't get our math skills}.

With the weekend having on and off storms Cael was having major energy issues and luckily my mom invited him down for a sleep over on Sunday. He was sick of being in the house, but with Gavyn at grandma's this helped him burn some of his energy he had bottled up. We went and got him this morning and had breakfast with my family before they headed up to the cemetery for the veteran ceremony my dad was in. It was such a good weekend and I wish it wasn't over but back to work tomorrow and we can look forward to next weekend.