Memorial Day Week End

Sunday after dinner the kids picked the beautiful iris's from our flower garden to put on the graves at the cemetery. We hurried and cleared the table and got in the car and drove to cemetery. It was a little crowded but not as bad as it would be on Monday. We put flowers on Dad's, Tayson's, Michael's and Jim's graves and then walked up to the military flags and found Dad's name and flag and then walked to the stone monument and found his name again. Mom didn't want to go with us so she stayed home. I told the kids about when we had Memorial Day growing up we would mow the lawn and rake the grass and put it bags and then drive out to Otto and rake the graves and put the grass on the graves so it would look like grass and then take any flowers that we had in the yard and put on Grandma and Grandpa Beck's graves. It was a family day most of the time. Our cousins from Moorcroft, WY would usually come. I would always put flowers on Jerry's grave as well. Jerry was my little friend that passed away when were seven after a tragic accident on the playground at school.

When we got home we realized no one had put the left over lasagna away and Toby had a nice dinner while we were gone. He had two huge pieces of lasagna. He looked sick the whole night eating so much. Don said he was going to put an ad in the classifieds for a free dog. NO WAY!! (He was just kidding or maybe not. Toby still doesn't go to Don. He will go to the home teachers more than he will Don. Some day!!)

The Monroe's came over at 7 p.m. and we had dessert -- Chocolate Eclair Cake. Amy and I went on a Sunday walk. We are trying to walk daily together.

Monday morning I'm working from 6 a.m. - 10 a.m. and then another girl will work from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Don got us tickets to see the new Indiana Jones movie. Mom, Ray, Neil and Gabby are coming with us as well. It is supposed to rain all day so a perfect day to go to the movies. I'm sure everyone else will be there as well. Nicole works today so won't be able to join us. She saw the movie late Saturday night.