Showing posts with label memorial day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memorial day. Show all posts

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Memorial Day Weekend Fun!!

This weekend we left Friday morning and went up to my Mom's house in Star Valley. We got to visit with her and of course eat really good food. On Saturday we went first up to the grave yard and put flowers on my dad's grave. Then we went over to the ranch to check on Grandma's house. We thought it might be flooded with all the rain. I was not supprised to see that their is still snow over there. Not a lot, but some. Especially on the north faces slopes of the mountains. The rivers are all running very high and fast. When we got to my grandma's house, we were glad to see that their was not much water. A little bit had come in, but not what I was expecting. Here is a picture of Abigail and Joshua sitting on the fence that we used to play on all the time.



So on we went with our adventure. We went to one of my favorite places as a child. We went to Hooper Springs. Here is a spring that has naturally carbonated water. It is really gross to me, but I thought my kids might get a kick out of tasting it.



Then we went and played on the toys. They still have the great big teater totters we used to play on.

Then we went on into town and ate at the Main Street Cafe. It was really good food. Their carrot cake was absolutely wonderful! Then we walked across the street and watched the gyeser go off. The kids thought this was cool. Back in the early 1900's they wanted to build a health spa and so they started digging to find warm spring water when they hit this geyser. It has been exploding ever since then. It even threw off the schedule of the Old Faithful Geyser. Now they have a cap on it and it goes off every hour to release the pressure. When they first capped it it would blow off every cap. Then they used to manually have to come and let the pressure off of it. Now they have it electronically controlled so that it goes off every hour.



We also saw the Dinkey Train. This train was found when they drained the Alexander Reservoir. This train was to build the dam.


Then they played on a 40MM anti-aircraft machine gun that came off of a battleship.


Finally we made it to the graveyard and put flowers on Grandma Ginny, Grandpa Bert, Grandpa John and Uncle Terry Joe's graves. It was a great day. We came back home and had a wonderful weekend.

Monday, May 31, 2010

Memorial Day Weekend

This weekend has been fun-filled and busy. Friday we left to go to my Mom's house in Star Valley. It was good to go and see her. Saturday we went up to my Dad's grave and put flowers on his grave.



Then we left and went to Kamas to visit all of John's grandma's and grandpa's graves and had a BBQ with his parents. It was good to be there.

Sunday we had a great day and church and then the kids decided they wanted to sleep out on the trampoline. So they got everything ready to go and then John read to them until it was dark. Then Abigail decided she didn't want to sleep out. The boys lasted until about 2:30a.m. when they came in with their teeth chattering. They were freezing.

Today we accomplished a ton. John did a lot of work in the yard and I actually got to deep clean the bathrooms. I haven't done that in a looooong time. Then we had a BBQ with my sisters. It was good to talk with them.

This has been a great Memorial Weekend.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Memorial Day Weekend

This weekend we had a good time. On Friday we had a BBQ with my sister and her family. It was fun. Then on Saturday we went to Kamas and visited the graves. John's grandpa was in WWII. It is cool to hear some of his stories. Monday we just hung out hear and did the never-ending yard work!! IT was a fun weekend.

Jacob and Joshua

Jacob and Joshua
Ready to tear it up

Grandpa helping Jacob shoot

Grandpa helping Jacob shoot

Grandpa helping Joshua shoot

Grandpa helping Joshua shoot

Jacob ready to shoot

Jacob ready to shoot
Everybody duck!

Dad and Joshua

Dad and Joshua