Memorial Day

We came back from Idaho on Sunday so on Memorial Day we went to visit the grave site of Jeremy's Grandpa Shoemaker.

I love how the cemetery's are decorated over Memorial weekend.  I drove by the American Fork Cemetary for years on the way to work and always enjoyed seeing it after Memorial Day.

Baird Family Reunion

We haven't been to the Baird family reunion in a few years.  We decided to make it a priority to go from now on.  I'm so glad we went!  I love going to my grandma's and seeing all of my aunts, uncles and cousins.  I don't talk much but I enjoy being around everyone.  I think that all of my cousins married awesome people!  Here are some pics!

We went up to Grandma's early Friday morning.  Jeremy helped my dad nail down some of the tin roof.

TJ playing ball with Jayme's boy Hyurm.

Girls playing frisbee with Jayme's girl Josi.

Jon and his beloved gas tank.

TJ had a blast going down Grandpa's wheelchair ramp.

There is always a fun game of bingo for all of the kids.

We cleaned and decorated my Grandpa's grave.  We sat around and told stories.  It was so nice and I miss him so much.  One of the stories was of Grandma and Grandpa meeting.  Grandma was born and living in England and was serving in WWII.  Grandpa was serving overseas.  Grandma was meeting some of her friends at the movies and they never showed up but she met Grandpa.  Grandpa went in to get a promotion and he had enough points to be able to go home.  So he told Grandma that if they wanted to get married they better do it because he was going home.

Graduations

In April my brother-in-law graduated from UVU.  In May Emily graduated from Kindergarten and my niece Bailey graduated High School!!  She is my parents oldest grandchild.  It's crazy to think that much time has passed.

Easter/Sand Dunes

For Easter this year we went to the Sand Dunes.  We hardly did any camping and are hoping this year we will be camping at least once a month.  We went with Beth and Terry, Jason and Amber and Josh and Kiersten came for the day.  I also really love Easter so we dyed eggs, had an easter egg hunt and the Easter Bunny even found us! I boiled 4 dozen eggs the day before we went camping.  TJ just liked to smash the eggs and Luke really didn't want anything to do with it.  (Although he forgot the candy! lol)  We happened to have our sleds in the back of the truck and they were really great for sliding down the hills.  We went to Sand Mountain and boy was that a crazy place!  I thought it was scary and was glad that Jeremy did not want to go up it.  Jason did though.  We all had a really good time.  TJ had a great time and he was really good.  I still got kind of exhausted though because I had to keep an eye on him at all times.  Once we had Rocky, Luke and TJ together they would just run off with each other.  Sorry about the picture overload!