Memorial Day Weekend

We started off our Memorial Day Weekend by spending Saturday night with my best friend Val and her husband Matt and my "nephew" Joey. :) I'm the oldest, so it's the closest I'll come to being an Aunt until my siblings start having kids. Of course we spent almost the whole night playing with Joey and taking pictures with Brian's new camera. I loved it. He wanted to play with me all night.

When Joey went to bed we did play a few rounds of Hand & Foot.

Joey - 9 months old

On Sunday, after church, we went with Brian's family to put flowers on his Grandpa Glad's grave.

And Brian continued to have fun with his new camera.

Nathan - He's 16.

After that we went with my family to put flowers on my Swedish ancestors graves. We also visited my uncle's grave (my dad's younger brother) which is in the same cemetery.

All of my immediate family that was there.

My Grandma - who's half Swedish - and all the grandkids that were there. (This ain't nothin'. She's got 28 grandkids and almost as many great grandkids.)

After going there, we went to visit my grandpa's grave but didn't take pictures. It's been 7 years and the headstone and grave were still all uneven and not very filled in with grass. It's painful for my mom & her siblings. (But we found out later that week that my aunt finally got a hold of one of the owners to complain about it and they fixed it. Yay!)

After that we headed back to my parents house for cookies and a movie. It's a pretty regular thing to tease my mom and each other and end up laughing so much that we're crying. But this time I underestimated how much back up I usually have and she ended up getting back at me.

On Monday we went once again with Brian's family to visit more graves.

All of his immediate family that could make it. (Derek's on a mission, but coming home in June!) Don't mind Stuart's face. :) He's almost 12.

Brian having more fun with his camera:

Then we went back to his parent's house to celebrate Brian's birthday and have a barbeque.

We had lunch, then watched a movie (and I fell asleep) and then we went to my parent's house and had dinner and then played Hand & Foot. We were pretty worn out by the end of the day.