Memorial Day

One of my favorite holiday's is Memorial day. I've always loved it. My family has a tradition where we go down to Spanish Fork and visit the graves of our ancestors. It is such a special tradition, one that we have done since I was a little girl and I can't wait for my kids to be apart of it too. It was so fun to have Sam there this year. He was all smiles all day!

We all meet at my Grandpa McDonald's grave and get the flowers ready. Then we walk around the cemetery and find our ancestors. We stop at each grave and listen to the tale of their life and what they accomplished and went through. I love listening to all the amazing stories. Here is a picture of my Aunt Rae. She is so good at telling the stories :)

Sam loved walking around and seeing all the fun flowers and colors. It is weird to think that next year he will be running around on his own!

After we get done at the cemetery we usually head to the park and eat lunch. Now if you know my family you know that we have A LOT of traditions. We just love them all so much! So it's not as simple as just going and eating lunch at the park, we have to go and get the same lunch at the same place and eat it at the same park on our blankets in our same spot. Every year for as long as I can remember we have gone to subway to get lunch. One year the subway down there was under construction and my brother Clayton had a complete meltdown! haha!!! (True story!) This year I was very nervous because last week Kevin got the stomach flu for the first time in his life and that same day he had eaten at subway............so it was safe to say that we were NOT going to Subway for lunch. I was scared that this would rock my whole family, but we got lucky for two reasons. Reason one....Clayton is out of town and reason two......it was freezing! So we all ended up going to eat inside at The Italian place instead.....PHEW!!! It actually ended up being so much fun, change and all ;)