Remembering our family veterans...

Just to set the record straight, it was me that snipped the blanket for Emma. Sure Amy did the sewing but I had to do the painstaking effort of cutting up the edges. This was a pure act of selfless love for Amy and Emma and resulted in some temporary nerve damage in my finger and thumbs. I had numb-thumbs for a few days. Oh and I set a record by doing it within 45 minutes. :-)

On the day before Memorial day, we went to visit the graves of my two grandfathers at the Tahoma National Cemetery. The weekend prior, we attended a ward service project to clean the headstones in this area. Fortunately most of the stones were still clean but the birds did get a few. It was neat to be able to clean these for the families of those that did so much to preserve our freedoms and liberty.

Grampee's headstone. We were able to see many other family members at the cemetery as well including Gramee, Jeff and Shirley, and Brad and Andrea. The weather was just absolutely perfect, which apparently is very rare for Memorial day in Washington.




Me trying to get Casey to walk.... He still prefers to crawl though.
We also stopped by Grandpa Jackson's grave and saw that other family had already visited. They left flowers and a balloon.


It was cool to see all the US flags lining the streets and next to every grave, especially with Mt Rainier as the backdrop. It invokes a sense of patriotism and solemn gratitude for the sacrifices made for each US citizen.


And of course for those of you wondering, this is a random side-profile of Amy to show how big the baby is getting! She's gi-normous!!