Memorial Day 2010

For Memorial Day, I know a little late, we celebrated by going to a few grave sites of loved ones. On Sunday we went to Grandpa Richards grave, this was the first time my kids have been there since he passed. Coop is actually at the age where he kind of understands everything, Bode and Peiton just use the grave heads as jumping platforms and we are constantly telling them to get off.

Here are all the grandkids on the Richards side. We are anxiously awaiting one more, a little girl! Finally Pei will no longer be the only girl, they will still be out numbered, but at least there will be one more.

Bode and his great Uncle Mat! Bode loves his Uncle Mat!

Cooper

Bode with his cute smile.

The fam

Grandma and Grandpa with all the grandkids. I am so surprised that we have all the kids looking at the camera and smiling! That does not happen to often.

Pei and cute Grandma Holly posing for the camera.

Look how cute these guys are!

On Monday we made our way to Midway to visit my sister and my Grandpa Van Wagoner's graves. The whole family meets (we missed Corey and Alisha at the grave site) and we take our tour of the grave sites and take the annual picture. We then went to my Grandma and Pa's to enjoy a yummy barbecue and fun games.

Almost everyone! Missing Corey and Alisha ;(

Bode and Max

Bode tackling Jackson. I love how all the kids play with Bode. They are so great to include him in everything, it makes the visits a lot more easy.

Memorial day

On Memorial day this year (actually we do this almost every year) we went to Midway to visit my sister's and my grandpa's graves. This is something that I really like to do. My whole family usually comes up and we just make a whole day of it. This year, unlike most Memorial days, we had great weather. It was a perfect temp and a little overcast so the sun wasn't so hot. Everyone meets up at the graves and we do the regular chit chatting with cousins, aunts, uncles, siblings and grandma. We then have to make the grave rounds, there are a few graves that we visit every year, people that we don't know but have come to know because we see their headstones once a year.

When we are done with the graves we make our way down to Grandma's and usually have lunch and play around for a while. Like I mentioned in a earlier post, she has a huge backyard and we made full use of it this year.

We had a little baseball game with our own rules. We used a soft bat and a small foam ball (which is actually really hard to hit). It was something the kids could play and it kept us pretty busy. My mom helped out with the other kids that couldn't play (Peiton and Bode, etc...) it was nice to spend some time not chasing them around and worrying about where they were.

After playing the game for a while, my mom came and told me that Bode had made himself comfortable in one of my grandma's beds downstairs. He crawled right in the covers and put himself to sleep. I loved it! He actually has been doing this at some of my friends houses too, it is just too bad he won't do it at home. Gotta love the kid...:-)

Here he is just dozing off, snoring and all...

Here's to another fabulous Memorial day!

A wet, cold, fun, Memorial Day Weekend!

This past weekend was full of fun and excitement for the Richards family. It started Friday afternoon as we made our way up to Midway, Utah. We first stopped by to wish my cousin congrats for graduation from Wasatch High. Congrats Dexter! We then made our way to the Zermatt Resort where we met up with Charlie, Holly and Kelly. The girls (Holly, Kelly and I, were spending the night at the Zermatt all by our self's while the men headed up to the cabin with the kids....thanks Collin and Grandpa!) We grabbed something to eat, chased Bode up the mountain (at least Holly did) and toured the beautiful grounds of the Zermatt.

It was now time to bid farewell to the boys and little Peiton so our relaxation could begin!

The night was young and how we wish we were too....I'll I wanted to do is sleep, I was pooped. So, Kelly and I went to this fabulous Relaxation room where there was a fire place, the lights were dim and the heat was turned way up. It was so comfortable. We got our ipods and layed on the lounges and fell right asleep for about 1 1/2 hours. We made our way back to the room and got ready for bed. We then decided to turn on a movie which I only made it half way through. It was a very relaxing evening prior to a race day.

Saturday morning we went over to the Homestead to run their Homestead 1/2 marathon and 5k. We said "No Thank you" to the 1/2 marathon and chose to run the 5k. The route was beautiful. Midway and the Heber valley is gorgeous! We all did great taking 1st in all of our age groups (it wasn't too difficult when there was only about 50 or 60 running, there was probably only 3 people in my age group, and I got this fabulous medal which is now I believe in the garbage....I don't need anymore junk around here.)



After the race we went back to the Zermatt to meet up with our hubbies and kids. Mat and the Kunz kids met up with us too. The men were off to go golfing and the woman were left with the kids.

Collin and Charlie ready for some golf


We decided to take the kids swimming at the pool. The water was FREEZING, and Bode insisted that he stayed in the pool and not the warm hot tub. I was dying! brrrrr!


Lunch time and nothing better than good ole' Mc Donalds...alright there are many places better than Mc Donald's, but it is perfect for the kids.


After lunch we made our way up to the cabin.


Bode was so tired he put himself to sleep on the floor.


Cam and Nicky showed up and Cam taught the boys how to build a fire. They were pretty impressed. Cam also played Playstation continuously with them. Thanks Cam.

We had a yummy barbecue and then headed home for the night. We always have such a great time at the cabin and it was extra fun spending the night at the Zermont. Thanks Holly for making that possible. We had a blast!


On Monday (Memorial Day) we made our way back up to Midway to visit my sister's and Grandpa's grave. This is a family tradition to meet up at the graves and then we usually will meet at my Grandma's house and play ultimate Frisbee. This year it was a little wet so we didn't get to play ultimate Frisbee. We showed up a little late at the cemetery and missed the group shot. Luckily Casey and Rachelle were late too so we could get a shot with them. The wind was so awful and cold that we didn't stay long and the cemetery.


I got some fun shots of Peiton and Matix. They are a week and 1/2 apart. Matix was so funny to pose for the camera, he knew exactly what was happening.


This year was really fun because we had my Mom's side of the family join us for lunch and Grandma and Pa's. Everyone was there except for Angie and her family and the Tillmann Fam...we missed you! It was good to visit with everyone. Grandma prepared a wonderful lunch as usual and we all had a great time.