In Remebrance!

Memorial Day is always one where I am brought to tears. The reason is because this is the one day that I allow myself to take the kids, get some flowers, and go to my father's grave site. It is nice because my dad is buried right up the road from here at Camp Williams. Every year there are more and more grave sites of people who have passed on that have served our country honorably. My father was one of those people. Although he never served in a war, he still served. I am thankful for those that have served our country and continue to serve this country. Every year Camp Williams has someone playing the bagpipes at the site. This year the soldier that was playing the bagpipes came down to where we were standing and played right in front of us. The song was "Amazing Grace."It brought tears to my eyes and also got my boys to cover there ears because they thought it was too loud (that put a smile on my face).

Before this we had everyone over for waffles with the yummy recipe in the previous post. I ended up making a lot more than needed. I could have eaten more, but I have to make myself stop. Well, while all the kids were outside playing, Kalena ended up hitting her teeth on Lavea'i's head and knocked out her first one. Don't worry, it was a little loose. She was so excited to get a new toothbrush from the tooth fairy, but the tooth fairy ran out of toothbrushes and ended up just giving her a dollar. She was still excited about it.

After all of this, we went and watched "The Tooth Fairy" for very cheap with my sis-in-law, Andrea and her kids. Can't beat $3.75 for the 6 of us to get in. It was a decent movie, but it lost the kids attention towards the end.

When the movie was over we still weren't done for the day. We ventured off to Cliff's brother's house and had good BBQ chicken, spinach salad, watermelon, shrimp, rice, and macaroni salad. I felt like I had been eating all day long. After the dinner, we took the kids over to some friends house and played in there back yard. Not only were the kids exhausted, but so was Mama. I was too tired to even give them a bath when we got home. Cliff washed their feet and legs off and I ended up falling asleep with Lavea'i.

It was a very busy day, but one that was a ton of run.