Yellowstone National Park

Over Memorial Day weekend, Spencer, his family and I headed out to Yellowstone National Park. It came at the perfect time as I think we all needed the break! 

Some of the highlights included:

hiking

sight seeing

picnicking

playing card games

reading ghost stories about headless brides and lost children

testing out a brand new cabin

no internet or TV (it was so refreshing!)

fruit snacks

seeing a wolf

photo booth

Waiting for Old Faithful to erupt

Not even phased by the smelly sulfur spray...

Gift shop fun!

Beautiful!

Memorial Day Tradition

Memorial Day (USA) or Remembrance Day (Commonwealth Countries) is always an obvious time to remember those who have passed before us, especially due to war. Spencer and I don't really know anyone in our family lines who have died in any wars (family, please correct us if we are wrong!) but we still wanted to do something to remember those who have given their lives.

We decided to start a new family tradition. Every memorial day we will visit the cemetery and admire all the flowers that are placed around the graves. Call it creepy, but I kind of like looking at the names and dates and imagining what they would have been like. As we were walking around, I noticed some graves that didn't have any flowers. Maybe their families had moved away or something. So we decided that we would go get some flowers and put a single flower on the graves that did not have anything, specifically war veterans.

This was a really special experience for both of us and I'm excited to keep up the tradition!

Jacksonville, Florida Mission!

So I failed to write about this earlier, but my brother Joseph is serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Jacksonville, Florida! He left on the 17th April 2013. We're so proud of him and he is already doing so well. Much to Mum's survival, mother's day was just around the corner after he left so we all got so skype him! Here are some pictures of his mission so far!

Elder Burgan and President Barry

All the new missionaries that went in with him.

Skyping on Mother's Day! He seemed to be happy there and doing well :)

Couldn't resist including this one...