Memorial Day 2012

Removing the vase

Adding the flowers

The kids at their Grandpa and Grandma Dempsey's graves (it was very sunny!)

Emi adding a flower she picked to the bouquet

Dan's dad Bill served in the US Navy during WWII

Memorial Day

I like to get portraits of the kids on holidays! I usually do a 4th of July picture, but since the kids were all patriotic for church yesterday, I decided to do a photo shoot.

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This one is better, but I cut Sarah off.

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I was in the other room and I heard Dan calling me, so I came back into the boys room and found Andrew and him sitting on the backdrop. He said, "Okay, we're ready", so I took their picture!

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Today, we took the kids to the cemetary to put flowers on their Grandpa (and Grandma) Dempsey's grave for Memorial Day. I hadn't ever been there, so I was surprised when we got there and the only thing sticking up out of the ground were the urns of flowers! All the headstones are flat to the ground!

Turning the urn over

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Getting the flowers ready

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Putting the flowers in

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Admiring the flowers

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Although Bill served in the Navy during WWII, he doesn't have a flag. Dan let the cemetary know and they put his name on the list of veterans so hopefully next year he'll have one.

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The kids next to the headstone.

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Dan's "baby" brother is also buried here, but doesn't have a headstone (although he's on the list of those buried there) William Joseph Dempsey, Jr. lived only a ½ hour. His foot prints are only as big as my thumb print, so I'm assuming he was premature.

Thanksgiving

Here are some pictures from Thanksgiving (held Saturday, Nov. 28)

















































Choo-choo!

Andrew and Peter (of course!)

Andrew and Peter are best buddies and Peter decided to show it by licking Andrew!

We decorated the Christmas tree on Sunday.

I think I hung up about 6 things!

This is how Andrew helped decorate--by sleeping!

4th of July

Here are some shots of the kids I took on the 4th of July.