Memorial Day Weekend

We got the opportunity to help out with the Tabernacle Experience in Urie Memorial Day weekend. We got to see it in Utah last year but got to volunteer this year. It was awesome and I love all the symbolism and how all of the ancient tabernacle points to the Savior, and how many things are similar, in different ways to our temple worship today.! Dave and I got to be hosts and greet people, sign them in, and play the video about the ancient tabernacle. Lucy was at the station about the coverings of the temple with Addi West, Callahan was at the outer gate station with Jacob Platt, and Emma got to be in the Holy of Holies with Kabrie Whitbeck. It was special to see these youth teach about the sacredness of the tabernacle of old and bear testimony. They will be amazing missionaries someday! You can check outTabernacleutah.com for more about this traveling tabernacle.. While we were gone, Grandpa Scott came up this weekend to help us get the Tropical Sno shack washed, cleaned and ready. He played with the younger kids and took them to Arctic Circle to get ice cream and play, they went tot he park and played board games like checkers. It was so nice of him to come all this way to help out and they all had fun ! 

 "Holiness to the Lord, House of the Lord".

This year for Memorial Day, Dave woke up early to put up flags for Rotary. we made syrups for our snow cone stand almost all day! On a scale from 1-10, how sticky was our kitchen? 100!! It was a sugary, sticky mess but we got it done. We had to turn down boating and barbecues to do this. Then we grilled some yummy steaks, and had corn, watermelon, baked beans and salad with s'mores pie for dessert. We visited our Veteran's Memorial, which we have never done, then ended the night playing at the park together and taking down the flags before dark. We honor the soldiers who have died to keep our freedoms here. I am grateful for their sacrifices and the sacrifices of their families forever.

“Honor to the Soldier, and Sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor also to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field, and serves, as best he can, the same cause—honor to him, less only than to him, who braves, for the common good, the storms of heaven and the storms of battle.” -- Abraham Lincoln