This has become one of my favorite pictures. We are all up in Brigham City on Memorial Day in 2008. We are on Mother's turf--the park right behind the street where she grew up. We have just been to the cemetery, put flowers on Daddy's grave, then on Beecher and Morris markers, also. As is a custom for that day, we are at the park enjoying one of the first spring days. We have wandered to the building behind us in the picture. It is Mother's grandfather's headstone business that is still family owned--we peeked in the windows since it was closed for the holidays. Oh, it made Grandma so happy to be there doing so much with so many of her family. We stopped long enough to take this picture. As I remember, someone set their jacket on the grass for Grandma to sit on because it was a little damp. We all gathered around her which makes her right in the middle. Some of the people are missing from this picture--mostly moms with babies and others who stayed on the other side of the park to keep one another company. After this picture was snapped, the kids--young and old--started rolling down the hill. When they started getting tired of doing this, they walked off to go join the others. Grandma was one of the last on the hill and she actually got down and tried to roll down it, just like she used to as a kid. Scott quickly took a picture of her and she didn't know it. (He posted it here with his remembrance of her within days of her death.) Aren't we all SO GLAD that we took the time to do as much as we did with her? I will always be grateful that I did! Of course, I could have done a lot more BUT I could have done a lot less so I take comfort in knowing that we had many good times like this. Thank you all for taking time to do many things that meant so much to her. Love, Karen
