Memorial weekend

We spent Memorial weekend with DJ's family in Cokeville.  It was a great weekend to go home because we were able to see several of DJ's siblings and spend quite a bit of time with mom and dad.  Dad recently had a bad fall in his garage and gave us all a good scare.  He still doesn't remember what happened but my niece, Tanna  that is Jordyn's age found him lying on the garage floor with tons of blood on his face.  He doesn't know if he passed out or tripped but whatever happened, it left him with a huge bump and gash on his forehead and a very achy body.  We've been really concerned about him so we were thankful that we had already planned to go home to visit for the weekend.  The morning after we arrived, DJ and I took a run up to the Cemetery in Cokeville.  It's not too far from their home and sits on a hill overlooking the town of Cokeville.  DJ has several family members buried there including his dad's parents, Minerva and  Herman Teichert, Herman Teichert (DJ's Uncle), and  Jan Anderson Teichert who was married to DJ's brother, Matthew.  She passed away of cancer shortly after DJ and I were married, 16 years ago.  Though I didn't get to know her as well as I'd hoped, it didn't take long to realize what a great wife, mother, friend, and daughter she was.  She is loved and missed by everyone that was privileged to know her.   Later that morning we rode back up to the cemetery with DJ's parents and took the kids around to visit the graves of family members.  Jordyn was particularly helpful in decorating each grave with Grandma's flowers and showed genuine interest as we talked a little bit about the people who's graves we were visiting.  After spending a while wandering around we headed back down to DJ's house but first made a stop at the park where the kids played until the rain started to fall.  Just as we made it back to the house, DJ's brother, Mike, pulled in from Nevada with two of his sons, Jeremiah and Jed.  They are such good kids and we had such a great time visiting with all of them.  Ann and Val showed up later that afternoon and brought 3 new picture holders for grandma's hall.  She used to have what she called the "wall of fame" where she had individual pictures of each of her grand kids but it was just really huge and a big pain to load and unload the pictures so Ann and Val built her some awesome wooden picture holders to replace it.  Dang, I wish I would've taken a picture of it, but I didn't.   DJ helped hang them on the wall and then we worked on replacing all of the pictures.  The end product was awesome and I think DJ's mom was pretty thrilled. 

Here's a picture of the damage done by dad's fall, although I think it looks a ton better than what it did according to mom!

Kamryn found a new best friend on this trip, Uncle Val.  Grandma has a bean bag pillow that the kids love so Kamryn and Val threw it back and forth to each other for probably an hour.  She loved the attention she was getting and wouldn't leave him alone.

Janae and Jordyn playing the piano!  Two blond Teichert beauties!

Grandma Teichert slaving away in the kitchen. My kids love going to Grandma's house because she serves pizza and ice cream!!

Leona--another blonde Teichert beauty!

Johnny and Trinny (I'm not sure if I should call her Johnny's girlfriend) but she did spend the weekend with our family and we thought she was really sweet.  I'm not sure what will come of it, so we'll just wait and see.

Leona, Regan, Janae, and Yoli (Trinny's daughter) and I probably slaughtered her name. 

                           The kiddos having fun at the playground in Cokeville.  My kids beg to go and play on the playground every time we come to Cokeville so I'm happy that the weather held up long enough to squeeze it in.  The cousins have so much fun when they are together. 

Jordyn and Ali are having a makeup party!  Ali is DJ's niece, Ashlee's daughter. She's Kaleb's age and is so stinking cute.  Jordyn talked her in to having a little makeup party and surprisingly, she didn't come out looking to bad.  Jordyn was so proud of herself because she actually applied mascara on Ali.  YIKES!!!

Game time with Jed, Chris, Johnny and Trinny!

Yet another blonde Teichert beauty!!