Hooper Weekend

Cal, Ollie, Ruby, Ivan, Adelia, and Lincoln making a pyramid behind Papa Stew's grave at the Hooper Cemetery.

Krystal, Baby Ford, Tindy, and Tami

Four generation photo: Granny Jan, Tami Lemmon Sparks, Krystal Swan, Adelia Swan, Ruby Swan

We spent a fabulous weekend in Hooper. We drove up Saturday afternoon, and Aaron took the kids to Mom and Kerry's house while I went out to dinner with Heidi and Tami, two of my wonderful friends from high school. We got together awhile ago for Tindy's baby shower, and decided we needed to make a habit of doing it more often.

Sunday morning we loaded up the Suburban and went to the Hooper Cemetery to put marigolds on my dad's grave since we didn't make it up for Memorial Day. We also located Aaron's ancestor, Daniel Ross (the one who helped settle Hooper), whose headstone is not very far from my dad's. We put a marigold on his too. I know that Aaron and I (and our kids) are probably the only people in the whole world who even care, but I think it's so cool that we have ancestors buried in the same cemetery. And that Aaron's ancestor helped make the tiny farm town that I would later be raised in. Those kinds of family history connections are so fun. As we walked around near Daniel's headstone, we saw so many other 'Ross' family headstones that I'm convinced Aaron is practically a Hooper-ite. No wonder he's so amazing. :)

After that we went to Tindy's and Ben's baby blessing. The baby's name is Ford, isn't that the most adorable? I love it. We went to lunch with their families afterwards. And I was just really happy to be celebrating with them. We definitely don't see them enough since they moved to ID and we moved further south in UT County.

We capped off the trip by celebrating Father's Day with my family. Mom and Kerry did a BBQ in the backyard and the weather was perfect. All my brothers were there for at least a minute or two, and it was fun to chat with them while all the cousins played. My Granny Jan was also there, I haven't seen her in awhile. We took a four generation pictures with Gran, Mom, my two girls, and I. An all around good, family-filled weekend.