a day with the dead

I took derick to work today and found out that all the stores I planed on going to weren’t open till 10 (a lot of stores are like that here). So we drove around and I ended up coming to a cemetery so I thought we might as well take a walk and I’ll take pictures. It’s such a BIG cemetery. The most pretty cemetery name I ever heard was called “garden of memories”, but this one was just named after the city like most cemeteries are. It’s an OLD plot too, many of the stones writings have been aged away. It was so sad when we got the plot where most of the children are buried and you look at how young they were. Such tiny tomb stones. Most of them had statues lambs for tomb stone markers. Every time we walked by one Amanda gave the little lamb a kiss on the head before moving on. It was very humbling to see these little children’s plots. I’m very grateful I have my children!!

But on a good note – I got some pretty pictures of the angles and grounds there.

On a really bad note – I locked my keys in the car… and my wallet… and my cell phone. So we walked out of the cemetery and around the corner and down a few blocks and had guy in a store call someone to come help me. the lock smith guy was very nice. I’ve have locked my keys in my car only twice now in my life, but each time the lock smith was such a nice guy. I guess they get a lot of good feelings from helping out such stressed out people like myself. But while my car was locked and I was waiting for someone to help me, feeling stranded and frustrated at myself, I did think a lot about family history and how sad it is… that I get really stressed out because I locked my keys in my car, I couldn’t move on, and around me where the dead and yet their spirits are locked out of progression and happiness because I havent help them out. I need to be better at family history work and going to the temple to do work for the dead.

Mom – I found a lot of “Hamels” and “Hummels” do you think they’re related line of ours?? I’ll send you those pictures later if you want.